Under the Institutional Cooperation of Universities between Vietnam National University of Agriculture and Inter-university council of Francophone (herein after called the 2016-2018 Vietnam-Belgium project) with the funding of ARES–CCD, on December 7, 2018, the Conference on "Technological applications in Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development" was held at the Conference Hall C, Vietnam National University of Agriculture.
Participating in the Conference were the Chairman of VNUA’s Board of Trustees, Prof. Dr. Tran Duc Vien, Vice President of Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Le Dinh Phung, Vice President of Bac Giang Agriculture and Forestry University, Dr. Doan Van Soan, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine of the Tay Nguyen University, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Quang Hanh, as well as scientists from different universities and research institutes, project leaders and members of research projects funded by the 2016-2018 Vietnam-Belgium project, and VNUA students.
Delivering a speech at the Conference, Prof. Dr. Tran Duc Vien, stated that Vietnam needs to take advantages of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, employ and apply new and modern technologies in the world in agriculture sector. He emphasized that, this Conference was a precious opportunity for project leaders and members of the 2016-2018 Vietnam-Belgium project to present their research findings, and connect with other specialists, research institutes and educational organizations to initiate new research projects and promote technological applications into practice in order to stimulate sustainable agriculture and rural development of Vietnam.
Prof. Dr. Tran Duc Vien, Chairman of the Board of Trustees,
Vietnam National University of Agriculture delivered a speech at the Conference
Presentations at the conference focuses on the following topics: Smart agriculture and current problems in training, research and application of technology; Biotechnological applications in agriculture; Development of animal production for prosperous agriculture, wealthy people, and rural civilization; Technological applications in sustainable agriculture and rural development: Understanding and Going forward in an integration world; Some epidemiological characteristics of chicken infectious anemia and molecular biological characteristics of pathogenic viruses; Establishment of a web-based grain image database and searching system, etc.
Prof. Dr. Do Kim Chung, Faculty of Economics and Rural Development (VNUA)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Duc Bach, Faculty of Biotechnology (VNUA)
Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Trach, Faculty of Animal Sciences (VNUA)
At the Conference, the Conference Organization Committee also gave the “Best Presentation Award” to MSc. Nguyen Van Duy, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Rural Development and Dr. Dinh Thi Hai Van, Faculty of Environment (VNUA) for their meaningful research results and vivid presentations.