VN, India scientists work for people’s benefits

Vietnam and India have reached deals on scientific and technological cooperation that are expected to bring more benefits to their people.
Vietnam and India have reached deals on scientific and technological cooperation that are expected to bring more benefits to their people.

Those deals were inked in India during a working visit from Dec. 20 to 26 by a delegation from the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology.

Accordingly, the two countries will cooperate in designing and developing aerial technology for 3G and 4G wireless services as well as photoelectric cell technology for turning solar power into electricity.

They will team up in developing Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques to spot areas vulnerable to droughts in service of agriculture and forestry and extracting substances from starfish in service of the pharmaceutical industry.

Apart from those, Vietnam and India agreed to boost cooperation in the training of experts on atomic energy and radiation and study possibilities of using biotechnology to create varieties of salt and drought-resistant rice, utilize post-harvest straws and turn cassava into bio-energy.

During the visit, the Vietnamese officials attended the eighth meeting of the Vietnam-India Sub-committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation and worked with officials from the Indian Ministry of Science and Technology’s Scientific and Technological Department./.

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