The area
of growing chayote of Quyet Chien commune (in Tan Lac district) has met VietGap
standards and been welcomed by consumers.
From 2017 up to
now, Tan Lac district has implemented two coordinating projects to consume Tan
Lac red grapefruits and produce safe vegetables. After approving these
projects, the District People’s Committee assigned the Division of Agriculture
and Rural Development to be a representative of investors which coordinated
with the Commune People’s Committees in the project area and other relevant
agencies in order to develop and implement these projects. The agencies
consisted of Cuong Thinh Construction and Service Co., Ltd, Dong Lai Clean Farm
Products Cooperative and Tan Lac Son Cooperative. Accordingly, Tan Lac Son
Cooperative would provide the supply of seeds as well as consume the safe
vegetable products of the cooperative group producing safe vegetable in Sung
hamlet, Thanh Hoi commune. Dong Lai Clean Farm Products Cooperative (an agency
supported to apply the technical process in accordance with VietGap standards)
has signed a contract for consumption of red grapefruit products with Cuong
Thinh Construction and Service Co., Ltd.
For the
coordinating project on consumption of red grapefruits, it had a scale of 300
hectares in three communes: Dong Lai, Thanh Hoi and Tu Ne. There were more than
50 households in two hamlets of Tan Lai and Dong Tien participating in applying
VietGap process with the total area of over 20 hectares. The project supported 100
percentages of the cost of making direction boards, making ways to the
production area and the cost of assessing in accordance with VietGap standards
for over 20 hectares of red grapefruits. Also, it supported 40 percentages of
the expenditure of printing stamps to identify red grapefruit products,
printing product package and organizing customer workshop at manufacture
factory. In 2017, Dong Lai Clean Farm Products Cooperative received the
Certificate of VietGap Standard with the certified area of over 20 hectares.
Through the
assessment, the project has formed the area of producing red grapefruit which
met VietGap standards and the area of producing safe vegetables. Some
production facilities and consumers have created linkages, the products were
consumed steadily, and the position of clean products in agricultural
production could be raised. The red grapefruit of project has been sold out
with higher price and the income reached 750 million VND per hectare, which was
higher by from 50 to 100 million VND than the income when not yet joining the
project. For the safe vegetable products, due to limited variety of vegetables,
the consumption faced many challenges, for example, the average income was
under 200 million VND per hectare and the economic efficiency was not higher
after participating in the project.