Representatives of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development informed that since 2012, Department of Plant Production and Protection under the ministry had cooperated with An Giang Plant Protection Joint Stock Company (now known as Loc Troi Group Joint Stock Company) and 22 sub-departments of Plant Protection and Plant Protection in Southern provinces to implement the program "Together with farmers to protect the environment".
The program hosted 16,366 seminars with 658,585 farmer participants in 22 provinces and cities; delivered more than 590,400 leaflets, 26,530 posters to raise awareness of environmental protection in rural areas. In particular, the program developed 167 models in new rural communes of 22 provinces and cities with key crops such as rice, asparagus, dragon fruit, grapefruit, mango… The total area of these models reached over 8,290 hectares, with the participation of more than 7,700 farm households.
Reported by P.V – Translated by Ngoc Huynh












