This is the direction of Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam at the Vietnam Agricultural Extension Conference 2023, taking place on March 24 in Nha Trang City. Mr. Tran Hoa Nam - Vice Chairman of Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee attended.
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Leaders visit the product booth of Khanh Hoa province
Speaking at the conference, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam asked the Vietnam Agricultural Extension to coordinate with relevant provinces, cities and units to develop an appropriate agricultural extension development strategy with advantages and practical situations in each locality and must be associated with the goal of effective serving the construction of new rural areas. Research and develop agricultural extension in the direction of service and socialization, the state agricultural extension must play the role of supporting, guiding professional knowledge and creating a favorable environment for enterprise and cooperative agricultural extension develop. Create conditions for all people to access and use agricultural extension consulting services; supporting farmers, especially farmers in raw material areas, farmers in new rural communes to transform and approach the digital environment... The Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development also suggested efforts agricultural extension force in the grassroots needs to actively grasp the situation of farmers so that they can give specific suggestions on the orientation of local agricultural planning in association with consulting, supporting production organization, transferring science - technology for farmers.
Also at the conference, Mr. Tran Hoa Nam said that over the past time, the agricultural extension system in Khanh Hoa province has built and implemented many effective agricultural production models associated with key stakeholders with high economic value, serving as a basis for replication in concentrated production areas, creating areas of raw materials for preliminary processing and processing; The province has also focused on training and fostering knowledge for thousands of farmers, not only contributing to the transfer of technical advances into production but also increasing the rate of trained workers, completing the target of building new countryside... In the coming time, the province will continue to promote agricultural development towards commodity, increasing added value and sustainability; to develop agriculture in the direction of safe, organic production, high-tech application, digital transformation associated with eco-tourism; forming large-scale commodity production zones with key agricultural products of high economic value and competitiveness; develop processing and preservation industry to meet domestic and export market requirements...
In 2022, the Vietnam Agricultural Extension Center manages 162 national agricultural extension projects; building 466 demonstration models with a scale of over 4,000 hectares of crops of all kinds; 20,320 cattle and poultry; 138 hectares and 8,473m3 of water surface for aquaculture; installing a system of storage tunnels and electronic diaries for 24 offshore fishing vessels; application of mechanization for more than 400 hectares of rice production… Agricultural extension projects have contributed to increasing the value of the industry, organic production areas, and safe production areas; The project's products are guaranteed in terms of quality, food safety and hygiene according to organic standards, VietGAP is associated with labels, brands, packaging... Particularly in Khanh Hoa, up to now, the whole province has more than 100 agricultural products, the OCOP brand with nearly 70 participating units (reaching from 3 to 5 stars) including the following groups: Food, beverages, herbs, handicrafts, spices; products under the provincial OCOP program have been stamped with electronic stamps and codes and barcodes. Some agricultural products are strong brands of the province such as: Ninh Hoa garlic, Ninh Da Siamese coconut, Cam Lam mango, Khanh Vinh green-skinned pomelo, Khanh Son durian, bird's nest, grape seaweed, lobster, snails, Nha Trang fish sauce...
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