Vietnam, Mozambique urged to cooperate in agriculture

The agricultural sectors of Vietnam and Mozambique need to tap their potential and develop long-term projects for benefit of both sides, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said.
The agricultural sectors of Vietnam and Mozambique need to tap their potential and develop long-term projects for benefit of both sides, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said.

The two sides need to implement their commitments and effectively carry out cooperation projects, thus contributing to promoting friendship between the two countries and peoples, PM Dung said while receiving Mozambican Agriculture Minister Soares Nhaca in Hanoi on March 26.

The Prime Minister expressed his support for agreements signed between the Vietnam Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Agriculture Ministry of Mozambique.

He praised achievements the Party, government and people of Mozambique recorded in economic development and national political stability.

Minister Soares Nhaca conveyed an invitation to visit Mozambique from the President and Prime Minister to PM Nguyen Tan Dung.

Mozambique has been making great progress in national construction and development, the minister said, adding the country has, in recent years, registered an average economic growth rate of 7 percent annually, maintained political stability and improved people’s lives.

Minister Soares Nhaca emphasised the Mozambican desire and determination to boost friendship and multifaceted cooperation with Vietnam on the basis of mutual benefit and for peace and development.

Earlier the same day, Minister Soares Nhaca and his Vietnamese counterpart, Cao Duc Phat, signed an MoU of cooperation.

Under the MoU, Vietnam will send a mission of experts to study the potential for rubber, cashew and rice growing as well as aquaculture in the four Mozambican provinces of Zambezia, Nampula, Tete and Gaza in April and May.

Vietnam will also organise training courses for students from the rural development faculty of Mozambique ’s Eduardo Mondlane University and assist a project on the establishment of a centre for research, agricultural promotion and rice production in Nicoadala, Zambezia province.

In addition to promoting cooperation between the two governments and business communities, the two sides agreed to accelerate tripartite cooperation between Vietnam , Mozambique and Japan in a rice production project in Nante, Zambezia province.

The Mozambican delegation is on a working visit to Vietnam from March 19-27./.

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