Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
July 16, 2008
Source: Viet Nam News and
Vietnam Net 16th July 2008 via
Ag Biotech Vietnam
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/biz/2008/07/793972/
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Chi Minh City will set up areas that will specialise in
producing plant hybrids and animals for breeding, according to
the HCM City Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
HCM City, which has several agriculture research institutes and
schools and a large number of agricultural scientists, is
considered a good site for plant hybrid research and production.
Advanced techniques in producing crop seeds and breeder animals
have been developed and are used in research institutes and
production and supply companies.
Last year, the city produced 8,857 tonnes of 500 kinds of crop
seeds, including rice, cross-bred corn and vegetables, for
export and for local farmers.
The city has supplied 1 billion breeder fish and shrimp for
farmers in the city and southern provinces a year.
The HCM City People’s Committee has also set up a city centre
that will be responsible for selecting good plant seedlings and
breeder animals as well as propagating valuable and rare plant
seedlings and breeder animals.
New plant hybrids will be used for production of organic
vegetables and flowers as well as bonsai trees, which are key
agricultural products that have high economic value.
The farmland for rice cultivation has fallen while the areas for
flower and organic vegetables have increased in recent years.
The city’s flower and ornamental tree planting area has
increased to more than 1,200 ha compared to 880 ha in 2005,
mostly in Binh Tan, Thu Duc, Cu Chi and Hoc Mon districts.
Dao Dong Ha, head of Binh Chanh District’s Economic Office, said
the district had turned more than 1,000 ha of low-yield paddy
fields to high-value crop and animal breeding areas in the past
two years.
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