Exploiting the foreign direct investment (FDI) capital inflow can create the driving force to promote the development of the Mekong Delta - the southern key economic region.

Foreign-invested projects in agriculture, forestry, and fisheries, and in rural development have been fairly diversified, focusing on fields such as planting, animal husbandry, seafood, forestry processing items, forestation and paper production, and sugar production, among others. However, achievements in attracting foreign investment into the agricultural sector are still limited, failing to fully bring into play the sector’s enormous potential.