Seminar on farming to kick off in Hau Giang
Seminar on farming to kick off in Hau Giang
A seminar titled “Helping farmers farm smartly” will be co-organized on March 8 at 1 Vo Van Kiet Street, Ward 5, Vi Thanh City, Hau Giang Province, by the Hau Giang government, the Saigon Times Group and HGTV television station of the province.
The seminar is aimed at contributing to the adoption of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s directive on transforming the province’s agricultural industry from a chemical-based one to an organic, smart industry and further developing services and processing and supporting industries to serve the agricultural sector.
Despite the province’s efforts to restructure the agriculture sector, many farming households have had difficulty applying modern technology to their production processes and are in need of appropriate policies to produce in chains to raise their income and output.
At the seminar, several experts and enterprises will present their experience in employing advanced technology in the Fourth Industrial Revolution to help farmers enrich their farming activities.
Le Tien Chau, chairman of the provincial government, had earlier noted that the province expected farmers to gain plenty of useful information and step up investments in the smart agriculture sector through the seminar.
“The provincial government will soon issue details on preferential policies to smooth the path for farmers to access loans and expand their production,” Chau said.
Speaking at a meeting held by the organizer on February 26, Truong Canh Tuyen, vice chair of the province, asked the Department of Information and Communications to work with the Hau Giang TV station (HGTV) to broadcast the seminar live to all the communes and districts of the province so that farmers in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang can watch it.
The province’s farmers reportedly turned out 1.3 million tons of rice, over 300,000 tons of fruit and some 70,000 tons of seafood in 2018.
