Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)

Overview of agriculture in the world and Vietnam

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Agriculture is the basic material production of society; people have used land to cultivate and, exploited plants, livestock and poultry to create food.



Agriculture is a huge manufacturing, including many sectors: cultivation, breeding, forestry and fishery. Agriculture is an important economy of many countries, especially in last centuries, industry was not developed.

Nowadays, although others sectors have developed such as industry, service; agriculture still has plays an important role in each country in the world, be crucial to economic growth. For example, agriculture and allied sectors like forestry and fisheries accounted for 13.7% of the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) in 2013, about 50% of the total workforce; it accounts for one-third of gross-domestic product (GDP) and three-quarters of employment in Africa in 2013; in USA, agriculture had about one-fifth value-added share of nominal GDP ‎‎ ($9.95 trillion in 2013) and employs just over one-sixth of the U.S. civilian labor force. Moreover, today, there are many advance technology to service for agriculture, this contributes to create quality and quantity of food better.



Advance technology in agriculture

Over the past years, Vietnam’s agriculture production has made significant achievements, contributing to the supplying food, economic development, poverty reduction, trade balance, reducing inflation, defending the territory as well as stabilizing socio-political situation in Vietnam. Although Vietnam has undergone obvious changes in economic and labor structure, so far, 70% of Vietnamese population lives in the rural areas and 30% of labor force. Vietnam is now one of top world exporters in rice, rubber, coffee, pepper, cashew nuts, wood products and fisheries.



To gain these results, Vietnam farmer has been working hard, creation, willing to learn advance technology from other countries.



Processing to train student in agriculture in university

Besides, the Vietnam government also opens many universities, college about agriculture such as Vietnam National University of Agriculture, Nong Lam University, Vietnam Forestry University and so on to train students in agriculture field. This creates a huge of labor force in agriculture field each year; many people work in Vietnam or go to abroad to work and research.

(More article about agriculture: agriculture blog)
 

Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)

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