Hanoi (VNS/VNA) — Hanoi is moving towards a smart, high-tech and sustainableagriculture that can adapt to climate change.
Along with synchronous investment in infrastructure in ruralareas, the city will focus on developing key agricultural products, includinglongan, Canh oranges, Dien pomelos, flowers, ornamental plants,and seeds to improve product value.
For sustainable development, the city's agriculture has beenfocusing on supporting localities to build concentrated and safe productionareas, develop key products, and attract business investment.
The high-tech vegetable growing model of the Cuoi Quy OrganicVegetable Cooperative in Dan Phuong district, was one of the 30 excellentagricultural projects that entered the final round of the "I am a farmerin the 4.0 period" contest organised by the Vietnam Farmers' Association.
The cooperative’s Director, Dang Thi Cuoi, said: “Theapplication of growing vegetables in greenhouses using drip irrigationtechnology has improved both productivity and product quality."
“On average, each day, we harvest two to four tonnes of safevegetables to supply clean food stores, supermarkets, kindergartens in thedistrict, with a stable income of nearly 6.6 billion VND per ha per year.”
Phan Trung Kien in Dai Yen commune, Chuong Mi district, owner ofa 13,000-chicken farm, said that high-tech poultry breeding with a closedproduction line of safe methods should limit disease, adding every day, hisfarm supplies 8,000 eggs to the market.
The city now has 160 high-tech agricultural production models,of which 105 are in crop production, 39 in livestock, 15 inaquaculture and one combining cultivation and farming.
Director of the city Agricultural Extension Centre Vu Thi Huongsaid that many models were investing much in modern technology,which initially brought high economic efficiency such as seed productionand the Phalaenopsis orchids planting model of Dan Hoai Cooperative in Dan Phuongdistrict, and the mushroom production model with Japanese technology ofKinoko Thanh Cao Import-Export Co. in My Duc district./.