A Conference on "Promotion of agricultural mechanization for agricultural sector’s restructuring held at Vietnam National University of Agriculture
Updated on 10:29, Friday, 19/06/2015 (GMT+7)
In recent years, agricultural mechanization has been intensively developed both in quality and quantity which has made a great contribution to improvement of farm power and labor as well as productivity and reduction of post-harvest losses. However, it hasn’t met needs of market oriented agricultural development towards global integration and still less developed than regional level.On 12 June 2015, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) held a conference on "Promotion of agricultural mechanization for agricultural sector’s restructuring" at Vietnam National University of Agriculture (VNUA).The conference reviewed status quo of application and market of machineries and equipment in agricultural production and proposed measures to boost mechanization in the process of agricultural restructuring towards production of higher added value agricultural commodities and sustainable development.Attending the conference were Mr. Vu Van Tam, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Nguyen Trong Hue, Director of the Department of Processing and Trade for Agro-forestry-Fisheries Products and Salt Production, Prof. Dr. Tran Duc Vien, President of VNUA, representatives of the Government Office, the Central Economic Committee and relevant agencies, and mass media, etc.
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Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Vu Van Tam
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In his opening speech, Deputy Minister Vu Van Tam pointed out some shortcomings in the provisions of the Decision 68/2013/QD-TTg on subsidy for losses in agriculture. Thus, the Ministry is actively directing related units to work on amendments, additions of the Decision in order to minimize losses in agriculture, and accelerate the mechanization in agriculture
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Prof. Dr. Tran Duc Vien totally agreed with the Deputy Minister and added that to enforce the implementation of agricultural mechanization policies in practice, there should be specific mechanisms for three key stakeholders namely researchers, enterprises, and farmers. "Without investment in scientific research, enterprises will of course import made in China machineries" said he.
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Prof. Dr. Tran Duc Vien, President of VNUA
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At the conference, machineries and equipment made by Kubota, Tamac, and several products of Faculty of Engineering, VNUA were also displayed.
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The conference was successfully organized. It was expected that presentations and discussions of the conference would help proposing appropriate measures for promoting agricultural mechanization of the country.