Phone: 84-292.3832475; Fax: 84-292-3831270; E-mail: fsre@ctu.edu.vn

I. Introduction

The Department of Agricultural Development was established based on combining two Departments: Crop Resources and Agricultural Systems. Department of Agricultural Development is a training unit in parallel with applied research and science - technology transfer. The Department's mission is to cooperate with other Colleges and Institutes in Can Tho University and other Universities to manage the training courses, participate in teaching, research, and transfer science- technology achievements that have results from the research.

Human resources: 07 lecturers, 02 assistant researchers and 01 technician, including 01 Asso. Prof., 05 PhDs, 02 masters, 01 engineer 01 technician.

Facilities for training and researching

Laboratory: 03

(1) Bio-chemistry: rice grain quality analysis, grain testing, invitro, genetic analysis;

(2) Crop genetic resources conservation;

(3) Showroom of traditional farm implements.

Rice processing room: dryers, milling;

Farm: 02 farms for rice trail and rice farming system: (1) Hoa An campus (5.0 ha) and (2) Co Do farm (7.5 ha).

 

II. Main activities

1.     Educating and training

The Department has managed the Msc program in Agricultural Systems and taught as well as supervised for BSc, MSc, PhD students/candidates in many Schools, Colleges in Can Tho University and others relating disciplinaries such as agriculture, rural development, environment, climate changes, smart land use, adaptive farming systems.

The Department has taught many subjects for BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees as follows:

  • Agricultural techniques group: Rice sciences, Rice farming systems, Food security, Extension, Advanced technologies, GAPs, Food quality evaluation.
  • Management and system group: Farming systems, Agricultural systems, Production ecology, Community development, Rural events, Decision support systems, Human resource management, Cropping systems, Agricultural land-use planning.

 

2.     Research and technologies transferring

The Department has studied, consulted, and transferred many scientific products on the fields:

  • Agricultural systems, Sustainable farming systems, organic farming systems;
  • Ecologies, landscape, and agricultural biodiversity;
  • Multi-function and precision agriculture (smart farming);
  • Food security;
  • Agriculture development and planning, smart land uses;
  • Producing organization and regional planning.
  • In-situ and Ex-situ conservation (gene bank);

Research activities and consultancies range from community to district, province, and regional levels.

 

3.     Collaboration and development

In Vietnam: The Department has collaborated with MARD, DARDs (Ministry/Department of Agriculture and Rural Development), MONRE/DONRE (Ministry/Department of Natural Resources and Environment), MOST/DOST (Ministry/Department of Sciences and Technologies) of provinces to undertake projects and studies in the fields of rural development, agriculture, environment, and climate changes.

International: The Department has collaborated and been a partner with many international Universities, International Research Institutes, NGOs (in and outside of Vietnam). Particularly, the Department has many research relationships in agriculture, climate changes, rural development, environment with organizations such as DFAT, CSIRO, ACIAR, the University of Queensland, RMIT University (Australia), WB, ADB, IUCN, IFC, IRRI, CARE international, GIZ, CIDA, IFAD, OXFAM, USAID, Netherlands’ Embassy in Vietnam, USA’ Embassy in Vietnam, UNDP, SEARICE, CROP TRUST, IPGRI, FAO.

 

III. Organization and personal

Head of Department: Nguyen Thanh Tam, PhD.

 No.

Full name

Job title

Major

Email

1

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Huynh Quang Tin

Lecturer

Production ecology and resources conservation

hqtin@ctu.edu.vn

2

Dr. Vu Anh Phap

Vice Director, lecturer

Crop science

vaphap@ctu.edu.vn

3

Dr. Nguyen Hong Tin

Lecturer

Natural resources management

nhtin@ctu.edu.vn

4

Dr. Nguyen Thanh Binh

Lecturer

Agriculture

ntbinh02@ctu.edu.vn

5

Dr. Dang Kieu Nhan

Director, lecturer

Agricultural systems

dknhan@ctu.edu.vn

6

Msc. Nguyen Hoang Khai

 

Lecturer

Rural Development

nhkhai@ctu.edu.vn

7

Dr. Nguyen Thanh Tam

Head of Department, Lecturer

Agrobiology

ngttam@ctu.edu.vn

8

Msc. Ho Chi Thinh

 

Land management

hcthinh@ctu.edu.vn

9

Bsc. Nguyen Huu Loi

 

Rural Development

huuloi@ctu.edu.vn

10

Mr. Nguyen Thanh Liem

 

Agriculture

ntliem@ctu.edu.vn

 

2. Projects

 

No.

Projects

Period

Clients

Contact

1

Adaptive strategies for natural resources use to climate change and sea level rise in the coastal Mekong Delta, Vietnam

2019 - 2021

JICA, Dragon Institute

dknhan@ctu.edu.vn

2

Research on enhancing local water governance in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam

2020

UNDP, VNWP

ntbinh02@ctu.edu.vn

3

Adapting agriculture to climate change: Participatory evaluation of crop wild relative introgressed genetic resources in rice in the Mekong Delta

2018-2020

Crop Trust, TTKN, CC.TT-BVTV, TTG

hqtin@ctu.edu.vn

4

National consultant on social participation and smallholder system for the GEF project formulation

2019

FAO

ntbinh02@ctu.edu.vn

5

Institutional coordination for sustainable development of the Plain of Reeds

2018-2019

DoST of Dong Thap, Long An and Tien Giang

dknhan@ctu.edu.vn

6

Landscape salinity management for agricultural production improvement in the Mekong Delta

2015 - 2019

IAEA/FAO

dknhan@ctu.edu.vn

7

Supporting certification and development for farmer’s rice varieties in An Giang province

2015-2019

DoST of An Giang

hqtin@ctu.edu.vn

8

Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) in Soc Trang

2017 -2018

Oxfam – Viet Nam

hqtin@ctu.edu.vn

9

Need assessment in transforming ecological systems under “new normal” context of water scarcity in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

2017-2018

CISIRO

ntbinh02@ctu.edu.vn

10

Improving  the  rice seed production and  scaling up aromatic rice variety MTL372 in the  Mekong Delta

2016-2018

MOET

vaphap@ctu.edu.vn

11

Natural resource governance for sustainable livelihoods in the flood zone, Mekong Delta (Lower Mekong Public Policy Initiative program)

2016-2018

Havard University Ash Center/FUV

dknhan@ctu.edu.vn

12

Assessment of agricultural transformation to household income in new rural communes of the Mekong Delta

2016-2018

MOET

ntbinh02@ctu.edu.vn

13

Improvement of Extension for applying better farming system and cultivation techniques for poor farmers in the Mekong Delta

2015- 2016, 2018

JICA, SOFRI

dknhan@ctu.edu.vn

14

Growing diversity = Harvesting food security (SD=HS)

2015 -2018

SEARICE, Trung tâm, CC.BVTV cáctỉnh

hqtin@ctu.edu.vn

15

Evaluating the  effect  of temperature and  harvesting stages on rice grain chalkiness characteristics

2017

CTU

ngttam@ctu.edu.vn

16

Evaluation of on-farm experimental models in 2016 by Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Tra Vinh province

2017

AMD/IFAD

ntbinh02@ctu.edu.vn

17

A power-smart social resilience analysis of flood intervention in the delta: The case of Vietnam

2017

WUR

ntbinh02@ctu.edu.vn

18

Adaptive development of agriculture and environment to climate change in the Mekong Delta

2015-2017

Wageningen University

dknhan@ctu.edu.vn

19

Impacts of social safeguards for hydropower plants on livelihoods of vulnerable people in the Vietnamese 3S basin (Srepok, Sesan, and Sekong)

2016

USAID

ntbinh02@ctu.edu.vn

20

Pilot project to improve on-farm irrigation efficiency in the southwest region in the Mekong Delta

2015

World Bank and MARD

ntbinh02@ctu.edu.vn

21

Rural-urban linkage under urbanization: A case study in Can Tho city

2015

CTU

ntbinh02@ctu.edu.vn

22

Planning for glutinous rice production in Long An province

2012-2015

DoST of Long An

dknhan@ctu.edu.vn

23

Rehabilitation selection for Huyet rong rice variety in Long An province

2012-2015

DoST of Long An

hqtin@ctu.edu.vn

24

Vietnam Low Carbon Rice production pilot (VLCRP)

2011-2015

EDF, TTKN, CC.BVTV

hqtin@ctu.edu.vn

25

Strengthening capacity for farmers and research institutions on agricultural research and extension systems (FARES)

2011-2015

SEARICE, TTKN, TTG, CC.BVTV

hqtin@ctu.edu.vn

26

Climate change adaptive land uses of rice-based farming systems (CLUES) – Theme: farming system and socio-economic analysis

2011-2015

CSIRO, IRRI, CLRRI

dknhan@ctu.edu.vn

27

Gender vulnerability assessment for the Ca Mau province in the context of climate change

2014

GIZ

ntbinh02@ctu.edu.vn

28

Measuring gas emission in rice cultivation

2012-2014

WB-ACP, CC.BVTV, TTKN

hqtin@ctu.edu.vn

29

Developing community seed supply system in Hau Giang province

2012-2014

DoST of  Hau Giang

hqtin@ctu.edu.vn

30

Applying Biotechnology to select aromatic rice lines for Dong Thap province

2011-2014

DoST of Dong Thap

ngttam@ctu.edu.vn

31

Water-related information system for sustainable development of Mekong Delta (WISDOM)

2009-2014

CTU

ntbinh02@ctu.edu.vn

32

Effective factors to livelihoods and solutions for sustainable livelihoods of poor fishers in the flooded areas of An Giang province

2013

CTU

ntbinh02@ctu.edu.vn

33

Strategic options for adaptive agricultural production to salinity intrusion in coastal Mekong Delta, Vietnam (Mekong Futures project)

2010 - 2013

CSIRO,  SIWRR, DRAGON)

dknhan@ctu.edu.vn

34

Identify  the  genetic of chalkiness property of MTL250 rice variety

2012

CTU

ngttam@ctu.edu.vn

35

Water governance assessment – the case of Mekong Delta, Vietnam

2011

Deltares

ntbinh02@ctu.edu.vn

36

Assessment of vulnerability to salinity intrusion in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

2011

CTU

ntbinh02@ctu.edu.vn

37

Varietal  selection by mutant approach on three rice varieties namely MTL250, Nanh Chon and  Nep Than

2010

CTU

ngttam@ctu.edu.vn

 

 

Mekong Delta Development Research Insitute - Can Tho University
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