VietNamNet Bridge – The Plant Protection Agency under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has proposed to apply heavy-handed measures to prohibit the use of hazardous pesticides in agriculture production.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development - Mr. Cao Duc Phat has approved an emergency response plan against dangerous viruses capable of infecting humans.

Vietnam, well known with the thousands-of-years wet rice civilization, has been developing its agriculture for the last many generations. However, experts believe that the opportunities for the investment in agriculture only come in 2013.

 VietNamNet Bridge – After five years of implementing the Party Central Committee's Resolution No 7 on agriculture, farmers and rural development, weaknesses remain in the agricultural sector,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has asked the Government to issue an order to stop the exploitation of natural forests in the Central Highlands region between now and 2020.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The presence of foreigners in the coffee coordination committee, who now work for international coffee groups, has raised the worry that the Vietnamese coffee industry would be swayed by foreigners.

 VietNamNet Bridge – No ministry or branch has claimed the responsibility for the empty forest development fund.

 VietNamNet Bridge – While Vietnam has imported genetically modified (GM) corn and soybeans for around decade, the country is trying to set up a legal framework for the application of biotechnology domestically.

Cultivation is believed to incur heavy damages from the climate change. The total cultivation output may decrease by 1-5 percent per annum, while the main crop yields, including rice, may decrease by 10 percent.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is calling for nearly $1 billion of investment in projects to cope with climate change, including $30-40 million for the greenhouse emission program.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has given its approval to the importing of frozen "white organs" such as rectums, chicken crops and penises.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More and more farmers in the provinces of Hai Duong, Thanh Hoa, Ninh Binh, Nam Dinh and Nghe An have given up farming and given back the land allocated to them.

VietNamNet Bridge – The export turnover of agro-forestry and aquaculture products is expected to reach US$15.59 billion for the first seven months of this year, down 1.6 per cent year-on-year,

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The sharp poultry egg price increases in early 2013 has caused a headache to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has issued an urgent warning of bird flu after the deadly disease was recently detected in Tay Ninh Province.