About 10 provinces and cities are planning to develop high-tech agricultural zones, but they are facing too many difficulties in implementing the plan. Reasonable policies lacking The representatives of agricultural departments of Hau Giang, Ninh Thuan, and Nghe An all admitted at a recent conference that they have got puzzled with the plan to develop the agricultural zones which apply high technologies Nguyen Van Dong, Director of the Hau Giang Department for Agriculture and Rural Development, said that the government has approved the provincial plan to develop hi-tech agricultural zone which covers an area of 5200 hectares. Of this area, 400 hectares have been used to develop a hi-tech agricultural zone, while the other 4800 hectares are the area for applying the high technologies. The project has the total investment capital of 2400 billion dong. However, Dong said, his department has just finished the compilation of the project, while it is still unclear when the project … [Read more...] about It’s difficult to develop hi-tech agricultural areas
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Vĩnh Long’s high-tech agriculture pays off
Nguyễn Văn Sua, a farmer in Long Hồ District’s Phước Hậu Commune, said in 2016 he got good results from his 1,000 sq.m net house where he grew vegetables.The output in the net house was two to three times higher than vegetables grown in open-air fields, he said, adding that the survival rate is also higher.“After more than one year, I now have a second net house with an area of 2,000 sq.m for cultivating vegetables,” he said.With advanced farming techniques and environmental friendly production, urban agriculture needs less land area than traditional farming.The province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has helped farmers in Vĩnh Long City and Bình Minh Town develop 37 orchid cultivation models with a total of 37,000 pots of orchids.Last year, Lâm Quốc Hưng in Vĩnh Long City’s Trường An Commune was provided 1,000 pots of orchids by the city’s Agriculture … [Read more...] about Vĩnh Long’s high-tech agriculture pays off
Fake hi-tech products all the rage in Vietnam
In general, no one likes using counterfeit products. However, Vietnamese young people nowadays tend to use fake mobile phones. This has made the fake mobile phone product most bustling than ever. Nowadays, fake mobile phones, which bear the famous brands of iPhone, HTC and Black Berry are being displayed for sale everywhere. The products are advertised by distributors as "high quality fake products" instead of "genuine products", because the "high quality fake products" also have high prices and they can sell very well. The ad pieces about fake mobile product shops can be found on many websites: "We only have first-class fake phones, using memory chips, not memory cards like second-class products"; "Here are first-class fake products at shockingly low prices"; or "We offer best fake products at lowest prices". The ad pieces all try to prove two things: their products are most similar to the real products and the products have reasonable prices. The fake mobile phones are … [Read more...] about Fake hi-tech products all the rage in Vietnam
Microsoft Tech.Days 2011 opens in Vietnam
Microsoft’s flagship worldwide IT conference, Tech.Days 2011, today was whole day organised in Hanoi with the attendance of hundreds of IT pros, developers and end-customers coming together to share and learn about the latest technologies, products and platform innovations from Microsoft. Around the theme of “Unleash IT strength for your business”, this event has been successfully organised in many countries in the world before coming to Vietnam. With a huge variety of technology sessions and hands on labs designed specifically for target audience, Tech.Days 2011 is actually a learning experience with useful information. Tech.Days 2011 with exciting topics and technological demonstration comes on board with presentations from invaluable sessions are handled by Microsoft’s top IT pros and experts on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, Dynamics AX 2012, Data Center Virtualisation, Client Virtualisation (System Centre and VDI), MS technologies in addressing Security … [Read more...] about Microsoft Tech.Days 2011 opens in Vietnam
Vietnamese hi-tech players like buying high and selling cheap
A lot of Vietnamese customers, especially the young people, rush to hunt for hi-tech products of the latest generations right after they hit the market, and rush to bargain the products away just after a short time of use. No one could imagine before that hi-tech expensive products, such as iPhones or iPad would be selling well on the Vietnamese market, where the income per capita remains modest at 1000 dollars per annum. However, the unimaginable thing has come true. It is because of the new consumption tendency in Vietnam, especially of the youth. Vietnamese young people now try to purchase latest hi-tech products, not only for use, but to show their capabilities and positions in the society. Therefore, they accept to spend multi millions of dong to buy expensive hi-tech products and then sell the products cheap, just after a couple of weeks at the prices just equal to 60-70 percent of the initial values. Mai Tran, 25, in district 7 in HCM City, once had a Nokia E72. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese hi-tech players like buying high and selling cheap