ISSUES FOR VIETNAM'S AGRICULTURAL SECTOR AFTER 30 YEARS OF INNOVATION

Abstract

Base on secondary data which collected from the General Statistics Office to address the current situation of Vietnam's agriculture sector, namely the contribution of agriculture sector to Vietnam's economic growth and GDP, the value agricultural exports in the total value of Vietnam's exports, labor productivity of the agricultural sector and capital invested in the agricultural sector. In addition to the achieved results such as the agricultural sector has a stable growth rate, contributing to the growth of the economy; high export value; create a lot of jobs; Contributing to restructuring the economy, high value-added agricultural products, the agriculture sector is facing many challenging issues such as low labor productivity, capital investment in agriculture quick through the years but the efficiency of capital use is not high, the value of the sector's contribution to economic growth tends to increase slowly, the growth rate of the sector is still low, the production scale is small, the problem of epidemics, the hygiene and epidemiology, food safety, the environmental pollution in cultivation and husbandry are still unregulated… On that basis, the article proposes a number of recommendations such as supporting product consumption and market development; support and improve the efficiency of capital use; applied science and technology; training and developing human resources; developing linkage models to contribute to limit challenges and develop the agricultural sector in the future.