The number of authorized organic fertilizer products in the market increases sixfold

According to the Vietnam Fertilizer Association, industrial fertilizer is utilized in agricultural output in Vietnam at a rate of over 10 million tons per year, with inorganic fertilizer accounting for three-fourths of that total.

Unbalanced fertilizer use or misuse of inorganic fertilizer is still popular, resulting in decreased agricultural product quality, soil degradation, and environmental damage.

On the other hand, Vietnam produces over 280 million tons of organic waste yearly from plantation, husbandry, and fishery, which may be used to manufacture ingredients for organic fertilizer. Thus, a circular value chain is created that either benefits the economy or preserves the environment.

According to local government statistics, we only consume around 17 million tons of organic fertilizer generated by farming families for agricultural purposes from the aforementioned material sources.

As a result, building sustainable and ecological agriculture with the goal of increasing agricultural quality and value, protecting the environment, and increasing production and use of organic fertilizer is critical for Vietnam agriculture in the medium and long term.

The government has implemented a variety of methods to generate organic fertilizer during the last several years, with some initial success.

It is a legal corridor for organic fertilizers that was largely and synchronously constructed from the Crop Production Law, the Government's Decree on fertilizer management, and Decree 109/2018/ND-CP on organic agriculture. National technical laws on fertilizer quality and, most recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Production's Directive 117/CT-BNN-BVTV 2020 on promoting the development and use of organic fertilizers.

Domestic organic fertilizer manufacturing facilities equipped with current production technology lines are now available via the legal corridors and supportive policies of the Government and MARD.

In which, several firms, including Que Lam, Song Gianh, Tien Nong, and T&T 159..., employed automated and precise control devices to modify environmental factors while also using bacterial strains. Functional organisms enable rapid and efficient processing of organic input materials, hence expanding manufacturing capacity and producing goods of comparable quality to those imported from industrialized nations.

According to the Plant Protection Department and MARD, there are now 5,580 recognized organic fertilizer products on the market, a sixfold increase over 2017.

The whole nation now boasts 265 organic fertilizer manufacturing plants with a combined capacity of more than 4 million tons per year, a 1.7-fold increase in quantity and a 1.4-fold increase in capacity over 2017.

Organic fertilizer output in the US grew from 1.07 million tons in 2017 to 2.4 million tons in 2020.