VietnameseResolution No. 63/NQ-CP dated December 23, 2009 of the Government on national food security
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Resolution No. 63/NQ-CP dated December 23, 2009 of the Government on national food security
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| Official number: | 63/NQ-CP | Signer: | Nguyen Tan Dung |
| Type: | Resolution | Expiry date: | Updating |
| Issuing date: | 23/12/2009 | Effect status: | Known Please log in to a subscriber account to use this function. Don’t have an account? Register here |
| Fields: | Agriculture - Forestry , Policy |
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THE GOVERNMENT ------- | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness ---------- |
No. 63/NQ-CP | Hanoi, December 23, 2009 |
RESOLUTION
ON NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY
THE GOVERNMENT
Food (including food and foodstuffs) security, which has always received a special concern and direction of the Party and State so as to ensure national food security in the immediate- and long-term future, is crowned with important achievements, prominently:
The grain food output averagely increased 3.7%/year in the 2001-2008 period, about three times higher than the population growth rate in the same period. Rice production met the domestic and export demands, averagely with some 4-5 million tons of rice exported annually. The output of foodstuffs from vegetables, fruits, husbandry and fishery products rose considerably.
The food circulation system was renovated, creating favorable conditions for people to access food. The domestic market has gradually shifted to the market mechanism under the State's management. The malnutrition rate among people dropped markedly; particularly that among under-five children fell from 25% in 2005 to 20% in 2008, achieving the plan target set for 2010.
Despite the above-mentioned achievements, our country's food security still sees such limitations and shortcomings as food and foodstuff production is not really sustainable; agricultural production organization is slow to be renovated; production infrastructure and services remain insufficient; production, business, export and import management still sees constraints; and producers' incomes remain low.
Food security constitutes an important issue of the country in the immediate- as well as long-term future. In order to redress the above-said shortcomings, the Government promulgates the Resolution on national food security with the following contents:
The grain food output averagely increased 3.7%/year in the 2001-2008 period, about three times higher than the population growth rate in the same period. Rice production met the domestic and export demands, averagely with some 4-5 million tons of rice exported annually. The output of foodstuffs from vegetables, fruits, husbandry and fishery products rose considerably.
The food circulation system was renovated, creating favorable conditions for people to access food. The domestic market has gradually shifted to the market mechanism under the State's management. The malnutrition rate among people dropped markedly; particularly that among under-five children fell from 25% in 2005 to 20% in 2008, achieving the plan target set for 2010.
Despite the above-mentioned achievements, our country's food security still sees such limitations and shortcomings as food and foodstuff production is not really sustainable; agricultural production organization is slow to be renovated; production infrastructure and services remain insufficient; production, business, export and import management still sees constraints; and producers' incomes remain low.
Food security constitutes an important issue of the country in the immediate- as well as long-term future. In order to redress the above-said shortcomings, the Government promulgates the Resolution on national food security with the following contents:
I. VIEWPOINTS
1. Food security must be part of the socioeconomic development general strategy, associated with the objectives of national industrialization and modernization and the addressing of the questions of agriculture, peasantry and rural areas, of which hunger elimination, poverty reduction, job creation and higher incomes for people are important, contributing to ensuring steady national food security.
2. Comprehensive and efficient agricultural production development served as a basis to ensure national food security; production shall be linked with appropriate organizational forms to fully and promptly meet food and foodstuff demands in all circumstances; to raise nutrition and improve the quality of people's meals.
3. To bring into play the advantage of rice as the principal task and to develop food and foodstuffs into commodity production zones with high efficiency and competitiveness; to step up mechanization, processing and preservation towards industrialization, modernization and sustainable environmental protection.
4. To well organize the trading and reserve systems in various regions and areas, creating favorable conditions for people to easily access food and foodstuffs with higher and higher quality and efficiency. To harmonize domestic consumption and export of food and foodstuffs.
5. To bring into full play resources of people and all economic sectors; the State shall only provide active support in ensuring national food security; ensure incomes for food producers and create conditions for the development of purely agricultural localities.
II. OBJECTIVES
1. General objectives
By 2020 with a vision towards 2030, to ensure adequate food supply sources with an output higher than the population growth rate; to put an end to food shortage and hunger and raise meal quality; to ensure that rice producers earn profits averagely more than 30% over production costs.
2. Specific objectives
a/ To ensure food supply sources
To further step up intensive rice farming, particularly in the Mekong river and Red river deltas, creating stable supply sources for immediate- and long-term national food security.
By 2020. to protect the rice land fund of 3.8 million ha for an output of 41-43 million tons of paddy to meet the total domestic consumption and export demand of around 4 million tons of rice/year; to increase the maize acreage to 1.3 million ha for an output of 7.5 million tons, the fruit tree acreage to 1.2 ha for an output of 12 million tons, the vegetables acreage to 1.2 million ha for an output of 20 million tons; to increase the subsidiary food crop output over 30%, the outputs of domestic animals in live weight to 8 million tons, fresh milk to 1 million tons, poultry eggs to 14 billion, fishing output to 2.4 million tons and aquaculture output to 4 million tons.
b/ To meet nutrition needs
By 2020. to improve the nutrition conditions towards nutrition balance, raising the average daily calorie consumption to 2.600-2.700 kilocalorie/person and reducing the malnutrition rate among under-five children to below 5%.
To improve the food consumption structure and quality, achieving by 2020 the average per-head consumption of only 100 kg of rice, 45 kg of meat, 30 kg of fish, 50 kg of fruits and 120 kg of vegetables, and the egg and milk consumption doubling the current levels. All agricultural products and food sold on the market must meet food hygiene and safety standards.
c/ To ensure people's accessibility to food
To put an end to food shortage and hunger by 2012. ensuring that 100% of the population any where and any time will be supplied with adequate food after 2012.
To ensure that by 2020. the food producers' income will be 2.5 times higher than the current level.
III. MAJOR TASKS AND SOLUTIONS
1. Planning
a/ General planning
The national food production is planned on the basis of bringing into play the advantages of each region and efficiently using land and water resources; to attach importance to planning zones of food production with great outputs of rice, maize, vegetables, fruits, aquatic products and husbandry in order to achieve the national food security targets.
The food production planning must ensure the balance of various domains to ensure the sustainable development with high economic efficiency; not causing contradiction between the bio-fuel production planning and the food production planning.
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