[Vnbiz] EIU Vietnam Agriculture Production and Demand

Tue Oct 3 20:27:18 PDT 2006

Hi,

As its VnBzrs, I will continue to post such data.  Glad you enjoyed it.

Craig

Thanks to EIU.

On 10/3/06, Tahong Phuc <tahongphuc at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  Thank you very much, Stevenson!
> I am trying to find these numbers, few days ago. Then, this morning, I got
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> *From:* vnbiz-bounces at mail.saigon.com [mailto:
> vnbiz-bounces at mail.saigon.com] *On Behalf Of *Craig Stevenson
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 04, 2006 5:27 AM
> *To:* vnbiz at vietlinks.net
> *Subject:* [Vnbiz] EIU Vietnam Agriculture Production and Demand
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>  Vietnam agriculture: Production and demand
>    Printer version<http://www.viewswire.com.ezproxy.umuc.edu/index.asp?layout=IwPrintVW3&article_id=1581135143&printer=printer>
>  September 4th 2006
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>    FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT
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> Cropping intensity and yields have increased
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> Although Vietnam is still a predominantly an agricultural society,
> cultivated land is scarce, at just 0.12 ha per head, one of the lowest
> rates in the world. Only about 20% of the land is arable, and another 6% is
> devoted to permanent crops. Some of the remaining land may have potential,
> but most of it has been degraded by soil erosion, usually because of
> deforestation or, in the deltas, by saline or acid-sulphate conditions.
> About 70,000 ha per year of cultivated land is lost to soil exhaustion and
> urban encroachment. Against this background, it is surprising that the area
> of land sown to crops (including tree crops) continues to increase, reaching
> 13.2m ha in 2004, up from around 10m ha in the early 1990s. Of the total
> cultivated area, around 60% is devoted to rice and a further 25% is sown to
> other annual crops, with the remainder being given over to perennial crops.
> About 20% of the increase in land area has been used to grow perennial
> industrial crops, such as rubber, cashew nuts, tea and coffee, and 30% comes
> from additional paddy land that has become available as a result of
> investment in irrigation.
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> Rice yields remain high
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> Rice yields have more than doubled since the disastrous year of 1978, when
> they averaged 1.79 tonnes/ha. In 2005 the yield of paddy rice stood at 4.9 tonnes/ha,
> up slightly from the yield recorded in 2004. The use of (mainly imported)
> chemical fertiliser per cropped ha has risen, such that fertiliser
> applications are now at a higher rate than in Indonesia but still well below
> that in China. The rise in yields has allowed Vietnam to maintain its
> position as one of the world's top three rice exporters for almost a decade,
> and was one of the most immediate pay-offs from the thorough reform of the
> rural economy undertaken in 1989.
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> The area under coffee cultivation begins to fall
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> The area planted to coffee rose rapidly from 101,000 ha in 1993 to 565,000
> ha in 2000, before declining to 503,200 ha in 2004. Coffee output followed
> the same trajectory, rising from 136,000 tonnes in 1993 to 841,000 tonnes by
> 2001 before slipping back to an average of around 780,000 tonnes a year in
> 2002-04. Most of this coffee, which is almost all of the lower-priced
> robusta variety, is exported. In 1997 Vietnam overtook Indonesia to become
> the largest coffee exporter in Asia; in 2000 it became the second-largest
> exporter (by volume) in the world, after Brazil. Coffee exports reached
> 974,800 tonnes in 2004, up from an average of around 785,000 tonnes a year
> in 2000-03, but dropped to 885,000 tonnes in 2005 partly in response to the
> government's effort to reduce output in order to bolster prices. Vietnamese
> firms have increasingly moved into downstream processing, making substantial
> investments in roasting and in the production of instant coffee.
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> Output of industrial crops rises rapidly
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> The output of most industrial crops was stagnant until about 1994, when
> output of sugarcane (which recorded 16% annual growth in 1994-99) and
> soybeans increased strongly. Cotton output rose sharply in 1998, but the
> growth momentum has not been maintained. Output of the minor cropsjute and
> rushhas been largely stagnant. The area planted to perennial industrial
> crops expanded rapidly during the 1980s, with coffee clearly the best
> performer.
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> Tea. Vietnam produced 488,000 tonnes of fresh tea in 2004, up from 315,000
> tonnes in 2000. Tea exports rose sharply in 2004 to 99,400 tonnes, up from
> only 55,700 tonnes in 2000.
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> Rubber. Rubber cultivation has benefited both from an expansion in the
> cultivated area, from 180,000 ha in 1985 to 450,000 ha by 2004, and from the
> replanting of land with new high-yielding varieties, often with assistance
> from Malaysia and Taiwan. Yields have now risen remarkably, from 0.27tonnes/ha in 1985 to
> 0.89 tonnes/ha in 2004, and the quality of rubber produced has improved.
> Rubber output reached 400,100 tonnes in 2004, more than four times the level
> recorded in the early 1990s. Officially recorded exports rose to 513,300
> tonnes in 2004, rising from an annual average of 367,000 tonnes in 2000-03.
> However, substantial (although unknown) quantities were also smuggled into
> China, in order to evade import duties there.
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> Sugarcane. Although processing capacity has trebled to 70,000 tonnes of
> cane per day since 1994, the result of a government programme aimed at
> making Vietnam self-sufficient in sugar production, the area under
> cultivation reached 320,000 ha in 2002, up from 166,000 ha in 1994, but
> dropped to 287,000 ha in 2004. Sugar output reached a record 16.9m tonnes
> in 2003 before declining to 14.7m tonnes in 2005, when drought hit parts
> of the country.
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> Demand for meat grows
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> Rising affluence and population growth of around 1.4% per year has
> increased the demand for meat. The number of pigs rose to around 26m in 2004
> from around 16m in the mid-1990s, and the quality of pig meat has improved.
> Poultry meat output has also risen rapidly, with the number of poultry birds
> reaching around 255m in 2004, compared with around 150m in the mid-1990s.
> However, poultry stock fell sharply in 2004 as Vietnam was hit by the
> virulent H5N1 strain of avian influenza (bird flu), with more than 46m
> birds, around 20% of the poultry stock, being culled in an effort to curb
> the spread of the virus.
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>  The Economist Intelligence Unit
> Source: Country Profile<http://www.viewswire.com.ezproxy.umuc.edu/accessFullReport.asp?product_id=30000203>
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