Smart weather station with iMetos technology attached to the automatic irrigation system of Mr. Dinh Phuc Tien’s family (Dong Tra village, Huong Tra commune, Huong Khe) Applying 4.0 technology in production and management In 2017, with the support of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Mr. Dinh Phuc Tien (Dong Tra village, Huong Tra commune, Huong Khe), invested 150 million VND to install iMetos smart weather station and system Automatic irrigation system to serve production at home garden (specializing in seedling nursery). This is a system that can forecast rainfall and rain time, alarm over-threshold rainfall, extreme temperatures such as hot, cold, cold, harmful cold, hoarfrost… with a service range of 5-20km. “Since the application of a weather forecast system combined with an automatic irrigation system, irrigation work is more active, the quality of seedlings is high, bringing more economic efficiency. Revenue from garden economic production in the past 5 years has averaged 1.2 – 1.5 billion VND/year. And this is also the model garden that won a special prize in the contest of model residential areas and provincial gardens in 2017 “- Mr. Dinh Phuc Tien said. Many gardeners and orange farms in Ha Tinh province have made traceability by electronic stamps. Many agricultural products from gardeners and farms such as: Phuc Trach pomelo; oranges: Khe May, Thuong Loc, Son Mai; Huong Son deer velvet and OCOP products in Ha Tinh province have been stamped with QR codes for traceability. From there, goods are easily connected to e-commerce trading floors and are available at many supermarkets. The application of scientific and technical progress to production is one of the five criteria for model gardens under criterion 20 (model residential area, model garden). This is a breakthrough, creative way of Ha Tinh, creating attraction and spread of technology application in production development and construction of new rural areas. By the end of 2020, Ha Tinh has over 600 standard model residential areas and over 6,000 standard gardens. The software “Ha Tinh New Rural Digital Data” stores information about new rural areas in digital form, people can easily monitor and supervise the construction of new rural areas. Along with the application to production, Ha Tinh is also a leading locality in the application of digital technology in the management and administration of the construction of new rural areas. In 2019, the Provincial Rural Rural Development Coordinating Office put into application the software “Ha Tinh New Rural Digital Data”, with the goal of storing information about rural rural activities in a digital form, people can easily follow them. Monitor and supervise construction activities. Mr. Tran Huy Oanh – Chief of the Provincial Rural Rural Development Coordination Office said that the software “Ha Tinh New Rural Digital Data” has updated the results of the implementation of rural areas at all levels from the province to the district and commune; geographical coordinates marking, rural infrastructure such as: People’s Committee headquarters, village cultural house, relic area, model garden… Through which can share experiences, good practices to the community extensively. In addition, Ha Tinh NTM Coordination Office has also digitized the reporting system, including QR codes to reduce the cost of printing paper reports. “Take shortcuts, get ahead” of digital transformation in NTM construction Provincial NTM Coordination Office is coordinating with KYC Solution Joint Stock Company to build a plan for digital transformation of NTMs in Ha Tinh. With the goal of building new rural areas increasingly in-depth, effective, practical and meeting the requirements of the Government’s national digital transformation, recently, Ha Tinh New Rural Coordination Office coordinated with a number of units on technology solutions to deploy digital transformation software, build smart residential areas and smart rural communities. Mr. Nguyen Khanh Toan, CEO of KYC Solution Joint Stock Company, said that the utility of digital transformation in smart NTMs will be piloted in Ha Tinh province, affecting many areas such as direct management. state public service level 3, level 4; strengthening the empowerment and participation of citizens in public management; impact on production technology (environmental sensors, automatic monitoring, high-tech agriculture, automatic irrigation control); impact on services (telemedicine services, online education and training, e-commerce)… According to the plan, in June 2021, Ha Tinh will pilot building 10 models of smart rural residential areas; initiate and build 2 smart new rural commune models; building 3 models of intelligent monitoring in a number of villages and communes in the province. Leaders of Ha Tinh NTM Coordination Office worked with KYC Solution Joint Stock Company to deploy digital transformation software, build smart NTM residential areas, smart NTM communes. Through digital models to help people manage the product production process. This is also an open forum for people to provide information, quantity of products to connect the market, promote products… People can easily access and learn knowledge in economic development of household gardens, education. education, health care…, step by step actively participate in the goal of the national digital transformation program. “We highly appreciate Ha Tinh as being proactive and taking the lead in implementing digital transformation in building new homes according to the requirements of national digital transformation as well as of the Central NTM Office… in order to promote the digital process. modernization and application of information technology and digital technology in new rural construction; to step up the application of information technology and digital technology in order to fundamentally change the management, administration and supervision of government agencies at all levels, especially at the commune level, production and business activities of enterprises. , cooperatives, especially in the OCOP program, … contribute to bringing the quality of new rural construction into depth and sustainability, towards smart rural areas… in the period of 2021-2025” – Chief of Coordination Office Central NTM Nguyen Minh Tien affirmed.

From 1954-1975, Saigon, under the management of the national government at the time, with the social situation had a temporary period of peace, the economy was developed, the urban attraction increased, leading to the urbanization rate. rapidly developing. Since the 1960s, the economy has depended on massive aid from allied capitalist countries, especially the United States. Saigon urban area has the opportunity to develop further. The networks of roads and main roads were expanded and newly built. The population of Saigon at that time was more than three million people and had become a huge metropolis, a population center, a center of employment and a refugee camp. The Library of General Science, designed by architect Nguyen Huu Thien and architect Bui Quang Hanh, completed in 1972, is highly appreciated for its architectural solutions to adapt to hot, humid tropical climates and heavy rains. In the early 1970s, due to the economic investment policy to attract foreign capital, the city’s industry developed strongly, and a series of large-scale enterprises appeared. In parallel with the development of technical infrastructure, traffic, electricity, water; social infrastructure, public works, commerce, services, large residences, buildings, hospitals, universities are invested and developed with higher quality than before. In addition, a large number of highly qualified and numerous scientific and technical workers, technical workers and craftsmen were born. In which, a team of Vietnamese architects trained from many domestic and foreign sources such as France and the US have met the design and construction needs of Saigon. Based on the contemporary socio-economic foundation, construction activities developed together with close exchanges with Western capitalist countries have created conditions for art movements in the world to be imported into Vietnam. freely. In which, the popular international modern architectural style has contributed to changing the appearance of Saigon architecture. This architectural style has begun to gradually replace the cumbersome and restrictive Western classical and neoclassical architectural forms before, making Saigon architecture bring many elements of a modern urban architecture. compared to other countries in Asia at this time. Notably, most of these architectural works are designed and constructed by a team of Vietnamese architects who meet international modern standards. The stylized stilt house standing on the lake and the flower wall on the reading room façade is a reasonable solution. Columns, beams, cantilevered roofs, roofs reaching out from the walls are familiar traditional images . The trend of modern architecture when entering our country has been applied by the architects to suit the local climatic conditions and has formed the style of “tropical modern architecture”. In fact, this style appears almost widely in countries with tropical climates such as Brazil of South America, some South African countries, South Asian countries such as India, Sri Lanka or from Southeast Asian countries. They have the common characteristics of simple shapes, high-rise buildings, reinforced concrete construction materials, aluminum and glass, high functional value, use of detailed structure of couches, sunshades and corridors in accordance with the requirements of the project. humid tropical climate. However, a special feature is that “tropical modern architecture” in Saigon has been skillfully combined by Vietnamese architects between Western modern technical elements and Eastern culture, exploiting the traditional architectural features in the building. The harmony between architecture, people and nature has made these buildings truly worthy contemporary works to be treasured. Tropical features and Saigon nuances Referring to the typical architectural works of this period, it is impossible not to mention the Independence Palace by the architect. Ngo Viet Thu and his associates designed. My colleagues also have an analysis of this work in the same issue, however, I still want to emphasize, this is a work that shows a harmonious combination of Western and Eastern cultural elements. , creating a project with a “tropical modern” style as a monumental highlight at the end of Le Duan street. Independence Palace seen from above. Photo: Zing The facade architecture of the building is divided into three solid – hollow – and solid pieces, which partly repeats the layout of the previous Norodom Palace, however, can also recall the silhouette of the traditional three-room, two-gable house, similar correspond to the functional areas inside. The ground floor is designed with large glass doors to bring trees and water surface into the building as much as possible. The prominent image on the façade is the unique “stone flower curtain”, the author’s name for his work. Because the facade of the building faces East – North, in order to have a lot of natural light and still limit solar radiation, the author has cleverly combined Western technical materials with traditional aesthetic concepts. The tradition creates the image of the curtain, making people think of the images of the shuttle or the bamboo structures, which are symbols of the gentleman in the concept of the Eastern people. They bring a very familiar feeling to Vietnamese people. Inside the flower curtain is a wide and long porch filled with light, reminiscent of a porch in folk architecture. The indoor spaces are created by the author according to the principle of natural ventilation and open space to exploit the surrounding landscape and also to suit the climate here. Even the roof insulation solution is taken care of. The roof has a two-layer floor structure, the bottom is a bearing concrete layer, the top is a heat-resistant knitting sheet placed on a brick pillow 40cm from the floor, it is thanks to the convection air cushion in the middle that should keep the indoor temperature at all times. cool either. At the same time, in the work, some specific materials are used such as washing stone, grinding stone to paint the walls, but there are people who put the Independence Palace in the category of “tropical architecture that creates Saigon’s nuances in the overall design of the city.” Vietnamese contemporary architecture”. In 1972, the construction of the General Science Library designed by architects Nguyen Huu Thien and Bui Quang Hanh was completed. The work is located in a quite favorable position in the city center, opposite the old Gia Long Palace – now the City Revolution Museum – at the corner of Nam Ky Khoi Nghia and Ly Tu Trong streets today. The authors have combined the building block in functionalism by creating two blocks with a clear geometric shape but cleverly arranging them to contrast each other. The horizontal block is the reading room and the vertical block is the bookstore, along with the solid and hollow façade solution to bring unexpected and impressive visual effects. Although this is a tactic that we often encounter in some modern Western works, here the authors have shown the consistency from content to form an architectural solution adapted to the situation. The climate is tropical with lots of sunshine and lots of rain. At the same time, the authors also know how to skillfully combine Western aesthetic elements and traditional Vietnamese elements to create a work with unique nuances. General Science Library Architecture. Photo: Flickr That is the architectural treatment of the facade of the bookstore with solid walls running in the horizontal direction, symbolizing books stacked on top of each other and leaving only small window slots just enough to get light, to Avoid direct sunlight to yellow the documents inside. Or like the image of a stylized stilt house standing on a lake in a cubic layout of the building’s facade, the ground floor floor is raised from the ground to bring a sense of closeness and enjoyment but without losing the grandeur of House. Because the work is facing northwest – southeast, the use of a flower wall on the facade of the reading room block is quite reasonable, both against solar radiation and creating ventilation for the corridors and rooms inside. . Especially here the authors have modernized traditional architectural elements to create decorative motifs that are extremely expressive, bringing great success. The work that makes a strong and unforgettable impression is thanks to this flower wall. The building is no longer a homogeneous box-shaped block, but has used many elements of traditional wooden architecture such as columns, beams, cantilever, roof raced out from the wall, even the familiar bare surfaces of the building. The large wall panels in modern architectural style are also treated with stone materials and decorated with dragon and phoenix reliefs. The shapes and details show that the Vietnameseization as well as the tropicalization of modern architecture at the Library of General Science has reached its peak. University of Medicine and Pharmacy project. Photo: MINH@K It is possible to point out another project, which is the University of Medicine and Pharmacy. Located in a large campus, with a distributed layout but the blocks are linked together by rows of covered corridors on all three floors, so the circulation between functional blocks is quite convenient. It is also thanks to this layout that the building organically connects with the gardens, trees, water surface, weaving in the campus to create a fresh atmosphere, softening the harsh sun of the climate. It also demonstrates the application of the principles of the school of organic architecture that such masters as Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Richards Neutra have proposed. Although there is a limitation of square shapes, but due to the way of creating a liberal floor plan, due to the flexible solution of space, it has been quite closely combined between the indoor and outdoor spaces. between architectural works and nature in a harmonious and lively manner. The project of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy is a very successful example of a solution against solar radiation. For the east and west facing facades, a vertical and thick slat system combined with the corridor was used. As for the south and north facing sides, the corridor solution is combined with the mixed roof system. The blocks are linked together thanks to the corridors covered with all three floors, so the circulation between the functional blocks is quite convenient and organically connected with the gardens, trees, and the sun. country. This is also a successful work on solutions against solar radiation. For the facades facing east and west, a thick and vertical slat system in combination with the corridor was used. As for the south and north facing sides, the corridor solution is combined with the mixed roof system. Photo: MINH@K In general, the architecture of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy has a high consistency thanks to the use of a wide corridor system solution combined with blue forms, herringbone stairs, whitewashed stone walls that stand out on the green background of trees. All of them create a very typical style of “Saigon tropical architecture”. Although there are only a few typical examples in the overall picture of Saigon urban architecture in the period 1954-1975, it also gives us an idea that Saigon architecture in this period has taken a step forward. outstanding, both adapting to the tropical climate and meeting the needs of the new urban lifestyle of the people here. Whenever mentioning this period, everyone is proud of an architecture with the common name “tropical modernization”, a title favored by many international researchers. With a fairly smooth combination between modernity and ethnicity in architecture, between architectural, climatic and human factors, the works in this period really laid a solid foundation for the the next step of contemporary Vietnamese architecture. Posts: Assoc. Nguyen Khoi

This morning (May 8), Can Loc district held a conference to evaluate the effectiveness of the transplanter model, to deploy the project of production in the summer-autumn crop 2021. In the spring crop of 2021, the People’s Committee of Can Loc district directed the Division of Agriculture and Rural Development, Center for Science and Technology Application and Plant Protection, People’s Committees of Tung Loc, Son Loc, Xuan Loc, Kim Song Truong Communes in coordination with Trung Hoa Cooperative (Nghen town) surveyed, selected implant application model for production. Mr. Nguyen Dinh Trung – Director of Ha Vang Cooperative, Vuong Loc Commune: Thanks to the application of transplanters in production, this spring crop yield increased much more. Accordingly, the spring crop of this year the district has 53.36 ha implanted by machine and used varieties: Nep 98, Thai Xuyen 111; ADI 168 and XT 28 (implemented by Mitraco Seed Company with an area of ​​2 ha). To use the transplanter, Trung Hoa Cooperative used an automatic continuous seeding machine to North the tray. The transplanter was 30cm from the row, 18cm from the clump, an average of 1 transplanter per day was 2.5-3 ha. Due to transplanting of young seedlings, roots are not damaged, so the time for rice to set roots is faster, the transplanter is sparse, spaced evenly so that the rice grows and develops well, and there are few pests and diseases. Through the assessment, compared with traditional cultivation, the model for the theoretical average yield is 93.43 quintals / ha, higher than the control 7.78 quintals / ha; reducing more than 10,320,000 VND / ha / crop in costs and labor costs for farmers. Vice Chairman of People’s Committee of Can Loc district Bui Huy Cuong: This is a new technical advance in agricultural cultivation, so it is recommended that communes and towns continue to promote propaganda, direct and guide farmers to use new farming equipment in their products. Rice export to improve efficiency, contribute to increase income. From the results of the transplanter application, in the coming time, Can Loc district will promote propaganda and mobilize local farmers to continue replicating the model of large rice fields to apply scientific and technical advances. , put mechanization into production. The use of AUV drones to spray plant protection drugs (herbicides, kill diseases) on the model, help reduce the amount of drugs, reduce environmental pollution

At the National Science and Technology Contest for high school (HS) students of the 2020-2021 school year organized by the Ministry of Education and Training in Thua Thien Hue province in March, Trang Si Thai and Nguyen Tran Thanh Ngan – Grade 11B student Ly Tu Trong High School (Nha Trang City) won the third prize with The Plantae software – identifying and providing scientific information of plants. Plant identification applications With the desire to help students find more quickly and effectively about trees …, Thai and Ngan came up with the idea of ​​writing application software to help users identify and support information as well as the uses of species of herbs, plants … The two children said: “Currently, there are many plant identification products on the market, but few students pay attention and use them in learning. Therefore, we want to provide an easy and convenient way to access information flow, and at the same time increase students’ knowledge about these plants ”. The teacher instructed Thai and Ngan to study the rose tree. The software is written for the Android and iOS platforms with 2 main languages: English and Vietnamese. The mechanism of this application is that when the captured image is processed in many steps. After the image is sent to the server, the image will be analyzed and recognized. If the name matches the tree species in the system, the data about that plant species will be retrieved. In August 2020, Thai and Ngan software were officially published on the Google Play store for the Android platform under the installation link: dstteam.com/App-ThePlantae. In the process of implementing the project, the 2 students met many difficulties. “Our biggest obstacle is finding a source of medicinal herbs for analysis. In addition to the available medicinal plants being grown on the school campus, we have to actively seek and ask the guidance of the teacher to have more different species of plants outside, helping with the experiment. the software is more accurate ”, Thai expressed. Teacher Nguyen Lam – instructors Thai and Ngan said: “As teachers of Biology, to help them do scientific work and have extensive knowledge for each plant is one of the important steps. Therefore, I have supported and directed the two children to create diagrams of plant species so that they can synthesize all the knowledge of the curriculum quickly and effectively ”. 4,000 people installed and used Through nearly 10 months of development, The Plantae application on Android has been optimized and has about 4,000 people installed and using. The application supports users to recognize more than 12,000 species of herbs and plants. In addition, this application provides more information to the user about that plant species; Treatment directions for some species … Instructions for installing the software The Plantae. Mr. Lam said: “After the national science and technology competition, the software has been continuously updated, developed, and upgraded with new features to achieve more efficiency, smoother and more accurate … Currently, this application has been widely used by students; especially for students specializing in block B in the process of learning and searching information about plants, medicinal herbs … “. According to Thai and Ngan, in order to better support users, the software should be further researched and improved to improve the accuracy and speed of recognition processing. In addition, data on software also needs to be updated, so that, image data and scientific information about plants will be more complete and accurate. It is expected that in the near future, The Plantae will assist users in assessing the health status of plants, giving better instructions for plant care. THANH TRUC