Province has advantages for development of urban and hi-tech agriculture

Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development yesterday held a workshop on the province’s production and development orientations for urban agriculture and hi-tech agriculture, in attendance of 120 delegates from units, firms and farmsteads across the province.

According to participating delegates, Binh Duong has a lot of advantages for the development of urban agriculture and hi-tech agriculture. Hence, the province needs to improve shortcomings to further promote these fields. The province’s urban agriculture and hi-tech agriculture now face some difficulties on capital source, sci-tech…

Binh Duong has so far had 171 hectares for urban agriculture and 354 hectares for hi-tech agriculture; 43 households and companies getting involved in the hi-tech based pig-breeding model; 433 households breeding pigs under the urban agricultural model. The province has built 4 hi-tech agricultural parks with 991.4 hectares in total in Phu Giao and Tan Uyen districts. Among them, some have been put into operation.

Reported by Cao Son-Translated by K.T