VASS Director Nguyen Hong Son told the guest that along with contributing to economic and domestic agriculturedevelopment, the academy is also cooperating with agricultural organisationsaround the world in developing science and technology as well as transferring scientific and technological advances.
According to Son, in the 2013-2017 period, with the support and facilitation of the two countries’ governments, VAAS had a cooperationproject with Mozambique to develop a number of key crops, and transfer high-yielding plant varieties and technical advances in farming to Mozambique.
The academy was also provided with some geneticresources by Mozambican colleagues to research and breed new plant varieties inVietnam, he said, adding his agency wants to continue cooperationwith colleagues in Mozambique to research and develop new plant varieties andtechnologies as well as to exchange technical advances.
For her part, Bias said her official visit toVietnam is an opportunity to strengthen the cooperative relationship betweenMozambique and Vietnam, adding that the two countries have been cooperating inmany fields.
She highly appreciated contributions and cooperation of VAASfor promoting agriculture of Mozambique, and expressed her hope that agricultural research institutes of the twocountries will have closer cooperation, adding that Mozambique welcomes Vietnamese agricultural experts to work side by side with Mozambican colleaguesin the coming time./.