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Chairman of the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Parliamentarians’ Group Pham Minh Chinh proposed increasing exchanges between Vietnamese and Japanese young legislators.

Prime Minister Nguyen XuanPhuc attended a forum to forge Vietnam-Thailand economic cooperation in Bangkok on August 18.

The northern province of Bac Giang plans to invest 1.5 trillion VND (66 million USD) to develop high-technology agriculture regions to promote the locality’s strong products such as vegetables, flower, mushroom, tea, lychee, citrus, chicken and pigs.

Vietnam and New Zealand on July 27 affirmed their determination to raise two-way trade to 1.7 billion USD by 2020 during Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue’s working visit to New Zealand.

Information related to investment attraction policies of Hau Giang province and opportunities for investors to pour capital into agriculture was introduced to a food firm from the RoK.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology and its Israeli counterpart inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in science and technology in Israel on July 25.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc suggested that Son La province focus on developing high-tech agriculture to boost its economic growth at a working session with local leaders on July 17.

The southern province of Binh Phuoc wants to cooperate with Japan in developing hi-tech agriculture, said a local official.

A graduation ceremony has been recently held for 50 Vietnamese students who attended the International Course for Agriculture from 2016-2017 at Sedrot Negev Agriculture Centre in northern Israel.

Better credit policies and higher consumption of farming products are necessary to ensure efficient use of funds borrowed for hi-tech agricultural projects, experts said at a seminar in Hanoi on July 4.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received Israeli Ambassador Meirav Eilon Shahar, who came to say good-bye at the end of her tenure, in Hanoi on June 24.

President Tran Dai Quang received outgoing Israeli Ambassador Meirav Eilon Shahar in Hanoi on June 19, congratulating the diplomat on a successful tenure in Vietnam during which bilateral ties have recorded important strides.

Australia is a choosy but promising market with large consumption capacity, Vice President of Australia-Vietnam Business Council Cann Lee has said.

The Australian Consulate General in the southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City worked with the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on June 12 to explore cooperation in hi-tech agriculture in the coming time.

The northern mountainous province of Ha Giang rolls out the red carpet for foreign investors, including those from Japan, to seek investment opportunities

Tra Vinh is encouraging local farmers to cultivate other food crops in the place of rice on around 7,900 hectares of farming land in areas prone to climate change impacts.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment is collecting opinions for a draft decree on policies encouraging investment in agriculture and rural areas.

The Vietnam Nutrition Food JSC (Nutifood) on May 11 signed a cooperation agreement with the provincial People’s Committee of Dak Lak to invest more than 1 trillion VND (44.1 million USD) in high-tech agriculture.

The recent credit package worth 100 trillion VND for hi-tech agriculture is expected to give a breath of fresh air to Vietnam’s agriculture amid the recurrent problem of “bumper crop, sliding prices”.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ordered all central agencies and local administrations nationwide to make plans for optimum usage of all advantages offered by the 4th Industrial Revolution.