The conference took place in a hybrid format, chaired by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha; Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Tran Duc Thang, and Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Nguyen Hoang Hiep attended at the ministry's headquarters.
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| Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh assessing that the agriculture and environment sectors faced various challenges in 2025 |
At the Hue venue, the meeting was co-chaired by Vice Chairman of the City People’s Committee Hoang Hai Minh and Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment Nguyen Dinh Duc, along with the participation of representatives from relevant departments, agencies, and units.
In 2025, the agriculture and environment sector faced significant challenges due to unfavorable weather conditions and increasingly complex livestock diseases, notably African swine fever and streptococcal infections in pigs. Hue Department of Agriculture and Environment remained proactive in disaster and disease prevention, environmental monitoring, and meteorological and hydrological surveillance, enabling timely warnings and responses to minimize losses. As a result, the sector maintained growth at 1.02%.
The agricultural sector continued to shift in the right direction, with a focus on developing organic and high-tech agriculture. To date, 600 households, 15 cooperatives, and five enterprises have engaged in organic production. Organic fertilizers now account for around 35% of total fertilizer use (8,700 tons per year), marking a 42% increase compared to 2020. The city has issued and implemented multiple policies to support high-tech agricultural development, providing assistance to 32 high-tech agricultural production facilities to date.
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| Leaders joining the conference at the Hue venue |
Forest protection, management, and development delivered positive outcomes, with forest cover reaching 57.2%, among the highest group of the country. In 2025, over 300 hectares of protection and special-use forests were newly planted, while over 2,100 hectares of sustainably certified forests were maintained and expanded, raising the total certified forest area to over 15,000 hectares.
In 2025, the fisheries sector continued to grow steadily, with total output estimated at 65,000 tons, up 1.6% from 2024. The city intensified measures to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. The eCDT system was fully rolled out, recording more than 14,600 vessel arrivals and departures, gradually addressing shortcomings in catch control and traceability.
Notably, the city’s programs on rural development, new-style rural area construction, and sustainable poverty reduction delivered outstanding results. To date, 10 out of 19 communes have met new rural standards (52.63%), while the city has developed 120 OCOP products, including six rural tourism products recognized with three-star OCOP ratings. Poverty reduction and social welfare policies, along with improvements in basic social service indicators, have contributed to lowering the poverty rate. By the end of 2025, the city’s poverty rate was estimated to fall to below 1.2%, significantly surpassing the set targets.
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| The city has issued and implemented various policies to support the development of high-tech agriculture |
The city’s agriculture and environment sector also candidly acknowledged existing shortcomings and outlined directions for 2026, with a focus on restructuring agriculture toward centralized production; applied high-tech and ecological agriculture aligned with urbanization; and improving productivity, quality, value added, branding, and the multi-value potential of agricultural products linked to tourism. Priorities also include tighter, more efficient, and sustainable management of natural resources; conservation of biodiversity values; proactive control and prevention of environmental pollution and degradation; effective climate change adaptation; and accelerated green transition and circular economy development.
According to city agriculture and environment leaders, the locality has called on the central government to continue providing funding support for irrigation projects, particularly flood drainage infrastructure. The city has also proposed increasing total investment for the pilot project to develop standardized agricultural and forestry raw material zones serving domestic consumption and exports in the 2026-2030 period in Hue.