Bac Giang moves to develop hi-tech agriculture

The northern province of Bac Giang will continue to restructure its agriculture sector from now to 2025, focusing on supporting and investing in hi-tech agriculture development, according to Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Le O Pich.
Bac Giang moves to develop hi-tech agriculture ảnh 1Litchi - a famous product of Bac Giang (Photo: VNA)
Bac Giang (VNA) - The northern province of Bac Giang will continue torestructure its agriculture sector from now to 2025, focusing on supportingand investing in hi-tech agriculture development, according to Vice Chairman ofthe provincial People’s Committee Le O Pich.

Specifically, by 2025, Bac Giang strives to have 40 percentof the value of agricultural and aquatic products produced in line with Good AgriculturalPractices (GAP) or equivalent, the value of agricultural, forestry and aquatic products applying high technology reaching 20 percent, and the averageproduction value per hectare of agricultural land hitting 140 million VND (6,153USD).

The province will also make efforts to have about 50 percent ofagricultural cooperatives engaged in hi-tech application activities, in which,at least one third of cooperatives have applications of advanced technologiessuch as: biotechnology, genetics, microbiology, and automation technologies.

In the coming time, Bac Giang will focus on carrying out newmechanisms and policies to boost hi-tech agricultural development.

Pich said that Bac Giang will apply advanced andhigh technologies and technical processes in production of some of its maincrops and poultry and livestock such as litchi, orange, pomelo, rice,vegetables, flowers, pigs, and chickens to improve productivity, quality andefficiency of agricultural production.

According to the provincial Department of Agriculture andRural Development, Bac Giang has to date built nearly 800 agricultural production modelsapplying high technologies effectively, having product consumption links withbusinesses and cooperatives in accordance with the value chain, and ensuring foodsafety./.
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