Agricultural production in recent years has achieved great achievements. The biggest achievement is to ensure national food security, from a country with a backward agriculture to become a country with a commodity agriculture, with a significant position in the region and in the world.
In the past time, the livestock industry has faced many difficulties because it has had to prevent epidemics in livestock, poultry and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, so the consumption of livestock products has been slowed down, the selling price of livestock products has decreased while the price of animal feed continued to high increase, causing farmers to struggle. Those are the main reason why it is difficult for farmers to stabilize production.
Gross domestic product (GDP) in the fourth quarter of 2021 was estimated to increase by 5.22% over the same period last year, although higher than the growth rate of 4.61% in 2020 but lower than the growth rate of the fourth quarter of previous years. 2011-2019
Agricultural production in the month focused mainly on harvesting winter paddy in the country and cultivating winter annual crops in Northern provinces.
As of mid-November, the whole country harvested 1,339.2 thousand hectares of winter rice, accounting for 85.9% of the cultivated area and equaling 102.6% of the same period last year.
Agricultural production in the month focused on tending and harvesting winter and winter-autumn paddy in the country and planting winter crops in the North.
In 2021, the whole country cultivated 1,558.8 thousand hectares, equaling 98.3% of the previous year's crop.
As of mid-September, the total winter paddy cultivated area in the country reached 1,577.4 thousand hectares, an equal to 99.8% over the same period last year.
In the morning of September 29, 2021, GSO held a press conference to announce the socio-economic statistics of the third quarter and nine months of 2021 in a direct format at the headquarters of GSO and online at 63 Statistical Offices of provinces (PSOs)
Generally, in the nine months of 2021, the estimated concentrated newly planted forest area reached 176.2 thousand hectares, up 2.8% over the same period last year; the number of planted scattered forest trees reached 65.1 million trees, up 2.3%; timber production harvested 12,589.2 thousand m3, up 4.3%; firewood production was 14.3 million ste, down 0.9%.
