Sciences and Technology

On November 22, 2010, Ben Tre’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development started in Chau Thanh District a component in the Biogas Program for the Animal Husbandry Sector in Viet Nam between 2007-2012, sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and SNV, the Dutch largest development cooperation non-government organization.

For the first 9 months of the year, Ben Tre’s science and technology sector have focused on developing and putting into operation the province’s main-point economic projects and programs. For specifics, the project to grow new 4,000 hectares of green-skinned pomelo has so far finished a green and safe production model, grown 500 hectares of new pomelo, expanded currently grown 1.340 hectares. Thus, the total area of green-skinned pomelo covering in Ben Tre so far has reached 3.284 hectares.

In the first Quarter, the province's Science and Technology Council carried out the selection of scientific and technological projects for the 2009-2010 period. It also inspected and accepted 3 scientific projects including the Project to import, grow and develop 500 hectares of aromatic coconut in Ben Tre.

On June 24, 2008, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) of Ben Tre launched the project to build biogas systems in rural households to help reduce environment pollution. This year, the project is building 200 biogas systems in Chau Thanh, Giong Trom, Mo Cay, Cho Lach Districts and Ben Tre Township.

Seedling cultivation in Cai Mon, Cho Lach District was originated over a century ago by a French parish priest known only as Gernot, who then was administering a Christian parish in Cai Mon. It was Gernot who brought the first fruit tree seedlings into Ben Tre from foreign countries, mainly Thailand and Malaysia.