Japan – Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance leverages on three major strategies to strengthen bilateral relationships
The Vietnam-Japan Friendship Parliamentary Alliance met with the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam on 26 July.
“Currently, Vietnam is implementing the Strategy for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050 with three pillars of ecological agriculture, modern rural areas, and civilized farmers. Therefore, in the coming time, we will strongly implement a high-quality human resource training program, taking the Japanese model as a typical model,” said Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam.
Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam shared three issues that Vietnam’s agricultural sector would like to coordinate with Japan.
- Desire to cooperate with Vietnam Japan University to train high-quality human resources in agriculture.
- Bilateral trade promotion, technology transfer of agro-forestry-fishery and logistics in agriculture to respond to market signals
- Creating links, exchanging and learning experiences on cooperatives between the two sides.
The cooperation between Vietnam and Japan will train human resources who can ensure that agricultural production meets international quality standards. The Minister emphasized cooperation among Vietnam universities under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development with Japanese schools.
Japan’s Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tsutomu Takebe emphasized the importance of coordination and cooperation between Vietnam and Japan, especially in the field of smart agriculture and technology, food processing amid the global food security imbalance.
Minister Tsutomu Takebe, appreciating the supporting models of field training schools, recommended the collaboration between two countries to cooperate in training high-quality human resources in the agricultural sector.
“Vietnam has about 20,000 cooperatives ready to exchange experiences, proceed to organize annual cooperation programs in the field of agriculture with the Japanese side,” said the Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam.
Vietnam’s agricultural industry generates more than $53.2 billion in export turnover of agricultural products to 196 countries around the world with 10 commodity groups with a turnover of $10 million exports from $1 billion or more, of which 5 items are fruit, cashew nut, coffee, shrimp, wooden furniture, achieving export turnover of over $3 billion.
