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MONTEVIDEO, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- China has scored remarkable progress in agricultural development and offers valuable experience for Uruguay to learn from, said Tabare Aguerre, the South American country's minister of livestock, agriculture and fishing.
In a Thursday report by the state-run Uypress news agency about Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez's expected trip to China next month, Aguerre was quoted as saying that while accompanying the president in China, he will visit the central province of Henan.
Henan resembles Uruguay's agricultural departments of Canelones and San Jose, "except that it has 100 million inhabitants, and sells food to the rest of China," added the minister, whose country has a population of 3.3 million.
Noting that "China has significantly developed its irrigation industry," he said that for "the great future transformation of our agriculture, we are keen to" boost dialogue and cooperation with China in that area.
According to the minister, during Vazquez's expected trip to China, the two sides are poised to sign a series of trade accords.
"China is Uruguay's main market for many products, which is why we have given it strategic and essential importance" in trade cooperation, Aguerre was quoted as saying.
