On November 28, 2012, the United Nations selected March 21 every year as International Day of Forests (IDF), the purpose of calling for nations to join hands in restoring their loss forests, raise awareness about the importance of forests, and offer solutions to protect and develop forests in a sustainable manner. In 2021, the IDF has the theme: "Forest restoration: a path to recovery and well-being"
Poultry breeding is developing well, pig breeding is recovering. The consumption market for agricultural, forestry and fishery products has been opened and expanded.
Production of agriculture, forestry and fishery in April 2021 took place in favorable weather conditions for plants and animals to grow and develop.
On April 8, 2021, the General Statistics Office held a training conference on Blockchain technology software in collecting herd statistics in the form of live and online. Mr. Duong Manh Hung, Director of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Statistics Department chaired the Conference.
Estimated that in the first quarter of 2021, the newly concentrated planted forest area nationwide reached 33.2 thousand hectares, up 1.8% over the same period last year
The production of agriculture, forestry and fishery in the first quarter of 2021 took place in relatively favorable weather conditions: severe cold, damaging cold as well as drought, salinity intrusion not as harshly as the same period last year.
Continuing the recovery and positive growth from the fourth quarter of 2020, our country's macroeconomic in the first quarter of 2021 continued to remain stable, the weather in the first months of the year was relatively favorable, and African swine fever which is well controlled, is a favorable condition for production and business.
Despite there are many difficulties due to the impact of diseases on livestock, extreme changes of weather and climate, livestock has basically met the set targets, maintained high growth rate and fully met domestic demand and exportation.
The output of harvested pangasius in the first quarter of 2021 was estimated at 321.8 thousand tons, up 0.8% over the same period last year, accounting for nearly 47% of farmed fish production and 34.2% of total farming production.
