Departments, agencies, enterprises, cooperatives, and farmers in Hoa Binh province have been making efforts to boost production, diversify markets, and speed up the export of the province’s agricultural products as the year is nearing its end.
Workers of Kim Boi joint Stock Company in Lac Thuy district process and package fresh bamboo shoot.
This year, the province targets a 10% increase in the export revenue of agricultural products compared to last year. To this end, provincial authorities issued documents on mechanisms and policies to support producers, businesses, and cooperatives to promote agricultural production, improve product quality, and connect and expand agricultural product consumption markets.
The provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development issued Plan No. 237/KH-SNN, dated April 13, 2023, on promoting agricultural exports in 2023.
Since then, departments, agencies, districts, and Hoa Binh city in the province have taken measures in this effort with a focus on ensuring safe production, forming commodity production areas, supporting enterprises and households to get certifications of good agricultural production practices, and promoting the granting and monitoring of planting area codes, packaging facility codes and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification. They also promoted linkage between primary processing enterprises with concentrated production areas, and conducted trade promotion events in and outside the country.
So far this year, 77 local businesses and cooperatives with 360 agricultural products have been introduced at the product origin traceability portal hb .check.net.vn.
The province's Sub-Department for Quality Management of Agro-Forestry and Fisheries Products supported 29 businesses and cooperatives to participate in agricultural trade promotion programmes and 23 businesses and cooperatives to take part in the 2nd Hanoi Agricultural Product Festival Programme in 2023, and helped local businesses and cooperatives to get traceability stamps for over 141,000 products.
Local authorities also supported 40 cultivation, livestock, and aquaculture establishments to get certificated for VietGAP processes, GlobalGAP, organic, and ISO standards.
Director of the sub-department Nguyen Huu Tai said that since the beginning of this year, the province has exported over 19,900 tonnes of products to China, EU, New Zealand, Japan, and the Republic of Korea. Its key exports include sugarcane, banana, longan, red grapefruit, orange, Dien grapefruit, and lemongrass.
Food safety and traceability of agricultural, forestry, and fishery products at production and business establishments in the province have been enhanced. Enterprises have gradually overcome and adjusted production and business activities, diversifying their approaches to new markets and expanding their markets. It is expected that from now to the end of 2023, the province will export about 76 tonnes of fresh grapefruit from seven cooperatives and cooperative groups in the districts of Luong Son, Tan Lac, and Yen Thuy. Its main export markets are the EU, the UK, and the US.
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.
