WEBVTT 00:00:03.119 --> 00:00:05.999 On the afternoon of January 6, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment 00:00:05.999 --> 00:00:08.879 held a regular press conference to inform about the production and business 00:00:08.879 --> 00:00:11.039 results situation in December and the whole year 2025. 00:00:11.699 --> 00:00:14.362 Faced with the world situation continuing to become complicated, facing 00:00:14.362 --> 00:00:16.492 many domestic difficulties and challenges, natural disasters, and 00:00:16.492 --> 00:00:19.154 extreme weather diễn biến bất thường, agricultural, forestry and fishery 00:00:19.154 --> 00:00:22.615 exports still reached the milestone of 70 billion US dollars with an increase 00:00:22.615 --> 00:00:24.479 of 12% compared to the previous year. 00:00:24.837 --> 00:00:27.857 The outstanding results are shown in the following lines. 00:00:28.397 --> 00:00:31.197 The most significant thing is maintaining a fairly high growth 00:00:31.197 --> 00:00:33.997 momentum in conditions heavily affected by natural disasters and floods. 00:00:34.937 --> 00:00:43.777 The growth for the whole year is 3.78%, agriculture is about 3.4%, agriculture 00:00:43.777 --> 00:00:46.497 5.8%, and seafood 4.4%. 00:00:46.497 --> 00:00:51.809 Two is about production and business, then about production, maintain the 00:00:51.809 --> 00:00:56.637 production capacity of the industry shown in the telling numbers. 00:00:56.837 --> 00:01:00.510 For example, we have planted over 70.1 million hectares of rice, although it 00:01:00.510 --> 00:01:03.617 has not decreased by 1% for ourselves in the same period, 00:01:03.757 --> 00:01:10.573 but the output is over 43.7 million tons, an increase of over 00:01:10.573 --> 00:01:12.277 88.6 thousand tons. 00:01:12.277 --> 00:01:14.997 Besides the importance of the domestic market, 00:01:14.997 --> 00:01:21.739 then exports have far exceeded the set target even though countries have 00:01:21.739 --> 00:01:25.672 applied domestic protectionist tariff policies and exceeded 00:01:25.672 --> 00:01:27.357 US countervailing taxes. 00:01:28.186 --> 00:01:31.610 Speaking to direct at the press conference, Deputy Minister Phung Duc 00:01:31.610 --> 00:01:35.346 Tien said that 2026 is forecast to have many difficulties and challenges. 00:01:35.686 --> 00:01:38.742 The agricultural and environmental sector will continue to implement many 00:01:38.742 --> 00:01:42.104 solutions towards 2026, including the goal of continuing to improve the 00:01:42.104 --> 00:01:43.326 construction of the apparatus, 00:01:43.762 --> 00:01:46.782 Today I want to talk about the construction completion of a compact machine. 00:01:47.302 --> 00:01:50.282 Recently, there has been a false direction to review units. 00:01:50.842 --> 00:01:56.666 Just looking at the joint school units close to each other, they 00:01:56.666 --> 00:01:58.122 are also merged. 00:01:58.942 --> 00:02:03.642 All units within the departments and hospitals. 00:02:04.462 --> 00:02:07.062 Institutes, recently the public knew that a series of institutes had to be merged. 00:02:07.822 --> 00:02:09.782 For example, out of 5 imported aquaculture institutes, only one remains. 00:02:11.022 --> 00:02:12.882 The two institutes Tran Nguyen and Thu Y have been together for many years. 00:02:12.882 --> 00:02:15.382 Now there is only one Institute of Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine left. 00:02:16.562 --> 00:02:21.197 Vietnam Institute of Fisheries Science and Vietnam Academy of Animal Sciences 00:02:21.197 --> 00:02:22.462 and Veterinary Medicine. 00:02:23.422 --> 00:02:25.282 To ensure consistency. 00:02:26.573 --> 00:02:30.338 In 2026, the entire industry sets a target of total export turnover of 00:02:30.338 --> 00:02:33.233 agricultural, forestry and fishery products reaching 73-74 billion US dollars, 00:02:33.713 --> 00:02:36.954 of which agricultural products are about 40 billion US dollars, seafood is about 00:02:36.954 --> 00:02:40.693 12 billion US dollars and forestry and wood products are about 18.8 billion US dollars.