Agriculture sector sees solid October

The agricultural sector performed quite well in October, with livestock production developing stably and the production of timber from planted forests increasing, while the harvest of the winter rice crop was slower than in other years. The General Statistics Office reported that, as of mid-October, Vietnam had harvested 893,100 ha of winter rice, or 57.4 per cent of the cultivation area and equal to 87.9 per cent of last year’s winter harvest. In the forestry sector, the newly-concentrated planted forest area was estimated at 33,300 ha in October, up 5.3 per cent year-on-year. Aquatic production in October was estimated at 815,900 tons, up 2.5 per cent year-on-year.