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(+5,024 tons); summer-autumn paddy production reached 281,826 tons, a
growth of 0.5% (+1,336 tons); Summer paddy production reached 20,163 tons,
an increase of 3.2% (+625 tons)).

In 2023, the production of castles was as follows: buffalo live weight
1,635 tons, a year-on-year decline of 4.8% (-83 tons); production of cattles live
weight 37,781 tons, an increase of 2.8% (+1,017 tons); production of pig live
weight 138,350 tons, a growth of 6.3% (+8,143 tons); production of poultry live
weight 28,372 tons, an increase of 5.3% (+1,433 tons).

In 2023, the area of newly concentrated forest reached 17,925 hectares, a
year-on-year decrease of 10.5% (-2,095 ha), of which production forest 17,752
hectares; protected forest 163 hectares; special-use forest 10 hectares. Wood
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production reached 1,681,807 m , a year-on-year increase of 4% (+64,101 m );
firewood production 551,311 ster, a decline of 0.6% (-3,076 ster); bamboo
harvested 1,663 thousand trees, an increase of 9% (+137 thousand trees);
conical leaves 1,953 thousand leaves, an increase of 0.6% (+12,000 leaves);
fresh bamboo shoots 1,192 tons, a growth of 0.5% (+6 tons).

Total fishery production in 2023 reached 287,474 tons, a year-on-year
increase of 3.4% (+9,425 tons). Of which: Aquaculture production reached
13,509 tons, up 2.1% (+276 tons); production of capturing fishery reached
273,965 tons, up 3.5% (+9,149 tons) over the same period last year.

Industry
The index of industrial production in 2023 increased by 3.31% over the
same period in 2022, of which, the mining and quarrying increased by 19.92%;
the manufacturing increased by 3.29%; the electricity production and
distribution decreased by 0.45%; and the water supply, sewerage, waste
management and remediation activities grew by 15.96%.

Trade and Services

Total retail sales of goods and service revenue in 2023 was estimated to
reach 103,140 billion VND, a year-on-year increase of 15.1%.

Passenger carried in 2023 gained 40,780 thousand passengers, an increase
of 19.4% and passenger traffic reached 4,073,703 thousand passengers.km, an
increase of 22.5% over the previous year. Freight carried in 2023 reached

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