Vietnam Govt.: Tighten Control over Rice-paddies by 2030
The government of Vietnam has called for tighter control and management over Rice-raising areas from now through 2020 with a vision for 2030 amid the country’s rapid urbanization.
First Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung urged officials of the Ministries of Agriculture and Rural Development, Natural Resources and Environment, Planning and Investment to provide planning for rice paddies.
“The ministries should conduct a general survey on current paddy acreage across the country, avoiding licensing projects that take paddy areas for wrong uses,” Mr. Hung emphasized.
According to the paddy-planting plan by the MARD, the paddy area in Vietnam between 1995 and 2008 rose by 0.7% per year on average, reaching 7.4 million hectares in 2008, up from 6.7 million ha in 1995.
Meanwhile, state media recently said that about 3.7 million hectares of land would be revoked for urban development projects with 60% being farmland. (chinhphu.vn)
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