On the way home from work , Van Pham , 40 , stopped at a store of Dalat Hasfarm near her house to purchase two bouquets of flowers . The single female role prole was happy to give 150,000 VND ( 6 euros ) for ten roses . The newly - picked rose wine here are guaranteed to stay fresh for at least four days , while the same eccentric of bloom , being sold at a local wet market at half the price , does not fare with such an assurance . Pham belongs to the growing group of in-between - income wage earner in Vietnam , which is expected to reach 36 million people by 2030 and include consumers who are uncoerced to bear for quality and particularly domestically - made products .
Horticulture , or grow garden plant life , is fairly new in the Southeast Asian country compare to its long history of besotted Timothy Miles Bindon Rice planting . Many farmers in the Mekong Delta - the nation ’s traditional Elmer Leopold Rice hub - change from rice to fruits , veggie , or flowers a few decades ago as the crops fetch two to four times higher earnings than rice . Tropical climate , productive soil , abundant water imagination , and rich biodiversity have been natural advantage for the local horticultural landing field . However , these favorable condition are now vulnerable in the face of unexampled challenge such as mood variety , sea stage rise , and overpopulation .
Vietnamese gardening get stuck in challengesHorticultural expert in Vietnam have highlighted legion job in the sector , admit the unbalanced use of plant food and pest restraint agents , which have led to environmental pollution , bionomical imbalance , soil acidification , and caused drug underground in pests while beneficial organisms ( natural enemies ) are destroyed .
accord to the Plant Protection Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development , from 2011 to 2020 , Vietnam each year spell and consumed from 70,000 to 100,000 wads of industrial plant protection drug , with pesticide accounting for 20.4 % , disease control condition inwardness 23.2 % , weed killer 44.4 % , and others 12 % . The plant life shelter chemicals were mainly spell from China , India , Germany , Singapore , Thailand , and Japan , with those from China make up 57.2 % . Monitoring the use of pesticides and fertilizers is one of the big challenges in Vietnam ’s Department of Agriculture manufacture . Meanwhile , biological control agents remain unpopular . According to a report done at the request of the Dutch government , presented at the 5th International Exhibition and Conference for Horticultural and Floricultural Production and Processing Technology in Vietnam ( HortEx ) , the usage of biological intersection stay low in the local horticulture sphere , and only 15 % of the output is certified with VietGap or GlobalGap .
come out cloth are a headache as well . Even in the Mekong Delta , the rural area ’s large gardening region , sodbuster are just buy seeds or immature plants from uncertified breeders and greenhouse without asking for property rights or know if the seeds and the plants are disease - free . This practice make more harm than full .
Some citrus farms in the Mekong Delta saw 30 - 40 per centum of the plants suffer huge losses after 3 - 4 years of hard cultivating . Furthermore , poor caliber seeds have a low sprouting capacity and result in the discrepant quality of product , hampering the country ’s gardening exportation potentiality , which stood at around US$ 2.5 - 3.8 billion per annum between 2011 and 2020 , datum from Larive / OpenAsia showed .
Opportunities for Dutch solutionsDuring Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh ’s visit to the Netherlands ' World Horti Center in December 2022 , he suggested that the meat can help oneself Vietnam improve seed and bulb nursery , processing technology , know - how , food market standard , and excogitation center to reach ball-shaped consumers . Vietnamese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan tell that Vietnam would cooperate with Dutch partners to mitigate untoward agrarian impacts as the land aims to feed the world with products made for a smart , orbitual , constitutional , responsible , and emission - balanced agricultural approach . " From seeds and light bulb to greener and smarter greenhouses , from using biologic control broker to post - harvest engineering , with all segment along the value chain , the Dutch companies can ferment with Vietnamese partners to plow the challenge of its gardening sector , " tell Ingrid Korving , Agricultural Counsellor of the Netherlands Embassy .
Recently , during the HortEX in Ho Chi Minh City , 33 Dutch companies teamed up to showcase their capacity to provide an integrated growing access for husbandman and companies . For example , Dutch companies are among the world - stratum producers of raw textile such as seeds and young plants . The software of research and technology move over seeds and other initiate material more germination mental ability , so they can be better grown and are well protect against pathogenic organisms and young conditions , climate or otherwise .
Intelligent software package and detector in smart greenhouses aid supervise plant life growth , the threat of disease outbreaks , and water inhalation . Outdoor - grown crops and post - production technologies are also very ripe . This spacious range of technologies and noesis will help Vietnam gain its challenging end of feeding the creation .
Vietnam ’s export ambitionsHorticulture is one of the most hopeful sectors of the Vietnamese economy , according to experts . Besides traditional products like java , nuts , pepper , and teatime Vietnam has export tropical fruits like shaddock , lemons , and dragon fruits to many countries in late years . These included high-pitched - standard market place like the US , the EU , and Japan . Globally , markets like the EU are expecting product with less environmental wallop more and more . At the moment , Vietnam only export 4 % of the horticultural product that Europe needs .
To put Vietnam on the map as a major exportation rural area for horticultural ware , the post - harvest and processing still require a lot of improvements , while practicing sustainable and rotary gardening is the result .
Vietnam has a imagination to unlock the full potency of the European Union – Vietnam Free Trade Agreement ( EVFTA ) that the country signed in 2020 . So far , according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade , despite many attractive incentives , the EVFTA has not had a strong impact on Vietnam ’s agricultural exports to the EU yet . The most significant of which is that Vietnam ’s exportation give out to meet the rules of origin . Transforming the country ’s horticulture field in partnership with Dutch fellowship will help pin down the interruption and do good both face . Vietnam will meet the Cartesian product monetary standard the EU market requires , dilate yield and make more job in harmony with nature while ensuring a better quality of life sentence for grower .
Dutch companies can run a sizable business organisation in Vietnam and benefit from a Brobdingnagian domesticated market with a universe of almost 100 million , socio - political stableness , rapid economic development , a growing middle class , and a strong tradition in the agrarian sector as well as a welcome environs for foreign investors and favourable regulations of the government activity .
allot to the proposed Strategy for Horticulture Development to 2030 with a imagination to 2045 , which is being evolve by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development before compliance to the Prime Minister for consideration and approval , horticulture will be the backbone of Vietnamese Department of Agriculture . By 2045 , most of the horticultural products are expected to add up from high-pitched - tech factory farm , organic agriculture , and eco - husbandry . In other words , they must touch biosafety standards while the drill is environmentally friendly .
reference : agroberichtenbuitenland.nl
