(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam and Japan signed an agreement on technological cooperation in irrigation and drainage, protection of marine resources, and responsible management of the fisheries sector at their 5th Agricultural Cooperation Dialogue and a public - private agricultural cooperation forum held online on Saturday.
Vietnamese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong and Japanese Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Kotaro Nogami agreed to jointly implement the medium-term and long-term vision on agricultural cooperation between the two countries until 2024, especially on completing infrastructure to support agricultural value chains, protecting the environment, and responding to climate change.
The two sides agreed to work closely to promote investment by private enterprises and apply technological advances to improve the governance capacity of agricultural value chains.
Japan will support Vietnam in policy-making and training human resource in agriculture, expanding pilot models, and tapping potential and strength of localities. According to Minister Nogami, Vietnam is Japan’s 6th biggest agricultural product importers.
At the Vietnam-Japan Public-Private Agricultural Cooperation Forum, Minister Cuong said Vietnam wants to cooperate with enterprises that invest in and apply high technologies in agricultural production, processing, preservation and distribution of agricultural products.
The medium-term and long-term vision on agricultural cooperation between Vietnam and Japan in the 2015-2019 period focused on supporting Vietnam's agriculture in building food value chains, responding to climate change and training high quality human resources.
11 technical assistance projects using non-refundable official development assistance and Japanese loan-funded projects were implemented in the framework of the vision with a total investment of 750 million USD.