Vietnam’s agriculture benefits from WTO membership: MARD
Published: 18/01/2011 05:00
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ho Xuan Hung has affirmed that Vietnam’s agriculture greatly benefits from WTO membership. However, the big problem now is that farmers, businesses and even policy makers still do not understand the international market well. What has Vietnam’s agriculture got from the WTO membership in the last four years?
I can say for sure that Vietnam’s agriculture has got big benefit from the global integration. If we had not become a member of WTO, I believe that we would have met bigger obstacles in economic development. Global integration does not simply mean selling Vietnamese goods on the world market or importing goods from other countries. More importantly, with the integration, over the last few years, the technical progress in agriculture has been imported very quickly to Vietnam, thus helping Vietnam’s agriculture develop strongly. Secondly, the integration also helps us expand knowledge in marketing, which has been the weak point of Vietnam. The integration also helps heighten Vietnam’s position on the international tribune. Vietnam not only takes pride in its revolutionary traditions, its rich culture, but also in its farm produce, such as rice, pepper, cashew nuts and tra fish. A lot of countries have to come to Vietnam to negotiate the prices of farm produce. So what are the biggest problems of Vietnam’s agriculture after four years of joining WTO? The second problem is that Vietnam’sbrands are still weak and unable to obtain sustainable development and heighten the products’ value. The third one is that Vietnamese enterprises, when reaching out to the world, still cannot cooperate with each other. they have even been competingfor customers and causing losses to each other. The fourth problem is that sectors have not well programmed their development strategies. Under the WTO commitments, in 2011-2015, most of the measures to protect agricultural production will be removed. What will Vietnam have to do in order to ensure the high competitiveness of Vietnamese products? To date, there is no country in the world that does not subsidize its agriculture. Even the big countries like the US also subsidize farmers, because agriculture is a difficult field which always faces high risks, while agricultural production much depends on the weather. However, as Vietnam has joined WTO, it has to apply different subsidization methods. Instead of giving direct support, we have to give indirect support by helping train farmers and provide marketing training courses, helping them seek markets and make investment in rural infrastructure.
Source: Dau tu, Saigon tiep thi |
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