In 5 years, workers in Hanoi's agricultural, forestry and fishery sector have decreased from 8.31% to 5.51%

According to the analysis of the Hanoi Employment Service Center, the shift in labor structure between economic sectors shows where old institutions are gradually closing down and where new career horizons are opening up.

The restructuring of Hanoi's labor market is most clearly demonstrated through the strong and irreversible decline in the labor proportion in the agricultural, forestry and fishery sector. Data shows that the labor force participation rate in this area has decreased from 8.31% to only 5.51% in the period of 2019 - 2024.

This is an inevitable trend, reflecting the process of urbanization, industrialization and modernization that is taking place strongly in the capital. The strength of this "farmless" movement comes from both the push of the process of converting agricultural land use purposes to industrial development, urban areas and infrastructure, as well as the attraction of labor institutions with higher income and productivity in other economic regions", the Hanoi Employment Service Center stated in the report on the Current situation and trends of implementing unemployment insurance policies associated with job creation.

This shift brings strategic opportunities. For the entire economy, the release of a large proportion of labor from low-yielding areas has created conditions for reallocation of human resources into sectors that are capable of creating higher added value, thereby promoting overall growth. For the agricultural sector itself, the decline in the number of workers creates pressure, and is also a driving force to restructure the industry in depth, towards high-tech agricultural models, organic agriculture and ecological agriculture combined with tourism. This process promises to form a new agricultural labor force, with higher skills and qualifications, mastering technology and creating products of outstanding value.

However, this shift also poses a huge social and human resource challenge, which is the problem of job conversion and compensation for redundant labor forces. Most of the workers coming from agriculture often have limited education and vocational skills. When moving to other economic regions, if they are not equipped with new skills in time, they face a very high risk of being pushed into the segment of simple, unstable, low-income or becoming the main supply for the informal economic sector.

This situation creates a huge pressure, requiring the vocational education system of Hanoi City to have large-scale, specially designed training programs for vocational training conversion. If this problem cannot be solved, the process of "growing up farming" may only be a transition from rural poverty to new forms of poverty in urban areas.

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