Venezuela and Vietnam boost agricultural cooperation

The first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (Psuv), Diosdado Cabello, made a tour this Sunday through a rice field of the Center for Rural Agricultural Development in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture, in the province of Hai Duong, Vietnam, where he highlighted the importance of the alliance between Venezuela and the Asian country to strengthen the production of this item.
In this regard, he recalled that there is an agreement signed between both nations «to help us in the generation of new seeds for the cultivation of rice in Venezuela and to overcome what is necessary in products that our people require», he said.
Cabello said that, under instructions of the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, this visit has among its objectives to give a boost to agricultural projects between the two countries.
He stressed that Vietnam is one of the largest rice producers in the world, with excellent quality and highlighted the country’s efforts to boost its development in the productive field:
“We know that they come from scratch, and from scratch they have achieved a great development in agricultural matters, in the agricultural field, and it is a people that has also organized it, with the fundamental base of their communes (…) We have much to learn but we also are very eager to do it», he emphasized.
Finally, the first vice president of the PSUV thanked the Vietnamese Government and the Communist Party for their support and contributions in the different areas of binational cooperation.