On March 28, the first National Conference on Livestock and Veterinary Science and Technology was held with the participation of about 750 delegates who’re leaders of ministries, branches, localities, scientists, companies and worldwide organizations.
Speaking at the opening, Mr. Phung Duc Tien, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Environment emphasised that in the interval 2021-2025, particularly in 2025, the agricultural sector faces many main challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic, international financial fluctuations, provide chain breakdowns and fast market adjustments.
However, the entire trade nonetheless maintained optimistic progress. Notably, the export turnover of the entire trade elevated sharply, from 49-50 billion USD to almost 60-70 billion USD. Many months reached over 6 billion USD – a report excessive. In the first two months of the yr, the trade had a commerce surplus of 21.31 billion USD; exports reached 11.3 billion USD, a rise of 10.3%.
More than 2,400 veterinary drugs and vaccine merchandise of Vietnam have been exported to almost 50 international locations, bringing in a price of almost 50 million USD per yr. These figures present that the progress potential of the trade remains to be very giant, particularly when the demand for animal protein consumption continues to improve, and the development of consumption strongly shifts to processed and packaged merchandise with clear traceability.
According to the Deputy Minister, this outcome exhibits the efforts of the whole trade, and at the similar time affirms that science and technology have gotten a key driving power to enhance productiveness, high quality and added worth.
In truth, the contribution of science and technology to the livestock and veterinary trade in the previous time has been fairly clear. In the interval 2021-2025, the trade carried out 84 science and technology duties with a complete price range of greater than 226 billion VND, specializing in key merchandise. As a outcome, 31 technical advances have been acknowledged, together with 6 pig breed traces; 15 poultry breed traces and many new options on diet, veterinary drugs and environmental therapy.
However, Deputy Minister Phung Duc Tien additionally identified “bottlenecks” equivalent to unfastened hyperlinks between stakeholders, restricted technology switch, and the potential of the trade not being totally exploited.
According to Mr. Pham Kim Dang – Deputy Director of the Department of Livestock and Veterinary Medicine (Ministry of Agriculture and Environment), the progress of the livestock trade remains to be not actually sustainable when the trade remains to be closely depending on imported uncooked supplies, particularly animal feed, in addition to not being fully proactive in breeds and technology.
According to the orientation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, by 2030, the livestock trade will develop in a contemporary, large-scale route, making use of excessive technology and controlling ailments nicely. Total meat output is anticipated to attain over 10 million tons, egg manufacturing greater than 25 billion eggs and milk about 1.6 million tons, whereas growing the proportion of exports and added worth of merchandise.
To obtain the above aim, Deputy Director of the Department of Livestock and Veterinary Medicine Pham Kim Dang stated that the sector will concentrate on mastering breeding technology, bettering the charge of home seed supply autonomy, and at the similar time creating the animal feed trade in a sustainable route, benefiting from by-products and lowering import dependence.
In the discipline of veterinary drugs, Mr. Dang stated that proactive illness prevention and management, vaccine growth and constructing disease-free zones that meet worldwide requirements are thought-about key components to guarantee steady growth; selling slaughtering trade, deep processing and logistics to enhance added worth and meet export market requirements.