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NINH BÌNH — Science, technology and innovation have been recognized as the key driving forces for the agriculture and environment sector to develop in a inexperienced, round and low-emissions path in the coming interval, stated Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Environment Phùng Đức Tiến.
“This was an inevitable requirement as the sector faces both significant opportunities and mounting challenges from climate change, environmental pollution, natural disasters and disease,” Tiến instructed the convention implementing the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 540/QĐ-TTg and science and technology duties for 2026 held in Ninh Bình on Monday.
In latest years, regardless of dealing with quite a few difficulties, the agriculture and environment sector has nonetheless recorded many noteworthy achievements with the steady development of exports of agricultural, forestry and aquatic merchandise contributing to macroeconomic stability and the safeguarding of social welfare.
However, the sector continues to confront main challenges, together with environmental air pollution, useful resource depletion, and rising and more and more unpredictable losses brought on by pure disasters and illness, Tiến stated.
Against this backdrop, accelerating the restructuring of agriculture in the direction of greater added worth and sustainable improvement is an pressing requirement.
Besides, concrete targets and indicators for agricultural and aquatic manufacturing and exports in the coming years must be set, intently linked to environmental safety and local weather change adaptation.
To make sure that science and technology really develop into a direct driving force and a core pillar for the sector’s improvement, the deputy minister emphasised the have to additional promote analysis and the software of scientific and technological advances in manufacturing, useful resource administration and environmental safety.
Science must transcend educational analysis and tackle concrete, urgent real-world issues, he stated.
Over the previous 5 years, the ministry has carried out six ministerial-level science and technology programmes in the subject of pure assets and the environment, with lots of of tasks and duties accepted and utilized in observe.
Among these, 23 analysis tasks offered essential theoretical foundations for dossiers proposing amendments and dietary supplements to main legal guidelines, together with the Law on Land, Law on Biodiversity, Law on Geology and Minerals, Law on Water Resources, and Law on Marine and Island Resources and Environment.
Research outcomes have additionally made sensible contributions to primary surveys, monitoring, forecasting and catastrophe warning, in addition to to useful resource and environmental safety.
Notably, many science and technology duties have been transferred and immediately utilized in manufacturing, serving to to enhance resource-use effectivity, scale back emissions and promote round financial improvement. The proportion of analysis outcomes utilized in observe has continued to rise, reflecting a clear shift from purely educational analysis in the direction of development-oriented analysis.
The deputy minister stated: “Funding for science and technology was not lacking; however, proposed tasks must be realistic, focused and targeted, while promoting autonomy and proactive implementation from the very first weeks and months of 2026.”
“In the time ahead, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment would focus on improving institutions, formulating a science, technology and innovation plan for the 2026-2030 period, strengthening “three-party” linkages amongst the State, scientists and enterprises, and successfully implementing Decision No. 540/QĐ-TTg,” he stated.
Through these efforts, science and technology are anticipated to really develop into a central pillar for the sustainable improvement of agriculture and the environment, he added. — VNS