Towards ecological agriculture

Mr. Nguyen Quoc Tri, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said that agriculture plays a particularly important role in ensuring food security, social stability and livelihoods for over 60% of the population living in rural areas and contributes 14.85% of the country's GDP.

Currently, Vietnam's agricultural sector is moving towards ecological, low-emission and sustainable agriculture combined with improving the livelihoods of rural people. At the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) on climate change, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh made a commitment that Vietnam strives to reduce methane emissions by 30% by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions by 2050, as well as affirming Vietnam's participation in the "Global Methane Reduction" and "Glasgow Declaration on Forests and Land Use" initiatives.

To fulfill the commitments, Mr. Nguyen Quoc Tri said that great efforts are needed, not only from the Government , but also from the private sector, businesses, and direct producers to participate in the implementation to unleash investment resources of the whole society and transform the production model from "growth in output, productivity, using many inputs, resource-intensive" to an agricultural growth model "green, low-emission and adapting to climate change".

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