THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
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Intensifying technological application in rural, mountainous areas
VGP - By 2015, Việt Nam will transfer and apply at least 900 technological and technical advances in hi-tech agriculture, industrial scale husbandry, and IT application in agriculture and the development of rural and mountainous areas, and islands.
According
to the national program on assisting application and transfer of technological
and technical advances for socio-economic development in rural and mountainous
areas in 2011-2015 recently approved by the PM, technology transfer and
application projects will be aimed at raising rice output, developing hi-tech agriculture
and industrial-scale husbandry, promoting agricultural mechanization.
The
program will train at least 1,000 managerial cadres, 1,800 technical cadres and
40,000 farmers in localities to raise their capacity of managing and
implementing projects.
The
program will also assist the establishment of 60 small- and medium-sized
enterprises that will apply technological advances in rural and mountainous
areas, including 25 enterprises applying hi-tech.
The
program’s investment is estimated at VND 1,200 billion.