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Trung Nam Group completes largest wind farm in Viet Nam

April 16, 2021 by bizhub.vn

The 152 MW wind farm that Trung Nam Group finished yesterday in Ninh Thuan’ Province is the largest in Viet Nam. — Photo courtesy of Trung Nam

Trung Nam Group inaugurated the last phase of its wind farm yesterday in the central province of Ninh Thuan’s Thuan Bac district, making the 152 MW farm the largest in Viet Nam.

The finished wind farm worth VND4 trillion (US$172.4 million) would produce 423 million kWh of electricity per year. Combined with the solar power plant of 204 MW, which was expected to produce 577 million kWh electricity per year in the same province, the group ran the largest renewable energy of solar and wind power complex in the country and Southeast Asia, said Trung Nam Group.

Nguyen Tam Tien, general director of the Trung Nam Group said: “The event marks an important turning point for the group in its sustainable energy development orientation.”

Tien said Trung Nam’s 900 ha renewable energy complex was directly connected to the national grid system through Thap Cham 220 kV transformer station. The total annual output of the complex was expected to reach between 950 million kWh and 1 billion kWh of electricity per year.

Tien said: “Different from developing solar power projects, developing wind power projects is more complicated due to large investment costs, more time for transport and installation of equipment, especially in the more difficult context of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

He said with the experience of a leading energy group, Trung Nam Group has overcome those challenges and completed the third phase of the project.

In the construction, the group collaborated with world leading qualified and professional partners such as Enercon and Sany.

In detail, the project’s turbines supplied by Enercon company from Germany could operate with low wind speeds of 2 -2.5m per second and the ability to catch the wind with an average speed of 7.1 m per second. They are the turbines with the largest capacity in the country so far.

Trung Nam said using the advanced equipment, they could reduce the ​​land occupied to only 0.14 ha per MW, lower than the average land use rate of 0.35 ha per MW for other wind farms, significantly contributing to the efficient use of national resources in Viet Nam.

Along with the wind farm, so far, the group has put into operation two solar power projects in Ninh Thuan Province and Tra Vinh Province with a total capacity of over 360MW. Last year, Trung Nam Group became the first private investor in Viet Nam to build and run the transformer station, a 220 / 500KV transmission line and a 450 MW solar power plant successfully.

According to Trung Nam’s leader, the group was actively implementing plans to bring 900 onshore, offshore and offshore wind pillars to projects in localities such as Dak Lak, Gia Lai, Tra Vinh and Ninh Thuan. Implementing other energy projects in Viet Nam, it targeted to bring 10GW to the national grid by 2027. — VNS

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Vietnamese agriculture minister dreams of creating world-famous Mekong Delta brand

April 16, 2021 by tuoitrenews.vn

Vietnam’s newly-appointed Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan is determined to boost sustainable development in the Mekong Delta, improve the lives of the region’s farmers, and market its products under an internationally recognized global brand.

In a recent discussion with Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper, Minister Hoan, who was ratified by the National Assembly on April 8, shared that his goal is to create “responsible agriculture” in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta.

According to Hoan, the expansion of the country’s agriculture sector may not be a strong indicator of income growth and quality-of-life improvements for Vietnamese farmers.

“Can we truly understand the lives of famers and their financial situations simply by looking at what the agriculture industry has achieved?” Hoan questioned.

Sustainable farming

During his tenure, Hoan hopes to create a balance between agricultural growth and the quality of life for famers while simultaneously managing the social and environmental impacts of development on farming.

In order to do this, his ministry plans to take a holistic approach to improving the agriculture sector, including considering the role of healthcare and environmental protection costs in developing sustainable farming.

“The agricultural industry should not be forced to ignore the environment, ecosystem, and public health in order to meet its growth targets,” he said, adding that the industry’s chase for high crop yields forces it to abuse chemical fertilizers and plant protection agents, which endangers public health and hurts the image of local brands.

Other problems noted by Hoan include the lack of updated market information and a loose connection between supply and demand which has led to wasted products or forced authorities to launch “rescue the famers” campaigns.

Such campaigns call on individuals and enterprises to purchase overproduced crops, such as the watermelons, purple onions, and oranges grown in Quang Ngai, Soc Trang, and Tuyen Quang Provinces, respectively.

Do not just exhort but give support

“In the past few years, we’ve managed to create a link between farm producers and investors in order to bring agriculture products to a wide variety of markets,” Minister Hoan said.

“Now it’s time to shift such a link to a value chain that ensures sustainable development.”

In a value chain, farm produce is classified and preliminarily processed before being supplied to markets.

This generates more jobs for workers and more income for farmers by creating preliminary treatment, preservation, and processing activities.

The uptick in revenue puts more money in farmers’ pockets, meaning fewer feel being forced to move to urban areas in search of more lucrative employment.

Regarding the role his ministry hopes to play in his vision for the industry, Hoan explained that government agencies at all levels should focus less on encouragement and more on educating farmers on agricultural economics in order for them to better understand the changing market.

Hoan also plans to focus his ministry on creating more outlets for both fresh and processed farming products.

“If the outlets are stagnant, production will come to a standstill,” he said.

The agriculture sector has long believed that the creation of outlets for farm produce falls under the responsibility of other industries and specialized agencies.

Such thinking must change and market solutions must be included from the beginning of any agricultural product development plan.

A global ‘Mekong Delta’ brand

Regarding the challenges that climate change and limited infrastructure pose to agriculture, Hoan declared the first step in overcoming these obstacles is to push the sector toward a nature-based production model.

Such a switch will be based on Government Resolution 120, which is centered on the sustainable development of the Mekong Delta in response to climate change, Minister Hoan explained.

After famers have been educated on agricultural economics, they will begin to understand higher produce quality, as opposed to higher yields, can provide hefty long-term benefits and pave the way for strong brands, reputations, and profits.

At the same time, the industry must adopt an ecosystem-based development strategy which satisfactorily resolves the issue of promoting agricultural production on the basis of adaptation to climate change, the minister said.

Such adaptation includes not only boosting infrastructural development but also adjusting agricultural thinking and operation systems on both provincial and district levels throughout the delta.

Doing so, Hoan further explained,will help the Mekong Delta transform into a global brand capable of surviving climate change and other likely challenges.

Clean agriculture

Minister Hoan’s primary focuses for his tenure rely on the idea of “responsible agriculture” – agricultural development that does not abuse chemical fertilizers and plant protection agents.

He shared that he once asked farmers in Dong Thap Province whether or not they overused chemical fertilizers and plant protection agents in farming production and they just chuckled in response.

The practices of “two-bed vegetables” – one bed of clean vegetables for growers to eat and the other, fed with chemical fertilizers and plant protection agents, for sale – and “two-cage pigs,” one cage of clean swine for breeders and the other, bred with weight gain or leanness-enhancing agents, for sale, are still common in certain areas across the country.

He also blamed excessively intensive farming of up to three paddy crops per year for gradual farmland deterioration because the practice requires farmers to use more chemical fertilizers and plant protection agents.

As such, the practice has harmful long-term impacts on both human health and the land, water, and air.

The Mekong Delta, which has 13 administrative units, including a centrally-run city (Can Tho) and 12 provinces, covers 40,547.2km² and has a total population of over 17.2 million people, accounting for 13 percent of Vietnam’s area and nearly 18 percent of the country’s population, the General Statistics Office of Vietnam reported in 2019.

According to the Planning Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the delta accounts for about 40 percent of Vietnam’s total value of agricultural production. The corresponding proportions of rice, fisheries, and fruit output are 50, 65 and 70 percent.

The region also makes up 90 percent of the country’s total rice exports.

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Southeast Asia’s largest renewable energy complex inaugurated in Ninh Thuan

April 16, 2021 by english.thesaigontimes.vn

Southeast Asia’s largest renewable energy complex inaugurated in Ninh Thuan

The Saigon Times

A view of Trung Nam Group’s solar and wind power complex in Ninh Thuan Province. The project is the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia – PHOTO: TRUNG NAM GROUP

HCMC – The Trung Nam Group and authorities of the central province of Ninh Thuan on April 16 inaugurated a complex of solar and wind farms, which is the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia as it covers an area of 900 hectares and is expected to produce nearly one quadrillion kilowatt hours of electricity per year.

The project, invested in by the Trung Nam Group, is located in Thuan Bac District. With the completion of the wind farm, together with a solar power plant, which had been inaugurated earlier, the complex now has a total capacity of over 350 megawatt peak, Tuoi Tre Online newspaper reported.

The project will make Ninh Thuan a renewable energy hub of the country.

The province holds great potential to develop wind power with 14 areas covering an area of 8,000 hectares, mainly in Ninh Phuoc, Thuan Nam and Thuan Bac districts. The number of storms affecting the province is small and the wind volume is stable during the year, ensuring the operation of wind turbines.

Moreover, Ninh Thuan annually has a total of 2837.8 sunny hours on average, the highest among localities in Vietnam, facilitating the generation of solar power.

According to Trung Nam Group, to develop a wind power project, investors must spend a lot of time, use a high number of laborers and apply many modern technologies as these projects tend to be located in areas with a severe climate and rough terrain.

The wind farm costs VND4 trillion, while the solar power plant requires an investment of VND6 trillion and comprises 705,000 solar panels.

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