Vietnam won the IAEA's award for mutating rice varieties

Within the framework of the 58th General Meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last week, on the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Joint Laboratory of the IAEA and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Application of nuclear engineering in agriculture and food, I AEA has awarded awards to individuals and organizations of member countries that have many achievements in the field of mutation to create seeds and contribute effectively to ensuring food security and sustainable development.

Vietnam has won 3 out of 23 awards, including an award of 'Excellent Achievement' for Vietnam Agricultural Genetics Institute.

The IAEA awards are considered primarily based on the steady development of newly created varieties as well as the extent and scale of economic and social impacts brought about by new varieties for the people.

Genetic mutation techniques , accelerating the selection and gene transformation in nature, have been applied in Vietnam since the 1970s.

With the help of the IAEA, from the 80s of the last century, through projects of technical cooperation, agricultural research facilities of Vietnam such as the Institute of Agricultural Genetics, Southern Institute of Agricultural Sciences , Mekong Delta Rice Institute . has achieved many outstanding achievements, launched a number of new rice varieties with high productivity, quality and ability to withstand high salinity and salinity.

The 58th IAEA General Assembly ended September 26 also passed 15 resolutions and 4 periodic decisions including 4 resolutions and 4 decisions on financial and human resources issues in 2015 and revised IAEA Regulation; Resolution on International Cooperation on Nuclear Safety, Radioactivity, Transportation and Waste, Resolution on Nuclear Issues in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Resolution on the implementation of IAEA's inspection regime in the Middle East region and the Resolution "Improving the effectiveness of IAEA inspection system".

The meeting elected members of the IAEA Board of Governors for the term 2014-2016; approving the IAEA's regular total budget in 2015 of over 350 million euros, spending 70 million euros of voluntary contributions to the technical assistance program, of which Vietnam's expected budget contribution is about 108,000 euros for regular budget and USD 15,000 for the Technical Cooperation Fund (0.035% in the contribution scale).