(HBO) - In order to improve local farmers' income, Lac Son district has been striving to attract businesses and promote the role of cooperatives in creating and building agricultural production and sale development linkages towards a safe and sustainable manner. In particular, amidst the complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, the development of these linkages has proved effective, contributing to promoting agriculture and timely sale of agricultural products, and ensure their quality.

Members of Hieu Thinh Green Agricultural Cooperative
in Nhan Nghia Commune (Lac Son) grow ginger to orders of the signed contract.
Hieu Thinh Green Agricultural Cooperative in Nhan Nghia
Commune currently has about 15 hectares of safe vegetables and livestock
farming. In this, the safe vegetable linkage model has a scale of 8 hectares,
and an income value of over 200 million VND per ha per crop. Ha Tien Thao,
director of the cooperative, said that over the recent years, the cooperative
has linked with the Republic of Korea’s enterprises to grow pumpkins, thus
contributing to increasing farmers' incomes. In addition, two years ago, the
cooperative signed a contract to produce ginger and pink banana with Pacific
Co., Ltd., which initially showed obvious effectiveness despite the complicated
developments of the pandemic. Therefore, the cooperative plans to expand the
farming area to meet the needs of the purchasers in a timely manner.
Determining that agricultural production has great value in
the economic structure of the district, over the past time, the district has
actively mobilised and guided local farmers to change the crop structure to
improve agricultural productivity and quality of key crops, and increase the
application of science and technology advances. As a result, the district has
gradually formed a number of concentrated and large-scale production areas, and
implemented production linkages.
Bui Van Khanh, Vice Chairman of the District People's
Committee, said agricultural and forestry production currently occupies for the
highest proportion in the economic structure of the district. From the end of
2021, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has oriented for an
investment project to build a preliminary processing factory and cold storage
to preserve agricultural products in the district. It has also supported the
locality to build infrastructure and roads to ensure the development of farming
areas. To facilitate the implementation of the project, Lac Son has been
implementing solutions to create conditions to attract businesses to invest in
agricultural production in the locality./.
After more than four years of implementing a project launched by the Hoa Binh Party Committee’s Standing Board on developing agriculture and promoting product consumption linked with building new-style rural areas for the 2021-2025 period, the province’s industry and trade sector has made significant strides, greatly contributing to local socio-economic development.
Luong Son district has identified 2025 as the year for the accelerated breakthrough to successfully implement the socio-economic development plan for the 5-year period from 2021 to 2025. The district has been focusing on executing the plans and trying to achieve a GRDP growth rate of approximately 15%.
Since the beginning of this year, under the direction of the Department of Agriculture and Environment, the Sub-Department of Agricultural, Forestry, and Fishery Product Quality Management has strengthened the integration of the professional activities to promote and guide the organizations and individuals in the production and trading of agricultural, forestry, and fishery products to comply with the legal regulations regarding the use of chemicals, pesticides and veterinary medicines in crop cultivation, livestock farming and aquaculture. They also provide guidance to processing and manufacturing establishments on keeping the records to trace the product origins and using food additives from the approved list according to the regulations.
Hoa Binh province saw a significant rise in state budget revenue in the first two months of 2025, heard a meeting chaired by Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Quach Tat Liem.
Ha Thi Ha Chi, a 26-year-old graduate in law, has taken an unconventional path by returning to her hometown in Mai Chau district to establish the Tong Dau Cooperative, creating stable jobs for local women and bringing Thai ethnic brocade weaving to the global market.
As the Lunar New Year 2025 approached, pork prices surged, creating a profitable season for farmers in Tan Vinh commune, Luong Son district. Taking advantage of the rising demand, Can Minh Son, a farmer from Coi hamlet, sold over 30 pigs at 69,000 VND/kg, each weighing more than 100 kg. After deducting expenses, his family earned a profit of over 50 million VND.