Abstract

High-tech agriculture has been developing strongly in developed and developing countries, including Vietnam. The objective of study is to assess the application of high technology criteria for agriculture such as rice and vegetables under specific conditions in Thoai Son and Chau Phu districts, An Giang province. This study used the secondary data, documents relating to high-tech agriculture, legal documents, decrees, circulars, and agricultural policies of high technology for setting up the criteria level 1 and level 2. Methods of household interview, Rapid Rural Appraisal (PRA) and expert’s knowledge were used to synthesize and evaluate the rate of importance of the criteria for high-tech producing of rice and vegetables by using the analytic hierarchy process and multi criteria evaluation method. The results of this study showed that four criteria at level 1 and 22 criteria at level 2 were identified for rice and vegetables in term of high-tech agricultural production and also classified the important role of each criterion for the rice and vegetables production. In four criteria at level 1, technological criteria were classified as the highest important role, and the economic, social and environmental criteria were next, respectively. Regarding to the criteria at level 2, product market was classified as the most important role among the 22 criteria drawn from farmer interviews.

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