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Cantaloupe melons are grown in a greenhouse in the HCMC Agricultural High-tech Park in Cu Chi district. (Photo: VNA) |
According to the city’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the city has more than 60,000 hectares of agricultural land, but the area under high-tech agriculture is less than 1 percent.
By 2030, it targets to increase the proportion of high-tech agriculture in the city's total agricultural land by up to 10 percent.
It now has about 4,300 agriculture enterprises, accounting for 1 percent of the total number of enterprises in the city.
The production value of the agricultural sector is only one-fifth the value of other sectors.
The department has coordinated with the city’s Department of Science and Technology, the Business Startup Support Center under the municipal Youth Union, and the people's committees in districts and Thu Duc city to nurture business confidence and the entrepreneurial spirit among young people for developing high-tech agricultural startups.
It submitted a draft amendment to the policy on providing loan interest rate support for high-tech agriculture to build net houses and greenhouses on agricultural land.
In addition, the Department of Science and Technology and the Business Startup Support Center are offering a number of policies to support innovative start-ups in high-tech agriculture.
