(Chinhphu.vn) – “In my opinion, it is necessary to close the area of ​​rice cultivation and the annual food production and increase the storage capacity,” the Prime Minister said, and will submit to the Government and the Politburo over 3.5 million hectares of rice land to at least 35-38 million tons of rice, equivalent to 22 million tons of rice in balance.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc emphasized this at the national online conference summarizing 10 years of implementing Politburo’s Conclusion 53 in the Project “National Food Security to 2020” on the morning of March 18. .

Representative of Northern Food Corporation (Vinafood1) said that currently, there are 2 food corporations in the food industry, private companies and foreign companies participating in the market. “Private companies enter the market with the goal of profit, whenever they benefit, they buy, if not, they stop. When fluctuations like the recent situation, companies can hoard goods waiting for higher prices. Meanwhile, state-owned food companies whose functions assigned by the Government are to circulate and stabilize food prices must carry out this task, sometimes without profit, ”said Ms. Bui Thi Thanh Tam, General Director Director of Vinafood1 said. In the face of rising demand for rice after the occurrence of the No. 17 case, the Corporation sold 20-30 times a day of rice, some households came to buy 1-2 quintals for hoarding although they normally only buy 10 kg. She petitioned the Government to consider,

Former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Huy Ngo said that the biggest thing in the issue of food security is the people’s security. afternoon for the whole family ”. He said that from food security opens the door to promote the development of agriculture, especially the export door is much wider. According to Mr. Le Huy Ngo, “In the old days, the suffering of the leaders was what they sold next month, divided to each district, province and industry, but it was impossible to answer; or the woman who cooked this afternoon but couldn’t answer for her children is miserable. Now, we solve that problem. ”

He commented that the biggest lesson is to link food security with agricultural restructuring, promoting the strengths of each region, not only rice but also other food and food products. In fact, just around the table, how much rice, how much area, how much yield is needed but not enough. ” In addition, food security must be linked to the production of commodity agriculture, centralized scale, export, promoting favorable land and climate conditions such as opening up people to make fruit trees, medicine, animal husbandry …

Believing that our country’s achievements in the field of agriculture, ensuring food security are recognized by the world, “it is not a song that praises me”, Head of the Central Economic Committee Nguyen Van Binh stated. This achievement is still the desire and aspiration of many countries. In the coming time, the situation has many changes, needs a new perspective, a qualitative change on this issue. The structure of consumption of food and foodstuffs is also different in the past, “in the past, eating 5-6 bowls of rice a meal without feeling full was because there was no food, not enough nutrition, but now with 10 kg of rice, there is a canteen. the whole month is not over ”. Rural areas have many changes. Only 30% of farmers’ income comes from agricultural production, 70% comes from other types of activities.

Emphasizing the viewpoint of extremely important food security, Mr. Nguyen Van Binh said that there must be a new perspective on this issue, must be linked to climate change response, promoting national comparative advantages, each region, each province to have a production plan, “where rice is grown and how much is enough to ensure food security, also transferred to other crops with higher added value to meet the requirements. people, how much land is left to develop industry, services, urbanization … ”.

Need to grasp the “key punch” on food

Noting the comments, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc raised a number of results of the Food Security Scheme, not only meeting the needs of the people but also exporting them. In the context of fluctuations, natural disasters, epidemics, ensuring the balance of agricultural products, “in a year, how many storms and floods do we have, but our food still reaches four million tons or more”. In parallel with strengthening production capacity, proper attention has been paid to sustainable development, social security, with the spirit of “taking care of the whole society, not leaving anyone behind, leaving no one suffering from broken meal “. Taking the example of COVID-19 prevention, the Prime Minister said, we take care of Vietnamese citizens, take care of foreigners, handle humanities, “not follow the money”. In rural agriculture and so is food security, every year,

In addition, the Prime Minister pointed out a number of shortcomings and shortcomings that need to be overcome, such as linking production chains with production, processing and market organization in general in all weak sectors. Labor productivity in agriculture is still low due to small and fragmented production. The application of mechanization and automation has reached a low rate, making the price high and difficult to compete.

Referring to the opinion of the leaders of Vinafood1, the Prime Minister said that the view of equitizing SOEs is right to mobilize resources, improve operational efficiency but at the important stages, the State still has to grasp to run the foundation. Socialist-oriented market economy. Mobilizing the resources of the whole society but the “key punches” the State must grasp in order to improve the capacity to cope with any change.

If the direction is coming, the Prime Minister said that food security will become more urgent as the population tends to increase, nearly 900 million people worldwide are starving, natural disasters and climate change take place. strong, high urbanization rate, abnormal epidemic.

“The challenge is great. If the urgency of food security is not identified in the coming period, the mistake in direction, ”the Prime Minister stated. Must ensure food security in a solid manner in all situations, “after a few days of confusion, it can be seen that money is unlikely to buy food”.

“In my opinion, it is necessary to close the rice growing area and the annual food production and increase the storage capacity,” the Prime Minister stressed, not following the market and upholding the spirit of self-reliance and initiative in security. food security. Converting the awareness of agricultural development from the role of welfare, sufficient food and support for the development to a new role, is a unique and highly competitive advantage in economic development and integration.

The Prime Minister emphasized a number of important goals to strive for. It is to meet and satisfy the nutritional needs, reasonable food structure, science in each period, including quantity and quality, at least for the scale of 104 million people by 2030, to combat low status, baby, whistles of Vietnamese people.

The export growth rate will reach 9-10% / year, and by 2030, agriculture will achieve export turnover of US $ 100 billion.

Regarding rice and its land area, the Prime Minister stated that rice plays an important role in the food structure, will submit to the Government and the Politburo the retention of over 3.5 million hectares of rice land for at least 35-38 million tons of rice, equivalent to 22 million tons of rice in balance.

Regarding food, it is necessary to quickly increase the milk production from 1 million tons to 3 million tons by 2030 as this is a food that contributes to improving health and stature. We quickly increase the production of eggs, red meat, chicken, seafood, vegetables and fruits that are healthy and suitable for the nutritional structure. “We need to give advice on reducing pork in the diet and production structure,” the Prime Minister said, presiding over a meeting on pork prices, discussing solutions to reduce pork prices. Strengthening the link between farmer households and agricultural cooperatives, each commodity group has a large economic group that is an associate nucleus.

The Prime Minister requested that, after this Conference, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development shall finalize the document and report it to the Politburo for promulgation, serving as a basis for the upcoming implementation and presiding over the formulation and submission to the Government for promulgation of a new Resolution. on food security (replacing Resolution No. 63 / NQ-CP).