With interest in organic agriculture, the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture has set the goal of increasing the share of organic fertilizers to 15%, and the consumption of organic fertilizers produced at home from 1 to 3 million tons by 2020.

According to Fam Min Lan, an employee of the plant protection department of the Ministry of Agriculture, the use of inorganic fertilizers for many years polluted the soil and worsened the quality of agricultural products. Most farmers are used to using inorganic fertilizers because of their quick effect.

But requirements for clean agricultural products in recent years have led to an increase in demand for organic fertilizers. In 2017, Vietnam imported 220 thousand tons of organic fertilizers, and the figure for 2018 was 215 thousand tons.

In addition to providing plant nutrients, organic fertilizers are effective in improving soil quality, reducing erosion, evaporation, and increasing the efficiency of fertilizer use.

According to the Department of Plant Protection, Vietnam has a wide range of materials for the production of organic fertilizers. This includes livestock, aquaculture and agricultural processing waste, plant by-products, peat, household waste and microbial products, mineral elements and biological substances.

Recently, the Department of Plant Protection has signed an organic fertilizer development program with many companies. The aim of this step was to expand the scale, increase the production and upgrade of technologies for the production of high-quality and affordable organic fertilizers from existing resources.