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The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has been developed since 1987 by the combination of different government ministries: Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Food, combined to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry in 1987; the subsequent addition of the Ministry of Forestry and the Ministry of Irrigation to form today's Ministry; as well as the addition of the Ministry of ...
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Vietnam) N. Nafovanny; U. United Workers-Farmers Organization
Development of agricultural output of Vietnam in 2015 US$ since 1961 Agriculture in Vietnam with farmers. Agriculture's share of GDP has declined in recent years, falling from 42% in 1989, to 26% in 1999. [1] In 2023, agriculture and forestry accounted for about 12% of Vietnam's gross domestic product (GDP). [2]
Until the French colonization in the mid-19th century, Vietnam's economy had been mostly agrarian, subsistence-based and village-oriented. French colonizers, however, deliberately developed the regions differently as the French needed raw materials and a market for French manufactured goods, designating the South for agricultural production as it was better suited for agriculture, and the ...
In his book Vietnam: a History (Viking,1983) Stanley Karnow describes his observations: In the last week of November . . I drove south from Saigon into Long An, a province in the Mekong Delta, the rice basket of South Vietnam where 40 per cent of the population lived. There I found the strategic hamlet program begun during the Diem regime in ...
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an international financial institution and a specialized agency of the United Nations dedicated to eradicating rural poverty in Vietnam and other developing countries. IFAD supports more than 200 ongoing programmes and projects around the world.
Land ownership nonetheless is the sole prerogative of the state. The economy of Vietnam has achieved rapid growth in agricultural and industrial production, construction and housing, exports and foreign investment. However, the power of the Communist Party of Vietnam over all organs of government remains firm, preventing full land ownership.
[3] [4] [5] It is the first state-owned commercial bank of Vietnam, established with the objective of focusing credit resources to serve the development of agriculture, farmers, and rural areas. [6] By 2000, Agribank had 2,300 branches and transaction offices nationwide, accounting for 40% of the agricultural credit market share.