(HBO) - Muong Thang - Cao Phong has entered the early stage of the spring full of vitality. As the Lunar New Year (Tet) comes, oranges become ripe on hills. It is hard to find any street with kilometer-long lines of orange trees like Cao Phong town. Behind orange stalls along the National Highway 6 is a vast area of orange orchards. It is not wrong to state that Cao Phong is the capital of oranges in the north.
French visitors visit an orange
stall at the fifth Cao Phong orange festival 2019.
Cao Phong oranges are now
available at major supermarkets such as BigC, Vinmart, Metro, and have become
popular among customers. They were even served on flights of national flag
carrier Vietnam Airlines.
In order to sustainably develop
Cao Phong orange brand, product quality is a core factor apart from marketing
activities.
Amid fierce competition in the
market, several local units made breakthroughs with models to promote Cao Phong
orange brand, notably the union of Cao Phong orange cooperatives with four
member cooperatives. Each cooperative with own strengths partnered together to
gain power. The digital agriculture cooperative is in charge of producing and
marketing smart stamps to prevent counterfeits. Customers are also able to
trace the origin of the products via barcodes.
Ha Phong Cooperative made
breakthroughs when launching the model "Organic oranges in production chain and
processing products derived from fresh oranges”.
Impressive stories about Cao
Phong oranges prove that it is a valued brand. With the involvement of the
provincial Party Committee and authorities and creativity of local residents,
it is hoped that Cao Phong oranges will be shipped abroad in the near future./.
Once a mountainous province facing many challenges, Hoa Binh has, after more than a decade of implementing the national target programme on new-style rural area development, emerged as a bright spot in Vietnam’s northern midland and mountainous region. In the first quarter of 2025, the province recorded positive results, paving the way for Hoa Binh to enter a phase of accelerated growth with a proactive and confident mindset.
Hoa Binh province is steadily advancing its agricultural sector through the adoption of high-tech solutions, seen as a sustainable path for long-term development.
The steering committee for key projects of Hoa Binh province convened on May 14 to assess the progress of major ongoing developments
A delegation of Hoa Binh province has attended the "Meet Korea 2025" event, recently held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassy of the Republic of Korea (RoK) in Vietnam, the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, and the People's Committee of Hung Yen province.
Hoa Binh province joined Vietnam’s national "One Commune, One Product” (OCOP) programme in 2019, not simply as a mountainous region following central policy, but with a clear vision to revive the cultural and agricultural values in its villages and crops.
From just 16 certified products in its inaugural year to 158 by early 2025, the One Commune One Product (OCOP) programme in Hoa Binh province has followed a steady and strategic path. But beyond the numbers, it has reawakened local heritage, turning oranges, bamboo shoots, brocade, and herbal remedies into branded, market-ready goods - and, more profoundly, transformed how local communities value and present their own cultural identity.