Ecovietnam - FRANCE

French newspaper profiles Vietnam's co-operation model
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The French newspaper The Humanite carried an story on Thursday praising the prospects for co-operation between Vietnam, Mali, France and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in a programme to help secure sustainable development for Mali's Yelimane region.

The five-year project, with investment funds of 11 million euros, covers farming, animal husbandry, education, healthcare and communications. Under the project, a city in France acts as a co-ordinator for the concerned partners and Vietnam is responsible for providing Mali with farming techniques. Early this year, five Vietnamese experts will travel to Yelimane to help the Malians develop farming-husbandry combination techniques and household economy models.

The newspaper noted that in the near future the project is likely to become a new model of multilateral co-peration in agriculture between Vietnam, together with its partners, and other regions of Mali, and that the impact of the model may even be felt in other parts of Africa.

Vietnamese, French scientists discuss raising quality of seafood products
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Thirty Vietnamese and French entrepreneurs and scientists held talks on the raising and processing of aquatic products for export in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang on Thursday.

The talks discussed the raising of certain products to cater to international demand, the creation of quality standards, medicines and feed to ensure food safety, and the application of ecologically-friendly raising models.

French prosthesis production company to help disabled people

A prosthesis production company (Viet-ortho), wholly invested by France, has been put into operation.

Located in Hanoi, the Vietnam-France Hospital area (Viet-ortho) specialises in manufacturing artificial limbs and other equipment for functional rehabilitation using advanced materials, equipment and technology.

With close co-ordination from departments for orthopaedics and functional rehabilitation, the company hopes to partly meet the requirements of Vietnamese disabled people.

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