Decision No. 33/2012/QD-UBND Approving the Comprehensive Master Plan on Agriculture and Rural Areas of Kon Tum Province for the Period 2011-2015, with Orientation to 2025

Decision No. 33/2012/QD-UBND of the Provincial People's Committee of Kon Tum approves the comprehensive master plan on agriculture and rural areas of Kon Tum Province for the period 2011-2015, with orientation to 2025. The Decision was issued on the basis of the Law on Organization of People's Councils and People's Committees dated 26 November 2003, the Government's decrees on formulation and management of master plans on socio-economic development, and the Prime Minister's decisions approving the master plan on agricultural production to 2020 and the master plan on socio-economic development of Kon Tum Province to 2020, and pursuant to Resolution No. 13/2012/NQ-HDND dated 12 July 2012 of the Provincial People's Council and submission report No. 94/TTr-SNN dated 3 August 2012 of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. The Decision applies to the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sectors and rural development within Kon Tum Province. Its effective (enforcement) date is not stated in the excerpt provided, and it does not amend, replace or supersede an earlier document as named in the excerpt. The master plan sets general objectives of continuing economic restructuring of agriculture toward increasing the share of livestock and services, basically shaping the scale of key crops and livestock (rubber, coffee, buffalo and cattle herds) by 2015 for subsequent intensive development, with forecast average growth of agricultural production value of 9% per year in 2011-2015 and 8% per year thereafter; comprehensively developing forestry from management, protection and development to exploitation, processing of forest products and environmental services and eco-tourism on principles of sustainability and efficiency; and developing fisheries to progressively meet local consumption, ensure nutritional security, create employment and contribute to hunger eradication and poverty reduction. Specific targets provide that production value (at comparable prices) of agriculture, forestry and fisheries will reach 2,077 billion VND by 2015 and 3,047.3 billion VND by 2020, accounting for 33% of total provincial product in 2015 and 25.1% in 2020. Average GDP growth of the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sector is targeted at 8.8% per year in 2011-2015 and 8% per year in 2016-2020, including agriculture growth of about 9% and 8.1%, forestry 4.8% and 4.4%, and fisheries 9.3% and 8% respectively. Land-use orientation to 2020 is set for a total natural area of 968,960.6 ha, with agricultural land increasing from 856,572.7 ha in 2010 to 864,154.2 ha in 2015 and 887,953.0 ha in 2020. Of this, agricultural production land is projected at 180,385.5 ha in 2015 and 188,151.1 ha in 2020, including annual-crop land 94,013.4 ha and 82,013.4 ha (paddy land 17,384.0 ha and 17,276.8 ha, including specialized paddy land 11,199.0 ha and 11,276.8 ha) and perennial-crop land 86,372.1 ha and 106,137.8 ha (including perennial industrial crops 79,509.7 ha and 97,161.4 ha and perennial fruit trees 2,827.9 ha and 5,841.5 ha). Forestry land is planned at 682,677.7 ha in 2015 and 698,446.3 ha in 2020, comprising production forest 393,345.8 ha and 395,056.3 ha, protection forest 195,846.0 ha and 208,187.0 ha, and special-use forest 93,486.0 ha and 95,203.0 ha, while unused land falls to 46,777.9 ha and 6,354.6 ha. Sectoral plans provide that by 2020 grain sown area will reach 37,500 ha (paddy 25,500 ha, including winter-spring rice 8,500 ha and seasonal rice 17,000 ha, and maize 12,000 ha) with intensive cultivation measures to achieve 172,150 tons for local food security. For rubber, a detailed review of land funds including unused land, inefficient cassava and other annual-crop land and convertible forestry land, and trial planting of cold-tolerant varieties in Kon Plong Rural District and Tu Mo Rong Rural District, target 90,000 ha province-wide by 2020, with 2011-2015 focused on upgrading existing processing plants with advanced, environmentally friendly, fuel-saving technologies to produce crumb rubber, latex and technical rubber, and 2016-2020 investing in rubber product factories with capacity of 3 million products per year for industrial, medical and consumer rubber. For coffee, the plan promotes intensive cultivation to raise yields on irrigated areas and conversion of old gardens.