The SCCSD introduced themselves
at the meeting
As reported by MARD, Vietnam, since 2006, has
emerged as the world largest cashew nut exporter. However, the cashew area in
the country has decreased continuously with 313 149 hectares in 2013, and a
yield of 285 935 tones. In particular, the areas with the biggest decline are
the Southeast region (88 399 hectares), followed by the South Central Coast (16
908 hectares) and the Central Highlands (14 111 hectares).
The reason is that the economic efficiency of this
plant is very low compared to other crops; some of the cashew growing area has
climate and land that are unsuitable to the plant; some of the area in a number
of provinces have been converted to land for
non-agricultural purposes to develop industrial parks, tourism and service; and
there is not a link between the 4 factors in agriculture, the state - the
scientists – the investors and the farmers, which has made farmers have to bear
all risks etc
The cashew growing area is on the
decrease due to the plant’s low economic efficiency
For the cashew trees to be developed in a
sustainable way in the future, participants at the meeting together discussed,
analyzed, evaluated and offered solutions to develop a
stable, sustainable cashew groing area, with focus given on major solutions such
as establishing key growing areas; doing scientific research and transfer of
scientific and technical advances to farmers, especially in the field of
development of new varieties; reorganizing the production in order to form links
for a large-scale production; replanting and renovating cashew orchards, for
example, planting cashew trees it areas with suitable ecological conditions;
develop mechanisms and policies which support farmers in terms of capital,
seeds, science and technology etc
At the meeting, MARD announced its decision to
establish the Steering Committee for Cashew Sustainable Development whose head
is MARD Vice Minister Le Quoc Doanh.
Thanh Van (Thanh Canh)