The capital city has implemented many high-tech agricultural production models in order to move towards smart agriculture. However, the city will have to pay more attention to promoting the application of science and technology as well as training high-quality labour resources.
Clean vegetable production in the Ngoc Linh Hoa Lac high-tech agro-ecological zone, at Tien Xuan commune, Thach That district, Hanoi (Photo courtesy of Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA)🅘 — The capital city has implemented many high-techagricultural production models in order to move towards smart agriculture.However, the city will have to pay more attention to promoting the applicationof science and technology as well as training high-quality labour resources.
Developing smart agriculture is a trend for agriculturalproduction around the world and in Vietnam, including Hanoi, said DeputyDirector of the municipal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Ta VanTuong. The city currently counts 164 hi-tech agricultural productionmodels, including 105 involved in crop production, 39 in livestock, 15 infisheries and one model combining cultivation and husbandry. The value of hi-tech agricultural products currently accountsfor about 35 percent of the total value of agricultural production in the city. Modern technology and equipment in the management ofagricultural production to help reduce labour, increase quality and output ofagricultural products is considered the most important factor, the officialsaid, affirming that high-tech agricultural models are increasingly bloomingand bringing efficiency to the city's agriculture. The city's agriculture sector has promoted the application ofscientific advances to agricultural production, including technology ofgreenhouses with an automated watering system (in the field of planting),cooling system to help stabilise temperature and humidity, automatic feedinglines, artificial insemination (breeding), using biological products andautomatic oxygen generator (aqua-culture). Tran Duy Quy, Chairman of the Vietnam Association of RuralDevelopment Sciences, said that developing smart agriculture and applyingadvanced science and technology to production was very important. With a densely populated city like Hanoi, the application ofscience and technology in production will help transform traditionalagriculture to smart agriculture, thereby increasing incomes for farmers, hesaid, adding that it helps solve problems of land shortage, improve the livingenvironment, and reduce pollution. Dao The Anh, Deputy Director of the Vietnam Academy ofAgricultural Sciences, said that the city needed to promote training humanresources, especially high-quality human resources./.
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Clean vegetable production in the Ngoc Linh Hoa Lac high-tech agro-ecological zone, at Tien Xuan commune, Thach That district, Hanoi (Photo courtesy of Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development) 
