Vietnam, Japan cooperate to develop modern agriculture

On February 24th, the Vietnamese firm FPT and its Japanese partner Fujitsu inaugurated the FPT-Fujitsu smart agricultural cooperation center in Gia Lam district, Hanoi.

The center features the application of Fujitsu’s “Akisai” cloud technology into agricultural production.

“Akisai” is one the most modern and smartest technologies for food and agriculture introduced by Fujitsu in 2012. Meanwhile, Vietnam is seeking modern solutions to solve existing issues related to food safety and reduce crop protection agents and chemical residues.

Sensors will be used for the greenhouse and vegetable factory models to collect all necessary information about temperature, humidity and rainfall, among other factors, to help farmers make timely adjustments.

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Currently, the center is applying two production models, “Greenhouse” and “Vegetable factory” on growing agricultural products with high added value, tomatoes and lettuce. These models allow farmers to manage and monitor their farms via an IT system.

Particularly, lettuce with less alkali is suitable for diabetics, while tomatoes will be planted on hydrogel crystal (IMEC technology), gaining thicker density of 4,000-6,000 plants on 1,000 square meters and harvesting all year round, replacing the more common rotational cultivation used in Vietnam

In his speech at the inauguration ceremony, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Cao Duc Phat said Vietnam wishes to develop a modern agriculture with high-competitive capacity and rapid integration ability in international markets. Thus, the country very much needs ICT companies like Fujitsu to support technology application to create high-quality and high-quantity products./.

( Compiled by VNF )