Vietnam ’s FPT Corporation and Fujitsu Limited of Japan announced in Hanoi on October 28 that they will cooperate in running a trial test of Fujitsu’s food and agricultural cloud service - the Akisai Cloud - in the country. The companies said that the aim of the partnership is to support restructuring in the agriculturall sector so as to make Vietnam a world-class agricultural producer based on innovative technologies. Under the agreement, Fujitsu and FPT will carry out a one-year trial project from 2015 to 2016, with the former providing cloud services, equipment, and expertise. As a leading ICT company in Vietnam , FPT will facilitate the spread of information technology in the country’s agricultural sector. Fujitsu will deploy a greenhouse IT solution in Hanoi to cultivate crops during the trial period. The greenhouse will demonstrate Fujitsu’s agricultural technology to partners and government authorities in Vietnam and Japan . Fujitsu will monitor and … [Read more...]
Fujitsu, FPT to trial agriculture cloud service
Vietnam ’s FPT Corporation and Fujitsu Limited of Japan announced in Hanoi on October 28 that they will cooperate in running a trial test of Fujitsu’s food and agricultural cloud service - the Akisai Cloud - in the country. The companies said that the aim of the partnership is to support restructuring in the agriculturall sector so as to make Vietnam a world-class agricultural producer based on innovative technologies. Under the agreement, Fujitsu and FPT will carry out a one-year trial project from 2015 to 2016, with the former providing cloud services, equipment, and expertise. As a leading ICT company in Vietnam , FPT will facilitate the spread of information technology in the country’s agricultural sector. Fujitsu will deploy a greenhouse IT solution in Hanoi to cultivate crops during the trial period. The greenhouse will demonstrate Fujitsu’s agricultural technology to partners and government authorities in Vietnam and Japan . Fujitsu will monitor and … [Read more...]
Japan Strengthens Cooperation in Supporting Industries with Vietnam
Japan Strengthens Cooperation in Supporting Industries with Vietnam The manufacturing industry in general and supporting industry in particular are becoming the subjects of growing concern at industrial and economic forums of Vietnam. At the 11th Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam in 2011, the accelerating development of manufacturing industry and supporting industry was officially recorded in the Resolution of the Congress as one important direction for Vietnam’s industrial development in the 2011-2020 period. Due to historical characteristics, Vietnam’s economy lacks potential to rapidly and strongly develop its manufacturing industry and supporting industry; thus, its industrial sector places high expectations on Japanese investors - the most trusted partners of Vietnam in the past years. Manufacturing and supporting industry development policy The draft plan for Vietnam industrial development to 2020, with a vision to 2030, stated some directions for … [Read more...]
Can Tho Determined to Create Breakthrough from Hi-tech Agriculture
Can Tho Determined to Create Breakthrough from Hi-tech Agriculture In the context of declining agricultural land to make way for industry, trade and service developments, high-tech agricultural development is considered to be a strategic direction of Can Tho City in the near future. According to Can Tho Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, in June 2008, the City People's Committee issued Decision No. 1294/QD-UBND on the approval of constructing and developing the program of high tech agriculture of Can Tho to 2010 and vision to 2020 (referred to as the program of high tech agriculture). On that basis, the Department has developed the program contents, which are mainly building a network of three high tech agriculture zones, 3 stations (satellite sites of zones) and 12 priority projects carried out with total estimated investment of VND 3,138.280 billion. The high tech agricultural zones include the Centre (zone 1) located at the Agricultural Breeding Center in Thoi … [Read more...]
Deputy PM urges for cooperative development attached to modern rural construction
NDO – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) in coordination with the northern province of Ha Nam organised a seminar on June 17 to review five years of implementing the 2012 Cooperative Law on agricultural development in the Red River Delta and the North Central regions. Reports at the conference showed that, the recent 5th plenum of the 12th Party Central Committee on perfecting the socialist-oriented market economy has identified the collective economy as one of the three cores (alongside State and private sectors) to develop an independent and autonomous economy. For the Red River Delta and the North Central regions, although only accounting for 22% of the country's total area, the population concentration in the regions is very high. Rural residents at about 17 million people with 3 million households are favourable conditions for cooperative development, especially in the field of agricultural economics. After four years of … [Read more...]
APEC public-private dialogue on services opens
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Public-Private Dialogue on Services took place in Nha Trang city, the central province of Khanh Hoa on February 23. Opening the event, deputy head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Multilateral Trade Policy Department Pham Quynh Mai said trade and services play an increasingly important role in global trade and economic growth of each nation and region. Commodity trade and manufacturing increasingly rely on services, such as distribution, telecommunication and finance, among others, she said, citing that economies with high rate of trade and services in their gross domestic product (GDP) prove to perform better than those strong in agriculture and manufacturing. In 2015, APEC leaders endorsed the APEC Services Competitiveness Roadmap (ASCR) at the 24th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting with a view to creating a fair and transparent service environment in the region until 2025. Member economies … [Read more...]
Vietnam, Laos sign cooperation deal in agriculture, forestry for 2017-18
Vietnam, Laos signed cooperation deal in agriculture, forestry for 2017-2018 at a meeting in Hanoi on Sept. 5 (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The agriculture ministers of Vietnam and Laos signed a cooperation agreement on agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and rural development in 2017-2018 at a meeting in Hanoi on September 5. Vietnam’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong and Laos’ Minister for Agriculture and Forestry Liane Thykeo co-chaired the annual event on bilateral agro-forestry-fisheries ties. Under the agreement, the two countries will focus on cooperating in science-technology and human resources training. The two sides will also increase trade promotion of Vietnamese and Lao agro-forestry products. They agreed to promote investment, production and processing cooperation programmes in agriculture and forestry … [Read more...]
Vice President calls on Asia-Pacific cooperative alliance to reform
The International Cooperative Alliance – Asia and Pacific (ICA-AP) should reform itself to promote connectivity among regional cooperatives for more dynamic and practical development. Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh speaks at the conference. Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh made the statement at the 10th Asia Pacific Cooperative Ministers’ Conference, which opened in Hanoi on April 18. The enhancement of economic cooperation and designing of collaboration programmes between member cooperative federations, including Vietnam, is a vivid demonstration for the growing cooperative economy, she said. However, the ICA-AP is facing a number of challenges in implementing the targets set at its 12th Regional Assembly to obtain sustainable development, eliminate poverty, protect the environment, and ensure prosperity for all people by 2030, she noted. Cooperatives are considered one of the important partners to help the ICA-AP realise the United … [Read more...]
VN, Laos sign cooperation deal in agriculture, forestry for 2017-18
Under the agreement, the two countries will focus on cooperating in science-technology and human resources training. The two sides will also increase trade promotion of Vietnamese and Lao agro-forestry products.They agreed to promote investment, production and processing cooperation programmes in agriculture and forestry while removing difficulties for Vietnamese firms to expand investment in manufacturing activities in Laos.Minister Cuong particularly underlined a joint programme on cattle breeding development, which he said is important to both Viet Nam and Laos, and expected to be a breakthrough in agricultural development.At the meeting, the two ministers also reviewed the implementation of the agreement signed between Vietnamese and Lao governments in agriculture and rural development in 2016-2017.In the period, the two countries actively coordinated to carry out projects using non-refundable aid of the … [Read more...]
VN shares vision on agriculture in Davos
Deputy PM Pham Binh Minh affirms that Viet Nam will form value chains for several products to ensure all sides’ interests, Davos, January 24, 2014 - Photo: VGP/Hai Minh Deputy PM Minh affirmed the agriculture sector's pioneering role in the country’s economic development, especially during difficult times. In his recent New Year message, PM Nguyen Tan Dung has asserted the strategic role of agricultural restructure towards improved added values and a sustainable development in line with the construction of new rural areas, Deputy PM stressed. He highlighted the country’s efforts and future plans to develop agriculture sustainably and effectively, particularly forming hi-tech agriculture-industry-service complexes which are closely connected to farmers as well as sustainable multi-functional agricultural production models. The Government official valued practical supports provided by international development organizations and effective investment that foreign … [Read more...]