Vietnam is entering a developmetal period with new challenges and opportunities. This is a period the country is trying to speed up industrialization and urbanization, the agricultural labor makes up a high percentage of the country’s labor, the rural population shares a large part of national population but rural economy is slowly transforming. This is also a period VN is integrating into world economy. However, the competititive capacity of agricultural sector and its accessibility to market remains weak.
In this situation, strengthening competitive capacity of agricultural products, developing rural and agriculture, enhancing poverty alleviation become top priorities while the policy and strategy reform continues to play a decisive role. To implement these important tasks, IPSARD has established the 3 following specialist groups:
· Commodity specialist group: The main task is to collect information, carry out researches and forecast on main agricultural products in Vietnam.
- Coffee specialist group: The main task is to oversee the coffee supply and demand, implement researches and studies on coffee.
Rural development specialist group: The main task is to collect information, implement studies to assist MARD in policy making for rural development.