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AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERY
IN 2021

1. Agriculture

In 2021, agricultural production will face many advantages in
terms of weather, severe cold, harmful cold does not occur, the
temperature is not too low to create favorable conditions for
production Agriculture however with the close attention and direction
of the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, Provincial
People's Committee, branches and localities in Hoa Binh province,
efforts have been made to overcome all difficulties and strive to

achieve certain results.
Grain production reached 362,106.5 tons, up 3.04% compared to
2020, of which rice production reached 215,422.5 tons, up 4.27%
(production of winter-spring rice reached 96,285.3 tons, up 2.96%,
output of winter rice reached 119,137.2 tons, an increase of 5.35%);

corn production was 146,684.0 tons, down 1.3%.
Yield of sweet potatoes reached 23,267.6 tons, down 5.24%

compared to the previous year. Cassava production reached 119,766.8
tons, down 1.31% compared to the previous year mainly due to
reduced area. The output of some annual crops tends to increase
compared to the previous year (trees with oil seeds increased by
3.11%; vegetables of all kinds, increased 5.76%; flowers and
ornamental plants increased by 47.95%; annuals increased by
12.85%).

The yield of some perennial industrial crops and fruit trees in
2021 was as follows: Tea was 6,889.0 tons, going up by 1.55%; orange
and tangerine were 100,054.2 tons, going up by 8.67%; longan
reached 5,894.6 tons, up 4.86% compared to last year.

Breeding cattle and poultry is stable, no major epidemic occurs.
At the time of October 1, 2021, the buffalo herd had 114.6 thousand
heads, down 0.81% compared to the same period in 2020; 87.4
thousand cows, up 2.03%; pig herd 456.8 thousand, up 3.14%; 8,302.0

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