Market Agricultural Engineering Vietnam Attractive But Are Belong To Anyone?

According to the economic expert, due to product mechanized agriculture produced, assembled in very low water, while imported products, the prices are very high, this is the main reason for the level equipped with the world in agricultural production of Vietnam is much lower than in many countries in the region.

Lose at home

According to ASSOC.TS. Nguyen Huy Bich, member of the standing Committee, The Mechanical Vietnam's Agriculture market agriculture, domestic, including fabrication and assembly only accounted for over 20% market share.

Currently, there are only few units in the country built tractor as VEAM (tractor under 30HP); THACO has successfully produced power tractors up to 50HP; and company LIMITED, the motor and the Agricultural South with tractors and diesel engines up to 36-38 HP.

The majority of the machinery for agriculture today is still the import is the main. The brand agricultural machinery overseas are dominant in the Vietnamese market is Yamar, Kubota, John Deere, Daedoong, Belarut and the type of tractor of China.

“Statistics shows the annual amount of tractors are imported amounted to more than 2,000 billion, over 90% is the towing capacity on the 22 HP,” DR. Bich said.

The fabrication facility other agricultural machines of Vietnam is mainly mechanical workshop small local retail, technical design, and fabrication technology is limited, the details have not been standardized and have low quality. As a consequence, increases the cost of maintenance, repair and reduce competitiveness.

Figures and paintings fabrication machine to see that we are lost and left open this market right at home.

According to DR. Le Van Banh, director of the Institute for rice in the Mekong delta, mechanization in agricultural production has more content need to develop sync: mechanized rice production, mechanization production of vegetables, crops shallow (sugar cane, corn, sweet potatoes...); mechanization garden fruit trees; mechanization of crop production; mechanization of livestock and poultry...

To meet the demand for rice production goods in the integration phase, the application mechanization sync into production to increase productivity, meet seasonality, ensure product quality, minimize post-harvest losses... is pressing need.

Therefore, The state should continue to complement a number of policies to promote application of mechanization in rice production; promote construction planning model “large sample field”, in order to maximize the role of link “4”, especially the active role of the business enterprise, exports and investment preservation, processing and storage.

This is a practical solution, contributing to a stable, production redress “the season, devaluation” in agricultural production.

Over time The state has a policy of supporting interest rates to lend to farmers to buy agricultural machines but for the yet more.

Thus, to promote mechanization in agricultural production, then The state should have policies to support the production unit local mechanics, encourage research and training technical staff as well as workers in the mechanical engineering industry, agriculture, teaching, use and drive the agricultural machinery for farmers.

Along with it is the policy of industrial development, support for agricultural engineering, especially in industrial manufacturing agricultural machines.

Market potential

According to the head of the Department of economic cooperation and rural development Le Duc Thinh, in the period from 2011 – 2021 the number of tractor types increased by 60%, machine transplanting increased by 10 times; water pump increased by 60%; the combine harvester increased by 80%; the drying of agricultural products increased by 30%; food processing machine cattle increased 91%; food processing machine fisheries increased 2.2 times and sprayer plant protection increased 3.5 times that suggests that the market mechanical agriculture in Vietnam are very attractive.

“Every year, Vietnam produced more than 40 million tons of grain, millions of tons of aquatic products, fruit and other fruits and vegetables should demand machinery for agriculture from the stage of sowing, planting, harvest to storage, processing, processing is very large, this will be the location for this industry thrive in the coming time,” said Thinh identified.

According to mr. Nguyen Huy Bich, member of the standing Committee The Agricultural engineering in Vietnam, recent years, the mechanical engineering industry, agriculture in Vietnam was more interested in, with a diverse range of product categories include: internal combustion engines to 30 horsepower, soil (farm tractor 4 and 2 wheels), harvesting machines (combine harvester, harvest stacking sequence, threshing machine), water pump, sprayer, deep machine preservation and processing (rice milling machine, dryer).

However, the mechanical products of agriculture of Vietnam, and only in the tractor serves for rice production, also for machines for the manufacture of other crops virtually still left empty.

Even in the stage of rice production, the application of mechanization also only focuses mainly in a number of stitches as: soil, pump, watering, plucking, banging, shipping and milling. The longer the stitch as sowing, care, harvesting and storage harvest has the level of mechanization is very low, the majority is still manual labor.

According to the general rating, the machine in water production outdated technology but the price is high. Just the shrimp mekong DELTA, each year need about 70,000 machine of the type motorized 6 – 10 horsepower while the production capacity in the water only reaches about 1/3 demand.

People tend to prefer buying machine China or used machine of the Japanese, Soviet Union (former) south Korea... the Cause is due to the machine in water higher production machine imported 15 – 30%, but the effective use was inferior.

The machine type agricultural production in the country category of poor, especially machine combine harvester currently on the market, amounting to 90% is water outside, only about 10% of the machine in water. While this type of machinery we can completely fabricated.

Besides, agricultural product dryer also only meet about 30% of the demand and at the level of simple, instant dry, if to ensure high quality for export, it has not yet reached.

According to DR. Flange, the causes that led to the current situation is due to lack of investment capital, lack of technical manpower, high output, investment policy is not yet clear...

“So, can say that has never mechanics fall into the ailing condition as it is now. Attract investment into mechanical is currently more attractive than many other areas.

Practices have proved and principles is not a country any success on the world of work depends imported agricultural machinery. Promote research and policy creation, enterprise development manufacturing agricultural machinery in the country is sustainable solution and in the development of agricultural mechanization.

In the fabrication of machinery for agriculture, if the import policies and taxes do not match will push the price of Vietnam fabrication team up very high, difficult to compete. In addition also need to develop the factory and the satellites auxiliary focus almost at the department of agriculture key, avoiding the focus on Hanoi and ho chi minh CITY. CITY”, TS Flange proposed.

According to The minister of Agriculture and rural development Le Minh Hoan, agriculture, Vietnam has the powerful conversion from the way production practices to thinking approach, the pattern of growth and development.

With advocates of restructuring agricultural development, sustainable agriculture, associated with the construction of new countryside, The government has issued many policies to support the development of mechanized agriculture such as: credit policy and support interest rates for buyers machines, agricultural equipment; policies for value added tax for the import of machinery, equipment dedicated for agricultural...

Along with that is the activity of coaching, training workers to use machines, equipment and mechanization agricultural infrastructure improvement field facilities, aquaculture, livestock and poultry etc., also be paid attention to.

“Agricultural mechanization present with higher requirements, not just individual solution, which should be used effectively, in sync for most of the stage production to develop the value chain of agricultural products, durable, have the alignment and cooperation between businesses, cooperatives and farmers.

According to the progress of technological development in agriculture, agricultural mechanization not only about the target output and productivity, which direction gradually to “precision farming”, improve the quality and value for agricultural products,” The minister Le Minh Hoan stressed.

To accelerate the process of mechanization sync for agricultural production in the Mekong delta, in the framework of events AGRITECHNICA ASIA LIVE 2022 takes place in the Mekong delta, from October 24 -26/8, the deputies agreed to build a “center mechanization” in this area to overcome these problems exist in the pushing put mechanization sync into production in the Mekong delta in particular and the country in general.