tailieunhanh - Agricultural Development in the Northern mountainous midland provinces towards Sustainability

Systematizing the theoretical issues of sustainable development in general and sustainable development of agriculture in particular, the thesis analyzes, assesses the current agricultural development status of the Northern mountainous midland provinces in a sustainable way in the past years and proposes recommendations to promote the rapid development of sustainable agriculture from now until 2020. | INTRODUCTION 1- The necessity of this research The Northern mountainous midlands is the most majestic mountainous region of Vietnam where most of the ethnic minority people reside 35 54 ethnicities and where exists the longest border land with the People s Republic of China over 1500 km and The People s Republic and Socialist of Laos 560 km . Therefore The Northern mountainous midlands plays a key role in the socio-ecomic development the environment protection and the country s defence as well. Acknowledging the important location of the Northern moutainous midland provinces in the cause of building and protecting the homeland in the recent years especially since Đoi moi Innovation the Communist Party and the Government of Vietnam have always paid special attention to the comprehensive development of this area. Hence the economy of the whole area has rapidly improved in many aspects like food housing transportation study electricity water supply and media. basically the security in the area is stable. However as a mountainous area with poor infrastructure scattering population and low educational level the main and important production is agriculture despite the fact that industry commerce and service have been developed. Agriculture particularly cultivation livestock and forestry is the key for job and income and ensure the lives of the majority of people in the area. Currently agriculture in the Northern mountainous midland provinces is facing serious challenges in its development which are -Firstly limited land for agriculture only 1 571 100 ha accounting for of the total land for nationwide agriculture but it is located in different levels of terrains and the quality of the land is poor. It is noticeable that the total land area for agriculture has been narrowing down due to the changes in the purposes of land use for indutrial development such as hydropower mining commerce services tourism and urban development and land erosion because of flood. .