More than 100 specialists from China, Japan, Australia, Thailand and Vietnam attended an international seminar on agricultural mechanical and electrical engineering and bio-systems, held in Hanoi on December 8.

The participants discussed a number of issues such as energy and agricultural machinery, post-harvest technologies, bio-energies and other non-traditional energies, information technology in agriculture and issues relating to policy and management.

Like many other countries around the world, Vietnam’s agricultural sector is facing a lot of difficulties in production, including the industry’s low level of mechanisation, they said.

Thus, it is essential for the country to step up the use of scientific research and technology in agriculture, especially in agricultural engineering and bio-systems, they added.

The seminar gave Vietnamese scientists and others the chance to exchange ideas on how to develop bio-systems, look at how to access agricultural machinery and seek out research partners.

It was jointly organised by the Ministry of Science and Technology’s Key Sciences & Technology Programme, the Kyushu branch of the Japanese Society of Agricultural Engineers and Ho Chi Minh City ’s Agro-Forestry University./.