Page 426 - Cục Thống kê tỉnh Hòa Bình

AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERY
IN 2019

1. Agriculture

In 2019, agriculture production faced many difficulties due to
natural disasters such as thunderstorm and long-lasting torrential rain
causing severe damages to people and property. However, the
provincial Party Committee, the People's Council, People's Committee
and other authorities in Hoa Binh province made great efforts to
overcome all difficulties and strived to achieve certain results.

Grain production reached 351,678.5 tons, down 0.78%,

compared to 2018, of which rice production reached 206,386.1 tons,
down 0.4% (production of winter-spring rice reached 93,061.7 tons,
down 2.67%, output of winter rice reached 113,324.4 tons, an increase
of 1.54%); corn production was 145,292.4 tons, down 1.32%.

Yield of sweet potatoes reached 24,993.0 tons, down 4.79%
compared to the previous year. Cassava production reached 119,574.9
tons, down 1.43% compared to the previous year mainly due to
reduced cultivated area. The yield of some annual crops tends to
increase compared to the previous year (sugarcane increased by

0.82%; trees with oil seeds decreased by 4.35%; vegetables of all
kinds, increased 5.66%).

The yield of some perennial industrial crops and fruit trees in
2019 was as follows: Tea was 6,557.1 tons, going down by 8.67%;
orange and tangerine were 86,152 tons, going up by 19.93%; logan
was 5,107.5 tons, down 6.37% compared to last year.

Breeding cattle and poultry is stable, no major epidemic occurs.
At the time of October 1, 2019, the buffalo herd had 115.7 thousand
heads, down 1.19% compared to the same period in 2018; 84.3
thousand cows, down 1.31%; pig herd 440.4 thousand, up 6.29%;

7,657.42 thousand birds, up 6.92%. The output of steam buffalo meat
exported in 2019 reached 3,667.0 tons, an increase of 3.62%

383