Role of science-technology in socio-economic development affirmed

Over the past years, the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh has issued many documents on scientific-technological development. They include the Action Programme No. 40-Ctr/BCSD dated February 18, 2016 of the Party Committee of the provincial People’s Committee on the implementation of the resolution of the provincial Party Organisation Congress for 2015-2020, and the project on scientific-technological development for the 2016-2020 period, with an orientation towards 2030.

Hoa Binh Gap One Member Limited Company in Thanh Ha township, Lac Thuy district invests in growing Kim queen melon in glasshouses.

 Scientific-technological tasks at the provincial level focus on urgent issues and requirements in reality. The most noteworthy in the field of social sciences and humanities is the project on building the input method editor of the Muong language in service of the preservation and promotion of the Muong culture in Hoa Binh province. In the sphere of natural sciences and technology, projects target the reasonable use and exploitation of natural resources and environmental protection, such as the project on GIS technology application in building e-maps managing irrigated areas in Cao Phong and Luong Son districts. In education-training and public health care, there is a project on studying chemical elements and evaluating biological activities of compounds separated from Xa den (scientifically known as Celastrus hindsii Benth).

 In agriculture, tasks aim to speed up the scientific-technological application in producing livestock and plant varieties that have good quality and are resistant to pestilent insects and suitable with local ecology, looking towards the development of concentrated goods production areas. The province has developed production areas of Cao Phong orange, chayote, pomelo, Luong Son snake gourd, Son Thuy longan, hat doi (scientifically known as Michelia tonkinensis) in Lac Son, and Tan Lac and Mai Chau garlic. The province has also worked to build brand name for fish and shrimp of Hoa Binh Lake.

Since 2013, the province has implemented nine projects worth 87.9 billion VND sourced from scientific-technological development fund.