Do not let preferential treatments fall into obscurity
7/3/14
If nothing changes, there will be a preferential credit
program with hundreds of thousands billion of capital for agriculture and
related industries in the coming time.
Unlike the preferential credit packages before, as proposed
by the State Bank Governor Nguyen Van Binh, the capital will be prioritized to
invest directly in new models of agricultural production as well as scientific and
technical applications in agriculture.
They have been probably the two biggest weaknesses of
agriculture in Vietnam for a long time that make farmers still in poverty, even
heaped up
debt although
they make a million tons of rice, fish, vegetables.
There is a fact in many countries around the world such
as Israel, the Netherlands, Japan... that strong investment for scientific
applications in agriculture has brought the magic steps for the economy. The Japanese farmers, who specialize
in producing lettuce Kawakami (Nagano Province), have revealed with no secret to
farmers in Da Lat (Lam Dong) when coming for vegetable cooperation that they only
produce lettuce four months a year due to the effects of weather but average
income they get in this village about $ 250,000/year/household. Or the example of growing sugar-cane
in Laos with the application of high
technology by Hoang Anh Gia Lai group has made productivity double in
comparision with the average in Vietnam.
In the country, farmers and enterprises have tried to
apply high technology to models in farming, animal husbandry and achieved respectable
results.
It can be seen that investments in scientific
applications to agriculture, especially high technology, biotechnology is the
right direction to change the fundamental mode of agricultural development. Especially the current state of
agriculture in Vietnam thrives only in quantity without quality. Many products of Vietnam which rank globally
among top exports such as coffee, rice... but economic
value is not significant, especially for those who live within these products. Obviously, to develop a modern agriculture
with highly competitive products, it also depends on many other factors such as
land policy, human resources besides scientific and technical factor... But science and technology are two key factors
which should be invested in a rush.
We now correctly identifiy the focus to invest capital in but
we must ensure the capital to win favorable addresses as quickly as possible. In the past, many farmers and
agricultural businesses heard too much of this type of incentive package.
However the access to capital was not simple at all.Not only cumbersome
procedural matters but also the binding conditions and criteria always push
hard toward the borrower.
The recent facts have demonstrated that only a few dozen
cases accessed capital from the preferential policies for agricultural deployed
under a year and falling into oblivion a time after. So many farmers and agricultural
businesses expect before launching the program on the credit support, the State
Bank and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development should take the
survey, assess clearly facts about the borrowers to promote effects immediately.
All comments [ 10 ]
The state should further increase investment in the agricultural sector to exploit the agricultural potential of our country
The farmers desperately need the support of the state for scientific and technical applications to raise productivity.
I think this is an absolutely correct policy of the Party and our country .
Vietnam is an agricultural country so it is better to focus certainly on agricultural development that will reach the high efficiency.
farmers in Dalat also use many scientific and high-tech applications to agriculture and thier agrecultural products are in no way inferior to any country in the world .
Our atate must have policies to support farmers in order to reduce difficult in their life.
Farmers in the labor process also has many practical initiatives to improve productivity.
Nowadays, enhancing the application of science and technology not just in agriculture but for all industries .
Investment in science and technology is right but we should have more supervision in implementing to ensure effectiveness .
State should consider investing in a scientific manner and accurately for each specialized areas.
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