14th annual conference on crop science and agriculture

Presenting a report on collecting feedback on the draft Law, Chairman of the NA’s Committee on Science, Technology, and Environment Phan Xuan Dung said a majority of deputies agree with the need to establish a fund for disaster prevention and control amid the complicated developments of climate change at present. … [Read more...] about 14th NA’s ninth session: fund for disaster prevention necessary

Currently, provinces in the Mekong Delta have 4,130 flood control cells with an area of 1 million hectares, of which, the number of safe flood control cells is 3,656 with an area of 903,000 hectares. The production of the autumn-winter rice crop is mainly inside the flood control dike, so it will be safe. However, the cultivation of the autumn-winter rice crop must depend on the harvest progress of the summer-autumn rice crop, as well as, must prepare for the next winter-spring rice crop reasonably. As for the winter rice crop, Southern province will grow around 278,000 hectares of rice, up 9,600 hectares with an estimated production of 1.3 million tons of paddy, up 97,000 tons. Accordingly, the winter rice crop grown on shrimp-farming land will be grown in July and August. The area of sole winter rice crop will be grown in September. At the conference, Deputy Minister Le Quoc Doanh of the MARD emphasized that this year the drought was extremely severe but the Mekong Delta provinces … [Read more...] about Summer-autumn rice production in Southern provinces exceeds 9.1 million tons

HCM City (VNA) - HCM City authorities are helping companies access new technologies by promoting linkages between researchers and businesses, but more collaboration is needed, speakers said on May 28 at a meeting in the city.  Trieu Thanh Son, deputy head of the Research Management and Cooperation Department under the HCM City Institute for Development Studies, said the city has been offering assistance to companies in registration of intellectual property rights and fostering linkages between researchers and businesses.  “HCM City is now promoting the science and technology market to enable companies to adopt new technologies and increase their labour productivity.”  More collaboration between academia and businesses, however, is needed so that research results can be converted into practical technology, he added. Nguyen Anh Ngoc, deputy director of HCM City Investment and Trade Promotion Centre, noted … [Read more...] about HCM City fosters linkages between academia, companies

Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Conglomerate Vingroup JSC plans to earn 145 trillion VND (6.2 billion USD) in revenue this year, up 12 percent year-on-year. The information was released during the group’s annual general meeting of shareholders (AGMs) held on May 28 in Hanoi. Post-tax profit is expected to decrease 35 percent to reach 5 trillion VND. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Vingroup Chairman of the Board of Directors Pham Nhat Vuong said its tourism arm Vinpearl was most ravaged by the disease. “However, the group still seeks solutions to stimulate domestic demand for tourism, especially inbound because we could not offer services for foreign clients during the pandemic,” he said. “According to statistics, Vietnam greets 80 million domestic visitors and 18 million foreign visitors each year,” Vuong said. The Vingroup chairman said if the disease was controlled and people could not travel abroad, domestic tourism would be … [Read more...] about Vingroup forecast revenue up 12 percent

In addition, the Government cautiously recommended the NA consider and adopt the guideline on several specific mechanisms and policies to revive the economy in the new situation. Accordingly, the Government asked for the NA’s permission to proactively adjust the 2020 public investment plans among ministries, sectors and localities within the expenditure estimate on development investment; convert the investment mode for important transport projects from that of a public-private partnership to the use of the state budget; exempt and reduce a number of tax obligations concerning the areas and subjects suffering heavy losses due to COVID-19; postpone the increase of basic salary for civil servants, public employees and the armed forces and pensions from July 1, 2020; and consider launching new economic stimulus packages if the pandemic continues to be prolonged on a global scale. … [Read more...] about BUSINESS NEWS HEADLINES MAY 30