33 percent of farming cooperatives efficiently operate: Ministry
About 33 percent of agricultural cooperatives in Vietnam operate efficiently, mostly in horticulture, animal husbandry and aquaculture, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Hanoi (VNA) – About 33 percentof agricultural cooperatives in Vietnam operate efficiently, mostly inhorticulture, animal husbandry and aquaculture, according to the Ministry ofAgriculture and Rural Development.
The effective cooperatives have developed ona scale suitable to their specialities and engaged in safe and high-tech farmingproduction. They have also created links with other agribusinesses andorganisations to expand production and distribution channels.
The Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment has developed high-tech farming cooperatives and linked them withagribusiness in tea, coffee, pepper, rice and shrimp in each of Vietnam’sregions.
The ministry has also selected 156cooperatives and 19 cooperative groups to take part in a Government programmeto pilot and multiply new-style cooperative models in the Mekong Delta from2016-2020.
It is also formulating a new scheme todevelop 15,000 effective cooperatives and cooperative unions by 2020.
By the end of 2016, the country had 21 agriculturalcooperative unions and more than 10,700 farming cooperatives with nearly 4million members. Each cooperative has 367 members in average.-VNA
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