Conference to sum up the application of information technology in speeding up socioeconomic development in rural area held in the city of Long Xuyen, An Giang province.

Tuesday - 19/07/2011 23:18
In the morning of April 17, at the Vocational Training and Job Center for farmers in An Giang province, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmer Association in coordination with Ministry of Science and Technology and People’s Committee of An Giang province held a conference to sum up the application of information technology in speeding up socioeconomic development in rural area in the period of 2000-2005.

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 Participants at the conference were leaders of Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmer Association, Government Office, officials of the Central Committees for Public Relations, Ministry of Science and Technology, Specialty Division under the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmer Association, and representatives of Department of Science and Technology from 19 southern provinces, press agency, television stations and guests. 

To carry out the policy to develop agriculture proposed by the Party Committee and People’s Committee of An Giang Province, Farmer Association of An Giang province in collaboration with relevant agencies has worked out many projects to apply information technology in speeding up socioeconomic developments in rural area in 5 years from 2000 to 2005. These projects aim to construct facilities and infrastructures in rural area for farmers to access to Internet to look for useful information so as to apply them in productions and to enhance their lives. 

Apart from the preliminary summing-up of a discussion of this project, the conference also discussed many reports and researches on typical projects of I.T application into agricultural development in An Giang province such as: project to help farmers to access to Internet to look for information, project to open “Farmer Accessing Internet” Club, project to build website to sale agricultural products at the address: www.chonongsan.com.vn and so on.  

18angiang02160At the conference, Dong Nai province had shared experience on I.T application in accelerating rural development with An Giang province by reporting the result and effect of program to “bring” scientific and technological information to the rural commune of Long An, Long Thanh district, Dong Nai province. The report was lectured by Mr. Phan Le Nhan, a cadre of the scientific and technological information station of Long An commune, Long Thanh district, Dong Nai province. 

Addressing at the conference, Mr. Nghiem Phu Manh, Deputy Director of Department No. 3 under Government office, praised An Giang Farmer Association for its efforts to deploy many projects to apply information technology in agricultural developments. After hearing the report of Dong Nai province, he highly valued Dong Nai province’s achievements in constructing e-library on agricultural technologies used for providing scientific and technological information in rural area of Dong Nai province.

(Translated by THKC)

 

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