Can Tho, Nov. 27 -- Vietnam has called on the World Bank (WB) to provide preferential "green credit" to support mechanisation in agriculture and help cooperatives access funding to produce organic fertiliser from rice straw, thereby advancing the cultivation of high-quality, low-emission rice. The proposal was put forward by Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Environment Tran Thanh Nam at a working session in Can Tho on November 27 with Carlos Felipe Jaramillo, WB Vice President for East Asia and the Pacific. The discussion centred on the sustainable development project for one million hectares of high-quality, low-emission rice in the Mekong Delta. Nam noted that after nearly two years of implementation, the programme had surpassed expec...