Nearly 200 agricultural businesses from 20 cities and provinces nationwide are participating in a hi-tech agriculture fair in Ho Chi Minh City City on June 21-25.
HCM City (VNA) – Nearly 200 agricultural businesses from 20 cities andprovinces nationwide are participating in a hi-tech agriculture fair in Ho ChiMinh City City on June 21-25.
The event aims to introduce new and high-quality varieties, especially targetingsouthern cities and provinces, to reduce the dependence on imported varieties,especially in the progress of implementing global free trade agreements.
The fair houses more than 400 pavilions offering various kinds of plant, aquaticand livestock varieties, agricultural equipment and machine, technology andprocessed food.
According to Director of the municipal Department of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment Nguyen Phuoc Trung, HCM City has built a programme developinghigh-quality plant and animal varieties since 2000.
The city aims to become a centre ofproduction and provision of high-quality plant and animal varieties in thecountry in the near future, he said.
The southern economic hub recorded high agro-forestry-fishery growth in 2017.The gross regional domestic product (GRDP) reached over 8.5 trillion VND (371.8million USD), a year-on-year rise of 6.3 percent. The sector’s production valuewas estimated at 19.8 trillion VND (866.2 million USD).
In 2017, agricultural firms in HCM City supply the market with around 81,200tonnes of seeds of all kinds, including 12,109 tonnes of vegetable seeds, alongwith nearly 1 million piglets, 20,000 calves, and more than 600 million fishfry.
To achieve the outcomes, the city has carried out a restructuring programme andshifted to plant and animal varieties with high economic efficiency whileboosting investment in hi-tech agriculture, Trung said.
A number of contracts supplying, selling products and transferring technologyto serve varieties production and hi-tech agriculture were signed at the event.
The fair aims to promote cooperation and connectivity among businesses andorganisations in developing sustainable production and building a value chainin agriculture from creating varieties to processing and selling products tothe market.-VNA
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Illustrative image (Source: VNA) 
