The MoU aims to accelerate the application of research on the entire tropical agricultural industry chain
A Chinese company Yangguang Jiarun Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. and South Subtropical Crops Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, and the Department of Agriculture of the Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Lao government to promote agricultural cooperation in the Lao capital Vientiane.
The MoU is about tropical agricultural science and technology and it will promote a new pattern of international agricultural cooperation between China and Laos, according to the Xinhua news agency.
Xie Fei, the general manager of the Yangguang Jiarun, said, “Under the framework of the MoU, all involved parties will collaborate to deepen cooperation on agricultural science and technology, to accelerate the application of research on the entire tropical agricultural industry chain.
The MoU aims to build the Yangguang Jiarun (Laos) Eco-Agricultural Industry Project in southern Laos into a national agricultural demonstration base, a tropical crop germplasm resource library, a tropical agricultural scientific research and experimental project, and an agricultural training centre in Laos.