(VOV) – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) co-hosted a seminar in Hanoi on September 29, discussing measures to reduce greenhouse gases in agriculture. Speaking at the seminar, MARD Deputy Minister Le Quoc Doanh underscored the point that agriculture, and in particular rice production, not only contributes to global warming, but is detrimentally affected by it. “Agriculture accounts for 43.1% of total national greenhouse gas emissions, of which rice production makes up 57.3%,” Doanh said. Doan also announced that a project to enhance Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) will be implemented in Vietnam at a cost of US$770,000. To finance the cost, US$700,000 will come from the UN One Plan and the remainder from the governmental corresponding capital John Habe, FAO representative, in turn said success in reducing greenhouse gas emission requires close coordination and joint efforts of ministries and leaders at all levels and they must be reduced if the country is to achieve sustainable agriculture. A NAMA working group on agriculture has been established and tasked with identifying priorities to food production and integrated energy, social and environmental sustainability, and potential for greenhouse gas emission reduction.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 14:58:37 +0000
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