Decision No. 124/QD-TTg approves the Master Plan for the overall development of agricultural production until 2020 and the vision to 2030.

Pursuant to …;

Approving the Master Plan for the Development of Agricultural Production Industries until 2020 and Vision to 2030 agriculture until 2020 and vision until 2030

PRIME MINISTER

Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government dated December 25, 2001;

Considering the proposal of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development,

DECISION:

Article 1. Approves the Master Plan for the Development of Agricultural Production Industries until 2020 and Vision to 2030, with the main contents as follows:

I. VIEW ON THE MASTER PLAN

- The planning for the development of agricultural production (including agriculture, forestry, and fisheries) must aim at increasing productivity, quality, competitiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of the agricultural sector.

Article 2. The planning for the development of agricultural production must be based on innovative thinking, market orientation, rapid application of scientific and technological achievements, efficient use of land, water resources, and trained human resources, adapting to climate change, protecting the ecological environment to effectively exploit the advantages and natural conditions of each region and locality.

Article 3. The planning for the development of agricultural production must closely link production with industrial preservation, processing, and consumption markets; consolidate farmland, form concentrated commodity production areas.

Article 4. The planning for the development of agricultural production must be linked to the transformation of labor structure in agriculture and rural areas, population adjustment, along with trained human resources, meeting the requirements of producing commercial agricultural, forestry, and fishery products with increasingly advanced technology and science.

Article 5. The planning for the development of agricultural production must have a system of policies ensuring high mobilization of social resources, primarily land, labor, forests, and seas, leveraging the strength of international integration and state support.

II. DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES

1. General objectives

Building a modern, sustainable comprehensive agricultural sector developing large-scale commodity production based on comparative advantages; applying science and technology to increase productivity, quality, efficiency, and high competitiveness, ensuring national food security both in the short term and long term, meeting diverse domestic needs and export demands; improving the efficiency of land, water, labor, and capital use; increasing income and living standards of farmers, fishermen, salt workers, and forest workers.

Article 2. Specific targets

a) Period 2011 - 2020

- Structure of the agriculture, forestry, and fisheries industry by 2020: Agriculture 64.7%, Forestry 2%, Fisheries 33.3%.

- Average annual GDP growth rate of agriculture, forestry, and fisheries 3.5 - 4%.

- Average annual growth rate of value of agricultural, forestry, and fisheries production 4.3 - 4.7%.

- Forest coverage reaching 44 - 45% by 2020.

- Export turnover of agriculture, forestry, and fisheries reaching 40 billion USD, including agriculture 22 billion USD, forestry 7 billion USD, fisheries 11 billion USD.

- Average value of output per hectare of agricultural land 70 million VND.

b) Vision year 2030

- Structure of the agriculture, forestry, and fisheries industry by 2030: Agriculture 55%, Forestry 1.5%, Fisheries 43.5%.

- Average annual GDP growth rate of agriculture, forestry, and fisheries 3 - 3.2%.

- Average annual growth rate of value of agricultural, forestry, and fisheries production 4 - 4.3%.

- Export turnover of agriculture, forestry, and fisheries reaching 60 billion USD, including agriculture 30 billion USD, forestry 10 billion USD, fisheries 20 billion USD.

- Value of output per hectare of agricultural land reaching 100 - 120 million VND.

III. GUIDELINES FOR LAND USE PLANNING AND INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT UNTIL 2020 AND VISION YEAR 2030.

Article 1. Land use planning

a) Reclaiming additional land for agriculture, forestry, and aquaculture from 2011 to 2020 about 1.1 million hectares; including paddy rice 37 thousand hectares, annual crops 60 thousand hectares, perennial crops 100 thousand hectares, planting forests 930 thousand hectares.

b) Agricultural land in 2020 will be 9.59 million hectares, decreasing by 580 thousand hectares compared to 2010; allocating land for annual crops 6.05 million hectares, including paddy fields 3.812 million hectares, feed crop land 300 thousand hectares; perennial crop land 3.54 million hectares.

c) Forestry land by 2020 will be 16.2 - 16.5 million hectares, increasing by 879 thousand hectares compared to 2010; including productive forests 8.132 million hectares, protective forests 5.842 million hectares, special-use forests 2.271 million hectares.

d) Aquaculture land 790 thousand hectares, increasing by 99.7 thousand hectares compared to 2010; of which the area of aquaculture in the Mekong Delta accounts for 70%.

đ) Salt production land stabilized at 14.5 thousand hectares, of which industrial salt production 8.5 thousand hectares.

Article 2. Food Crops

a) Rice:

- Protecting the stable rice land fund from 2020 at 3.812 million hectares, of which double-cropped rice is 3.2 million hectares; applying advanced intensive cultivation methods to achieve a yield of 41 - 43 million tons in 2020 and 44 million tons in 2030, ensuring food security and exports.

- Rice processing: Investing in industrial processing capacity to reach 25 million tons/year, sufficient to process 60% of total paddy production. Adhering to technological processes in the production chain from purchasing, drying and preserving, milling, storage, circulation, achieving a rice recovery rate above 68%; reducing post-harvest losses to 5-6%; improving the quality of exported rice: Proportion of 5-10% broken rice accounting for 70% of production, white grain ratio not exceeding 4%, damaged grain ratio not exceeding 0.2%, yellow grain ratio not exceeding 0.2%. By 2015, the added value of exported rice will increase by 10-15% compared to now due to the application of technical advancements, improving product quality.

b) Corn: Expanding corn area by increasing winter-spring corn area in the Red River Delta, increasing corn area on single-crop rice land in northern midland and mountainous provinces, Central Highlands. Stabilizing the area after 2020 around 1.44 million hectares, concentrated in northern midland and mountainous provinces, Central Highlands, North Central Coast, Southeast Region; intensively cultivating corn to meet about 80% raw material demand for animal feed processing industry.

c) Cassava: Stabilizing cassava area at 450 thousand hectares in 2020, production around 11 million tons for animal feed and biofuel raw materials; using land with slope less than 15 degrees, soil depth over 35 cm mainly in northern midland and mountainous regions, North Central Coast, South Central Coast, Central Highlands, Southeast Region for production.⁰, soil layer over 35 cm thick mainly in the midlands and mountainous regions of the North, the coastal areas of North Central Coast, South Central Coast, the Central Highlands, Southeast region for production.

Article 3. Various Vegetables

The planned land area is approximately 400 thousand hectares, increasing land utilization to 2.5 to 3 times, expanding winter vegetable areas and other crops on the same land, ensuring a planting area of 1.2 million hectares with a production volume of about 20 million tons, including 170 thousand hectares in the North Central Highlands, 270 thousand hectares in the Red River Delta, 120 thousand hectares in the North Central Coast, 80 thousand hectares in the South Central Coast, 110 thousand hectares in the Central Highlands, 120 thousand hectares in the Southeast, and 330 thousand hectares in the Mekong Delta.

Vegetable production focuses on improving quality, ensuring food safety, establishing concentrated vegetable production areas, applying high technology, and producing according to good agricultural practices (VietGAP) and organic methods.

4. Soybean

The planned land area is approximately 100 thousand hectares, utilizing double cropping on rice fields to reach a planting area of about 350 thousand hectares and a production volume of 700 thousand tons by 2020; the main production regions are the Red River Delta, the North Central Highlands, and the Central Highlands.

5. Peanut

The planned land area is approximately 150 thousand hectares, and on peanut-rice land to stabilize the planting area at about 300 thousand hectares, with a production volume exceeding 800 thousand tons; the main production regions are the Northern Central Coast, the North Central Highlands, and the Southern Central Coast.

6. Sugarcane

- The planned land area is stabilized at 300 thousand hectares, including 220 thousand hectares for raw material supply to factories. Four key regions are arranged: the Northern Central Coast with 80 thousand hectares, the Southern Central Coast and the Central Highlands with 53 thousand hectares, the Southeast with 37 thousand hectares, and the Mekong Delta with 52 thousand hectares. Intensive cultivation is focused on, ensuring irrigation, using high-yield varieties with high sugar content and staggered planting to achieve a sugarcane yield of about 80 tons per hectare by 2020.

- Sugar processing: No new factories will be built, focusing instead on expanding the capacity of existing factories, investing in deepening and modernizing production lines to improve recovery efficiency and product quality; additional investment in refined sugar production to meet market demand. By 2020, the total crushing capacity will reach 140,000 TMN, with a sugar production volume of 2 million tons, meeting domestic consumption needs and allowing for export.

7. Cotton

Develop cotton to replace part of imported cotton fiber; by 2020, the cotton area will exceed 40 thousand hectares, with a cotton fiber production volume of 50,000 tons. Develop rain-fed cotton in the provinces of the Central Highlands, Southeast, Southern Central Coast, and North Central Highlands. Focus on developing irrigated cotton using drip irrigation in the Central Highlands; using well systems in the Central Coast provinces; and using irrigation systems in Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces.

8. Tobacco

The planned land area is stabilized at 40 thousand hectares, meeting 90% of raw material needs for existing tobacco factories. Production development mainly occurs in the North Central Highlands, the Southern Central Coast, the Southeast, and the Central Highlands.

9. Feed Crops

The land area allocated is 300 thousand hectares, an increase of 260 thousand hectares compared to 2010. The main production areas are linked to large livestock breeding areas in the North Central Highlands, the Northern Central Coast, the Southern Central Coast, the Southeast, and the Central Highlands.

10. Tea

- The land area allocated is stabilized at 140 thousand hectares long-term, an increase of 10 thousand hectares compared to 2010, including about 7 thousand hectares in the North Central Highlands and 3 thousand hectares in Lam Dong. Apply clean tea production processes, ensuring food safety, using new high-yield and high-quality tea varieties for new plantings and replanting.

- Tea processing: Invest in new and upgrade existing tea factories towards modernization, achieving a total capacity of 840,000 tons of fresh buds per year; industrial processing 70% of the fresh tea bud production, with a dry tea production volume of 270,000 tons. Shift the product structure towards 55% black tea and 45% green tea; by 2020, the price of exported Vietnamese tea will be equal to the world average price.

11. Coffee

- The land area allocated is 500 thousand hectares, including about 60 thousand hectares for Robusta coffee; the main production areas are the Central Highlands, the Southeast, and the Northern Central Coast.

- Coffee processing: Through economic cooperation models between businesses and farmers, increase the proportion of coffee processed industrially from 20% in 2010 to 40% in 2015 and 70% in 2020; correspondingly reduce the proportion of household-level processing of raw coffee beans and mixed coffee from 80% in 2010 to 60% in 2015 and 30% in 2020. Increase the proportion of wet-processed coffee from 10% of production in 2010 to 20% in 2015 and 30% in 2020. Expand the scale and capacity of coffee powder and soluble coffee production from 10,000 tons in 2010 to 20,000 tons in 2015 and 30,000 tons in 2020.

12. Rubber

- Maintain the target of stabilizing the area at 800 thousand hectares and planning orientation in regions as per Decision No. 750/QĐ-TTg dated June 3, 2009 of the Prime Minister approving the Rubber Development Plan to 2015 and vision to 2020. After 2015, based on evaluating the effectiveness of planted rubber areas and land reserves in regions, consider adjusting the scale of rubber areas appropriately, effectively, and sustainably.

- Rubber processing: In 2015, the total processing capacity is approximately 1.2 million tons of dry latex per year. By 2020, the total processing capacity is approximately 1.3 million tons of dry latex per year. Improve technology, create a reasonable product structure, including: 40% SVR 3L, SVR 5L latex, 20% white latex, and 40% RSS, SR, SVR 10, SVR20 latex to enhance export value.

From now until 2020, additional processing capacity of 500,000 tons of dry latex per year must be invested. For large-scale rubber plantations with factory capacities ranging from 6,000 to 20,000 tons per year, small-scale rubber plantations with capacities from 1,200 to 1,500 tons per year; for existing factories, continue upgrading equipment, completing facilities, and synchronizing production lines. Adhere to technical procedures and management, implement quality control for exported rubber.

Establish factories for producing tires, motorcycle tubes, etc., raising the proportion of domestically produced natural rubber usage to a minimum of 30% by 2020.

13. Cashew

- The land area allocated is 400 thousand hectares, continuing to plant about 20 thousand hectares from now until 2020, mainly using unused land; the main cashew growing areas are the Central Highlands, the Southeast, and the Southern Central Coast.

- Processing cashew: Diversify cashew products, increase the processing rate of cashew kernels to at least 40% in various forms (salted roasted cashew nuts, cashew butter, cashew-filled sweets, etc.); while increasing domestic consumption to avoid risks due to adverse fluctuations in the export market, and at the same time fully utilizing broken cashew kernels resulting from the mechanization process replacing manual labor.

14. Pepper plant

- Stabilize the current area of 50 thousand hectares, mainly in the Southeast region with 26,8 thousand hectares, the Central Highlands with 17,8 thousand hectares, North Central Coast with 3,7 thousand hectares, South Central Coast with 1,2 thousand hectares, and the Mekong Delta with 500 hectares.

- Processing pepper: Invest in upgrading and expanding existing processing plants, including 14 plants that ensure advanced processing technology, high quality, and food safety. Simultaneously, invest in expanding the capacity and building new white pepper processing plants to increase the proportion of white pepper products from 19.4% in 2010 to 30% by 2020. Invest to increase the proportion of ground pepper products from 12.2% in 2010 to 25% by 2020.

15. Coconut tree

Stabilize the area at 140 thousand hectares, with main production areas being the Mekong Delta, the Central Highlands, the Southeast region, and the South Central Coast.

16. Cocoa tree

Allocate an area of approximately 50 thousand hectares, with main production areas being the Mekong Delta and the South Central Coast.

17. Fruit trees

- Allocate an area of approximately 910 thousand hectares, including 810 thousand hectares for major fruit trees such as lychee 140 thousand hectares, longan 140 thousand hectares, banana 145 thousand hectares, mango 110 thousand hectares, tangerine 115 thousand hectares, pineapple 55 thousand hectares. Main planting regions include the midlands and mountainous northern region with 200 thousand hectares; Red River Delta with 80 thousand hectares, North Central Coast with 70 thousand hectares, South Central Coast with 30 thousand hectares, Central Highlands with 30 thousand hectares, Southeast region with 145 thousand hectares, and Mekong Delta with 350 thousand hectares.

Production of fruit trees must aim to expand the application of good agricultural practices (VietGAP) to ensure food hygiene and safety.

- Processing fruits: Increase the capacity and efficiency of existing processing plants (currently only reaching about 30% of the total industry design). Main processed products include frozen fruits, canned fruits, fried and dried fruits, natural fruit juices, concentrated fruit juices, and frozen products; focusing on frozen products and concentrated fruit juices (pineapple, lychee, longan, mango concentrate). Strengthen storage capacity, reduce post-harvest losses both in quantity and quality from the current 25% to below 15% within the next 10 years. Apply scientific and technological methods to extend the season of various fruits, advanced preservation measures, and irradiation and hot water sterilization methods to export fresh major fruits (dragon fruit, lychee, mango, longan, pomelo, rambutan, etc.).

18. Livestock breeding

Develop livestock and poultry towards farm-based, industrial, and semi-industrial breeding, linked with slaughterhouses, processing facilities, and waste treatment facilities, ensuring food safety and environmental hygiene.

a) Livestock planning:

- Pigs: Focus on developing pig herds suitable for domestic consumption preferences. Develop high-quality pig farming in some advantageous regions like the Red River Delta, midland and mountainous northern region, and Southeast region towards industrial production, ensuring disease safety and food hygiene for domestic consumption and export. The total pig herd will reach 34 million heads by 2020, with live meat production around 4.8 to 4.9 million tons.

- Buffalo and cattle: Develop buffalo herds primarily for meat production, with a target of 3 million heads by 2020, mainly in provinces of the midland and mountainous northern region and the North Central Coast.

Develop high-yield beef cattle with good taste to meet domestic demand, aiming for a cattle herd of 12 million heads by 2020, with live meat production around 650 thousand tons. Expand dairy cattle farming areas near cities with favorable conditions and some advantageous locations, increasing the dairy cattle herd to 500 thousand heads by 2020.

- Poultry: Develop poultry farming towards centralized breeding with appropriate scale to meet domestic consumption needs; actively control diseases to contain avian influenza. The poultry herd will reach 360 to 400 million heads by 2020, with live meat production around 2 to 2.5 million tons and 14 billion eggs.

b) Slaughter and processing: Build centralized industrial slaughterhouses and distribution networks for fresh meat and industrial processing to ensure food hygiene and safety and protect the environment. By 2020, the total live meat production (mainly pork, poultry, and beef) will be 7 million tons, equivalent to 5 million tons of dressed meat. The ratio of industrially slaughtered and processed meat to total meat production will exceed 35%, approximately 2 million tons; of which industrial processing accounts for 25%, approximately 500 thousand tons.

19. Forestry

a) Allocate forest land area to reach approximately 16.2 to 16.5 million hectares by 2020, an increase of about 879 thousand hectares compared to 2010; including 8.132 million hectares for production forests, 5.842 million hectares for protective forests, and 2.271 million hectares for special-use forests.

- Protective forests, allocate 5.842 million hectares mainly for critical areas; including 5.6 million hectares for upstream protective forests, 0.18 million hectares for wave-blocking and coastal reclamation protective forests, 0.15 million hectares for wind-blocking and sand-fixing protective forests, and 70 thousand hectares for protective forests safeguarding the environment of large cities, industrial zones, and border and island forests.

- Special-use forests, consolidate the current system of 2.14 million hectares towards improving quality and biodiversity value, ensuring compliance with forest quality criteria. For ecosystems that are not yet present or are scarce, develop additional areas in the northern mountains, North Central Coast, Central Highlands, and wetland areas in the Northern and Southern deltas, with an area of about 60 thousand hectares.

- Production forests, allocate approximately 8.132 million hectares, an increase of about 735 thousand hectares compared to 2010; including 125 thousand hectares of planned protective forest land, 620 thousand hectares of depleted natural forests requiring restoration and regeneration, and planting approximately 610 thousand hectares on unused forest land.

b) Processing: Reorganize the wood processing industry to balance production capacity with stable raw material supply. From now until 2015, focus on reviewing, consolidating, and upgrading medium and small-scale forest product processing plants, and develop large-scale forest product processing industries after 2015.

Establish and expand wood processing industrial zones in areas capable of providing sufficient, stable raw materials, with favorable infrastructure, ensuring profitability and competitiveness in regional and international markets. Encourage the construction of integrated production and processing facilities for plantation timber and non-forest products; promote artificial board and pulpwood processing, gradually reducing the processing and export of wood chips.

By 2020, the total sawnwood production capacity will reach 6 million m³/year; particleboard 320 thousand m³ products/year; MDF board 220 thousand m³ products/year; the value of exported wooden products will reach 7 billion USD (3.5 million m³ products); the value of non-wood forest products will be approximately 0.8 billion USD.

20. Aquaculture

a) Cultivation: The area allocated for aquaculture by 2020 will be 1.2 million hectares, including using unused coastal land for cultivation about 7 thousand hectares and converting low-lying paddy fields to 90 thousand hectares. Develop industrial cultivation zones for key species such as tra catfish, black tiger shrimp, whiteleg shrimp, mollusks, marine fish, and rainbow trout.

Maintain the area for freshwater aquaculture with traditional fish species in rural areas to meet local consumption needs, create jobs, and increase farmers' income. Focus on implementing industrial tra catfish farming, transitioning from GlobalGAP standards to VietGAP standards. Convert some single-crop rice paddies in flood-prone areas of the Mekong Delta and Red River Delta to shrimp and fish farming.

For brackish water cultivation, plan to form concentrated industrial cultivation zones with large areas according to GAP standards suitable for each market, producing large quantities of goods for export and domestic consumption in the Red River Delta, central coast, and Mekong Delta regions, linked to traceability, building reputable and high-quality aquatic product brands.

For saltwater cultivation, plan concentrated marine cultivation zones connected to breeding facilities in various regions, expanding marine and island-based aquaculture zones.

b) Fishing and protection of aquatic resources: Continue investing in research and surveys of resource stocks, forecasting fishing grounds to serve fishing activities. Reorganize the fishing industry towards modernizing management based on restructuring vessels and occupations suitable for different sea areas, natural environments, and resource stocks, linked to investments in upgrading and modernizing fishing ports, wharfs, storm shelters, and coastal and island-based fisheries support services. Expand operations within the framework of international cooperation beyond Vietnam's territorial waters. Establish and develop marine conservation areas and inland water conservation zones.

c) Aquatic Product Processing: Export volume will reach 1.55 million tons by 2015 and 1.9 million tons by 2020; increase processing capacity from 6,500 tons/day to 10,000 tons/day; increase cold storage capacity by 630,000 tons to reach a total capacity of approximately 1.1 million tons.

- For frozen processing: Replace outdated equipment, especially ozone-depleting refrigeration systems, which must be phased out by 2030; invest primarily in deepening production to produce higher-value-added products and raise utilization rates to 70% from the current 40-50%. Specifically, in the Mekong Delta, new tra catfish processing plants with an average capacity of 7,500 tons/year should be built by 2015 to meet the increased cultivation of 1.5 million tons of tra catfish by 2015 and upgrade existing plants to process 2 million tons of tra catfish by 2020.

- For fishmeal processing: Do not encourage the development of processing capacity; instead, focus on increasing utilization rates above 70% in the North and Central regions.

- For dried product processing: Reduce low-quality dried product output, increase high-value-added dried product output, improve the quality of exported dried products, and maintain a stable annual output of 30,000 to 40,000 tons.

- For canned product processing: Increase utilization rates to 80-90% through importing raw materials such as tuna, anchovies, squid, etc.; diversify canned products, increase domestic market and export supplies.

- Construct additional large cold storage systems to mitigate seasonal fluctuations, regulate the market, and facilitate exports.

d) Mechanization of fishing vessel repair and fisheries support services: Focus on investing in reinforcing and developing a synchronized mechanical industry for fishing vessel construction and repair; auxiliary production linked to infrastructure development for fisheries support services serving cultivation, harvesting, and processing.

21. Salt

Stabilize the salt production area at 14,500 hectares, with a yield of 2 million tons; of which industrial salt accounts for 8,500 hectares and a yield of 1.35 million tons. Invest in modernizing industrial salt production in areas with favorable conditions to produce high-quality salt, linking production with post-salt processing and chemical industries to meet the needs of the chemical industry and domestic salt consumption, aiming for salt exports.

IV. MAJOR SOLUTIONS

1. Enhance awareness and concentrate on directing the formulation and implementation of sector development planning in a market economy

- Strengthen management and supervision of planning implementation to ensure sustainable and directional development of the sector. Localities must enhance their understanding of the importance of agricultural sector planning; direct and guide the agricultural sector and related sectors to effectively implement planning contents suitable to specific local conditions.

- Develop economic development programs, investment in infrastructure construction, processing industry systems, and consumer markets from the central level to localities, ensuring necessary conditions for the approved planning to be implemented.

2. Develop the market and promote trade to achieve the goals of the planning.

a) Fulfill well the commitments with ASEAN in the agriculture, forestry, and fisheries sector; particularly food security, veterinary, plant protection, aquaculture, forestry; with the WTO on animal and plant quarantine, investment, services; animal and plant protection and quarantine agreements for importing countries of Vietnam's agricultural, forestry, and aquatic products, creating conditions to implement the development production plan including both inputs and outputs.

b) Build and organize the implementation of programs to promote trade in agricultural, forestry, and aquatic products, maintaining major traditional markets (China, EU, Japan, USA, Philippines, Indonesia, Iraq...) and expanding Eastern European, Middle Eastern, South Korean... markets to promote the consumption of agricultural products.

c) Support and create conditions for businesses to build brands and quality standards for key export agricultural, forestry, and aquatic products; meeting the requirements of quality, design, and specifications of importing countries.

d) Develop and expand domestic markets, especially tourist areas, large cities, and residential areas.

đ) Localities guide enterprises in planning and investing in raw material regions, signing contracts for product consumption with producers, ensuring a stable supply for processing and export.

3. Research, transfer science and technology, and train human resources.

a) The State ensures priority budget investment for research and technology transfer corresponding to the development tasks of agriculture, forestry, salt industry, and fisheries according to approved planning.

b) Strengthen cooperation with countries in the region and worldwide on science and technology in production, disease prevention, preservation, processing of agricultural, forestry, and aquatic products; marine resource exploitation, shipbuilding machinery, establishing fishery management information systems.

c) Continue to reform science and technology policies, strengthen socialization of research and technology transfer; reform incentive policies towards encouraging and fully utilizing scientific and technological resources, attracting various economic sectors to participate in research and technology transfer.

d) Enhance the capacity of agricultural extension, forestry extension, fishery extension systems, plant protection, veterinary, quality management systems for agricultural, forestry, and aquatic products, other services serving agricultural, forestry, and aquatic production.

đ) Improve the technical staff and management capabilities, implement socialized vocational training to ensure farmers' access to new technologies applied in production and exploitation of natural resources, using equipment and machinery in production, preservation, processing, and consumption of products.

4. Develop infrastructure to meet the requirements of agricultural, forestry, salt industry, and fisheries production development according to the planning.

a) Regarding water conservancy

Develop water conservancy towards modernization, increasing the efficiency of water supply for production and daily life; proactively prevent, combat, and reduce losses caused by natural disasters, gradually adapting to climate change conditions. Ensure sufficient water sources to effectively exploit 4.5 million hectares of cultivated land annually (including 3.8 million hectares of rice fields), aiming for proactive irrigation for 100% of double-crop rice fields. Increase irrigation capacity for perennial industrial crop planting areas, concentrated fruit tree planting areas, supplying water for aquaculture on 0.79 million hectares, of which 80% of the area will be supplied with proactive water. Enhance drainage capacity into main rivers, ensuring drainage for delta and low-lying areas with a design frequency of 5-10%, having engineering solutions adaptable to climate change.

Focus on upgrading existing water conservancy systems; complete investment for each system, upgrade and modernize key works, canals, control equipment to fully utilize design capacity and improve service capacity.

Continue to invest in building small-scale water conservancy projects in highland, remote, border, and island areas to provide irrigation water and serve daily life. Develop water conservancy to serve aquaculture, industry, daily life, and coastal environmental improvement. Invest in constructing large projects to regulate floods, control tides, prevent salinity intrusion, retain freshwater, drain excess water, and limit the impacts of climate change and rising sea levels.

Develop farmer water user organizations, establish mechanisms to protect, manage, and operate water conservancy systems efficiently and save water, improving the utilization rate of designed capacities of existing works.

b) Regarding rural transportation

Implement planning for the system, connecting rural transportation with provincial roads and national highways towards the goal of promoting production development and goods circulation.

Prioritize road construction in highland and mountainous areas, especially districts and communes with poverty rates over 50%, ensuring that by 2020, the transportation system in these areas creates conditions for commodity production development.

Expand the transportation system to hill and mountainous areas, creating conditions for developing industrial zones and new urban areas without affecting arable agricultural land.

c) Regarding fisheries infrastructure

Plan and construct technical infrastructure stations and infrastructure for breeding areas, including embankments, primary water supply and drainage channels, large culverts and pumping stations. Invest in monitoring and warning systems for major aquaculture areas. Invest in storm shelters and anchorage systems, including regional and local levels; upgrade, expand, and build new fishing port and essential post-harvest facilities to support activities at key fishing grounds.

d) Regarding agricultural infrastructure

Invest in enhancing the capacity of infrastructure systems for scientific and technological research, especially seed selection, production, and breeding of crops and livestock; plant protection, veterinary, quality inspection of seeds, fertilizers, and agricultural products.

đ) Regarding forestry infrastructure

Develop forest road systems in remote, deep, and ethnic minority areas. Invest in enhancing the capacity of research institutions on forest biology, national seedling forests, national nurseries; multi-purpose disaster warnings such as forest fire warnings, flash flood warnings combined with meteorological and hydrological data collection.

e) Develop infrastructure to serve trade.

Develop the postal office system, telephone system, communal cultural post offices to reach 100% by 2020; the proportion of rural residents accessing the Internet is 30%.

The State creates conditions and supports communes in building and investing in developing wholesale market systems for agricultural, forestry, and aquatic products, border markets, and regional markets according to approved market plans by the Prime Minister. Invest in wholesale centers in concentrated agricultural, forestry, and aquatic product areas.

5. Continue to innovate and build organizational forms of production and services in rural areas.

a) Create conditions for household economies to develop commodity production towards expanding farm scale; support poor households to overcome poverty and gradually become wealthy. Encourage the development of connections between farmer households and enterprises, cooperatives, scientific organizations, and industry associations in production and product consumption.

b) Implement policies to promote the rapid development of cooperative economy, private economy, especially small and medium-sized enterprises in rural areas, to have the conditions to invest in production according to planning linked with the market.

c) Basically complete the conversion of enterprises to shareholding, particularly agricultural and forestry enterprises, linking the interests of enterprises with the benefits of farmers, proactively invest in building raw material areas according to planning, guide farmers to produce according to market requirements.

6. Regarding land

a) Organize the implementation of good management and use of rice fields according to the provisions of the Law on Land to ensure national food security.

b) Build mechanisms and policies to encourage farmers to contribute shares by the value of land use rights to participate in enterprises and investment projects.

c) Continue to quickly implement the allocation of land and forest tenure in forestry and policies to encourage village, commune, and community participation in protecting natural forests and developing economic forests.

7. Mechanization of agriculture

a) Mechanization is an important solution for developing agriculture. Strive to increase the mechanization rate of soil preparation from 70% in 2010 to 95% by 2020; planting and fertilizing from 25% to 70%, harvesting from 30% to 70%, processing from 30% to 80%.

b) Build policies to encourage investment in producing engines and farming machinery serving agricultural, forestry, fishery, salt production at reasonable costs. Expand production towards concentration and specialized cultivation, forming large model fields, to create conditions for farmers, businesses, and organizations in agricultural, forestry, fishery, and salt production to quickly apply mechanization in all stages from production - preservation - processing - transportation and product consumption.

V. IMPLEMENTATION

To take the lead and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance and relevant ministries and sectors to urge, inspect, supervise, and resolve issues arising during the implementation of this Decree.

- Guide localities to review and build plans for the development of agricultural, forestry, salt, and aquaculture production.

- Promptly complete strategic environmental impact assessment reports for approval according to regulations.

- Strengthen the capacity of the information system to provide timely necessary information about production, prices, and markets to bases and producers who invest in production according to planning.

- Organize the review and approval of production plans for agricultural, forestry, salt, and aquaculture in regions.

- Organize and direct the implementation of overall plans for the development of agricultural, forestry, salt, and aquaculture nationwide.

2. Ministry of Planning and Investment: Based on approved planning and investment projects by competent authorities, allocate funds annually for the development of agriculture and rural areas according to planning.

3. Ministry of Finance: Ensure financial policies for the implementation of overall plans for agricultural, forestry, salt, and aquaculture.

4. Other Ministries and sectors: According to their functions and tasks, participate and create conditions for localities, organizations, households, and individuals to implement the plans.

5. Provincial People's Committees and Municipal People's Committees directly under the Central Government

a) Conduct reviews and build sectoral plans for agriculture, forestry, salt, and aquaculture in localities; organize the implementation of approved plans.

Guide counties, towns, cities under provinces, and communes, towns to build production plans for agriculture, forestry, and aquaculture.

b) Build programs and projects to develop key industries in localities and implement them.

Article 2. Implementation clause

1. This Decision shall take effect from the date of issuance.

2. This Decision replaces Decision No. 150/2005/QĐ-TTg dated June 20, 2005 of the Prime Minister approving the plan for restructuring the production structure of agriculture, forestry, and aquaculture nationwide until 2010 and vision 2020.

3. Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Heads of agencies under the Government, Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally governed cities are responsible for implementing this Decision.