Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong: The agricultural sector has been highly active and politically determined

On January 10, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development organized Conference: Evaluation of management work during year 2018. The conference was chaired by Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong. In 2018, agriculture and rural development sector gained considerable achievements, with the major aggregate targets of the agricultural sector in 2018 exceeded the whole-year plan and were higher than that of the previous year. Specifically, the gross domestic product (GDP) of agriculture, forestry and fishery expanded by 3.76% to reach the highest level in the last seven years, while the production value increased by 3.86%. Forest coverage hit 41.65%. The export revenues of the sector stood at US$40.02 billion.