Thai Binh to become first locality to start AgResults project
The northern province of Thai Binh will be the first locality to embark on the scheme “AgResults Sustainable Rice Farming and Greenhouse Gas Emission” between 2016 and 2021.
Thai Binh (VNA) – The northern province of Thai Binh will be the firstlocality to embark on the scheme “AgResults Sustainable Rice Farming and GreenhouseGas Emission” between 2016 and 2021.
The scheme,part of the AgResults project, aims to develop, test and spread the adoption oftechnological advances, tools and solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissionin rice cultivation, contributing to improving local livelihoods and protectingthe environment.
At a recentconference on the project, deputy head of the Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment’s Cultivation Department Tran Xuan Dinh spoke highly of theproject, especially amid Vietnam’s agricultural restructuring.
Theagricultural sector is aiming to reduce its greenhouse gas emission by 10percent by 2020 and 30 percent by 2030.
Tran ThuHa, head of the AgResults Vietnam project, said the project’s first stage willlast 1.5 years with two experimental crops from 2017 to the spring crop of 2018while the second stage will last the next 2.5 years with four experimentalcrops.
ViceChairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Hoang Giang said Thai Binhboasts nearly 80,000ha of rice cultivation with average annual output of13,100kg per ha.
The move isexpected to improve the livelihoods of about 75,000 households, cut 375,000tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions and about 15 percent of production costs.
The AgResultsproject was initiated in June 2010 to facilitate and award agricultureinitiatives that leave sustainable impacts, promote food security, health andnutrition.
Its totalfunding worth 122 million USD was sourced from the governments of Australia,Canada, the UK, the US and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The projectis being implemented in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Nigeria and Vietnam, along with aglobal-scale scheme.
TheAgResults Vietnam is managed by the Netherlands Development Organisation.-VNA
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