With about 10.33 million people, Hanoi City currently meets the demand for pork, poultry, and eggs. Specifically, according to the Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the monthly output of live hog meat is about 19,025 tonnes, 13,716 tonnes of poultry meat, and 213.7 million eggs. All are equal to or exceed the needs of the city.

Currently, Hanoi City needs an ample supply of rice, seafood, and vegetables. The rice production output in one crop is about 338,028 tonnes, meeting 65.6% of the people's consumption demand; the seafood output is 10,100 tonnes per month, meeting 52.5% of demand; the vegetable output is 60,275 tonnes, meeting 58.3% of demand.

The two most missing items in Hanoi are beef and processed foods. The output of beef and buffalo meat for slaughter is about 1,039 tonnes per month, meeting 19.4% of the demand, similar to processed food, about 1,000 tonnes, meeting 19% of the demand.

"Securing the supply of food and food as well as controlling food hygiene and safety are two important goals of the city during the Lunar New Year," said Nguyen Manh Quyen, Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee. Hanoi spoke at a working session with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's Delegation on January 24.

According to the General Statistics Office, Hanoi's agricultural industry's added value in 2021 is estimated at 3.46%, among the top in the group of large cities. The city's production, cultivation, and animal husbandry value reached 36,113.6 billion, accounting for 91.3% of the total value.

Hanoi has formed and concentrated large, specialized vegetable production areas such as Me Linh, Gia Lam, Thanh Tri, Dong Anh, Hoai Duc, Thuong Tin, Ba Vi, Chuong My, Phuc Tho districts. Vegetable area varieties reached 32,696 hectares, the output reached 723.3 thousand tonnes, increasing by 1.78% over the same period in 2020.

"Agriculture and rural areas are identified as key economic sectors, playing a vera critical in the sustainable development of the capital in the present and the future. Especially when the Covid epidemic develops complexly, agriculture continues to prove the supporting role of the economy - society", Mr. Quyen emphasized.

In the agricultural development orientation of Hanoi City in 2022 and the following years, Vice President Quyen said that "it is necessary to have separate orientations and policies, different from other provinces and cities."

According to Mr. Quyen, the capital's agriculture must be closely linked with urban urbanization services and exploit Hanoi's potential strengths in terms of brainpower, science and technology, and high-quality human resources.

At the meeting, Mr. Quyen proposed some measures to develop Hanoi's agriculture. The first is to focus on the breed. The second is to create and expand processing technologies. The third is to build more high-tech agricultural models worthy of the capital. The fourth is to improve the capacity of fisheries development based on water sources from the Da and Tich rivers. The fifth is planning some agricultural production areas associated with tourism and services. The sixth is to accelerate digital transformation.

Among these six issues, the Vice President of Hanoi paid particular attention to the development of fisheries. According to him, this is a core issue, helping Hanoi City solve the shortage of seafood supply and a premise for developing drainage and drainage works in the rainy season. 

Hanoi City's strength is that it has maintained and developed chains of production and consumption of safe agricultural products with 141 chains, including 59 animal product chains and 82 plant product chains. The chains have attracted many businesses, cooperatives, and farmers. 40 agricultural trademarks are protected such as Ba Vi hill chicken, Soc Son hill chicken, Son Tay Mia chicken, Van Dinh duck, Dai Thanh longan, Boi Khe fragrant rice...

Many production chains in the city are self-contained, taking entire initiative from seed production, material production, planting, breeding, slaughtering, preliminary processing, processing, and consumption of products, creating strong product brands in the market such as Bao Minh rice chain, Kinoko Thanh Cao mushroom, Hoang Long pork, Cuoi Quy vegetable...

Through a meeting with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vice Chairman Nguyen Manh Quyen hoped that the Ministry would pay attention and introduce large and capable enterprises to invest in high-tech agriculture, slaughtering, processing, and focal point market of agricultural products.

"Hanoi City will promote support and advice on product development, build chains of production and consumption of safe agricultural, forestry, and fishery products; at the same time, commit to creating favorable mechanisms and policies for businesses investing in agriculture," Mr. Quyen concluded.

In the immediate future, during the Lunar New Year, Hanoi continues to build and develop the Hanoi Agro-Forestry-Fisheries and Food Traceability System (at the website: check.hanoi.gov.vn) for more than 3,100 establishments which are enterprises and cooperatives, with over 10,900 sets of traceability codes for agricultural, forestry, and fishery products.

Translated by Ha Phuc