Vietnam: 09 criteria for technology transfer projects serving rural agriculture and development

Vietnam: 09 criteria for technology transfer projects serving rural agriculture and development (Illustrative image)

Under Circular 06/2014/TT-BKHCN, 09 criteria for technology transfer projects serving rural agriculture and development in Vietnam are specified as follows:

1. There is a feasible study report, clear production, and business plan, especially ensuring the product occupies a certain proportion in the domestic and foreign markets or creates a new market;
2. There are strategies and capabilities in marketing; project management, and financial management capacities; investment plans to enhance scientific and technological capabilities, joint venture and association capacities with partners in training, research, and technology development;
3. The project execution contributes to an increase of at least 10% in the added value of the product;
4. The added value of the product must be higher than the statistical added value of similar products or product groups by the General Statistics Office (if any);
5. The project's quality management system must meet national standards, international standards according to each specialty;
6. Finance, mobilization, and use of capital are clear and reasonable.
7. The transferred technology has been appraised and assessed to be suitable for each ecological region. The product or service life cycle must ensure sustainable development.
8. Priority is given to projects with widespread impact, assisting the replication of the project's results.
9. Priority is given to technologies that create new varieties with superior productivity, quality, and resistance; hybridize, improve, and enhance the economic value of plant and animal varieties; innovate advanced technology processes in cultivation, breeding, forest management, exploitation, and aquaculture; automatic or semi-automatic control technology in cultivation, livestock breeding; produce safe crops; intensify in cultivation and farming; preserving, processing agricultural, forestry, and fishery products; prevente and control plant and animal diseases, protecting public health; create biological products to prevent pests and treat the environment; use renewable energy sources; save energy and raw materials; supply clean water, protect the environment; enhancing productivity, quality, and efficiency of traditional village products; produce growth regulators, biological products for crops, animal feed; kits, vaccines, additives for agricultural production; produce new materials, equipment in agriculture, forestry, irrigation, aquaculture; rational and optimal land and water use in production; save; effectively respond to climate change; optimally build and construct irrigation projects.

Details can be found in Circular 06/2014/TT-BKHCN effective from June 09, 2014.

Ty Na

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