Representatives from the German government have presented gifts worth 11,000 Euro to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

The German government’s gifts, including a mobile clean-water filter and a mobile classroom for forestry farmers, were handed over in Hanoi on October 5 by Vice Governor of Hessen state Joerg Uwe Hahn and German Ambassador to Vietnam Rolf Schulz to representatives from the Ministry.

The mobile classroom will be passed on to Huu Lung College in the northern province of Lang Son to help implement farmer training programme, said Deputy MARD Minister Nguyen Thi Xuan Thu.

The clean-water filter will be transferred to the central region where people are suffering from heavy flooding.

Vietnam and Germany have seen effective cooperation in different areas, including reforestation, sustainable forest management and development, conservation of forest ecological system biodiversity and mangrove protection in response to climate change.

Cooperation in forestry was always given priority by the German government and is its strongest area of cooperation in Asia, German Ambassador Rolf Schultz said./.