(HBO) - Defining income criteria is one of the important criteria to promote the completion of other criteria. Since the implementation of the national target program on building new rural areas, My Hoa commune (Tan Lac) has boldly transformed the structure of plants and animals; building new economic models, contributing to raising incomes, reducing the rate of poor households and promoting local socio-economic development.

The official of My Hoa Commune People's Committee
(Tan Lac) exchanged the experiences on planting longan with Mr. Dao Ba Vinh's
family (right) in Don village.
Accordingly, the local people in the commune
make full use of the potential, advantages of climate, soil and labor resources
to build and expand economic models. In particular, sugarcane is still
considered as the main crop with an annual area of about 290 hectares. The work
of care, protection and development of livestock and poultry herds is
maintained with the number of over 20,000 animals per year. From 2014 up to
now, many households in the area have been dynamic and creative to convert the
area of mixed garden land to pilot the model of planting citrus and Hung Yen
longans. As a result, the citrus fruit area has grown over 50 hectares, mainly
of orange kinds of V2, Yellow, sweet Canh, Dien grapefruit, etc. In addition,
the area of the longan planting has been expanded about 20 hectares with more
than 30 households involved in planting ".
In order to help and support the households
in economic development, every year, the My Hoa commune authorities cooperate
with all the departments, unions and organizations to organize 4-5 training
courses and transfer technology and science for the local people, facilitating more than 700 households to access
funds from the Social Policy Bank and the Bank for Agriculture and Rural
Development with total outstanding loans of over 50 billion VND.
We visited Mr. Dao Ba Vinh's family in Don
village, one of the prominent farmers in economic development. At present, the
model of growing fruit trees of Mr. Vinh family has expanded to nearly 2
hectares, including 120 red grapefruit and 600 original Hung Yen longans. From
2016 to 2017, his family earned a first longan crop of 170 million VND. It is
expected for the harvest in 2018 that Mr. Vinh's family will consume from 20-25
tons of longans, whose turnover is estimated at 350 million VND.
Thanks to the effective implementation of
economic models, according to the statistics in 2017, the average income of My
Hoa commune reached at 28 million VND / person / year. As a result, the commune
fulfills the income criteria in the criteria standard of new rural
construction.
According to data from the Hoa Binh Provincial Party Committee, the industrial production index for the first six months of 2025 is estimated to have increased by 20% compared to the same period last year. This marks the highest year-on-year growth rate for this period since 2020.
In the first six months of 2025, Hoa Binh province’s export turnover was estimated at 1.145 billion USD, marking an 18.11% increase compared to the same period in 2024. Import turnover was estimated at $ 804 million, a 17.15% increase, which helped the province maintain a positive trade balance.
The lives of the ethnic minority farmers in Tan Lac district have gradually improved thanks to the new directions in agricultural production. This is a testament to the collective strength fostered through the professional associations and groups implemented by various levels of the district’s Farmers’ Union.
With the motto the "product quality comes first,” after nearly one year of establishment and operation, Muong village’s Clean Food Agricultural and Commercial Cooperative, located in Cau Hamlet, Hung Son Commune (Kim Boi district), has launched reputable, high-quality agricultural products to the market that are well-received by consumers. The products such as Muong village’s pork sausage, salt-cured chicken, and salt-cured pork hocks have gradually carved out a place in the market and they are on the path to obtaining the OCOP certification.
In the past, the phrase "bumper harvest, rock-bottom prices" was a familiar refrain for Vietnamese farmers engaged in fragmented, small-scale agriculture. But today, a new spirit is emerging across rural areas of Hoa Binh province - one of collaboration, organisation, and collective economic models that provide a stable foundation for production.
Maintaining growing area codes and packing facility codes in accordance with regulations is a mandatory requirement for agricultural products to be eligible for export. Recently, the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Hoa Binh province has intensified technical supervision of designated farming areas and packing facilities to safeguard the "green passport" that enables its products to access international markets.