The economic issues of agricultural natural resources and environment in Vietnam

The Vietnamese economy has undergone great changes in the last two decades, particularly since the implementation of the "doi moi" (renovation) reform in 1986. Positive achievements include the national GDP growth rate of 7.8% and agricultural GDP growth rate of 5.4% per annum, the increase of foreign investment and improvement of people's living standard. However, like many other developing countries, Vietnam is currently facing serious problems because of the degradation of its naturals resources and resulting decline in environmental quality. Water and air pollution, deforestation, degradation of land resources, soil erosion, over-exploitation of natural resource, threats to ecosystems and depletion of genetic resources are among the most alarming challenges! The strategy for sustainable agricultural development in accompanies with environmental protection of Vietnamese Government includes issues as follows: 1) Protecting and improving the environmental quality. 2) Protecting the natural resource., 3) Strengthening management capacity for agricultural environment. 4) Ensuring the safe water supply and rural environmental sanitary. 5) Preventing and resolving the pollution in agriculture and other industries in rural areas. 6) Developing the economic-ecological farm models.