Vietnam Is Right In Its Pursuit Of Agricultural Development – World Bank Is In Error In Its Pursuit Of Accuracy In Reporting Progress In Regenerative Agriculture!

"Vietnam Becomes Vice President Of UN General Assembly” – Isn’t That Great News!? Not accordingto World Bank, considering Vietnam’s agricultural outputs in terms of efficiency, farmer welfare, and product quality (Open Knowledge Repository, openknowledge.worldbank.org).

(“UN General Assembly” from Ramon Yedra’s Facebook sharing; “Vietnamese farmer” from borgenproject.org)

Read! The World Bank writes (26 April 2019, “Transforming Vietnamese Agriculture: Gaining More For Less” (source above cited):

Over the past quarter century, Vietnam’s agricultural sector has made enormous progress. Vietnam’s performance in terms of agricultural yields, output, and exports, however, has been more impressive than its gains in efficiency, farmer welfare, and product quality. Vietnamese agriculture now sits at a turning point…

Vietnam’s agricultural progress made at the expense of efficiency, farmer welfare, and product quality – I don’t want that to happen to my country, the Philippines!

Going forward, Vietnam’s agricultural sector needs to generate more from less. That is, it must generate more economic value – and farmer and consumer welfare – using less natural and human capital and less harmful intermediate inputs.

World Bank is saying Vietnam must generate more farmer and consumer welfare. It is also saying Vietnam must use “less natural and human capital” and “less harmful” inputs – I don’t understand “less natural.” I am sure of the words because I triple-checked the original text online – I hope this is simply  a huge grammatical (not technical) error – if so, they need a world-class Executive Editor! (World Bank, PM me on Facebook if you will.)

Under Regenerative Agriculture (RA), which I am proselytizing for my country, more natural inputs are called for – in fact, RA requires zero harmful inputs!

In a separate report but the same website, World Bank says:

Like most countries in the world, Vietnam is increasingly seeing its development affected by climate change. With a coastline of 3,260 kilometers that includes major cities and production sites, Vietnam is highly exposed to sea-level rise.

My dear Philippines has a coastline of 36,289 km (parispe.dfa.gov.ph), or 11 times longer than Vietnam’s. That is to say, we Filipinos are much, much more vulnerable to climate change than the Vietnamese. All the more reason for Filipinos to mind what they are doing about climate change – and my mind is on Regenerative Agriculture!

Is Regenerative Agriculture in the minds of the Vietnamese? A report says, “Toward Regenerative Agriculture,” Vietnam Business Forum, vccinews.com):

To bring down greenhouse gas emissions, it is necessary to closely link the transition to ecological agriculture… Tens of thousands of farming households in the Central Highlands switching to regenerative agriculture, with clear effects, showed how the matter is solved to realize commitments.

Yes!

Hoang Van Son, a coffee farmer in Ea Ktur commune… said: “When switching to regenerative agriculture, we no longer use herbicides… leaves are spread [over] to create humus to fertilize the soil… As a result, the income rises from VND100 million to VND190 million per hectare.”

Now then, I say, “Congratulations to Vietnam on its fulfilling journey towards Regenerative Agriculture!”@517

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