(HBO) – Though about 80 percent of Hoa Binh’s population are earning their living from agriculture, the sector makes up only 20 percent of its Gross Regional Domestic Products (GRDP). The mountainous province is pinning high hopes on digital transformation to shift the smallholding agriculture to an economy that goes towards sustainable development.
Photo: Hoa Binh’s provincial post cooperates with farmers to offer local specialty – Cao Phong orange – on e-commerce platforms.
Over recent years, Hoa Binh has paid more attention to developing clean and hi-tech farming models in three areas of horticulture, husbandry, and processing. The province has been actively deploying a number of digital systems managing agricultural and rural database.
A highlight among these is a natural disaster warning system providing hourly updates on rainfall information on vinarain.vn. They also include a disease monitoring statistics system, a system managing database on agricultural land at datnongnghiep.hoabinh.gov.vn, and a system for traceability of goods’ origin and buyer-seller linking in the province at hb.check.net.vn.
Additionally, information on agriculture has been provided to locals via four websites of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. With these websites, farmers can look for information on farming techniques, prices of agricultural products, high farming technologies, and disease prevention, among others, to improve productivity and efficiency.
Nguyen Huu Tai, head of the division on management of agricultural, forestry and fishery quality, said his office is cooperating with several Vietnamese e-commerce sites, such as Postmart.vn (Vietnam Post), Voso.vn (Viettel Post), and Sendo.vn (FPT), to sell local farm products online. Thirty-one agribusinesses and cooperatives in Hoa Binh have joined Postmart.vn so far and 53 participated Voso.vn, Tai said.
The province is doubling efforts to implement its digital transformation programme in agriculture for the 2021 – 2025 period, with a vision towards 2030. The programme aims to build a digital ecosystem for the transformation from an agricultural production to an agricultural economy and the development of hi-tech agriculture, smart agriculture and accurate agriculture, and to increase the share of smart agriculture in the economy./.
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.
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