Vietnam to ramp up organic aquaculture production before 2025

2020.07.24

The Vietnam News Agency reports that Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has recently signed off on the Organic Agriculture Development Project for 2020-2030 in hopes of seizing the leading edge in organic agriculture production.

As part of this push to convert land to organic production, the government hopes organic aquaculture will account for about 0.5 to 1.5 percent of the total aquaculture area before 2030. Vietnam also plans to improve the efficiency of organic production across all sectors aiming to have the product value per one hectare of organic cultivation and aquaculture land perform 1.3 to 1.5 times higher than that of non-organic production.

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