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3 Progress of Joint Research Activities
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Research No.: ㉙ E-5 ODA Loan Joint Research Date: Oct. 16 , 2020
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To study potential mitigation strategies to eliminate impacts of
1 General Title natural disasters on agriculture, aquaculture and water supply
(including both urban & industry sections)

CTU: Le Anh Tuan (Leader), Nguyen Thi Hong Diep, Luong Vinh Quoc Danh,
Core Pham Thanh Vu (secretary)
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Members Japanese Universities: NISHIMURA Taku (The University of Tokyo), MIZOGUCHI Masaru
(The University of Tokyo), HAMASAKI Hironori (Nagasaki University)
3 Duration Oct. 2018 – Sep. 2021 (3 years) <2 Batch>
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Theme 1: Study and propose farming systems coping with environmental changes
and climate changes for sustainable development of agriculture, aquaculture in the
coastal of Mekong Delta (case study in four (4) provinces in the river mouth of the
Mekong Delta, including Soc Trang, Tra Vinh, Ben Tre and Tien Giang).
Theme 2: Application of telecommunication and smart water management
technologies in rice production to adapt with climate change in the Mekong Delta,
Main Vietnam (case study in Soc Trang province).
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Objectives THEME 11 THEME 22

ACTIVITY ACTIVITY
Study and propose farming systems coping with Application of telecommunication and smart
environmental changes and climate changes for water management technologies in rice
sustainable development of agriculture, production to adapt with climate change in the
aquaculture in the Mekong delta. Mekong Delta, Vietnam
5 Focal Points OUTPUTS OUTPUTS
- Reviewing climate data base on weather forecast - Design Nitrite sensors for shrimp farms.
(temperature, wind speed, humidity, abnormal - Deploy the instruments at shrimp farms.
precipitation, saline intrusion) on coastal area - Collecting experimental data.
- Creating soil salinity maps and finding out salinity - Analyzing the measured data gathered for rice
impacts on coastal area. fields and shrimp farms.
- Estimation vulnerability by salinity intrusion on coastal
area.
- Evaluation Hot pot and impact factors on land use
- Recommendation in long term and short term of
climate change response for sustainable agriculture
farming systems in the coastal areas

Currently, there are 6 articles have been submitted to journals for
publication (including 3 national journals and 3 Scopus journals) as
outputs from project E5.

6 Perspectives This research project will continue to implement towards the final expected results

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