HCM City’s Agricultural High-Tech Park (AHTP) will expand by nearly
400ha by 2020, the park’s management board said during its 10th
anniversary celebration on August 26.
The expansion will provide facilities for cultivation, breeding and aquaculture.
Under
its orientation with a vision to 2020, the AHTP will build an
agricultural high-tech zone for aquaculture in coastal Can Gio district
with a total investment of 564 billion VND (26.6 million USD). This
89.74ha zone is expected to be operational in 2017.
In addition, another area is planned for breeding in Binh Chanh district, covering 180ha.
The AHTP will expand the area for cultivation to 200 ha in Cu Chi district to attract investors in the field.
Put
into operation launched in 2010, the AHTP covers 88 ha in Cu Chi
district. This is the country’s first agricultural high-tech park
specialising in providing high quality seeds, researching and
transferring safe vegetable production models and farming technologies
to farmers, agricultural cooperatives and enterprises.
The park has so far attracted 14 projects with a total investment of 190 billion VND (about 9 million USD).-VNA