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Vice Minister Niu Dun Meets with Alvaro Cruzat, Vice Minister of Agriculture of Chile

Vice Minister Niu Dun Meets with Alvaro Cruzat, Vice Minister of Agriculture of Chile

Write: Zelpha [2011-05-20]

Source: MOA Department of International Cooperation

Vice Minister Niu Dun Meets with Alvaro Cruzat, Vice Minister of Agriculture of Chile

On 13 Sept., Vice Minister Niu Dun met with Alvaro Cruzat, Vice Minister of Agriculture of Chile, at the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA). The two sides exchanged views on stronger agricultural cooperation between the two countries.

Vice Minister Niu Dun noted that in recent years, the senior officials of agricultural authorities of the two countries had visited each other frequently and established regular cooperation mechanisms, the cooperation project on demonstration farms had shown preliminary results, the bilateral agricultural trade had been growing and the agricultural cooperation had yielded satisfactory outcomes. He put forward the following recommendations on further cooperation between the two countries: first, strengthen the high-level mutual visits and exchange of agricultural technicians on the existing cooperation basis; second, establish information exchange mechanisms through diplomatic channels and official websites and increase exchange in agricultural policies and technologies; third, enhance cooperation on agricultural human resources development and training to improve the competence of agricultural producers in the two countries; fourth, intensify the cooperation on germplasm exchange and scientific and technological research and development through implementation of related cooperation projects; fifth, boost the bilateral agricultural trade to attain a bigger trade value of agricultural products.

Vice Minister Cruzat highly commended the bilateral agricultural cooperation relations and supported the cooperation recommendations made by Vice Minister Niu Dun. He expressed his full confidence in more intensive bilateral agricultural cooperation and his will to expand the agricultural cooperation with China, and improve the cooperation in the fields of personnel exchange and training, agricultural trade, agricultural investment, resource development, agricultural research, and the cooperation project on demonstration farms, etc.

Officials from the Department of International Cooperation and the Department of Market and Economic Information of MOA and the Chilean Embassy in Beijing also attended the meeting.

Vice Minister Niu Dun Meets with Alvaro Cruzat, Vice Minister of Agriculture of Chile

(Date: 16:55 14 Sept. 2010)