Efforts to ensure safety and effective environmental protection in agricultural production

Syngenta's activity of collecting pesticide bottles and bags to exchange for gifts for farmers in Can Tho city.

Strengthening environmental protection

According to the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Can Tho City, the city has identified environmental protection as one of the key tasks throughout the development process. Therefore, to contribute to ensuring the criteria of a green and sustainable city, Can Tho has focused on implementing strategies, programs, and plans for socio -economic development combined with environmental protection; mobilizing investment resources to complete technical infrastructure for environmental protection such as building centralized wastewater treatment systems in industrial parks, domestic solid waste treatment plants, domestic wastewater treatment plants, etc. In addition, the city has also implemented projects to expand the coverage of the wastewater collection system; improve environmental monitoring and warning capacity; improve environmental quality in some canals, ditches, ponds and lakes in inner-city and rural areas; develop a roadmap to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by increasing the use of public passenger transport; implement cleaner production programs; Focus on implementing environmental criteria in national target programs on new rural construction, contributing to improving the appearance and quality of living environment in rural areas; launch a movement for the entire population to participate in environmental protection activities, building Can Tho city green - clean - beautiful - safe.

In particular, the Department of Agriculture of Can Tho City has strengthened coordination with functional units and enterprises to implement environmental protection in agricultural production. Syngenta Vietnam Co., Ltd. (Syngenta for short) is one of the units that has coordinated and achieved high efficiency. At the same time, Syngenta is also honored to receive a certificate of merit from Can Tho City for its efforts to accompany the locality in raising farmers' awareness of environmental protection and the safe, effective and responsible use of pesticides, contributing to building a green - clean - beautiful rural landscape through the program "Clean Environment - Green Life". With this program, Can Tho City has collected and destroyed more than 67 tons of pesticide packaging since the beginning of the year; organized training to improve knowledge of environmental protection and safe use of pesticides for more than 30,000 farming households; Planting thousands of trees of high economic value along the dike lines..., contributing to protecting the ecological environment in rural areas.

According to Mr. Tran Van Trua, Director of Market Development in the Mekong region (of Syngenta), right from the first year of implementation, the program has been highly appreciated by local authorities and enthusiastically participated by farmers. This has motivated Syngenta to strongly deploy it in many other localities, thereby helping people raise awareness about environmental protection and use plant protection products safely, effectively and responsibly in the production process...

Efforts to implement

According to the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Can Tho City, since the beginning of the year, Can Tho City has strengthened the implementation of environmental protection measures in the fields of agriculture and aquaculture; guided the collection, treatment and destruction of expired drugs, chemicals, aquatic and livestock feed, tools and packaging containing plant protection chemicals; prevented and strictly handled acts of chemical abuse in farming, use of veterinary drugs, chemicals and biological products outside the permitted list; controlled well, gradually reduced and used reasonably the amount of fertilizers and plant protection drugs; effectively utilized agricultural by-products and waste; applied advanced science and technology, sustainable farming processes in agricultural production.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Thuy Nhi, Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Can Tho City, emphasized: “In addition to the above activities, the city also promotes the implementation of environmental and food safety criteria in the process of implementing the National Target Program on New Rural Development. In which, we coordinate to develop guidelines for implementing the local criteria set for new rural communes, advanced new rural communes, and model new rural communes; pay attention to, guide, and correct cases of discharging wastewater and livestock waste into rivers and canals, and the issue of collecting and treating household waste and agricultural by-products in rural areas. Strengthen inspection, assessment, and guidance on the implementation of criterion 17 for communes that have not yet achieved new rural status, and guide plans to maintain and improve the quality of environmental protection criteria at the commune level...”.

In recent times, the city has proactively developed a plan to disseminate and implement the Law on Environmental Protection so that relevant subjects can grasp and implement it. Organize the implementation of objectives, tasks and solutions according to the National Environmental Protection Strategy; coordinate with central ministries and branches to implement key programs, plans and projects of the strategy in the area; develop plans for environmental protection and biodiversity conservation; exploit, use and protect resources; prevent and combat natural disasters and adapt to climate change integrated in the city's Master Plan for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050... This is the basis for implementing environmental protection solutions strategically, effectively and synchronously in the locality.

To promote the effectiveness and maintain the achievements in environmental protection, in the coming time, Can Tho City will continue to organize the implementation of environmental protection policies and solutions in a synchronous, drastic and effective manner in all sectors and fields; continue to invest in completing technical infrastructure for environmental protection to serve the goal of sustainable development; effectively implement environmental criteria in national target programs on advanced new rural construction; launch a movement of the entire population to unite in building a cultural and civilized urban lifestyle to help improve the appearance and quality of living environment in urban and rural areas. In particular, the city focuses on implementing planning and planning management, especially urban planning, to exploit and promote potentials and advantages to accelerate the development process towards environmental sustainability; continue to effectively implement strategies, programs and plans on socio-economic development combined with environmental protection and response to climate change; closely following the country's sustainable development criteria as well as gradually approaching regional and world environmental sustainability criteria...

Article and photos: HA VAN

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