(VOVworld) – Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh today chaired a seminar on policies and development models for key products of the Mekong Delta Region. According to reports from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Ministry of Industry and Trade, agricultural and fisheries products are Vietnam’s major strategic goods. Delegates agreed that although localities in the region have made full use of their advantages to develop these key products, difficulties remain, especially in unstable outputs that cause losses for farmers.

Agricultural and fisheries products are Vietnam’s major strategic goods. (Photo: internet)

Deputy PM Ninh urged local authorities to carefully carry out fact-finding surveys to provide neccesary and appropriate support for the farmers to develop products of comparative advantages. Ninh said: "It is necessary for us to find out suitable policies and mechanisms, and search for solutions to develop our advantages and minimize the remaining difficulties. The seminar is of great significance to develop the Mekong Delta Region with an ultimate goal of improving the local people’s living conditions."
Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh led a government delegation on a fact-finding tour of a “Large-Scale Field model” in the southern An Giang province’s Chau Thanh district.