Vietnam should further promote the application of remote sensingtechnology in agricultural production, so as to hasten the restructuringof the sector, a Vietnamese official has said.
Deputy Ministerof Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh made the suggestionduring a workshop held in Hanoi on July 30, which focused onbenefits reaped through using the technology in rice farming and plansto expand it to other fields in the future.
The sector will firstly apply the technology in forest protection, agricultural land planning and use, he said.
Accordingto the Deputy Minister, the Swiss Agency for Development andCooperation has conducted a project on “Remote sensing-based Informationand Insurance for Crops in Emerging economies (“RIICE”) in Asia,including Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, thePhilippines, Thailand and Vietnam, aiming to reduce thevulnerability of rice smallholder farmers in the countries.
The involved countries make use of the remote sensing technology to map and observe rice growth.
Inthe same way, the risks involved in agricultural lending by banks torice smallholders can be reduced through insurance that protects thefarmers’ loans against defaulting due to yield losses and thus triggermore investments in agricultural production.
In Vietnam, RIICEhas been carried out in the northern province of Nam Dinh and theMekong Delta province of Soc Trang, allowing users to collectinformation on weather, rice growing process and output, which serve as auseful foundation for agricultural managers to give appropriateproduction directions.
Apart from the rice productionmanagement, the technology has also been used in other fields such asagricultural and forest land management, forest fire warning, landslideand alluvium supervision and disaster management.-VNA
Deputy Ministerof Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh made the suggestionduring a workshop held in Hanoi on July 30, which focused onbenefits reaped through using the technology in rice farming and plansto expand it to other fields in the future.
The sector will firstly apply the technology in forest protection, agricultural land planning and use, he said.
Accordingto the Deputy Minister, the Swiss Agency for Development andCooperation has conducted a project on “Remote sensing-based Informationand Insurance for Crops in Emerging economies (“RIICE”) in Asia,including Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, thePhilippines, Thailand and Vietnam, aiming to reduce thevulnerability of rice smallholder farmers in the countries.
The involved countries make use of the remote sensing technology to map and observe rice growth.
Inthe same way, the risks involved in agricultural lending by banks torice smallholders can be reduced through insurance that protects thefarmers’ loans against defaulting due to yield losses and thus triggermore investments in agricultural production.
In Vietnam, RIICEhas been carried out in the northern province of Nam Dinh and theMekong Delta province of Soc Trang, allowing users to collectinformation on weather, rice growing process and output, which serve as auseful foundation for agricultural managers to give appropriateproduction directions.
Apart from the rice productionmanagement, the technology has also been used in other fields such asagricultural and forest land management, forest fire warning, landslideand alluvium supervision and disaster management.-VNA
