Volume 07 Issue 05 May 2024
1Dang Van Tuan, 2Pham Thi Hue
1Postgraduate in the Department of History, University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Ho Chi Minh City National University
2Doctor, Lecturer of Faculty of Social Sciences, Can Tho University of Technology
DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v7-i05-69Google Scholar Download Pdf
ABSTRACT
In 2023, according to the Ben Tre Provincial Statistics Department: Ben Tre is still an agricultural province with 75.59% of agricultural land area, up to 89.75% of the population belongs to rural and labor areas. 328,706 people aged 15 and older working in the agricultural, forestry, and fisheries sector annually, accounting for 42.57% of the total number of workers at Ben Tre province in 2022 (772,229 people), the highest among all economic sectors. international. Facing the effects of climate change and saltwater intrusion, Ben Tre is considered one of the most heavily affected localities in the Mekong Delta, restructuring the agricultural sector and converting tree production Planting and raising livestock to adapt to climate change is one of the important issues that the province pays regular attention to. The content of the article will point out the causes, current situation and implementation of restructuring the agricultural sector to adapt to the increasingly serious situation of climate change and saltwater intrusion in Ben Tre in the period of 2011 - 2022, from 2011 to 2022. That points out the need to maintain and promote appropriate agricultural development policies in the province in the coming time.
KEYWORDS:Ben Tre Province, agriculture, climate change, solutions, economic development
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