On September 5, 2025, the Italy-Vietnam Foundation and the High-Tech Agricultural Park of Ho Chi Minh City signed an agreement aimed at exchanging best practices, promoting the Italian and Vietnamese agricultural sectors, and strengthening bilateral cooperation.

The Park celebrated its 20th anniversary last year (August 6, 2004 – August 6, 2024). Its mission is focused on scientific research, collection, preservation, experimentation, breeding, creation of high-tech agricultural transfer models, agricultural production and livestock farming, and their supply to both the city and the entire country. Its primary goal remains innovation, digital transformation in agriculture, and business incubation.

Ho Chi Minh City is oriented towards restructuring crop and livestock production, developing a modern, sustainable, ecological, and high-tech urban agriculture, enhancing the application of science and technology, especially new and advanced technologies, and biotechnology in crop variety selection, livestock breeding, fisheries, and aquaculture.

The agricultural sector will face both opportunities and challenges in the future, requiring continuous changes in production methods aimed at mastering and applying science and technology to develop a modern, highly productive agriculture. This will contribute to transforming the growth model of the city’s agricultural sector towards sustainable development, increasing the added value of agricultural products, and expanding investments to other regions.

Among the objectives of the Park are:

• supporting the training and effective operation of enterprises applying high-tech agriculture in crop production, livestock farming, and aquaculture;

• expanding international cooperation;

• transferring new and advanced technologies;

• creating a scientific working environment that respects academic freedom;

• proposing innovative financial mechanisms;

• evaluating objectively and fairly to recognize, honor, and create development opportunities for capable and collaborative personnel;

• developing new scientific ideas;

• promoting cooperation in scientific research with foreign research and training organizations, and strengthening collaboration with ministries and branches at both central and local levels.

These efforts have been crucial in transforming traditional agriculture into high-tech agriculture, promoting digital adoption, creating a pool of qualified talent, cultivating high-tech enterprises, and supporting the broader socio-economic progress of Ho Chi Minh City.

Currently, Ho Chi Minh City has vast agricultural land, creating favorable conditions to expand high-tech agriculture, in line with national and regional planning in the Southeast.

The High-Tech Agricultural Park of HCMC aims to further strengthen its role as a national center for high-tech agriculture and digital transformation in agriculture. Italy, with its know-how and advanced machinery, can play a key role in achieving this goal.