Vietnam and India have reached deals on scientific and
technological cooperation that are expected to bring more benefits to
their people.
Those deals were inked in India during a working visit from Dec. 20
to 26 by a delegation from the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and
Technology.
Accordingly, the two countries will cooperate in
designing and developing aerial technology for 3G and 4G wireless
services as well as photoelectric cell technology for turning solar
power into electricity.
They will team up in developing
Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques to spot areas vulnerable
to droughts in service of agriculture and forestry and extracting
substances from starfish in service of the pharmaceutical industry.
Apart
from those, Vietnam and India agreed to boost cooperation in the
training of experts on atomic energy and radiation and study
possibilities of using biotechnology to create varieties of salt and
drought-resistant rice, utilize post-harvest straws and turn cassava
into bio-energy.
During the visit, the Vietnamese officials
attended the eighth meeting of the Vietnam-India Sub-committee on
Scientific and Technological Cooperation and worked with officials from
the Indian Ministry of Science and Technology’s Scientific and
Technological Department./.
