On March 13, 2024, Mr. Berdiyar Jollibekov, Director of the Institute of Agriculture and AgroTechnology of   Karakalpakstan (IAAK), and Mr. Abduaziz Abduvosikov, Vice Rector of the Tashkent State Agrarian University, Uzbekistan (TSAU), visited and worked at Vietnam National University of Agriculture (VNUA). During the meeting, representatives of VNUA and Tashkent State Agrarian University also signed a memorandum of cooperation on training and scientific research to promote cooperation between the two universities in the future.

Overview of the meeting

Attending the program, from VNUA, there were Prof. Dr. Pham Van Cuong, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, VNUA’s Vice President; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Viet Long, Director of the International Cooperation Office; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ninh Thi Phip, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Agronomy; and Dr. Pham Thi Dung, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Biotechnology, VNUA.

At the meeting, Prof. Dr. Pham Van Cuong, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, VNUA’s Vice President, delivered a speech to welcome the Director of the Institute of Agriculture and Agrotechnologies of Karakalpakstan and Vice Rector of the Tashkent State Agrarian University, Uzbekistan for visiting and working at VNUA. Prof. Dr. Pham Van Cuong also expressed his hope that the relationship between VNUA and Uzbekistan partners would be increasingly stronger, achieving many specific results according to the cooperation content that the parties had agreed on.

Prof. Dr. Pham Van Cuong, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, VNUA’s Vice President, delivers a speech at the meeting

At the meeting, Mr. Berdiyar Jollibekov, Director of the Institute of Agriculture and Agrotechnologies of Karakalpakstan, thanked VNUA for the warm, enthusiastic and thoughtful welcome. He also expressed his hope that the two parties would implement many cooperation programs on training and scientific research in the near future.

Mr. Berdiyar Jollibekov, Director of the Institute of Agriculture and Agrotechnologies of Karakalpakstan(left) and Mr. Abduaziz Abduvosikov, Vice Rector of the Takshkent State Agrarian University (right)

After more than an hour of work and discussion, Prof. Dr. Pham Van Cuong, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, VNUA’s Vice President, and Mr. Abduaziz Abduvosikov, Vice Rector of Takshkent State Agrarian University, signed a memorandum of cooperation. Both universtities expressed their desire to quickly promote the implementation of cooperation programs according to the memorandum signed between VNUA and Takshkent State Agrarian University, Uzbekistan.

VNUA signs a memorandum of cooperation with the Takshkent State Agrarian University, Uzbekistan.

Delegates in a photo

The signing of a memorandum of cooperation between VNUA and Takshkent State Agrarian University was a meaningful and practical activity to promote cooperation in the fields of training and scientific research to serve the needs of the market and businesses. VNUA’s students and lecturers would have more opportunities to access advanced scientific research activities, thereby improving the quality of training to develop high-quality human resources to meet social development needs.