In Vietnam, the agriculture industry holds immense significance for the nation's economy. However, a crucial question arises: should the government persist in promoting growth within this sector, or should it prioritize the development of more advanced industries? Let us know down below!
Kinda torn here, invest in other sectors will definitely help get rich faster but it’s because of the focus on agriculture that the supplies shortage wasn’t as bad as other countries during the pandemic and also the Ukraine conflict.
My take: VN will overtake M'sia.... Phillipines will stay stuck in 3rd world. Indon will be a 'an economic powerhouse simply because of its pop. size Hopefully as VN move into higher income, it will devolve into more democratic norms..... just like S.Korea
Vietnam desperately needs more investment in industry. industries that will pull the country faster. most developed countries are strong in industry. Vietnam needs to promote strong industry that will be a bigger source of revenue than agriculture. However, we also need to promote diplomacy so that developed countries can transfer technology so that new industries can develop.
to be honest , i really like Vietnamese , they're such a hardworking people ,i mean really hard working for their family , plus the places it is so amazing ,the nature beauty , the food , the people , i dont know , i just feel so happy when I visit there 2 years ago , i cant describe it ,you have to feel it ,you will understand , I love you Vietnam , hope the best of luck for your beloved country , Big hug from your neighbor 🇮🇩
Glad VN is growing not only industrial and service sectors but also agricultural sector. This balanced growth will allow rural provinces to retain its population, maintain its multi-generational household culture, prevent mass migration of working people to urban center which causes stress on the infrastructure of large metropolitan cities. Socially and historically, VN's farmers had made the most sacrifice in its effort to gain independence so this economic growth will provide emotional rewards and social harmony amongst different social classes in VN, preventing domestic discord. Financially, a healthy agricultural sector helps bring in crucial foreign currency to enhance VN's foreign currency reserve to import crucial high tech equipment for its manufacturing sector.
chỉ có lợi ích quốc gia trên hết, bạn bè thực sự khó kiếm lắm, phải yêu quốc gia dân tộc sau đó yêu chủng tộc châu á của mình, bọn chủng tộc khác tính sau vì đéo chung dòng máu, châu á nên đoàn kết lại
$64B export in agriculture products means that $64B import of machine, parts etc... for local companies not FDI ones. This is very important since when Vietnam reach UMI status, a lot of low value FDI would find other low cost countries to manufacturing, only local companies would and still creat massive jobs opportunity for Vietnamese then
Xuất phát điểm trễ, không được hỗ trợ vốn, công nghệ, thị trường thì đi làm thuê rồi từ từ làm chủ. Người Việt nên hỗ trợ các doanh nghiệp sản xuất trong nước như Vin, Viettel, FPT, Hoa Phat. Mấy bọn trù dập là ngu ngốc
Nah, it goes to the pocket of major corporations, most with government ties, so they can invest in foreign assets until their leadership is ready to migrate.
My hometown is the hub of Robusta coffee beans and black pepper in Vietnam and is also the second largest coffee supplier in the world. My parent's generation is getting old and my young generation doesn't want to grow coffee anymore. This is labor intensive industry. I think 15 years from now, the price of robusta coffee and black pepper products will increase dramatically, for sure.
Thực tế nhà nước đang hướng nông nghiệp hóa bằng công nghệ cao, họ muốn thế hệ trẻ sẽ làm bên công nghiệp hơn vì nó sẽ phải có quá trình học hỏi công nghệ từ nước ngoài đó sẽ là cơ hội để vn có các công nghệ lõi thông qua quá trình học hỏi từ các công ty nước ngoài và cả đảo ngược để sao chép như TQ. Còn nông nghiệp hiện giờ đã được các tập đoàn lớn ở vn đầu tư theo như công bố họ muốn hiện đại hóa nông nghiệp bằng các kĩ thuật tiên tiến và robot tự động thay sức lao động.
In Vietnam, we don't say the Vietnam War, we say it's the war with the United States. There were millions of American soldiers participating in the war, hundreds of thousands of American soldiers died and were injured or disabled for life. Why do you say Vietnam war?
It is good to see Vietnam was raising. I am sad that once upon a time Philippines is also leading in Agriculture Industry. But now a days it is impossible with this kind of administration.
*Vietnamese agricultural corporations currently own hundreds of thousands of hectares of agricultural land in Laos and Cambodia, ensuring an abundant supply of agricultural products to the world.*
Just yesterday, the new agrarian emacipation law has been pass and 600 thousand agrarian beneficiaries will now be owners of their own land free of debt. Pls correct the info behind asia! Thank you or pls add this info for tranparency!
Favorable demographics will support the country's future along with higher levels of education and technology. Given China's attitude toward the US, I always like to see more trade with Vietnam.
The intention between Russia and Ukraine, extreme weather adding with the prevention of India from rice exporting have spurred the grain prices to increase and benefit Vietnam.
Vietnam issues Land Use Certificates, not Land Titles. This is because all land is owned by the state, and LUC holders are considered long term tenants.
Crazy, if you think the name call is important. Land use or land titles. We don't care due to when I sell for anybody or sell for you, i received money. Not government collection money
Having enough food has become a sort of compulsion for the Vietnamese, due to the 1945 famine and the subsequent lack of food that lasted all the way till the late 1990s.
Extreme heat, lack of fresh water, flood, etc. In addition to all this, they still manage to be third largest rice exporter, and first in robusta coffee. Imagine what they'd be able to do if it weren't for all these calamities!
lol..suddenly BA channel was brought by Vietnam from the philippines.. Pity the philipines. you guy should buck up and gain back this channel...there is only saving grace for philippines to show you always ahead of vietnam.. come on philippine
@@Codex_0613 look at the current situation now, Nguyen Phu Trong is now wiping every indivisual in the gorvernment that is corrupted, even high-member can be vanish from the party too. Just give them a few years, his policies will be effective
nah trust me, near China is never good as your entire economy will depends heavily on them, for example during Covid. That why Vietnam have to diversify the export destination in recent years, such as Europe and Japan
When the communist government of Vietnam saw the detriments of the central planning economy, they were forced to make the change to the capitalist system. Understandably not much of this process is made known to the general public. Thanks for bringing this to light BehindAsia!
Vn people are willing to adapt and change for the better life. They have been through so much wars and suffering so much from that moment they have to learn how get better and understand how to get success.
@@chuck-N-mz9gg US dont colonize any country but turn country become democracy and has to obey US rule, its colonization too, even korea and japan colonized by US now
really mainland China never provide so call technology transfer to Vietnam and autonomous region Vietnam is lied a fucking face . In fact China try to make Vietnam like goddam North Korea but they failed and try sanction over 30 years doesn't make Vietnam give up anything .
Cái gì...? thật ngông cuồng với bình luận này, người trung quốc luôn tự làm xấu bản thân mình trên thế giới. Việt Nam độc lập tự chủ hàng ngàn năm với giặc phương bắc Trung Quốc
Democracy isn’t what underdeveloped countries should be striving for lol. A socialist market economy AKA “state capitalism” works way more efficiently to skyrocket a country’s wealth. Just look at China. It took them only 40 years, and they’re already competing with the US. Vietnam is already adopting this and it’s working well for them
Various of countries follow democracy, I'm talking about Philippines, Liberia, Myanmar, it doesn't go well with it. Why I don't have European or American countries example? Simple, they've been developed and industrialized like hundred years now, not to mention they already enriched themselves by their colonial system. South Korea or Singapore achived success by going throught harship first, so does Vietnam.
@@cali-dogmun Lol, hilarious thing is that Vinfast isnt in Vietnam, it is in Singapore, guess pathetic Singapore doesnt have the economy to be the place to headquarter the car company; too bad.
Mostly smokes and mirrors. Vietnam has greater population than Thailand, but its agricultural products have much worse reputation. Thai's products are streamlined, well packaged, sold for decent margin while Vietnamese products are mostly feeds for low end, factory inputs. For instance, dogs and cats food are made from Vietnamese exports. Cheap frozen catfish sold at supermarket that's stuffed into frozen nuggets are from Vietnam. Most famously, Vietnamese coffee, one of its national pride, is imported to make powdered instant coffee. No respectable, high margin coffee house would use Vietnamese coffee. That's the reality of Vietnamese agricultural sector. Huge focus on volume. What's the harm you might ask? To produce that much volume, the strain on natural resource is astounding. Water and soil are abused to power giant corporate farms which churn out low quality agricultural products. Their farm frequently employed tons of chemicals which seeped into ground water and pollute waterways. More alarmingly, climate change had transformed many once fertile regions into barren land, requiring even more intense pumping of groundwater and more chemical to be used on top soil. Another huge drain on water resource is aquaculture. They preached the old model of combining aquaculture with farming to naturally enrich the soil, but in practice that's very hard to achieve. Thus, major corporations simply pump their fishes full of anti-biotics, on tiny patches of water and pump the polluted water back into the waterway. It gets a lot worse too, more than 40% of their export in value, not volume, if they report volume I suspect it would reach 60-70%, are sent to China. Chinese influence on Vietnamese market is astounding. They cause many panics among Vietnamese producers by closing the border over CV restriction, doomed tons of export waiting at the border. Part of why Vietnam never moved up in the quality chain is due to its main customer, China, low expectation. The Chinese export market allows low quality, tainted with chemical Vietnamese exports, so producers have little incentive to improve their process to producer higher margin, safer and more environmental friendly product. Not just that, China have a stranglehold on Vietnamese agricultural sector through its dams. Vietnamese major rivers experienced crisis in recent decades thanks to Chinese funded and constructed dams in Indochina, as well as Chinese dams within Chinese border. The Chinese government had frequently filling its reservoir during dry season to protect itself, at the expense of other nations who rely on the river for their agricultural activities. One of China's "blessing" to the region is its control of flooding season. While seemingly "charitable", the flooding season helped transport nutrition down the river network and enrich its embankment. By controlling the flood, China inadvertently holding back this nutrition transportation to Vietnamese farmland. They supplanted it by whatever but increasing fertiliser and chemical use. Most alarmingly, climate change also brought about seawater incursion to Vietnamese river. The low water level from Chinese dams have accelerated this phenomenon, rendering a large swat of Vietnamese farmland unusable for the moment. Finally, there had been rumours over the years about Chinese tradesmen buying agricultural damaging products such as certain fungi and insects. While these are still mostly rumours, their frequency suggest a lack of knowledge among Vietnamese farmers whose pursuit of profit can lead to self-destruction and its government inability or unwillingness to support and protect its agricultural sector. Another such example of Vietnamese government incompetency and corruption is a strange practice of importing goods from neighbouring nations to export to meet national quotas. They have done similar things with oil exports, but more relevant to the topic is importing Thai's fruits to export to China. Vietnamese agriculture might have reached its peak, in a few years, the reduction in Chinese demand due to shrinking population and economy, climate change causing soil erosion, drought and exhaustion of natural resources will take its toll. I don't see a complete collapse, but if can make a bet, I will bet against its agricultural sector long term. It's going to be rough for their farmers.
one of the best comment for this video. It's very informative and true about pros and cons of agriculture's development in Vietnam. Most of the mentioned point are actual things happening in Vietnam. Thanks
thanks for pointing out some disadvantages of Vietnam agriculture. I admit that there is still huge room for improvement. Vietnam is making plan and implementation improvement on agriculture sector in more "thuận thiên" methods - following the nature to establish sustainable eco-agricultural chain, and marketing more of Vietnam agri products in other countries. Vietnam's agriculture is still in the progress of transforming from quantity targets towards profit, environment and farmer income targets. Agriculture would always be the base of economy and assure food security, especially country with population roughly 100 million as Vietnam. For export, the world population, in the near future still continuously grows, and demand for food is not weakening soon
Though there are some merits (especially in the past) to what you stated, overall it is very one-sided with some inaccuracies. Very significant improvement in the quality of products which are exported to many countries in more recent years. Vietnam export many high quality agricultural products (fruits, seafood, rice) to many countries having very strict and high requirements such as Japan, US, EU, Australia, S, Korea, UAE. Those countries do very stringent testings and inspections. A country (local firms) has to work very hard to gain approval for export into those countries. Btw, even Thailand now is exporting quality Vietnamese lychee into their Gourmet Market stores. On the heavy use of pesticides and such as mentioned, but such products are normally not intended for export, especially to developed countries. Even China is getting very strict on their agricultural imports in recent years. The heavy use of antibiotics in animal feed is VERY common in many many countries including the US, nothing new here. In the US, a newly hatched chicken only takes 1 month to ready for the meat market and more cheaply to produce than those raised in Vietnam. Don't even mention about the farm-raised salmon in Norway. Agricultural runoffs and ground water depletion are also big issues in many countries including the US, European countries, Australia and many parts of the world as modern heavy agriculture do take a toll on the environment. As for the robusta coffee, it was a more favorable variety to grow in the region and Vietnam has gained that very lucrative market share. Lastly, the largest export markets of Vietnamese agricultural products are the US (24.6%), China (22.6%), Japan (6.6%), and South Korea (4.9%).
@@DanKann86 This sounds like a government official defending their shoddy work. Let's break it down: "High quality" needs to be defined because fruits, seafood and rice are not high quality. They can be of low quality, low margin, high volume, used in cat food for instance in seafood, and the infamous cheap, chemically washed cat fish, or "saba fish". The next defence about the abuse of chemical is laughable. Not only did the defence make use of "what-about-ism", it also completely fell flat on actually addressing the issue. Someone else is destroying the environment to produce contaminated product, we must do the same! "Such products are normally not intended for export" should be alarming and not used as a defence of a rotten agricultural sector, in an agrarian country. Everyone use chemicals, but not learning from their mistake is not a defence. In fact, it's shameful how terrible the industry was run that a rather famous story of Japanese entrepreneurs went to Vietnam to grow organic produces to export back to Japan. It speaks to the local standard that the produces cannot be used to export and there's a class of "export grade" products. I wonder why other countries do not have such division? Lastly, coffee and the problem with export market. If one was to look into what constitutes the export products to China vs the U.S., despite the value in export to the U.S. is higher than China, most of the value in export to the U.S. are dominated by nuts, coffee and pepper. Everything else combined are lesser than coffee alone. This means that should any events negatively affect these 3 produces, export to the U.S. market would be disrupted. Meanwhile, export to China are more diverse with rice, starches and especially a variety of fruits. The reason why there's a value gap between export products to the U.S., Japan, Korea and so on, which are all propped up thanks to coffee, is simple. The quality of other produces are simply not good enough for these markets. Only the easy market like China, South East Asia or Africa would accept Vietnamese fruits and rice, that's the unfortunate reality. Just look at the data for fruits, China dominates across the board. Speaking of domination. Vietnamese coffee seems to generate a ton of value, isn't it? After all, in term of tonnage, Vietnamese coffee export is the 2nd largest in the world. This unfortunately is where it gets really bad. Looking at the U.S. share of value in coffee import, for instance. Vietnamese coffee barely touched 3.7%, lower than Guatemala - 5.6%, Honduras - 5.5%, and far below the likes of Brazil - 17% and Colombia - 19%. The U.S. constituted 11% of total export value for Vietnamese coffee. What about the German market? Which constituted 16% of Vietnamese coffee export. 10% of the value, while Brazil got 28% of the total value. High volume, low quality described essentially the state of Vietnam agriculture sector. More importantly, all other Canephora coffee producing nations such as Brazil, Indonesia and even India had Canephora coffees that won awards in blind taste test. Can't say the same for Vietnam produced Canephora. The 2nd largest exporter in the world can't produce coffee good enough for awards while others have? Something is fundamentally wrong with Vietnamese agriculture. The next 2-5 years could demonstrate how fragile and unsustainable Vietnamese agriculture sector is. Climate change and El Nino threaten Vietnam agricultural industry, and potentially trigger a food crisis. If the Chinese close their dams to preserve water, nobody knows what can happen. Better live in reality than starve in a dream.
@@ca-ml1rs You can stop with the long writings and I'm no govt official and other insinuation. You may not like it, but as a commenter I was trying to present other aspects to get a better picture. That's what people do here and they don't have to agree on everything. I'm from a country in the West and I keep up with the news and developments in Asia. As previously mentioned there are some merits in what you stated. Overall, it is very one-sided and without any positive points to be balanced and fair. One of your main point was agricultural products from Vietnam don't meet the high import standards and demands of advanced countries and are mainly sold to China. I have shown this is not an accurate picture. Even China have strict agricultural import standards. Also, values are MUCH more important and relevant than volume in trade and economics. Your attempts to paint/focus on a dark, one-sided picture on the whole is unbalanced. You certainly write a lot here. An unbiased and objective writer would try to be balanced and fair pointing out the negatives and positives and make reasonable comparisons. You can rant all you like. Vietnam still have many isues to improve on as a developing country. There's an interesting research done on the sustainable living and socio-economic development of various countries. One can look up: "Vietnam, the unlikely poster child for a sustainable lifestyle" and the included research for a worthwhile read.
Làm ơn. Khi nhìn vào Đất Nước Việt Nam tôi thì đừng nhìn từ ngọn hãy nhìn từ gốc rễ trong tiến trình lịch sử lâu dài của chúng tôi. Đừng áp đặt những hiểu biết trên giấy tờ về chủ nghĩa Cộng Sản của bạn khi nhìn chế độ Cộng Sản ở Việt Nam, Nó có vai trò lịch sử của nó, Cộng Sản Việt Nam là hy hửu và rất khác biệt so với các chế độ Cộng Sản khác. Chúng tôi lèo lái Đất Nước theo tinh thần dân tộc và chủ nghĩa xã hội. Chúng tôi cố gắng tiếp thu và cân bằng mọi thứ để phục vụ cho cả dân tộc cả đất nước toàn bộ người dân. Xin nhìn nhận tính chính danh và vai trò không thể chối cãi của chế độ Cộng Sản Việt Nam trong bối cảnh của Đất Nước tôi vào thời điểm đó. Và bởi công lao to lớn của Cộng Sản Việt Nam, nó có quyền tiếp tục lãnh đạo và dẫn dắt Đất Nước tiếp tục đi lên. Chúng tôi mạnh mẽ hơn khi chỉ 1 Đảng, chúng tôi biết điều gì tốt nhất cho mình.
In Vietnam, the agriculture industry holds immense significance for the nation's economy. However, a crucial question arises: should the government persist in promoting growth within this sector, or should it prioritize the development of more advanced industries? Let us know down below!
Kinda torn here, invest in other sectors will definitely help get rich faster but it’s because of the focus on agriculture that the supplies shortage wasn’t as bad as other countries during the pandemic and also the Ukraine conflict.
The agricultural sector makes food prices stable and food security ensured
Vietnam is transitioning to high-tech agriculture, while developing service industries and transforming science and technology.
My take: VN will overtake M'sia.... Phillipines will stay stuck in 3rd world. Indon will be a 'an economic powerhouse simply because of its pop. size
Hopefully as VN move into higher income, it will devolve into more democratic norms..... just like S.Korea
Vietnam desperately needs more investment in industry. industries that will pull the country faster. most developed countries are strong in industry. Vietnam needs to promote strong industry that will be a bigger source of revenue than agriculture. However, we also need to promote diplomacy so that developed countries can transfer technology so that new industries can develop.
to be honest , i really like Vietnamese , they're such a hardworking people ,i mean really hard working for their family , plus the places it is so amazing ,the nature beauty , the food , the people , i dont know , i just feel so happy when I visit there 2 years ago , i cant describe it ,you have to feel it ,you will understand , I love you Vietnam , hope the best of luck for your beloved country , Big hug from your neighbor 🇮🇩
Glad VN is growing not only industrial and service sectors but also agricultural sector. This balanced growth will allow rural provinces to retain its population, maintain its multi-generational household culture, prevent mass migration of working people to urban center which causes stress on the infrastructure of large metropolitan cities. Socially and historically, VN's farmers had made the most sacrifice in its effort to gain independence so this economic growth will provide emotional rewards and social harmony amongst different social classes in VN, preventing domestic discord. Financially, a healthy agricultural sector helps bring in crucial foreign currency to enhance VN's foreign currency reserve to import crucial high tech equipment for its manufacturing sector.
I am Vietnamese, I love Vietnam and all other peoples in the world. We are friends, wish the world peace and development
chỉ có lợi ích quốc gia trên hết, bạn bè thực sự khó kiếm lắm, phải yêu quốc gia dân tộc sau đó yêu chủng tộc châu á của mình, bọn chủng tộc khác tính sau vì đéo chung dòng máu, châu á nên đoàn kết lại
@@quangminhpham7919 tại sao không chung dòng máu nếu tất cả đêu là con người
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Not only is Vietnam an already strong industry player but it also have a well maintained agricultural sector, kudos to them
@@commiemonkey8166you got it wrong. While lots of producing happen in the South, the North also take part in the production.
Admire how this channel's video and knowledge have been collected in a nice and understanding way. Awesome!
@@commiemonkey8166 prove it first!
$64B export in agriculture products means that $64B import of machine, parts etc... for local companies not FDI ones. This is very important since when Vietnam reach UMI status, a lot of low value FDI would find other low cost countries to manufacturing, only local companies would and still creat massive jobs opportunity for Vietnamese then
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you have to start somewhere. Be positive.
Xuất phát điểm trễ, không được hỗ trợ vốn, công nghệ, thị trường thì đi làm thuê rồi từ từ làm chủ. Người Việt nên hỗ trợ các doanh nghiệp sản xuất trong nước như Vin, Viettel, FPT, Hoa Phat. Mấy bọn trù dập là ngu ngốc
Nah, it goes to the pocket of major corporations, most with government ties, so they can invest in foreign assets until their leadership is ready to migrate.
@@ca-ml1rs Corporations doing agriculture?? Please name one of Agricultural billionaire in Vietnam
#2 Rice exporter
#2 Coffee exporter (#1 for instant coffee)
#1 or #2 Pepper exporter
#1 or #2 Cachew nut exporter
I LOVE YOU VIETNAM
My hometown is the hub of Robusta coffee beans and black pepper in Vietnam and is also the second largest coffee supplier in the world. My parent's generation is getting old and my young generation doesn't want to grow coffee anymore. This is labor intensive industry. I think 15 years from now, the price of robusta coffee and black pepper products will increase dramatically, for sure.
Thực tế nhà nước đang hướng nông nghiệp hóa bằng công nghệ cao, họ muốn thế hệ trẻ sẽ làm bên công nghiệp hơn vì nó sẽ phải có quá trình học hỏi công nghệ từ nước ngoài đó sẽ là cơ hội để vn có các công nghệ lõi thông qua quá trình học hỏi từ các công ty nước ngoài và cả đảo ngược để sao chép như TQ. Còn nông nghiệp hiện giờ đã được các tập đoàn lớn ở vn đầu tư theo như công bố họ muốn hiện đại hóa nông nghiệp bằng các kĩ thuật tiên tiến và robot tự động thay sức lao động.
In Vietnam, we don't say the Vietnam War, we say it's the war with the United States. There were millions of American soldiers participating in the war, hundreds of thousands of American soldiers died and were injured or disabled for life. Why do you say Vietnam war?
Because it was a war between ha noi and saigon
Saigon was a US puppet trying to maintain colonial domination. It was between Viet Nam and the US/France
@@Minimaltravelvloghanoi and washington, saigon was washington puppet
im filipino and we should learn more from vietnam agriculture.
It is good to see Vietnam was raising. I am sad that once upon a time Philippines is also leading in Agriculture Industry. But now a days it is impossible with this kind of administration.
*Vietnamese agricultural corporations currently own hundreds of thousands of hectares of agricultural land in Laos and Cambodia, ensuring an abundant supply of agricultural products to the world.*
Just yesterday, the new agrarian emacipation law has been pass and 600 thousand agrarian beneficiaries will now be owners of their own land free of debt. Pls correct the info behind asia! Thank you or pls add this info for tranparency!
Favorable demographics will support the country's future along with higher levels of education and technology. Given China's attitude toward the US, I always like to see more trade with Vietnam.
That's the way i see it too. I put ten grand in VNMA ETF lol so I'm all in on veitnam.
The intention between Russia and Ukraine, extreme weather adding with the prevention of India from rice exporting have spurred the grain prices to increase and benefit Vietnam.
Vietnam issues Land Use Certificates, not Land Titles. This is because all land is owned by the state, and LUC holders are considered long term tenants.
Crazy, if you think the name call is important. Land use or land titles. We don't care due to when I sell for anybody or sell for you, i received money. Not government collection money
Tôi là người Việt Nam, tôi nói với bạn rằng đất đai là của dân. Nếu nhà nước cần lấy đất để làm đường hay dự án công cộng họ phải đền bù cho chúng tôi
Hopefully the Philippines will follow suit.
Having enough food has become a sort of compulsion for the Vietnamese, due to the 1945 famine and the subsequent lack of food that lasted all the way till the late 1990s.
you should have this guy present every video
And then Elensky says that Russian blockade of grain deal cause Vietnam to suffer famine, like seriously?
Argiculture power house? I would not think so due to extreme heat, lack of fresh water from Mien Tay, South of VN. And Central VN faces yearly flood.
Extreme heat, lack of fresh water, flood, etc. In addition to all this, they still manage to be third largest rice exporter, and first in robusta coffee. Imagine what they'd be able to do if it weren't for all these calamities!
Even more better after Late president Mr. Quang’s legacy. Also, Public housings for poor people in country side
How Vietnam Became an Agriculture Powerhouse: We're not.
lol..suddenly BA channel was brought by Vietnam from the philippines.. Pity the philipines.
you guy should buck up and gain back this channel...there is only saving grace for philippines to show you always ahead of vietnam..
come on philippine
Things would be so much greater if it weren't for lower bureaucracy corruption
just corruption in general, sadly
what we could have vs reality is a bitch
@@Codex_0613 look at the current situation now, Nguyen Phu Trong is now wiping every indivisual in the gorvernment that is corrupted, even high-member can be vanish from the party too. Just give them a few years, his policies will be effective
@@moslyjeb3090 we can only hope
but for now, my skepticism will remain
Must be nice to be a country that is bordering China, and the rest of mainland Asia, naturally that makes exporting alot easier.
it's not that nice
nah trust me, near China is never good as your entire economy will depends heavily on them, for example during Covid. That why Vietnam have to diversify the export destination in recent years, such as Europe and Japan
@@ducminh7568 So why doesn't Vietnam completely sever trade relations with China
@@李荣-n7sChina sợ Vietnam ngả về US hãy coi chuỗi đảo bao vây China thế nào 😆
@@李荣-n7s Seriously, Completely cut off commercial relations with a great power like China?
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bruh 1 tháng trc
1 month?
Bro how this comment is 1 month old???
No corrupt
vietnam still have corruption but but everything still in control
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When the communist government of Vietnam saw the detriments of the central planning economy, they were forced to make the change to the capitalist system. Understandably not much of this process is made known to the general public. Thanks for bringing this to light BehindAsia!
You understand nothing abt Vietnam
@@HoangNguyen-dv3yz Why do you say so? I would like to know what you think?
@@HoangNguyen-dv3yz I want to know what you think as well.
Vn people are willing to adapt and change for the better life. They have been through so much wars and suffering so much from that moment they have to learn how get better and understand how to get success.
@@samle5693 whose caused those suffering?
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Why is the U.S. sending cluster bombs to Ukraine ?
Us want land of Ukaraina. Us had collected 17 million heta Land of Ukaraina gain already
@@GiangHoang-hd8uk Most ridiculous comment! US is the only Western country which never invade other country and then colonize it.
@@chuck-N-mz9gg US dont colonize any country but turn country become democracy and has to obey US rule, its colonization too, even korea and japan colonized by US now
The technology transfer mainland China gave to its autonomous region Vietnam is really put to good use. Good job.
really mainland China never provide so call technology transfer to Vietnam and autonomous region Vietnam is lied a fucking face . In fact China try to make Vietnam like goddam North Korea but they failed and try sanction over 30 years doesn't make Vietnam give up anything .
Cái gì...? thật ngông cuồng với bình luận này, người trung quốc luôn tự làm xấu bản thân mình trên thế giới. Việt Nam độc lập tự chủ hàng ngàn năm với giặc phương bắc Trung Quốc
This video could have been just ten seconds long, including the intro. Two words: Cheap Labor.
40-60% Asians are cheap labor why can't make like Vietnam ?
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Vietnam #1!!! Now if Vietnam was democracy it would be better and pushing Vietnam to higher status.
No thanks , we already see how good democracy work in philippine - south America and lybia 😂
Democracy isn’t what underdeveloped countries should be striving for lol. A socialist market economy AKA “state capitalism” works way more efficiently to skyrocket a country’s wealth. Just look at China. It took them only 40 years, and they’re already competing with the US. Vietnam is already adopting this and it’s working well for them
Various of countries follow democracy, I'm talking about Philippines, Liberia, Myanmar, it doesn't go well with it. Why I don't have European or American countries example? Simple, they've been developed and industrialized like hundred years now, not to mention they already enriched themselves by their colonial system. South Korea or Singapore achived success by going throught harship first, so does Vietnam.
What is Democracy in your own words, please?
@@xRoid1china is not a capitalist country it's a communist country..
You alway farmer 😂😂😂 never be strong like us 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Germany: Mercedes
Japan: Toyota
Vietnam: Vinfast
Philippines: PagPag
@@cali-dogmun Lol, hilarious thing is that Vinfast isnt in Vietnam, it is in Singapore, guess pathetic Singapore doesnt have the economy to be the place to headquarter the car company; too bad.
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@@gangstagummybear3432 How naive, Vinfast doing it to get low taxes =))
@@vothanhhai7096Mọi chỉ số nó đều thua Việt Nam rồi mà cố chấp lắm trước được Mỹ mướn cho giống VNCH cứ tưởng mình khôn 😆
Mostly smokes and mirrors. Vietnam has greater population than Thailand, but its agricultural products have much worse reputation. Thai's products are streamlined, well packaged, sold for decent margin while Vietnamese products are mostly feeds for low end, factory inputs. For instance, dogs and cats food are made from Vietnamese exports. Cheap frozen catfish sold at supermarket that's stuffed into frozen nuggets are from Vietnam. Most famously, Vietnamese coffee, one of its national pride, is imported to make powdered instant coffee. No respectable, high margin coffee house would use Vietnamese coffee. That's the reality of Vietnamese agricultural sector. Huge focus on volume.
What's the harm you might ask? To produce that much volume, the strain on natural resource is astounding. Water and soil are abused to power giant corporate farms which churn out low quality agricultural products. Their farm frequently employed tons of chemicals which seeped into ground water and pollute waterways. More alarmingly, climate change had transformed many once fertile regions into barren land, requiring even more intense pumping of groundwater and more chemical to be used on top soil. Another huge drain on water resource is aquaculture. They preached the old model of combining aquaculture with farming to naturally enrich the soil, but in practice that's very hard to achieve. Thus, major corporations simply pump their fishes full of anti-biotics, on tiny patches of water and pump the polluted water back into the waterway.
It gets a lot worse too, more than 40% of their export in value, not volume, if they report volume I suspect it would reach 60-70%, are sent to China. Chinese influence on Vietnamese market is astounding. They cause many panics among Vietnamese producers by closing the border over CV restriction, doomed tons of export waiting at the border. Part of why Vietnam never moved up in the quality chain is due to its main customer, China, low expectation. The Chinese export market allows low quality, tainted with chemical Vietnamese exports, so producers have little incentive to improve their process to producer higher margin, safer and more environmental friendly product.
Not just that, China have a stranglehold on Vietnamese agricultural sector through its dams. Vietnamese major rivers experienced crisis in recent decades thanks to Chinese funded and constructed dams in Indochina, as well as Chinese dams within Chinese border. The Chinese government had frequently filling its reservoir during dry season to protect itself, at the expense of other nations who rely on the river for their agricultural activities. One of China's "blessing" to the region is its control of flooding season. While seemingly "charitable", the flooding season helped transport nutrition down the river network and enrich its embankment. By controlling the flood, China inadvertently holding back this nutrition transportation to Vietnamese farmland. They supplanted it by whatever but increasing fertiliser and chemical use. Most alarmingly, climate change also brought about seawater incursion to Vietnamese river. The low water level from Chinese dams have accelerated this phenomenon, rendering a large swat of Vietnamese farmland unusable for the moment.
Finally, there had been rumours over the years about Chinese tradesmen buying agricultural damaging products such as certain fungi and insects. While these are still mostly rumours, their frequency suggest a lack of knowledge among Vietnamese farmers whose pursuit of profit can lead to self-destruction and its government inability or unwillingness to support and protect its agricultural sector. Another such example of Vietnamese government incompetency and corruption is a strange practice of importing goods from neighbouring nations to export to meet national quotas. They have done similar things with oil exports, but more relevant to the topic is importing Thai's fruits to export to China.
Vietnamese agriculture might have reached its peak, in a few years, the reduction in Chinese demand due to shrinking population and economy, climate change causing soil erosion, drought and exhaustion of natural resources will take its toll. I don't see a complete collapse, but if can make a bet, I will bet against its agricultural sector long term. It's going to be rough for their farmers.
one of the best comment for this video. It's very informative and true about pros and cons of agriculture's development in Vietnam. Most of the mentioned point are actual things happening in Vietnam. Thanks
thanks for pointing out some disadvantages of Vietnam agriculture. I admit that there is still huge room for improvement. Vietnam is making plan and implementation improvement on agriculture sector in more "thuận thiên" methods - following the nature to establish sustainable eco-agricultural chain, and marketing more of Vietnam agri products in other countries. Vietnam's agriculture is still in the progress of transforming from quantity targets towards profit, environment and farmer income targets.
Agriculture would always be the base of economy and assure food security, especially country with population roughly 100 million as Vietnam. For export, the world population, in the near future still continuously grows, and demand for food is not weakening soon
Though there are some merits (especially in the past) to what you stated, overall it is very one-sided with some inaccuracies. Very significant improvement in the quality of products which are exported to many countries in more recent years. Vietnam export many high quality agricultural products (fruits, seafood, rice) to many countries having very strict and high requirements such as Japan, US, EU, Australia, S, Korea, UAE. Those countries do very stringent testings and inspections. A country (local firms) has to work very hard to gain approval for export into those countries. Btw, even Thailand now is exporting quality Vietnamese lychee into their Gourmet Market stores. On the heavy use of pesticides and such as mentioned, but such products are normally not intended for export, especially to developed countries. Even China is getting very strict on their agricultural imports in recent years. The heavy use of antibiotics in animal feed is VERY common in many many countries including the US, nothing new here. In the US, a newly hatched chicken only takes 1 month to ready for the meat market and more cheaply to produce than those raised in Vietnam. Don't even mention about the farm-raised salmon in Norway. Agricultural runoffs and ground water depletion are also big issues in many countries including the US, European countries, Australia and many parts of the world as modern heavy agriculture do take a toll on the environment. As for the robusta coffee, it was a more favorable variety to grow in the region and Vietnam has gained that very lucrative market share. Lastly, the largest export markets of Vietnamese agricultural products are the US (24.6%), China (22.6%), Japan (6.6%), and South Korea (4.9%).
@@DanKann86 This sounds like a government official defending their shoddy work. Let's break it down:
"High quality" needs to be defined because fruits, seafood and rice are not high quality. They can be of low quality, low margin, high volume, used in cat food for instance in seafood, and the infamous cheap, chemically washed cat fish, or "saba fish".
The next defence about the abuse of chemical is laughable. Not only did the defence make use of "what-about-ism", it also completely fell flat on actually addressing the issue. Someone else is destroying the environment to produce contaminated product, we must do the same! "Such products are normally not intended for export" should be alarming and not used as a defence of a rotten agricultural sector, in an agrarian country. Everyone use chemicals, but not learning from their mistake is not a defence. In fact, it's shameful how terrible the industry was run that a rather famous story of Japanese entrepreneurs went to Vietnam to grow organic produces to export back to Japan. It speaks to the local standard that the produces cannot be used to export and there's a class of "export grade" products. I wonder why other countries do not have such division?
Lastly, coffee and the problem with export market. If one was to look into what constitutes the export products to China vs the U.S., despite the value in export to the U.S. is higher than China, most of the value in export to the U.S. are dominated by nuts, coffee and pepper. Everything else combined are lesser than coffee alone. This means that should any events negatively affect these 3 produces, export to the U.S. market would be disrupted. Meanwhile, export to China are more diverse with rice, starches and especially a variety of fruits. The reason why there's a value gap between export products to the U.S., Japan, Korea and so on, which are all propped up thanks to coffee, is simple. The quality of other produces are simply not good enough for these markets. Only the easy market like China, South East Asia or Africa would accept Vietnamese fruits and rice, that's the unfortunate reality. Just look at the data for fruits, China dominates across the board.
Speaking of domination. Vietnamese coffee seems to generate a ton of value, isn't it? After all, in term of tonnage, Vietnamese coffee export is the 2nd largest in the world. This unfortunately is where it gets really bad. Looking at the U.S. share of value in coffee import, for instance. Vietnamese coffee barely touched 3.7%, lower than Guatemala - 5.6%, Honduras - 5.5%, and far below the likes of Brazil - 17% and Colombia - 19%. The U.S. constituted 11% of total export value for Vietnamese coffee. What about the German market? Which constituted 16% of Vietnamese coffee export. 10% of the value, while Brazil got 28% of the total value. High volume, low quality described essentially the state of Vietnam agriculture sector. More importantly, all other Canephora coffee producing nations such as Brazil, Indonesia and even India had Canephora coffees that won awards in blind taste test. Can't say the same for Vietnam produced Canephora. The 2nd largest exporter in the world can't produce coffee good enough for awards while others have? Something is fundamentally wrong with Vietnamese agriculture.
The next 2-5 years could demonstrate how fragile and unsustainable Vietnamese agriculture sector is. Climate change and El Nino threaten Vietnam agricultural industry, and potentially trigger a food crisis. If the Chinese close their dams to preserve water, nobody knows what can happen. Better live in reality than starve in a dream.
@@ca-ml1rs You can stop with the long writings and I'm no govt official and other insinuation. You may not like it, but as a commenter I was trying to present other aspects to get a better picture. That's what people do here and they don't have to agree on everything. I'm from a country in the West and I keep up with the news and developments in Asia. As previously mentioned there are some merits in what you stated. Overall, it is very one-sided and without any positive points to be balanced and fair. One of your main point was agricultural products from Vietnam don't meet the high import standards and demands of advanced countries and are mainly sold to China. I have shown this is not an accurate picture. Even China have strict agricultural import standards. Also, values are MUCH more important and relevant than volume in trade and economics. Your attempts to paint/focus on a dark, one-sided picture on the whole is unbalanced. You certainly write a lot here. An unbiased and objective writer would try to be balanced and fair pointing out the negatives and positives and make reasonable comparisons. You can rant all you like. Vietnam still have many isues to improve on as a developing country. There's an interesting research done on the sustainable living and socio-economic development of various countries. One can look up: "Vietnam, the unlikely poster child for a sustainable lifestyle" and the included research for a worthwhile read.
Yeah, but... they deforested 80% of their country
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Bạn có thể giữ được 80% rừng với điều kiện phải chấp nhận không phát triển kinh tế , chắc nước bạn là rừng hoặc làm kinh tế trên các nước thuộc địa
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Basically a shift from socialism to capitalism.
@@vothanhhai7096 I don't know what Trump has to do with Vietnam, but do you know if he was ever convicted of evading taxes.
@@vothanhhai7096 You can find it out yourself; read a book. Do you have a problem that Vietnam changed its economy from socialism to capitalism?
@@vothanhhai7096 You seem to be a girl who talks a lot and knows nothing. It is highly likely I know more about Vietnam than you.
Làm ơn. Khi nhìn vào Đất Nước Việt Nam tôi thì đừng nhìn từ ngọn hãy nhìn từ gốc rễ trong tiến trình lịch sử lâu dài của chúng tôi. Đừng áp đặt những hiểu biết trên giấy tờ về chủ nghĩa Cộng Sản của bạn khi nhìn chế độ Cộng Sản ở Việt Nam, Nó có vai trò lịch sử của nó, Cộng Sản Việt Nam là hy hửu và rất khác biệt so với các chế độ Cộng Sản khác. Chúng tôi lèo lái Đất Nước theo tinh thần dân tộc và chủ nghĩa xã hội. Chúng tôi cố gắng tiếp thu và cân bằng mọi thứ để phục vụ cho cả dân tộc cả đất nước toàn bộ người dân. Xin nhìn nhận tính chính danh và vai trò không thể chối cãi của chế độ Cộng Sản Việt Nam trong bối cảnh của Đất Nước tôi vào thời điểm đó. Và bởi công lao to lớn của Cộng Sản Việt Nam, nó có quyền tiếp tục lãnh đạo và dẫn dắt Đất Nước tiếp tục đi lên. Chúng tôi mạnh mẽ hơn khi chỉ 1 Đảng, chúng tôi biết điều gì tốt nhất cho mình.
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