MARD boosts science and technology in agriculture

Science and technology is one of the key solutions in implementing agriculture restructuring. In the new context, science and technology research units need to innovate, because the changing mechanisms and policies are associated with the application of science and technology.
MARD boosts science and technology in agriculture ảnh 1Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh speaks at the conference (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) - Science and technology is one of the key solutions in implementingagriculture restructuring. In the new context, science and technology researchunits need to innovate, because the changing mechanisms and policies areassociated with the application of science and technology.

The statement wasmade by Le Quoc Doanh, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment (MARD), at a conference held in Hanoi on August 1.

In order to meet thatnew requirement, Doanh said the Party Civil Affairs Committee of MARD had issued aresolution on continuing to promote science and technology innovationactivities in agriculture and rural development in the context of economicintegration and approaching the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The resolution aimsto create a new step in scientific and technological movements of theagricultural and rural development sector on the basis of renewing mechanismsand policies as well as orienting scientific research and technology transferactivities.

Since then, therewill be fundamental and comprehensive innovation of science and technologyactivities of the ministry in some fields such as management, organisationalstructure and personnel, investment and financial management, property andland.

According to NguyenThi Thanh Thuy, Director of MARD’s Department of Science, Technology andEnvironment, recently, a number of new or advanced technologies have beenapplied effectively in production process. Scientific research institutesand schools have created new plant and animal varieties.

These institutes andschools have collaborated with businesses, cooperatives and localities orthrough agricultural extension models to quickly transfer scientific andtechnological advances to production. However, besides the achieved results,scientific and technological activities still face difficulties, Thuy added.

MARD will renovatethe entire organisation from personnel, science and technology management,financial and asset management and budget management so that the investment forscientific and research topics are most effective.

In addition, theministry will also strengthen the autonomy and self-responsibility of scienceand technology units so that units can implement research and transfer theirresearch in coordination with enterprises, bringing science and technology intopractical production faster.

Regarding theapplication of science and technology, MARD also considers enterprises as acentre to form a close link between scientists.

Via businesses,technology will be applied more widely in production andtransferred more quickly to farmers and agricultural products can meet foodsafety criteria for the domestic market as well as for export market.-VNA
VNA

See more

Part of Ha Long city in Quang Ninh province (Photo: VNA)

Quang Ninh targets 14% GRDP growth in 2025

Secretary of the Quang Ninh Party Committee Vu Dai Thang emphasised that achieving this target would require Quang Ninh’s economy to reach approximately 395 trillion VND (15.4 billion USD) in 2025.

Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)

Ministry responds to escalating global trade tensions

Amidst the complicated developments in the global market, the MoIT has directed foreign market departments and Vietnam’s trade offices abroad to closely monitor market trends, as well as economic, political, and policy changes in the region and the world that could impact trade with Vietnam.

The Vietnamese online shopping and food delivery sector used about 160,000 cardboard boxes and 171,000 tonnes of plastic, mainly single-use plastic, in 2024. (Photo: vneconomy.vn)

Ministry proposes developing green e-commerce law

The MoIT's draft proposal to develop the Law on E-commerce will be included in the National Assembly's law and ordinance development programme in 2025 and will be presented to the NA for consideration and comments in October 2025, before being approved at a NA meeting in May 2026.

In 2025, Goertek will invest in a new project and bring more experts and new technology equipment to Vietnam. (Photo: Goertek)

Vietnam expects big FDI wave in 2025

More than 4.33 billion USD in foreign investment was registered in Vietnam in January, an increase of 48.6% compared to the same period last year.