(HBO) – The year-end marks the harvesting season of Phuc San small taro in Mai Chau district. The specialty has increasingly well-known thanks to its good quality.
Phuc San taro put up for sale in a market in Mai Chau town.
Ha Thi Thoan, a local trader, has sold Phuc San
taro for many years in a market in Mai Chau town. She said taro put up for sale
must be carefully selected and cleaned to attract customers. Many have bought
Phuc San taro for their families and as a gift.
Customers often flock to Mai Chau at in weekends
to buy Phuc San Taro. Nguyen Thi Minh Thuong from Hanoi said she has enjoyed
the specialty for many times, and other members of her family like taro when it
is cooked with pork ribs or duck.
like her friends, Thuong bought up to 40kg of
taro for her family, relatives and friends during the trip.
According to Tran Manh Tan, deputy head of the
district's Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Development, Phuc San taro has made
its name in the market. As compared with taro grown in other localities, Phuc
San taro is bigger and has better quality thanks to favourable weather and soil
conditions.
This year, farmers in former Phuc San commune
(now Son Thuy commune) has maintained an area of 40ha of taro, with each ha
yielding about 18-20 tonnes. Notably, the product has an origin-tracing stamp,
helping to increase its competitiveness in the market.
With a limited output, Phuc San taro is mainly
sold in the Mai Chau town market, stores selling specialties in Hoa Binh city,
and a number of stores in Hanoi.
This year, Phuc San taro is sold at prices
ranging from 23,000 - 25,000 VND per kg. It has been harvested from
mid-October, and would be sold out in mid-December.
Through tourism and services, the product has
become increasingly popular among consumers nationwide.
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.
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