According to Minister Huynh Thanh Dat, the agricultural sector is at the forefront of applying scientific and technological achievements, bringing Vietnam into the group of leading exporting countries in the world with agricultural products such as shrimp, cashew nuts, pepper, and rice.
The information was given by the Minister of Science and Technology at the conference to review the work of 2023 and deploy tasks for 2024 of the agriculture and rural development sector held on the afternoon of January 3.
Minister Dat highly appreciated the coordination between the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in 2023. Many national-level science and technology tasks were carried out, contributing to creating breakthrough changes in agricultural production, restructuring the agricultural sector, and improving people's lives.
During the 2018-2023 period, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development recognized 215 new varieties, 121 technical advances, 42 inventions, 224 technical standards, and 125 issued technical processes.
Minister of Science and Technology Huynh Thanh Dat speaks at the conference. Photo: VA
He requested the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to develop a plan for the Government's action program issued under Resolution No. 189, implementing Resolution No. 36 on the development and application of biotechnology to serve the country's sustainable development in the new situation. One of the key tasks is to develop a project to develop biological agriculture into a technical economic sector in the agricultural sector.
In the coming period, he also suggested that the two sides coordinate in researching and developing national products; promote the application of radiation and irradiation methods. As of 2021, Vietnam has created and put into production 80 mutant plant varieties using irradiation methods, mainly rice varieties.
The Minister also pledged that "the Ministry of Science and Technology will accompany the agricultural and rural development sector in all areas, especially the application of science and technology in agricultural production". Most recently, the two ministries coordinated to implement the Project on Sustainable Development of 1 million hectares of high-quality and low-emission rice cultivation associated with green growth in the Mekong Delta by 2030.
The Ministry of Science and Technology recently reviewed and submitted to the Prime Minister for consideration the list of national products by 2030, in which, in addition to the national products of the previous period, there are also 6/10 new national products in the fields of agriculture and rural development.
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