The first hi-tech agricultural park opened in Hanoi on September 28th. This is a key project in the field of agriculture of the capital to welcome the Liberation Day of Hanoi, October 10th. According to Le Xuan Tao, Deputy Director of the Hanoi Fruit-Vegetable Technology Centre, the manager of this park, this park uses Israeli technology. The total investment for this project is VND24bil, half of this comes from the city's budget and the rest from businesses. The park includes glasshouses for growing flowers, chillies and tomatoes, a control room, and a modern watering system. The park will provide 2.5mil seedlings and 4.35 tonnes of vegetable seeds to the market each year. (CPV/VNN) … [Read more...] about Hanoi: Hi-tech agricultural park opens
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Hi-tech agricultural research unit opens
A hi-tech agricultural research centre has officially begun operations at the HCM City Hi-tech Park in Pham Van Coi Commune, Cu Chi District.With a network of modern laboratories and enclosed cultivation patches (net houses) on an area of 20 ha, the unit will research and produce hybrid crops that adapt well to the environmental and farming conditions in Viet Nam. The unit will also select, preserve and breed creatures that can control insects harmful for crops, and produce organic fertilizers. The centre will also effect technology transfer by guiding farmers on seed selection to highly effective cultivation techniques apart from providing advice on marketing their produce. Tuoi Tre (Youth) Police to help protect ATMs The Ministry of Public Security, the State Bank of Viet Nam and the Viet Nam Banking Card Association discussed measures to prevent ATM thefts. The association said at the meeting that there were nine incidents of ATM robbery in the two past months that resulted in the … [Read more...] about Hi-tech agricultural research unit opens
VN plans 500 hi-tech agricultural cooperatives by 2020
Farmers of Xuan Huong Cooperative in Lam Dong Province harvest vegetables. Viet Nam has planned to have 500 hi-tech agricultural cooperatives by 2020. — VNA/VNS Photo Pham Kha Viet Nam has planned to have 500 hi-tech agricultural cooperatives and to increase the high-tech farming production value by five times by 2020. This was revealed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, which said that 60 per cent of the cooperatives would be located in the country’s major agricultural production hubs such as Cuu Long (Mekong) River Delta, Hong (Red) River Delta, the northern mountainous region and Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) region. The ministry planned that each province and city would have at least three hi-tech agricultural cooperatives. Of note, the production value of hi-tech agricultural products was expected to be five times higher. The average income from hi-tech farming products was expected to be three times higher than products which did not apply … [Read more...] about VN plans 500 hi-tech agricultural cooperatives by 2020
Creating more hi-tech agricultural products for export
(VEN) - "It's not difficult to increase the market share of Vietnamese agricultural products in the Republic of Korea (RoK). What domestic businesses must do is concentrate on improving the quality of products in the direction of intensifying the application of high technology in agricultural production," said Ta Hoang Linh, Deputy Director of the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, in a talk with Vietnam Economic News' Nguyen Huong and Hung Cuong on the sideline of the recent Korean Market Access Seminar: Lectures, Exercises and Business Meetings event which took place in Hanoi. Trade between Vietnam and the RoK has considerably improved in the recent period. In the first 10 months of 2013, bilateral trade reached over US$22.5 billion, exceeding the target set for 2015, and this included US$5.4 billion worth of Vietnam's exports to the RoK. Notably, the value of agricultural exports has sharply increased. For example, seafood exports … [Read more...] about Creating more hi-tech agricultural products for export
Hanoi’s hi-tech agricultural projects go awry
The Hanoi Times - Hanoi has invested millions of US dollars in hi-tech agricultural projects in the framework of the city's development plans. However, at least two of these projects sit idle through planning failures, according to a story in Tien Phong newspaper. Weeds cover Hanoi's first hi-tech agricultural park Five years after its grand opening, Hanoi's first hi-tech agricultural park moulders in a sunken area vulnerable to flooding and surrounded by new residential buildings. Hanoi officials attended the inauguration ceremony of the city's first high technology agricultural development project in Tu Liem district on October 10, 2004. Investment capital reached nearly 20 billion dong (US$1.4 million), including 12 billion from Hanoi's budget for infrastructure. Management responsibility was assigned to the Technical Centre for Vegetable, Flowers and Fruits, now the Hanoi Agricultural Investment and Development Company (Hadico), a state enterprise. Hadico paid the remaining … [Read more...] about Hanoi’s hi-tech agricultural projects go awry