Departments, agencies, enterprises, cooperatives, and farmers in Hoa Binh province have been making efforts to boost production, diversify markets, and speed up the export of the province’s agricultural products as the year is nearing its end.
Workers of Kim Boi joint Stock Company in Lac Thuy district process and package fresh bamboo shoot.
This year, the province targets a 10% increase in the export revenue of agricultural products compared to last year. To this end, provincial authorities issued documents on mechanisms and policies to support producers, businesses, and cooperatives to promote agricultural production, improve product quality, and connect and expand agricultural product consumption markets.
The provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development issued Plan No. 237/KH-SNN, dated April 13, 2023, on promoting agricultural exports in 2023.
Since then, departments, agencies, districts, and Hoa Binh city in the province have taken measures in this effort with a focus on ensuring safe production, forming commodity production areas, supporting enterprises and households to get certifications of good agricultural production practices, and promoting the granting and monitoring of planting area codes, packaging facility codes and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification. They also promoted linkage between primary processing enterprises with concentrated production areas, and conducted trade promotion events in and outside the country.
So far this year, 77 local businesses and cooperatives with 360 agricultural products have been introduced at the product origin traceability portal hb .check.net.vn.
The province's Sub-Department for Quality Management of Agro-Forestry and Fisheries Products supported 29 businesses and cooperatives to participate in agricultural trade promotion programmes and 23 businesses and cooperatives to take part in the 2nd Hanoi Agricultural Product Festival Programme in 2023, and helped local businesses and cooperatives to get traceability stamps for over 141,000 products.
Local authorities also supported 40 cultivation, livestock, and aquaculture establishments to get certificated for VietGAP processes, GlobalGAP, organic, and ISO standards.
Director of the sub-department Nguyen Huu Tai said that since the beginning of this year, the province has exported over 19,900 tonnes of products to China, EU, New Zealand, Japan, and the Republic of Korea. Its key exports include sugarcane, banana, longan, red grapefruit, orange, Dien grapefruit, and lemongrass.
Food safety and traceability of agricultural, forestry, and fishery products at production and business establishments in the province have been enhanced. Enterprises have gradually overcome and adjusted production and business activities, diversifying their approaches to new markets and expanding their markets. It is expected that from now to the end of 2023, the province will export about 76 tonnes of fresh grapefruit from seven cooperatives and cooperative groups in the districts of Luong Son, Tan Lac, and Yen Thuy. Its main export markets are the EU, the UK, and the US.
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.
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