(HBO) - Implementing the National Target Program on the development of the new rural areas, after 10 years (the period from 2011 to 2020), implementing the projects supporting the production development and the rural trades
Yen Mong commune, Hoa Binh City has been developing the areas of citrus in the direction of high-income goods.
Up to now, the districts and the city in the province have been directing and guiding the communes to implement over 1,919 models of developing cultivation, husbandry production and the rural trades ... with the supporting fund of 367 million VND from the capital sources to implement the models. In addition, from the fund from the new rural program, 32 projects linked under the value chain have been supported with the total budget of 26,514 million VND. Up to now, the province has established the large-scale concentrated production areas in the direction of goods such as citrus production areas in Cao Phong, Lac Thuy, Kim Boi, Tan Lac, Lac Son and Yen Thuy districts; Luong Son organic vegetables; purple sugarcane in Tan Lac and Cao Phong; goat and chicken in Lac Thuy; fish within Da river and so on.
Typically, now there have been 9.8 thousand hectares of the citrus production areas, of which the business area is 5.7 thousand hectares with the output of 12.3 thousand tons and the average income value is over 450 million dongs per hectare every year, increasing 7.5 times compared to 2011. The cultivated area in safe vegetable production areas is over 11,000 ha a year with the income of from 200-250 million VND/ha/crop.
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.
