(HBO) – Yen Thuy district has enjoyed robust changes in its agriculture, particularly after implementing agricultural shake-up project coupled with building new style rural areas in ten years, local production has been developed in a sustainable manner, which helps increase added value for local goods while improving income for farmers. The success was due to the Party and State’s support and proactive participation of local people.
Bao Hieu agricultural cooperative in
Bao Hieu commune, Yen Thuy district grows solanum trilobatum in accordance with
VietGAP standard, and develops a production and consumption model for the
plant.
A wide range of favourable policies
were carried out to support local production. Nearly 230 hectares of land
quality was improved, including 159.19 hectares in line with the province’s
project, and expanded 70.5 hectares. The acreage for plantation of citrus
fruits continued to be expanded to 600 hectares.
Together with agricultural policies integrated into the new style rural area
building programme, many value chains have been formed in the district.
Yen Thuy district is currently home to 22 agricultural cooperatives and 27
agricultural artels, who play an important role in building brand names for
local staples, developing effective production models, and controlling food
safety and hygiene.
Communes and towns across the districts have shifted to cultivate in value
chains with key agriculture products like hill chickens, pigs, wax guard and
pharmaceutical plants, among others.
By the end of June, the value chains earned the district 290.64 billion VND
(12.5 million USD), up 7.73 percent from the same time last year, of which the
husbandry sector contributed 224.8 billion VND, increasing 9.16 percent year on
year.
Local residents were happy with robust production as their incomes have been
better. Last year, income per capita in the district’s rural area reached 29.91
million VND, while the rate of poor households dropped to 13.99 percent.
The district is striving to build three more value chain models, develop three OCOP
(one commune one product) products, and establish five new agricultural
cooperatives.
After several unsuccessful attempts to raise pigs, buffaloes and cows, Nguyen Hong Minh who resides in Mui hamlet, Hoa Binh city’s Doc Lap commune decided to try breeding bamboo rat.
Chairman of the Hoa Binh People’s Committee Bui Van Khanh on February 2 held a Lunar New Year meeting with businesses, investors and cooperation in the locality. The event drew Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Council Bui Duc Hinh; Vice President of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hoang Quang Phong; representatives from the Vietnam Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Vietnam Association of Young Entrepreneurs; as well as leaders of local departments, sectors and localities and 200 local businesses, cooperatives and investors in the locality.
Following the successes achieved in 2023, the local agricultural and rural development sector, localities and cooperatives are gearing up for first orders of the year, as part of their efforts to boost agricultural exports.
Most workers at enterprises in the northern province of Hoa Binh have turned to work just one week after the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday.
The Hoa Binh Power Corporation (PC Hoa Binh) has directed its units to build plans as well as arrange resources to ensure stable electricity for local winter-spring crop production.
On February 28, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Hoa Binh province coordinated with Minh Trung Vietnam Group joint Stock Company, Hoa Binh branch in Luong Son industrial park, Luong Son district organized a ceremony to export Bat Bao lotus porridge to the Japanese.