Agricultural electromechanical technologies keep an important role in agricultural production in Vietnam actually. In addition to ease hard works of farmers, it assists to increase productivities of agricultural production. Actual situation of application of agricultural electromechanical technologies is seen as weak and lacking as required by actual needs. | JSTPM Vol 1, No 3, 2012 79 DEVELOPMENT POLICIES FOR AGRICULTURAL ELECTROMECHANICAL TECHNOLOGIES: CASE STUDY OF NGHE AN PROVINCE MSc. Phan The Quyet Vietnam Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Post-Harvest Technology Abstract: Agricultural electromechanical technologies keep an important role in agricultural production in Vietnam actually. In addition to ease hard works of farmers, it assists to increase productivities of agricultural production. Actual situation of application of agricultural electromechanical technologies is seen as weak and lacking as required by actual needs. One of the reasons of this situation is the shortages of the system policies related to agricultural electromechanical technologies. After having analyses of strong and weak points of this system, the author proposes some solutions to enhance the application of electromechanical technologies and equipments in production. 1. Introduction Vietnam is one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of some agricultural commodities such as rice, coffee and etc. But during recent years, the development growth rate of Vietnamese agriculture is only about for 2001-2010 periods and the export value increased only from USD billion of 2000 to USD billion of 20101. The volume of Vietnamese export is high but the selling price at international market is not high and then the total income is not high also. As a WTO member, Vietnam and many other developing countries still face many challenges. The low scientific content of Vietnamese agricultural products cannot bring in high competitiveness, even in domestic market. This situation requires local governments to issue policy solutions for technological development to overcome difficulties and challenges raising during integration process. 1 Report of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Consultative Conference for Project “Re-structuring agricultural production on direction of added value growth and sustainable .
