Mr. Nguyen Huu Hoai Phu, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ho Chi Minh City, chaired the conference. Picture: Nguyen Thuy.
At the meeting and dialogue conference with companies, cooperatives and investors in the agricultural sector on June 22, Mr. Nguyen Huu Hoai Phu, deputy director of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Ho Chi Minh City, said that the city is now Ho In der Chi Minh City has only 4,300 farms, which accounts for less than 1% of the total number of farms in the region and whose product value is only 1/5 of the average company in the city.
“The quantity is small, the economic value is lower than that of other industries. Therefore, in the next 5 to 10 years, Ho Chi Minh City will have a young force in high-technology agriculture, AI technology is needed. Fostering a generation.” “The number of young people just starting an agricultural business is large,” Mr. Phu said.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Ho Chi Minh City will partner with the Ministry of Science and Technology of Ho Chi Minh City, Innovation Center of Ho Chi Minh City- Youth Union and the economic departments of the districts coordinate with agricultural production. in the region to promote and promote agricultural startups, especially high-tech agriculture.
However, Mr Phu said that the biggest obstacle for young people to set up agricultural businesses today is not intelligence, not science, not money, but land use policy for construction. Build membrane houses, net houses. Many cooperatives and companies face difficulties when they want to invest in high-tech agriculture but do not have land to build greenhouses, net houses, etc.
In fact, the agricultural production area in Ho Chi Minh City is currently 60,000 ha, of which less than 1% is used for the conversion to high-tech agriculture and urban agriculture.
Therefore, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Ho Chi Minh City has set the goal that by 2030, more than 10% of the total land cover of 60,000 hectares of agricultural land will have to be converted to urban agriculture and agriculture with industrial application to be converted. High technology, sustainable AI technology.
Ms. Hoang Thi Mai, Director of the Rural Development Sub-Department (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Ho Chi Minh City), answered questions from companies and cooperatives on support measures. Picture: Nguyen Thuy.
According to Ms. Hoang Thi Mai, director of the Rural Development Subdepartment (Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Ho Chi Minh City), since 2003 the city has implemented a policy to support agricultural development in Ho Chi Minh City Mechanisms and policies to support agricultural producers, with a focus on crops and livestock with high economic value that match the characteristics of Ho Chi Minh City.
After 20 years of implementation, the city loan interest promotion policy has so far supported more than 24,000 households with loans, with the total investment capital issued by enterprises, cooperatives and households is over 13,000 billion VND institutions have allocated over 8,000 billion dong for agricultural production development investment, the city budget amounts to to about 600 billion Dong.
However, to make the policy consistent with reality, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has submitted a draft amendment to the People’s Council of Ho Chi Minh City to timely issue the policy with many new points. For example, investments in science and technology, which previously required companies to have a high-tech agricultural enterprise certificate, were encouraged at higher interest rates than other contents. Now all you have to do is create a plan and submit it to the evaluation panel for consideration.
In addition, the policy used to focus only on supporting the issue of production development, now the policy is much more focused on promoting production trade, and purchasing enterprises receive loan interest support from the city budget.
Many companies and cooperatives in Ho Chi Minh City apply science and technology to agricultural production. Picture: Nguyen Thuy.
Also at the conference, representatives from the Ministry of Science and Technology of the City of Ho Chi Minh City, the City Youth Startup Support Center (Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union) and other entities presented guidelines on supporting startups . Innovation, especially high-tech application of agriculture, AI technology; ready to support production units in the development, especially innovative agricultural projects, according to today’s orientation and development conditions towards urban agriculture in Ho Chi Minh City.
Nguyen Minh Duc, deputy secretary-general of the Vietnam E-Commerce Association, said that enterprises and cooperatives should focus on researching and applying AI to create product images, banners, SEO, articles and advertisements, video production and social media building. design channels. automated advice… and thus helps to grow quickly and save costs.
In order for companies to have access to the guidelines, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyen Huu Hoai Phu, commissioned the Agricultural Advisory and Support Center to cooperate and coordinate with functional units, economic departments and Districts focused on creating incubation conditions young people who start farming, have the courage to think, the courage to act and not afraid to fail.