Hanoi (VNA) – TheMinistry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has announced that italready granted certificates to 28 agricultural businesses applying hightechnologies. 

Of them, nine firms specialise ingrowing vegetables and flowers, while 8 others breed animals and 11operate inaquaculture.

The MARD is devising a draftdecision amending and supplementing Decision No. 69/2010/QD-TTg regulating jurisdictionand procedures of recognising high-tech agricultural firms. Accordingly, theprovincial People’s Committees will be authorised to grant certificates toeligible enterprises.

Apart from Hau Giang and Phu Yenhigh-tech agricultural areas already approved by the Prime Minister, theprovinces of Thai Nguyen, Thanh Hoa, Lam Dong and Quang Ninh have built schemesto establish high-tech agricultural zones to submit to the MARD for approval.

The southern province of BinhDuong, the central province of Khanh Hoa and Ho Chi Minh City are now home toseveral effective high-tech farming models although they have yet to submitdocuments to the Prime Minister for endorsement.

The Trung Son high-techagricultural zone based in the southern province of Kien Giang, which raises white-legshrimps on an industrial scale, is the only one that has gained recognition.

In fact, a number of high-tech agricultural zones havebeen developed nationwide, which focus on rice, fruit and vegetable cultivationand cattle and poultry farming up to VietGAP, VietGAPH and GlobalGAPHstandards.-VNA