II. Infrastructure

- The irrigation infrastructure has been constructed quite completely for mainly serving the cultivation of rice and secondary crops. The State’s budget for investing in infrastructure only meets 50 - 60%. The investment on agriculture and infrastructure development has not met requirements on the economic structure transformation.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the agriculture sector is inconsiderable. The economic development cooperation is very slow in comparison with the strong demand of the production. The farm economy still makes up a small proportion.

- Waterway traffic: There are two branches – Tien River and Hau River, along with a dense canal system, which not only supply water but also facilitate the waterway freight transport. 

- Roadway traffic: There is National Road No. 91 (starting from National Road No. 1 – Can Tho City -> Long Xuyen City -> Chau Doc City and directly connects to Tinh Bien International border gates. The provincial and rural traffic system is thorough and favorable for the travelling and transport of goods.

III. Economic situation of the Province

1. Main criteria

2. Some key agricultural products

3. Agricultural potentialities of the Province

a) Rice:

The rice cultivated area is over 250 thousand ha, with three crop seasons and land use ratio of 2.43 times. Fall-winter rice crop season (third crop) is mainly cultivated in Thoai Son, Chau Phu, Phu Tan, Cho Moi, Chau Thanh districts, etc. There are over 35 rice varieties in which high-quality varieties account for 70 - 80%. The large field rice model has been deployed on 22 thousand ha, promoted efficiency and multiplied to approach a large-scale production. The agriculture is mechanized in almost all stages, including land tilling, watering and harvesting (over 60% of area).

+ Rice trade: There are currently 16 rice exporting enterprises in the Province. Every year, rice exporting enterprises export nearly 600 thousand tons of rice. At present, rice products of the Province have appeared in big markets in the world. Rice products of enterprises in the locality are currently fragrant rice, white rice, brown rice, parboiled rice, sticky rice, broken rice, etc.

However, the Province is mainly exporting ordinary rice without any brand, so selling prices (export prices) are often low. It is necessary to focus on the seed quality to raise the product quality, re-organization of production and consumption to enhance the value and competitiveness in the market.

By-products from rice such as straw, husk and bran are still used for traditional production and have not been invested to general products with high commercial value.

b) Fisheries

The farming output is over 300 thousand tons/year, including pangasius, snakehead, perch, tilapia, prawn, eel, etc. Fish are mainly raised in ponds and cages. Nearly 50% of the farming area satisfies GlobGap, ASC standards, etc.

 Over 90% of the farmed output is used for processing for exports. The whole province has 17 enterprises with 23 fishery processing plants for exports, having the total designed capacity of up to 400,000 tons/year in which the capacity for processing value-added products is 5,000 tons. There are about 100 dry processing establishments with the average consumption of dry materials of about 30,000 tons/year.

Products are consumed in the domestic market and exported to other countries, about 220 thousand tons of fishery products per year. Traditional export markets include EU (Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, etc.) and Asia (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea Republic, Singapore, Malaysia, etc.). Expanded and potential markets such as China, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Australia, and Arabian countries. Exporting products (pangasius) are diverse such as whole, sliced, fish cake, bubble fish, fish stomach, etc. but frozen pangasius fillets occupy the preeminent share.

The proportion of pangasius fillets makes up about 30 - 35% of the export volume (meanwhile, 70 – 65% is products from bone, skin, shredded meat, offal, fat, etc.). Whereas, in the two big import markets – EU and the U.S., pangasius fillet prices are often cheap. Therefore, it is necessary to develop deeply-processed form pangasius (such as processing skin, bone, fishmeal, fat, etc.) to raise the added value and make contribution to solving the waste products.

On the other hand, the current difficulties are production organization and consumption markets. The production efficiency of raisers is low. The product quality is poor; and the assurance of food hygiene and safety and traceability encryption is difficult.

c) Vegetables

The vegetable planted area of the Province has increased year by year and reached nearly 38 thousand ha to date, with the harvested output of over 900 thousand tons, mainly concentrating in Cho Moi, Chau Phu, Tan Chau, An Phu and Chau Thanh districts. Types of vegetables are mainly green beans, soybeans, corn and some other types. The safe vegetable cultivation model has been deployed in over 20 districts with an area of 500 m2 – 1,000 m2/net house.

In the locality, there is 01 vegetable processing enterprise with a production capacity of over 15 thousand tons/year, with canned and frozen products such as tender corn ears, fruits, mushrooms, vegetables, lemongrass, chili, lemon, okra, etc. The consumption markets include EU, the U.S., Canada, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea Republic, Russian Federation, etc.

d) Husbandry

Main types of livestock and poultry are buffaloes, cows, pigs, chicken and ducks. The form of production is still scattered and has not been sufficiently invested. Products are mainly consumed in the domestic market.

e) Medicinal plants

                - Over the past time, some types of medicinal plants cultivated in the Province include: Andrographis paniculata, Polyscias fruticosa, Curcuma longa, Acanthopanax aculeatus, etc., serving the production of traditional medicines for human and livestock, but on a scattered scale without commercial characteristic. The planting and harvest are still scattered and spontaneous. The State has not has a synchronous and suitable policy to encourage economic sectors to invest in planting, preliminary processing, processing and preserving of medicinal plants in the Province.

                From 2011 to date, the development of medicinal plant cultivation has just been deployed on a trial basis in Tri Ton and Tinh Bien districts. This program has the cooperation with Domexco Dong Thap and includes some types of plants such as Momordica cochinchinensis, Moringa oleifera, Curcuma longa, Amaryllidaceae, Lamiaceae, Andrographis paniculata, Polyscias fruticosa, Orthosiphon aristatus), Agastache rugosa, etc. However, in reality, these plants are only planted on a trial basis with an area of below 50ha. Haugiang Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company is investing in cultivating 50 ha of medicinal plants in Tri Ton District.

                - The planning and development of sustainable planting and exploitation area of medicinal plants are carried out in Tri Ton District and Tinh Bien District. The total area for stable planning of medicinal plants under the forest canopy is 5,000 ha, including about 2,000 for the first phase (by 2020) and 2,000 ha (by 2030).

                + Tinh Bien District: 1,000 ha by 2020 and 2,500 ha by 2030. The location for implementing the project is Nui Dat mountain in An Phu Commune, Phu Cuong Mountain, Dai Nho Mountain, Cam Mountain and Ba Doi Om Mountain. Nine species, including Polyscias fruticosa, Yellow curcuma longa, Morinda officinalis, Zingiber officinale, Amaryllidaceae, Radix Fallopiae multiflorae, Amomum longiligulare; Taraxacum; Solanum hainanense Hance Solanaceae and other species are prioritized to be developed, depending on the orders of partners.

+ Tri Ton District: 1,000 ha by 2020 and 2,500 ha by 2030. Places of cultivation: Dai mountain, Tuong Mountain, Co To Mountain, Ba The Mountain, Sap Mountain with priority on planting 16 species including Agarwood, Polyscias fruticosa, Ocimum gratissimum, Leonurus japonicus, Yellow curcuma longa, Curcuma longa, Khaya senegalensis, Morinda officinalis, Zingiber officinale, Crinum latifolium, Fallopia multiflora, Codonopsis pilosula, Andrographis paniculata, Smilax glabra, Amomum longiligulare, Cinnamomum verum, Solanum hainanense Hance Solanaceae and other species, depending on the orders of partners.

IV. Development perspectives and orientations

1. Perspectives

Develop An Giang Province’s agriculture sector toward the orientation of raising the quality, competitiveness, efficiency and sustainability; promoting the economic structure transformation toward the direction of raising added-value; and aggressively switching from in-width development into in-depth development.

Develop agriculture based on the market mechanism promotion; satisfy market demands in combination with the application of science and technology achievements, especially the application of hi-tech in production, preservation, processing and brand building.

Promote the advantages of sub-ecological areas (upstream area, isle area and seven-mountain area) so as to form intensive-farming areas (high-quality rice, sticky rice, cross-bred corn, vegetables, ornamental plants, medicinal plants, fruits, fisheries, etc.) with attachment to the distribution and consumption channels.

Enhance the participation of all economic sectors in the process of restructuring sectors, promoting public-private cooperation and co-management mechanisms to bring into full play the role of community organizations.

2. Investment attraction and project categories

- Promote the investment attraction to develop agricultural enterprises in a number of fields such as planting flowers, safe vegetables in net houses, poly-greenhouses; manufacture seedlings on an industrial scale; raise livestock and poultry on an industrial scale; intensively and super-intensively farm fisheries; produce fertilizers and biological products on an industrial scale; manufacture seeds and products from medicinal plants; produce seeds and products from edible mushrooms and medicinal mushrooms; manufacture new materials from byproducts of the agriculture, fishery production and from living mass, etc.

- Comprehensively develop a system of enterprises applying hi-tech. Encourage the development of enterprises applying hi-tech in accordance with a multi-sectorial and multi-branch orientations.

- The list of projects appealing for investment includes 58 projects with the total projected invested capital of VND 5,818 billion, including a number of fields such as hi-tech agricultural area (1 project); livestock and husbandry farms (7 projects); concentrated slaughtering establishments (4 projects); agro-product and fishery processing establishments (37 projects); wholesale markets (4 projects); urban water supply system (5 projects).

PART II

PREFERENTIAL POLICIES

I. Encouragement for enterprises to invest in agriculture and rural area in An Giang Province

                According to Decision No. 37/2014/QD-UBND dated 10 October 2014 of An Giang Province People Committee on promulgating policies on encouraging enterprises to invest in agriculture and rural areas in An Giang Province.

Attached: Decision No. 37/2014/QD-UBND

CONTACT ADDRESSES

1. An Giang Province People’s Committee

No. 16C Ton Duc Thang Street, My Binh Ward, Long Xuyen City, An Giang Province, Vietnam

Tel: 076 3 854070; Fax:  076 3 852037

Website: www.angiang.gov.vn

2. Department of Planning and Investment

No. 03, Le Trieu Kiet Street, My Binh Ward, Long Xuyen City, My Binh Ward, An Giang Province

Tel: 076 3 852913;   Fax: 076 3 853380

Email: sokhdt@angiang.gov.vn

Website: www.sokehoachdt.angiang.gov.vn

3. Trade and Investment Promotion Center

No. 2A Ngo Gia Tu Street, My Long Ward, Long Xuyen City, An Giang Province

Tel: 076 3 945001; Fax:  076 3 945002

Email: ttxttmdldt@angiang.gov.vn

Website: www.atpic.angiang.gov.vn

4. Department of Industry and Trade

No. 10 Le Trieu Kiet Street, My Binh Ward, Long Xuyen City, An Giang Province

Tel: 076 3 952638; Fax: 076 3 952694

Email: socongthuongag@vnn.vn

Website: www.socongthuong.angiang.gov.vn

5. Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

No. 07 Le Trieu Kiet Street, My Binh Ward, Long Xuyen City, An Giang Province

Tel: 076 3 852164; Fax:  076 3 856705

Email: sonnptnt@angiang.gov.vn

Website: http://sonongnghiep.angiang.gov.vn/

6. Department of Science and Technology

No. 5/2 Ngo Quyen Street, My Binh Ward, Long Xuyen City, An Giang Province

Tel: 076 3 852212; Fax:  076 3 854598

Email: sokhcn@angiang.gov.vn

Website: www.sokhcn.angiang.gov.vn

7. Economic Zone Management Authority

No. 45 Nguyen Van Cung Street, My Long Ward, Long Xuyen City, An Giang Province

Tel: 076 6281323; Fax: 076 3943623

Email: banqlkkt@angiang.gov.vn

Website: www.khukinhteangiang.com

8. Department of Transport

No. 01 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, My Binh Ward, Long Xuyen City, An Giang Province

Tel: 076 3831174; Fax: 076 3831057

Email: sogtvt@angiang.gov.vn

Website: www.sogtvt.angiang.gov.vn

9. People’s Committees of districts, towns and cities:

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