Up to mid - 1992, the agricultural sector in Vietnam has been provided with nearly 20 000 tractors (including tractors of the former Soviet Union, Austria, and Japan); 20 000 small two-wheel power tillers (of which 70 were produced in Vietnam), 400 000 gasoline and diesel engines either used in stationary works or mounted on fishing-boats (mostly made in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and imported from Japan and China); 30 000 electrical motors from 2, 8 - 100 kW; 2 000 transformer stations, 7 000 vehicles and hundreds of thousands agricultural machinery with a total power of 4 million hp (of which 0.8 million hp were used for soil preparation); the per hectare rate of power input reaching 0.5-0.7 hp. Electrical capacity provided for agriculture was 1.2 x 10 kWh. The system of agricultural engineering services for agriculture in Vietnam included 300 agricultural engineering enterprises in districts; hundreds of state farm mechanical teams; 14 factories for farm tractor fundamentally repairing, producing and restoring details of machines; and nearly 200 workshops for small-scale repairing and maintaining of machinery. The system of providing agricultural engineering spare parts was established and located in the regions, provinces and districts. The system of training includes over 30 technical secondary schools and other schools for technical workers training. In agricultural universities in the country, there are agricultural engineering faculties. Research organizations network include the Vietnam Institute of Agricultural Engineering (VIAE), Research Center of Agricultural Engineering and Food Industries (Ho Chi Minh city) and Center for Testing Agricultural Machinery. Most of the infrastructure, equipment, facilities and technical bases of the agricultural engineering sector are out of date and backward in technology.
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