(HBO) - Statistics from the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP)'s branch in Hoa Binh province showed that as of October 31, the total policy credit balance in the locality reached over 3.57 trillion VND.
The bank has been deploying 11 policy credit programmes for poor and near poor households, and other policy beneficiaries. In the first ten months of 2021, more than 30,000 customers had got access to loans with a total value of over 1.1 trillion VND.
The outstanding loan growth mainly focused on lending programmes for business households in difficult areas (269 billion VND), near-poor households (202 billion VND), households newly escaped from poverty (185 billion VND), and poor households (176 billion VND).
In addition, the bank has also had a loan programme worth 3.2 billion VND for employers to help them pay wages to their labourers that have to stop working due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and restore their production activities.
In the context of complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, policy credit programmes in Hoa Binh have contributed to ensuring social security, promoting sustainable poverty reduction and new-style rural construction in the locality.
In the first ten months of 2021, policy credit programmes helped generate jobs for over 3,500 labourers, and develop nearly 16,000 clean water and sanitation projects./.
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.
