Decision No. 32/2023/QD-UBND, issued by the People's Committee of Dak Nong Province on 27 November 2023 and signed by Vice-Chairman Le Trong Yen on behalf of the Chairman, promulgates the Economic-Technical Norms applicable to agricultural extension activities in Dak Nong Province; it takes effect from 10 December 2023. The Decision is grounded in Decree No. 83/2018/ND-CP of 24 May 2018 on agricultural extension, Circular No. 75/2019/TT-BTC of the Ministry of Finance on management and use of State-budget non-business funds for extension activities, the central extension norms issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Decisions No. 3276/QD-BNN-BKNCN of 2008, No. 663/QD-BNN-KN of 2021 and No. 726/QD-BNN-KN of 2022), and Provincial People's Council Resolutions No. 24/2017/NQ-HDND and No. 17/2020/NQ-HDND. The scope of regulation is the territory of Dak Nong Province, and the norms apply to all organizations and individuals involved in agricultural extension and the transfer of technical advances in agricultural, forestry and fisheries production. The norms comprise 158 items in five appendices. Appendix 1 on crop production contains 77 items: 25 vegetable and flower items (safe cucumber, bitter melon, carrot, tomato, mushrooms, outdoor strawberry, melons, roses, gerbera, lily, gladiolus, chrysanthemum and others); 13 food-crop and short-term industrial-crop items (inbred, organic and hybrid rice, commercial and biomass maize, potato, sweet potato, taro, cassava, groundnut, soybean, mung bean); 11 long-term industrial-crop items (pepper establishment and sustainable production, new planting, replanting and intensive cultivation of Robusta coffee, organic coffee, rubber, cashew planting, grafting rehabilitation and intensive cultivation, cocoa); 19 fruit-tree items (litchi, longan, rambutan, citrus, pomelo, dragon fruit, mango, jackfruit, durian, mangosteen, avocado, intercropping in coffee gardens, passion fruit, banana, lemon, guava and others); 7 medicinal-plant items; and 2 water-saving irrigation items for coffee, pepper, avocado, durian and crops of equivalent density. Appendix 2 covers 25 forestry items, including acacias, teak, pines, agarwood, sandalwood, macadamia (monoculture, intercropped and grafting rehabilitation), cinnamon and seedling nurseries. Appendix 3 covers 21 livestock items, including commercial, organic-oriented and breeding chicken, ducks, pigeons, quail, pigs, cattle improvement by artificial insemination, beef fattening, goats, rabbits, bees, silkworms and disease-safe establishments. Appendix 4 covers 20 aquaculture items, including tilapia and red tilapia in ponds and cages, grass carp, common carp, eel, frog, featherback, black carp, giant freshwater prawn, snakehead, apple snail and freshwater eel. Appendix 5 covers 15 training, information and communication items, including training of core extension trainers, VietGAP training, study tours, technical videos, publications, website operation and extension events. The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development leads implementation with related agencies and the People's Committees of districts and Gia Nghia City, reporting difficulties to the Provincial People's Committee for amendment.