Cao Phong orange, which meets the VietGap standard, is selected by the
Cao Phong district People’s Committee as one of the outstanding products for the
OCOP programme in the 2016-2020 period.
Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee
Nguyen Van Dung underlined the importance of the programme to the locality,
saying that it will be comprehensively implemented.
According to Dung, the State plays the role of promulgating the legal
framework and policies for the implementation, directing the planning of production
areas of goods and services; and managing and supervising product quality
standards.
It also supports activities of training, technical assistance, science
and technology application and trade promotion, he added.
The official said it is necessary to momobilize social resources to the implementation
of the OCOP programme, thus contributing to effectively realizing the criterion
related to economic development and production organization in the national criteria
of the new-style rural communes, towards accelerating economic restructuring and raising income and
living standard for the locals.
Under its plan to implement the programme, Hoa Binh will strive to standardize
at least 25 percent of the existing local products, equivalent to about 50
products.
It also aims to develop between 10-15 tourism culture villages, while consolidating
around 50 economic organizations, and developing at least 10 new economic
organizations for participating in the
OCOP programme.
Attention will be paid to organising training courses to improve the
management capacity of the programme for all officials at the provincial and
district levels, and about 300 State management staff at all levels, as well as
all leaders of enterprises and co-operatives, and owners of production
households that registered to join the OCOP programme.
On the basis of selecting the most outstanding products for the
implementation of the OCOP programme in the 2018-2020 period, the province will
continue studies towards issuing a system of mechanisms and policies to promote
investment for the scheme.
It will also continue supporting the development of enterprises and
co-operatives, aiming to improve the quality and productivity of products
joining the OCCOP programme.
joining the programme, local products will be invested to be developed into key
branded ones. At the same time, trade promotion activities will be enhanced for
those products, helping local enterprises seek more markets for their products.
Efforts will also be made to build a provincial-level database system of OCCOP
products./.