Prime Minister responds Mrs.Thai Huong's concerns about agriculture

Expressing concern at the 4th Prime Minister's Meeting with Farmers on the morning of May 29, Mrs. Thai Huong, Founder of TH Group, said that in the first four months of the year, agricultural exports reached more than US$ 4,100. 8 billion, up 11.2% over the same period in 2021, but still not achieved as expected.

"Nobody is better than a farmer when it comes to farming. But for agriculture to become a commodity, it is clear that there is a need for policies to support and support each industry each time. Along with resources on fruit trees, we need to reassess resources on agriculture. To promote these resources, it is necessary to have policies to encourage the development of science and technology, especially the project to develop the brand name of agricultural products", said Mrs.Thai Huong.

Responding to this concern of Mrs. Thai Huong, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that recently, the Government has proposed and is implementing a program of socio-economic recovery and development.

Even during the recent epidemic prevention and control period, under the leadership of the Party and the participation and companionship of the National Assembly, the Government has issued many monetary policies such as reducing interest rates to support people and businesses. There are fiscal policies such as tax exemption and reduction, fees, charges, electricity, and water bills.

"The Government also focuses on investing in infrastructure development, especially transport, culture, education, health, and infrastructure with a series of highways to reduce logistics costs. It is a very high determination of our Party and State. We have the resources and have arranged resources to do it, not counting crabs in a hole," emphasized the Prime Minister.

According to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan, identifying the business force that plays a pivotal role in building production value chains, the Government has directed relevant ministries and branches to continue to perfect the mechanism supporting policies, creating a favorable environment to attract enterprises to invest in agricultural, forestry, and fishery production in rural areas.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment is submitting to the Government a draft Decree to replace Decree 57/2018/ND-CP on mechanisms and policies to encourage enterprises to invest in agriculture and rural areas with the following contents expected to be revised, changed or supplemented, such as:

The order and procedures to support businesses are reviewed, edited, transparently, and synchronously with the Laws to create conditions for businesses to access and implement policies quickly; state management is also deployed more conveniently.

The object of support is adjusted to suit the thing of investment in agriculture following the Investment Law 2020. Focusing on supporting mainly the agricultural, forestry, and fishery processing industry associated with the market and raw areas. materials to develop highly efficient agriculture with a maximum support level of VND 15 billion/project on processing and preserving agricultural products; identified this as an essential bottleneck for agricultural development in the direction of increasing added value and sustainable development…

The main support content is in infrastructure investment of the project, with the main items being traffic, electricity, water supply and drainage, factories, and waste treatment, to ensure convenience in implementation and monitoring and evaluating the results.

Supplementing regulations for cases where localities cannot balance support capital sources, ministries will participate in providing support, creating more resources and conditions for attracting businesses to invest in agriculture and rural areas, and reducing the budget expenditure burden for localities.

To support and encourage farmers to develop efficient, sustainable, and safe agricultural production and business; in addition to implementing mechanisms and policies to support seeds directly, materials and production techniques, to ensure the supply of agricultural materials and essential inputs for production; indirectly support implementation through policies on investment, land, finance, agricultural insurance, preferential credit, market development, innovation encouragement; Tax incentives for households and individuals directly engaged in agricultural production...