As of mid-July, the country cultivated 2092.5 thousand hectares of summer-autumn rice. The early summer-autumn rice area reached 604.3 thousand hectares, rose 7.1% from the similar period last year. Provinces over the country cultivated 913.7 thousand hectares of maize, equaling 99.9% from the last year’s same period; 107.1 thousand hectares of sweet potato, equaling 102.4%; 69.1 thousand hectares of soybean, equaling 90.8%; 169.8 thousand hectares of peanut, equaling 94.5%; 830.9 thousand hectares of vegetables, equaling 108.5%. The country’s estimated number of buffaloes in July, 2015 reduced by 0.5% - 1% against the identical period last year; the number of oxen increased by 2% - 3%; the number of pigs rose 2.5% - 3%; the number of fowls went up by 3.5% - 4%.
In seven months of this year, total production of fishery was estimated to reach 3669.1 thousand tons, rose 3.2% compared to that in the similar period last year, of which production of aquaculture achieved 1934.9 thousand tons, increased by 2.4%; production of fishing caught gained 1734.2 thousand tons, by 4.2%.
