Vietnam’s agriculture is stepping up its transition towards a greener, safer and more sustainable development model, aligned with efforts to ensure food safety and public health, limit adverse impacts on the environment and agro-ecosystems, and enhance the value and competitiveness of agricultural products at home and abroad.

Against this backdrop, biological plant protection products have emerged as an important solution to gradually reduce dependence on chemical pesticides, support integrated pest management (IPM), and advance ecological and organic farming. Their development and application are increasingly seen not only as an inevitable trend, but also as a practical requirement for more effective state management in the field of plant protection.

So said Nguyen Quang Hieu, Deputy Director of the Department of Crop Production and Plant Protection under the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, at an international conference on the management and registration of biological plant protection products in Hanoi on January 8.

He said the number of biopesticides being researched, registered and approved for use in Vietnam continues to grow.

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