Japan will transfer its most advanced technology to help develop newrice varieties in the midland and mountainous areas of northernVietnam.
An agreement for the technical cooperationproject was signed on Oct. 27 by Chief Representative of JapanInternational Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Vietnam Tsuno Motonori andRector of Hanoi University of Agriculture Tran Duc Vien.
The five-year, 4.6 million USD project aims to help Vietnam achievelong-term and nationwide food security. The new technology and equipmentwill allow scientists to produce new and improved rice varieties forall regions in the country.
"In this project, we willtransfer our rice breeding selection method with DNA Marker AssistedSelection, our most advanced technology, to the Hanoi University ofAgriculture," said Motonori.
"With such technology, we aimto produce rice varieties with short growing time, high yields and highdisease resistance that can adapt to the natural conditions of themidlands and mountainous areas in the north," added Motonori.
Rice production in the midlands and mountainous areas can meet theneeds of only 70 percent of the population. Productivity is still low,with 40 percent of the land area used to grow only one crop per year.Although it is a rice export country, Vietnam is still facing foodsecurity challenges. More rice is needed to meet the growing populationwhich is growing at a rate of one percent per year in Vietnam ./.
An agreement for the technical cooperationproject was signed on Oct. 27 by Chief Representative of JapanInternational Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Vietnam Tsuno Motonori andRector of Hanoi University of Agriculture Tran Duc Vien.
The five-year, 4.6 million USD project aims to help Vietnam achievelong-term and nationwide food security. The new technology and equipmentwill allow scientists to produce new and improved rice varieties forall regions in the country.
"In this project, we willtransfer our rice breeding selection method with DNA Marker AssistedSelection, our most advanced technology, to the Hanoi University ofAgriculture," said Motonori.
"With such technology, we aimto produce rice varieties with short growing time, high yields and highdisease resistance that can adapt to the natural conditions of themidlands and mountainous areas in the north," added Motonori.
Rice production in the midlands and mountainous areas can meet theneeds of only 70 percent of the population. Productivity is still low,with 40 percent of the land area used to grow only one crop per year.Although it is a rice export country, Vietnam is still facing foodsecurity challenges. More rice is needed to meet the growing populationwhich is growing at a rate of one percent per year in Vietnam ./.
