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The event aimed to share orientations and strategies on animal husbandry,
veterinary medicine and environment and form networking among institutes,
schools, agencies and businesses to step up research and training.
Speaking at the event, Nguyen Van Duc from AHAV forecast that agriculture will
still play a crucial role in exports in the coming years with a total export
value of around 42.2 billion USD.
He called for strengthening management from the central to local level to help
farming households and businesses adopt modern technologies, and effectively
controlling epidemics on animals.
Prof. Paul Oliver from the US organisation, Empowering the Poor through Waste
Transformation (EPWT), presented ways to transform waste into useful resources.
Domestic and foreign experts also introduced a number of studies on the
combination of animal farming and environment protection, such as the use of
wastewater from biogas vault to improve the quality of fish ponds on alkaline
soil in the Mekong Delta, and the use of biotechnology in addressing environment
issues, among others.
Source: VNA
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