international seminar on agricultural mechanical

Hanoi (VNA) – More than 100 specialists from China, Japan, Australia, Thailand and
Vietnam attended an international seminar on agricultural mechanical and electrical
engineering and bio-systems, held in Hanoi on December 8.

The participants discussed a number of issues such as energy and agricultural
machinery, post-harvest technologies, bio-energies and other non-traditional
energies, information technology in agriculture and issues relating to policy and
management.

Like many other countries around the world, Vietnam’s agricultural sector is
facing a lot of difficulties in production, including the industry’s low level
of mechanisation, they said.

Thus, it is essential for the country to step up the use of scientific research
and technology in agriculture, especially in agricultural engineering and
bio-systems, they added.

The seminar gave Vietnamese scientists and others the chance to exchange ideas on
how to develop bio-systems, look at how to access agricultural machinery and seek
out research partners.

It was jointly organised by the Ministry of Science and Technology’s Key
Sciences & Technology Programme, the Kyushu branch of the Japanese Society of
Agricultural Engineers and Ho Chi Minh City ’s Agro-Forestry
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