Assessing the status and build of a database on biological resources in Thua Thien Hue province

From an endemic creature known as an Asian unicorn, the saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) is grabbing more attention from the community. Aside from becoming the mascot in the 31st SEA Games, the image and name saola also become a business brand in many fields.

After a period of mass destruction due to poor quality, now, persimmon gardens are being restored in A Luoi (a mountainous district located to the southwest and 70km from Hue city) in the direction of breeding valuable varieties. The locality is implementing improved grafting of acrid persimmon trees to popular persimmons in order to develop plants with high economic potential.

Hue Traditional Royal Theater of Art is preparing a dossier and other procedures to report on the provincial-level research study titled "Building a database on Tuồng Hue art".

With a passion for plants, especially marine plants since the days of sitting in the lecture hall over the past 15 years, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hoang Cong Tin, Vice Dean of the Department of Environment, University of Science, Hue University has travelled throughout the territorial waters in the Central Coast to do research on seagrass, which he calls the "tropical forest in the ocean".

According to Mr. Ho Vang, Deputy Director of Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, in mid-2016, the Provincial People's Committee issued the decision to restructure the agricultural sector towards the direction of developing safe, sustainable, and high-tech farming, with the focus on key crops such as plantation forests, organic rice, safe vegetables, fruit trees, etc. These plants have brought about high economic efficiency for local people.