Vietnam could meet its long-term energy demands by adding renewable energy sources and cutting-edge battery storage technologies to its arsenal of solutions, experts said at a two-day international conference on renewable energy that ended on April 4 in HCM City.
As many as 906 foreign-invested projects worth 11.9 billion USD have
been operational in the Mekong Delta region so far, according to the
Steering Committee for the Southwestern Region.
Although investment in agriculture and rural areas has improved
remarkably in recent years, the number of projects and the volume of
investment capital in this sector are still less than in other economic
sectors.
According to the Foreign Investment
Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), in
2008, the agro-forestry-fisheries sector attracted 45 new projects with
a combined investment of over 252 million USD; accounting for 3.8
percent of all projects and 0.42 percent of newly registered
investment. The respective percentages for the first eight months of
the year were 2.57 percent and 0.46 percent.
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