Food Production and the Effects of Climate Change in Viet Nam

摘要

Viet Nam is an agricultural country with narrow land and dense population. Agricultural production is being developed and achieved great progress in recent years contributing about 20-40 per cent to GDP. Food production is a priority so that cultivated rice lands increased from 7.3 million ha in 1995 to 8.5 million ha in 2008. Food production has' increased from 6.1 million tons in 1955 to 43.0 million tons in 2008, an average of 224 and 503 kg/capita/year, respectively.