Topic: The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

While the number of livestock farmers has fallen sharply due to losses over recent years, FDI enterprises are still expanding their livestock activities in Vietnam and now dominate in pork and chicken. Figures from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development show that of the more than 300 FDI projects in the agriculture, forestry and fishery sector in the first eight months of this year, 81 were in livestock and had significant capital.

Logistics for the production, processing, and consumption of agricultural products in Vietnam still exhibit many limitations, resulting in logistics costs accounting for 25 per cent of production costs. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is developing a project on an agricultural logistics network that will create community logistic points in country areas and encourage businesses to invest.