As many as 30 junior high school students in the southern province of Vinh Long have helped their families change farming methods with the support of Japanese agricultural scientists.

This is the initial result of a project on transferring cultivation technology to young people, jointly carried out by non-governmental organisation Pangafa and the Centre for Informatics and Statistics under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Tra On district.

Under the project, these students have sent daily data on tree growth, humidity and weather to experts at the University of Tokyo and Mie University through the project’s website.

Based on this information, the experts answer all queries and guide them in how to cultivate.

The father of a participating student said that thanks to the project, his family saves a substantial cost for agricultural production, and he was happy to see his children learn to care about the family’s production activities.

Following participation in the project, many students wished to become agricultural engineers to help other local households raise their production efficiency.

At present, information technology experts from Japan ’s University of Kyoto and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory under the University of Natural Sciences ( Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City ) are developing technologies which will allow these students to dial to an automatic switchboard to report data and raise questions for experts.

According to Thanh Nien (Youth) newspaper, the project is expected to expand to other regions to establish a clean rice production process, contributing to protecting the environment and meeting demand for exports to Japan./.