Vietnam to invest $190mln for hi-tech flower industry
Date: 1/6/2014 10:09:36 AM
A VND4 trillion (US$190 mln) credit package will be channeled into Da Lat’s flower farming to turn it into a high-tech sector, said a senior municipal state official at the seminar “Da Lat flower and tourism” which was held last Friday in the Central Highlands city of Da Lat.
The credit package’s priority is to support enterprises and individual who want to adopt new technologies and business models in the flower industry so that Da Lat’s flower products will not only serve local market but also foreign ones, said Pham S, deputy chairman of Lam Dong Province People’s Committee.
At the seminar, attendees also raised concern over the challenges that Da Lat’s flower industry is facing, especially in terms of quality, technology and internal resources.
Besides developing the flower farming sector, Da Lat also focuses on building the tourism sector.
The city, currently has more than 400 flower species after more than 70 years of developing its own flower industry, is increasing its planting area as well as farming technology for the new goal.
(Source:Infor VN)