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Solutions to improve the farming system

• Develop and complete infrastructure For imported sources, it is necessary to
systems for products such as irrigation control input materials’ quality strictly.
and transportation, including rural • Develop technology and capacity for
and tertiary traffic systems, to meet processing and preserving harvested
the development requirements of products to improve product quality
mechanization and transportation.
and value. Strengthen the application
• Effectively perform meteorological of new science and technology to
and hydrological forecasts, effectively improve productivity and quality, meet
prevent floods and storms and the needs of traditional markets and
strengthen environmental monitoring develop new markets.
and warning in the concentrated
livestock and aquaculture production. In addition, with the current climate change
situation, it is necessary to apply adaptive
• Develop production models according farming methods (developing aquaculture
to the linkage chain suitable to the in areas of sea level rise, saline intrusion;
production practices of each region switching to cultivate cash crops and perennial
and each market segment; Reorganize crops in places with reduced rainfall, etc.),
the domestic agricultural market and widely apply environmentally friendly technical
reduce the intermediate stages in the measures (minimum tillage, smart fertilization
circulation process; Consolidate and and pesticide spraying, water-saving irrigation,
expand agricultural product exchanges water-saving farming, use of plant varieties
to enhance deep processing to diversify and livestock breeding that are capable of
products.
resilience, etc.); increase the use of microbial
• Promote the development and ensure or organic inputs, apply clever engineering,
agricultural material supply such circular economy to save inputs, and develop
as seeds, animal feeds, fertilizers, the potential of renewable energy production
especially organic fertilizers, micro- combined with agriculture to reduce the use
organism fertilizers and biological of fossil fuels and GHG emissions; strengthen
pesticides; At the same time, encourage afforestation, develop perennial crops with
rational use of fertilizers, herbicides, high biomass on land and develop seaweed
pesticides, and animal feeds to reduce farming in the sea to absorb carbon.
waste and protect the environment.

40 Guidelines for the Strategy for sustainable agriculture and rural development
in the period 2021-2030, and vision to 2050