RESOLUTION of the GOVERNMENT COUNCIL of 148/CP on 7 April 1981 on AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT in the MEKONG RIVER DELTA in the 5 year plan 1981-1985 the Mekong Delta is the country's largest plain, there are special conditions on natural, very convenient for comprehensive agricultural development and fisheries development.
Through the years, the Mekong River Delta and central departments have tried to overcome difficulties and boost food production, the first step in improving the relations of production and the building of a new countryside. Song by the lack of centralized direction, yet planning to sync and close collaboration between the industry, the local, the investigation, surveying, planning, as well as the construction of infrastructure and technology have not done how much; Agriculture cooperation movement still slow, party organizations, Government and the mass public, especially at the grassroots, should not promote are tremendous potentials of the Cuu Long River Delta.
In the next five-year plan (1981-1985) holds the resolution of the 9th Conference of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, the Government decided on the agricultural production, the need to focus on directing and proper for the tremendous potential exploitation of the Mekong River Delta, built into the number 1 key on food the country's food.
To implement the policy, the need to understand and make good the following points.
 
I. ORIENTATION and GOAL In the 5-year plan (1981-1985), the focus of Central and local power to promote agricultural production, fisheries, increased food production, food, raw materials for industry and export, initially built in the Mekong River Delta region economy of agricultural-industrial wealth; combine economic development with cultural development, building the Socialist new countryside construction background, defense and strong security.
-On agriculture, to make good all three face intensive farming, increase service, reclaiming more farming area open, attaches importance to intensive farming, including on the ground increase service, uniforms and to improving productivity across the entire cultivated area, first focus made intensive farming to reach high productivity on these key areas.
-On the fishing industry, the exploitation of fisheries resources in every medium, shrimp, sea fishing, fish farming, freshwater shrimp, medium, brackish water to food supply, food processing and exports.
-About forestry, must protect good existing forests and to promote afforestation in the specified region. Launching powerful movement of planting timber fuel to solve majority of firewood and a part of the demand for wood.
-To strive to achieve the targets in 1985, primarily the following:-food, food: about 9.5 million tons of food grains, the rules of which 9 million tons of rice, 20 thousand tons soybeans, 30 thousand tons of pork; 2.5 thousand tons of duck meat and 500 million eggs, 13 thousand tons of fish, shrimps, fresh water, brackish water.
-Raw materials for the industry: 14 thousand tons of jute, 18 thousand tons of sugar.
-Mobilizing for food from 3.5 to 4 million tons of paddy.
-Export value reached 350 to 400 million dollars and rubles, with principal exports: soybean, jute, sugar, pork, duck (meat, eggs, feathers), pineapple, banana ...
 
II. measures primarily aimed at achieving the aforementioned objectives, must make a way to sync these measures mainly below: 1. Irrigation: irrigation work must meet the requirements of agricultural production on three sides-intensive, increased service, reclaimed, that the focus is to serve the high-yield cultivation , increase service, winter-spring-summer-autumn rice and reclaiming 15 thousand hectares.
In the five years 1981-1985 the increase in cultivated area is irrigated water is 550,000 acres, to raise the total area sown be watered up 1.8 million acres.
Irrigation should work according to the characteristics of each region, the crop, take advantage of the favorable conditions for building small and medium work, practical work, irrigation water, keep sweet, salty, sour, brass drawer dump alum, prevent the flood soon. Promote the dredge, expand and manage fine large channels. Maintain and use well the existing pumps, note the development of the portable pump boat. At the same time actively prepare to xâydựng the major irrigation works at the end of this five-year plan or the plan of 5 years later.
Irrigation Ministry collaborated with the local building Department on each specific planning, design appropriate works, mobilize the population of DIY's, have the help needed by the State. In addition to the local workforce, the need to use the team to execute the works great, incorporates manual labour with motor vehicles.
2. Fertilizer: Must make use of all sources of manure, animal manure, green manure is. Use of chemical fertilizers with high economic efficiency for each type of land, each season and each seed.
The State Planning Committee to ensure the supply of chemical fertilizers to try the most high; missing, the table with The foreign trade based on local exports to enter more. The General Department of chemicals needs promote production supervisor-pe Australia provides for Cuu Long River Delta 7 thousand tons a year. The Department of transport ensure the transport of phosphate from the North. The positive local heating of crushed limestone rocks, seashells ... to soil improvement.
3. Just like: Ministry of agriculture and the local plans to make extensive use of the rice varieties have been studied and the conclusion is good (high yield, resistance to Brown planthopper-resistant salty and sour, or flood ...), continues selection of good local varieties and study the new breed hybrid suit every soil type and crop. Striving to have the good rice varieties are widely used on most cultivated area.
In addition to crop, should soon provide enough plant good seeds (jute, sugar cane, soy ...) and good breeding (pig, cow, Buffalo, duck ...)
Development of the station, the son of the tree farm, central province and plans to put similar to cooperative production, production group, farmers.
4. Care and protection in the production Are labour investment and apply technical advances in the care and protection of crops and cattle.
Aggressive pesticide for crops and livestock, put down quickly the disease outbreak; build more and complete step by step network of stations, the camp and plant protection and veterinary medicine from the central to the base. General Directorate of the Ministry of agriculture and the chemicals need to plan production to meet demand for the drug against pests and veterinary. mechanical and metallurgy Ministry, the people's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City to help the province produced enough of the necessary instruments for plant protection and animal health. 5. Mechanical and electrical supply, petrol, coal and Agriculture: the Ministry of agriculture, the branches, the right inventory to hold the force device, motor, mechanical repair facility we have.
The Ministry of agriculture, the Department of mechanical engineering, Department of metallurgy and materials, the people's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong River Delta provinces need to have plans to coordinate production, ensuring the adequate and timely provision of the types of tools, spare parts to maintain the operation of motor vehicles the existing machinery, and the manufacture, supply enough water pumps, pumping pesticides, agricultural machines, equipment for processing agricultural products, helping the local building construction, mechanical repair and manufacture of instruments of labour. Need a training plan dưõng staff, technical workers and managers; best to focus on preserving the good motor, fuel savings, lower cost product.
Striving to 1985 put area was plowed in the Mekong River Delta up to 60% of the cultivated area (around 1.7 million hectares).

To your immediate focus, ensure the needs of irrigation, agricultural products, aquatic ... Adding some generators go-Hey-den for some provinces, the District have hard about electricity.
Ensure balance of gasoline for the needs of irrigation, agricultural machinery, generators and local industry.
The coal mines and help the local tap rationality peat resources in place to increase the sources of fertilizer and fuel. Well organized the transport of coal from the North to the Delta of the Mekong River.
6. Agricultural products: The food and the planned reinforcement of milling, husking rice first. To take advantage of the capacity of the existing processing facilities, build some more processing facilities and frozen at the facility where necessary. Note the processing maize, soybeans, fish flour, the byproducts of agricultural products, and industries into forage, poultry, grains of rice breeding in replacement.
In the region of jute, sugar cane production focus, ... the immediate need to build small and medium scale processing.
7. distribution, circulation: The food, the Ministry of internal trade and the Ministry concerned well organized storage building, preparation packaging, means of transport, to ensure implementation of the plan for the purchase of rice and agricultural products.
About treasure, must first use and take advantage of the capacity of the existing repository. In the new building, the need to rely on locally available materials to build the arsenal half solidly to meet demand is timely, quick. The Ministry of construction and the construction plan of local storage system in a reasonable manner and ensure the necessary materials for the building.
Actively make jute manufacturing development plan, pandanus ... to produce the required packing enough.
8. Traffic and transport: the Ministry of transportation and the planning and development of transport and transport network, in particular, a focus on the development of waterway transport system. Incorporates transportation with irrigation. Note the development of roads down to the base. Plan on remodeling, upgrading the axis route in the region, and to build a number of ports, the port River.
Need assigned, allocated between the Ministry of transport and the provincial, district, commune made the survey, design, construction and management of the process, the means of transport, transport.
9. construction: the basic construction Committee of the State and the Ministry of construction to help the province, district of rural construction planning consistent with the economic development of each region. In 1982, done for specific planning and design model building began a public welfare projects such as hospitals, clinics, schools, kindergartens, cultural houses, ... and some residential areas in the town, the district points score.
The Ministry of construction and the province, the district should develop strong State institutions, construction material manufacturing as a source of important goods in Exchange for farmers.
The forestry Ministry ensure wood supply for the construction of houses, furniture manufacturing, making boats canoes and other production needs.
 
III. The BASIC WORK to make the direction of economic development in the Mekong Delta region and measures above, need to do some good work of fundamental significance as follows: 1. The planning.
Is planning very seriously. Going forward, to have synchronous development plan, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, industry, transportation, construction, ... to serve agriculture.
The Institute and the central planning of partition along the State Planning Commission, the construction Committee of the State, the Ministry of agriculture, the relevant sector and the urgently complete economic master plan of the Mekong Delta region and help the province, the district do well the construction of local economic planning. First of all, the complete focus of agricultural planning associated with the planning of agricultural nghẹp serving industry.
Planning for agriculture in the Mekong River Delta must be comprehensive, synchronization; the economic base, the technique demonstrates a relationship with the nation and especially the economic links with Ho Chi Minh City and the eastern provinces.
The Central sector to the construction industry master plan in the Cuu Long River Delta on the basis of taking agriculture-centered planning.
To complete the planning of each industry, each province, with the construction of the 5-year plan's targets, every year, starting from the production areas, determine the economic structure, the structure of plants, intensive, mode, increase service, fastened with livestock farming.
In 1981, to finishing the master plan of the District of key areas of rice, soybeans, sugar cane, jute; in 1982, is finishing up the agricultural planning of all other districts in the Mekong River Delta.
To rectify and strengthen the management of land and forest management, and forest lands are secured using the correct planning, achieving high economic efficiency; the termination status of waste land, a land use the sloppy and the evils of deforestation, destruction of fisheries resources.
The General Department of land management are done in 1982 the measurement, classification and registration of land use in the Mekong Delta.
2. plan.
Planning of the local branches, are clearly the basic perspective, closely match between immediate goals with long-term development direction; promote the spirit of initiative of local, grassroots, promote the reallocation of labour and rising labour productivity; proceed at the same time three rural revolution, in which science and technology revolution is really key, fasten the development of productive forces with the improving relations of production and the construction of new countryside; the rural development plan attached to the plan to build the facilities and service of agricultural engineering; attach importance to the relationship between plan and market; export to import agricultural production materials.
The State Planning Commission discuss with the provinces and the industry to arrange adequate investment plan, and aimed in the direction to focus on the key areas, the most important stitch and bring high economic efficiency. Along with the capital, materials, the equipment, the force of officers, workers and the State's investment, the province, the district must promote the spirit of initiative in order to create resources, materials, additional equipment guarantee for material balance requirements needed to develop production. Private investment capital for agriculture and irrigation of the Cuu Long River Delta, the Government tries to spend 30 to 35% of the total capital of two of this industry in the country. Other industries need to determine appropriate investment levels, commensurate with the requirements of agricultural development and ensuring implementation of the synchronous target. The State Planning Commission, the Ministry and the province must finish plan 1981-1985 on agricultural development in the Mekong River Delta to the Government in May 1981.
3. scientific and technical work.
The local branches, to boldly invest officials, funding for scientific research and the application of technical progress to solve the specific problems of the Cuu Long River Delta, from the problem of soil, water, crops and cattle ... to issues of construction, production of building materials , processing industry, transportation ...
Technical and scientific work are effective and timely service for planning and work planning, survey, design, construction and manufacturing organizations. Downright notice use of the research capacity of institutions, schools, enterprises, industries research force, the levels; combining the experience of the masses with intellectual and scientific practices.

As for the experience, technical and scientific measures are important as validation practices against hoppers, alum, environmental protection, environmental protection, the same rooms and fight pests ... need built into the process, rules or regulations of the State regime, to enhancing efficiency are rapidly and widely.
4. Distribution of labour and increase labor productivity.
The State Planning Commission, the Ministry and the province need planning and distribution plan back labor, training, training of workers and increase productivity. Each district, each facility, each of the cooperatives, production is distributed and organized labor to develop comprehensive production, cultivation, breeding and other trades, expanded irrigation, build technical infrastructure and building new countryside.
Directions to solve labor for Mekong River Delta in the coming years is to first plan to take advantage of the labor resources in place (including workers) on the basis of distribution of labor again and make labor the day 200 made each a year; using economic forces; take advantage of technical workers of the cities, Ho Chi Minh City is in construction, industry, transport, service; additional labor resources from the northern provinces.
The province in the North have thoughtful organization mission bringing labor into the Mekong Delta. The Organization brought labor into can perform many forms. Note the picture immediately made the following: who was in front of the procession on the same building, after the new home, the guards do where brought the economy relative to that; build a direct relation between the localities in the South with the North as the province with the province, the district with the district, commune with the communes.
5. Export to import materials for agriculture.
The State has encouraged the local policy to promote exports. The local is the local exports (including those found exceeding the plan and the allocation of items to the State not assigned goal) in proportion to the State has regulations to imported more production data that the State plan is not yet balanced enough as fertilizer , insecticides, petrol, spare parts, equipment and some essential consumer goods used in Exchange for farmers such as cloth, medicines ...
The Ministry of foreign trade, the Ministry of agriculture should assist the effective implementation of resolution No. 40-CP of the Government Council and circular No. 35-TTg by the Prime Minister on encouragement of exports.
6. agricultural improvements.
-Directive holds 93 of the Secretariat of the Communist Party to do well the agriculture cooperation in the Mekong River Delta under the motto actively and firmly. Localities must strive to complete the 1985 collaboration culture in Mekong River Delta with mainly form the production Corporation (small scale cooperative). In the process of conducting agriculture cooperation in the Mekong River Delta, according to the specific conditions of each place can have the appropriate forms as unity of production (industry, change the spelling) to agricultural cooperatives; fastened with cooperative movement, the movement produced.
The local needs and organization leadership implementing agricultural products stock according to Directive No. 100 of the Secretariat of the Communist Party.
-Special importance to the building of the State farm, in the 5 year plan reached an area of 21 thousand hectares. Capital investment priorities, materials, agricultural machinery, officials, and directed strictly productive farm, became the typical large Socialist production, promote the exemplary role of economic as well as technical.
7. Build the district level.
To do well the work of the district building and district level to serve production development. Based on the economic structure has been defined, can review the boundaries of the district in the area is too large.
The Organizing Committee of the Government need the Symposium meeting soon on the issue of organization and officials in the Mekong Delta, where the focus is on enhancing the Organization and officers for the district.
The Ministry of administration and the province is planning to boost the number and quality of officers for the Mekong Delta, is for the district and the base (the economic base, Township) in the direction of reorganization of officers of the Cuu Long River Delta, and of the Central sector to the layout of the district and the base; priority distribution of graduate students in the College, professional and high school some economic managers, specialized techniques of some northern provinces to reinforce the Cuu Long River Delta.
The partition and Planning Institute, Ministry of agriculture, the sector involved and the province must sum up the building of the district in the Mekong River Delta in the past and choose the District of exponents for the Department, the province. Strive in 1981 each province built a district to have experience promoting construction of other districts.
8. additional policies to encourage production.
First of all, must make good the policies issued, at the same time to research to supplement some policies encourage production as the investment policy, pricing, taxes, use of land ... to encourage promoting intensive farming, increase service, reclaiming, recovery culture; the priority policy for collective production; encourage the development of strong soybean crops, jute, sugarcane, ... encourage the development of raising pigs, ducks; encourage cooperative, the Corporation produced and people dispose of capital reclamation (reclamation of small, reclaiming the people); encourage the production of plants, animal breeds, the good; the policy encourages officials about working in the district, at the base, encourage officers from the northern province to serve agricultural development in the Mekong River Delta. The Central sector, especially State pricing Committee, Central Institute of economic management, the Ministry of finance, Ministry of agriculture, the Organization of the Government, together with the provincial Committee of the Prime Minister to decide on specific policies.
9. Directs the implementation.
The Council of the Government identified agricultural development plan in Mekong River Delta is a synchronous program includes many big goals. The direction and implementation of programs that requires high responsibility of all sectors and levels, and are held very tight coordination of activities and the local industry.
The local has primary responsibility in the implementation of his plan. The province of directing and coordinating the activities of the industry in the province and the district to settle the work promptly and efficiently.
The Ministry should assign a comrade Deputy Minister in charge of the work of the sector in the Mekong Delta, with compact officers to help The holding and solve the work promptly and efficiently.
The State Planning Commission, the Ministry of agriculture, irrigation, finance, banking, food, supplies, labour, Civil and commercial relations must be frequent, closely with the provinces to solve promptly the requirements of production, construction, circulation, distribution.
To steer the good work of agricultural development in the Mekong River Delta, the standing Government Council enhance the collective leadership for this important work, and assigned a Deputy Prime Minister in charge of comrades to steer, coordinate the work between the sector and the local.