(HBO) – Hoa Binh has taken various measures to implement the Government's Decree No. 109/2018/ND-CP regarding the expansion of organic agriculture, including the formation of a taskforce for organic agriculture development and the issuance of a document guiding the building of a project on boosting organic agriculture and a decision approving a plan to develop organic agriculture to 2025 with a vision to 2030.
Kim Boi currently has about 640 hectares of
organic farms. Photo: Farmers in Tu Son commune take care of their fruit farm.
Currently, Hoa Binh has nine agricultural
facilities certified to meet Vietnam’s organic standards, including those in
cultivation and breeding.
Organic farm produce of Hoa Binh has seen good
sales, mostly in Hanoi, through contracts with distributors.
So far, the province has defined major products
to develop value chains. For example, it boasts 10,700 hectares of citrus
trees, including 7,400 hectares of commercial area with total output of 150,000
tonnes, 12,878 hectares of vegetables with productivity of 5.43 tonnes per
hectare, sugar cane with 5,342 hectares, and herbal plants with 1,689
hectares.
In order to realise the plan to to develop
organic agriculture to 2025 with a vision to 2030, Hoa Binh has planned organic
agricultural areas in seven out of 10 districts and city, with 3,197 hectares
recommended for organic farming. Products subjected to organic farming include
citrus fruits, vegetables, banana, sugar, dragon fruit and herbal plants. The
area for organic farming meeting the Vietnamese and PGS standards has risen
from 9.8 hectares in 2018 to 66.3 hectares currently.
Although Hoa Binh has high potential in
developing its organic agriculture thanks to favourable climate and soil
conditions, the province’s organic farming areas have remained modest with
small-scale farms.
In the time to come, Hoa Binh will focus on
supporting local farmers to invest in agriculture, especially organic
agriculture, while attracting investment in the field, issuing local standards
for local farms, expanding farming areas meeting current organic standards, and
strengthening trade promotion for better sales of its products./.
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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