(HBO) – Hoa Binh has adopted various policies over recent years to develop products which the province has competitive edges of, in response to a national agricultural restructuring project which seeks to increase added value for the agriculture and foster sustainable development and new-style rural building.
The province
has formulated and amended nine agricultural restructuring plans and issued 25
others for the development of specific sectors, sub-sectors and products in a
bid to foster the comprehesive growth of the agriculture, expand added-value
and respond to climate change.
Villagers in Phu Thanh commune, Lac Thuy
district shift to safe orange farming in response to agriculture restructuring policy.
Particularly,
the province has given priority to the cultivation of citrus fruits, clean vegetables and sugarcanes. It is now home to 10,500 hectares of citrus
fruits, including over 6,600 hectares as commercial farming which can generate
up to 120,000 tonnes.
A total of 14
farms in the province, with a combined of about 271 hectares, have met food safety standards and been qualified
for organic and VietGAP production.
Between 2017
and 2019, over 7,000 hectares of low-yielding rice and crops have been
transformed into the land for the cultivation of other crops with higher productivity.
There is an
increasing number of large-scale livestock farms raising high-yielding amimals
which use advanced farming techniques and disaster-free practice.
The province
has focused on intensive farming of cattle, pig, poultry and goat. By the end of this year’s first
quarter, the province has had 129 farms, including 41 for pig farming, 71 for
poultry, 14 for goat, and three for cow.
The province
has expanded areas of hardwood and indigenous trees as part of its plan to restructure forestry
sector while shifting to thefarming of high-value fishery varieties./.
On November the first, the Provincial People's Committee held a meeting for the reports on the progress of preparations to hold the Ceremony to receive the Certificate of the special national relic ranking for Trai Cave, the Stone Roof of Vanh village (Lac Son district) and the Opening Ceremony of the Culture - Tourism Week of Hoa Binh province in 2024. Mr. Nguyen Van Toan, the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, the Head of the Organizing Committee of Culture - Tourism Week chaired the meeting.
alternate member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Nguyen Phi Long on October 30 had a working session with the Party Committee of the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment on the sector's implementation of political tasks in the past 10 months, and key tasks for the last months of 2024 and in the coming time.
In recent years, the People's Committee of Lac Thuy district has directed units and mass organisations to promote the popularisation of the Party's policies and resolutions and the State's laws, as well as issued guiding documents on local religious affairs.
The Hoa Binh Steering Committee for the organisation of the fourth provincial congress of ethnic minority groups held a meeting on October 29 to discuss the progress of preparations for the congress. Dinh Cong Su, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and head of the Steering Committee chaired the event. The congress is slated for November 14-15 at the provincial Cultural Palace, expecting 250 official delegates.
Despite a low starting point, the mountainous district of Mai Chau has effectively implemented the National Target Programme on New Rural Development, resulting in significant improvements in people’s life and rural look.
Over the past years, Hoa Binh has systematically implemented the one-stop-shop and interconnected one-stop-shop mechanisms in processing administrative procedures, contributing to improving the efficiency of the work while promoting online public services.