Tham khảo tài liệu 'english for agricultural economics - part 4', ngoại ngữ, anh văn thương mại phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 29 UNIT 5 AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2004 AND DEVELOPMENT VISION 2004-2005 Extracted http www. . vn en stories default. asp In groups discuss the role of agriculture sector in Vietnam economy. Read the following text. 1. Implementing the program for agricultural production restructuring Food production The agriculture sector provides guidance on shifting paddy-farming land especially one-crop land with low and unstable yield into land area for aquaculture and other productive crops. Simultaneously it is planning to apply intensive cultivation methods in order to raise productivity of rice and maize and to expand the farming area of new cassava seeds especially in material-centered zones adjacent to cassavaprocessing factories. In 2004 it is striving for a rice yield of million tons including 4 million tons for export a maize yield of million tons and a cassava yield of million tons. Industrial trees Coffee according to the 2003-2004 forecast the world coffee sector can free itself from the crisis although the price will still remain low. Therefore due attention should be paid to tendering and rehabilitating Robusta coffee gardens and speeding up the development and high-tech processing of wet coffee. Rubber As forecasted there will be a continuous increase in global rubber consumption in 2004. thus it is important to put a premium on intensive cultivation of rubber improvement of processing industry in order to raise the quality of rubber latex mainly new cultivation of rubber on substitute land area and implementation of small-scale rubber projects 30 Tea as forecasted the world tea market continues to face difficulties since supply exceeds demand. Therefore the sector is planning to focus on intensive cultivation of existing tea area substitute plantation of new high-yield seeds expansion of Shan Tuyet tea and acclimatized-tea seeds with high quality. Pepper according to the 2004 forecast the supply of pepper still exceeds .
