World Food Day marked in Quang Ninh
(VOV) -The 34th World Food Day and FAO’s 69th founding anniversary were celebrated on October 14 in Dong Trieu district, northern Quang Ninh province.
The event was co-hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) the Quang Ninh provincial People’s Committee and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
This year’s World Food Day themed “Family farming: feeding the world, caring for the earth” is of great significance to Vietnam since the country’s 10 million farming households with 30 million laborers, or 70% of the workforce, contributed only 20% of the national GDP.
According to MARD Deputy Le Quoc Doanh, the Government is carrying out an agriculture restructuring programme to help farmers increase their incomes, with a major focus on applying scientific-technological approaches and restructuring production, including the provision of preferential loans and investments in education and scientific research.
FAO Representative in Vietnam Jong-Ha Bae said in Vietnam and many countries all over the world, farming households’ role in economics, society, culture and the environment is decisive and needs to be enhanced through renovations.
On the occasion, the UN Women Country Representative in Vietnam, Shoko Ishikawa, presented prizes to the winners of the national writing competition “Woman’s role in family farming cultivation".
This year’s World Food Day themed “Family farming: feeding the world, caring for the earth” is of great significance to Vietnam since the country’s 10 million farming households with 30 million laborers, or 70% of the workforce, contributed only 20% of the national GDP.
According to MARD Deputy Le Quoc Doanh, the Government is carrying out an agriculture restructuring programme to help farmers increase their incomes, with a major focus on applying scientific-technological approaches and restructuring production, including the provision of preferential loans and investments in education and scientific research.
FAO Representative in Vietnam Jong-Ha Bae said in Vietnam and many countries all over the world, farming households’ role in economics, society, culture and the environment is decisive and needs to be enhanced through renovations.
On the occasion, the UN Women Country Representative in Vietnam, Shoko Ishikawa, presented prizes to the winners of the national writing competition “Woman’s role in family farming cultivation".