Focus on developing high-tech agriculture

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Deputy Director of Ha Noi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Huy Dang said Ha Noi has been deployed many new mechanisms and policies to attract investment in high-tech agriculture in cultivation, animal husbandry and aquaculture.

Organisations and individuals who invest in high-tech agriculture models will enjoy land preferential treatment, support from the state fund to build technical infrastructure and soft interest rate loans.

Since 2008, the city’s agriculture production has continued to increase with cultivation areas reaching 310,000ha a year, of which the rice growing areas account for 200,000ha with average productivity of 58.8 quintals per ha and average output of 1.2 million tonnes per year.

In terms of animal husbandry, the city now has 1.4 million pigs, 166,000 cows and 24.5 million fowls. The aquaculture areas are 21,000ha with fish output of 76,000 tonnes a year.

With advantages in terms of land, consumption market and application of advanced techniques, the captal city has increased the value of agricultural production to VND212.4 million per ha, up 65% compared with 2008.

The typical high quality rice production regions are in districts of Phu Xuyen, Thanh Oai and Chuong My; vegetable production regions are in Gia Lam and Chuong My districts; special fruit growing regions in Quoc Oai and Hoai Duc districts; concentrated aquaculture regions in Thanh Tri, Ung Hoa, My Duc and Ba Vi.

At present, the ratio of high-tech agriculture production values accounts for 10-15% of total agriculture production values.

By 2020, Ha Noi targets to increase the proportion of high-tech agriculture production value to about 35% of the city’s total agriculture production values.

                                                                                                                               By Vien Nhu