The Fair of Technology and Equipment 2015 (Techmart 2015) was held from 1/10 to 4/10 in the Vietnam-Soviet Friendship Culture Palace, Hanoi. The fair has become a place of exchange, two-way connection between business companies and the research organisations. According to vnexpress, this year, the fair attracted more than 750 participants, including more than 500 enterprises, 110 famous organisations, 22 leading universities, 32 provincial departments of Science and Technology, 57 amateur inventors and foreign companies from many countries around the world.

Fruit and Vegetable Research Institute (FAVRI) has joined the fair as a member of the Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The Institute introduced its outstanding achievements on new varieties (such as CS1 orange variety with seedless and early ripening characteristics; TL4 dragon fruit variety with big fruit and red colour flesh; GL1-5 tomato variety with good quality and disease resistance; GL1-10 chili pepper, resistant to physiological rot and anthracnose; GL1-9 cucumber with high yield and resistant to downy mildew and powdery mildew; GL2-3 peach ornamental variety with white flowers; and Ban Mai Hong orchid variety with high flower density...); advanced techniques in propagation  and cultivation (grafting tomato on eggplant rootstocks ...); and processed products (wine, probiotic juice and nutrition powder processed from purple sweet potato rich in antioxidants).

In the framework of this fair, Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences also organised a conference to commercialise the new varieties. Thereby, FAVRI  has succeeded in finding partners to deliver the copyright of some vegetable varieties bred by the Institute. On behalf of the Institute and the authors, Dr. Dang Van Dong, vice general director and TS. Ngo Thi Hanh, head of the division of Vegetables and Spices, signed a contract with Mr. Nguyen Van Tuan, the director of Seeds JSC, Bac Ninh, on the transferring the trading copyright of three hybrid varieties including GL1-5 tomato; GL1-9 cucumber; and GL1-10 chili pepper with high yield and good disease resistance. Witnessing the signing ceremony, there were Dr. Trinh Khac Quang, the general director of the Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Dr. Nguyen Quoc Hung, general director of FAVRI together with the variety authors, guests and reporters from national television agencies. Techmart 2015 continues to be a bridge between scientific research and commercial production to serve socio-economic development.