College of Agriculture and Applied Ecology, Can Tho University (CTU)

The Crop Trust is a non-profit international organization dedicated to conserving crop diversity and making it available for use globally, forever, for the benefit of everyone.

We work with donors and partners to lead global projects that protect crop diversity, conserve crop wild relatives and develop technology to make this diversity accessible worldwide.

We seek professionals with a passion for global food security and a strong drive to contribute to our mission of conserving crop diversity for future generations.

Website: https://coa.ctu.edu.vn/en/home.html

Location

Can Tho City, Vietnam

Overview

The College of Agriculture has the main task of training human resources for bachelor, master, and doctor of philosophy in agriculture. CoA also focuses on promoting international cooperation, scientific research, and technology transfer for practical production, which has contributed to the development of the agricultural industry in the Mekong Delta and the whole country. Currently, CoA offers 14 undergraduate courses (including 01 high-quality course) with 5,282 students enrolled. CoA also has 9 master programs and 6 doctoral majors at the post-graduate level, with a total of 270 master students and 83 PhD candidates (as of June 2021).

The College of Agriculture has established cooperative relationships with many institutes, universities, international organizations, and NGOs. The typical international cooperation programs and projects in recent years include: (i) the development of sustainable agriculture adapting to climate change and sea level rise using the global value chain approach (ODA project, Japan), development of postgraduate training programs based on the cooperative networking (VLIR-Network project, Belgium), development of human resource and research capacity (DANIDA project, Denmark; SAREC project, Sweden; MACBETH project, WTO).

CoA also has a great number of cooperative activities about research, development and evaluation of solutions and products for agricultural production in the Mekong Delta. Each year, the College performs several scientific research projects at the request of local and state management agencies, and domestic and foreign organizations and enterprises. CoA strongly specializes about:

- Research of plant pest management,

- Improvement and sustainable land use,

- Rice breeding and selection,

- Crop structure transformation with breakthroughs in the development of innovative farming techniques,

- Research and transfer of animal husbandry techniques,

- Development of methods and techniques to control environmental pollution and diseases related to human health from animals,

- Development of technologies for processing and preserving agricultural products to increase the value chain for agricultural production,

The effective and oriented scientific research activities have contributed to improve the quality of teaching in the direction of being associated with practice and applied to production. Furthermore, the staff of CoA published 1,650 scientific articles in prestigious domestic and foreign specialized journals in the period 2015-2020, of which 478 articles were published in English.