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.
During the two days of November 14th – 15th, at the Provincial Cultural Palace, the Department of Industry and Trade organized a conference to connect the product consumption of the ethnic minorities and the mountainous areas in 2024. There was the attendance of the representatives of leaders of a number of departments, branches, businesses, manufacturers and distributors inside and outside the province.
The One Commune One Product (OCOP) programme is reshaping the rural economy of Lac Son district, helping improve living standards, particularly among the ethnic minority communities in remote areas of Lac Son district.
The Van Mai dam xanh (Bangana lemassoni) fish has long been famous for its unique and delicious flavour, earning a spot on the menus of many restaurants and attracting food connoisseurs. In recent years, residents in Van Mai commune, Mai Chau district, have expanded their fish farming areas and striven to build a strong reputation for their product. They are also working to establish it as an OCOP (One Commune, One Product) item to increase their income.
Outstanding rural industrial products of Hoa Binh province in 2024 were recently honoured and granted certificates, becoming a source of pride for producers and also a boost for local economic development. The honourees are all deeply imbued with the local cultural identity and boast considerable commercial potential, helping popularise the image of Hoa Binh to domestic and international consumers. This is also a solid stepping stone for rural industrial establishments to develop.
In the first 10 months of 2024, Hoa Binh city made significant progress in job creation and labour exports, sending 112 workers abroad through partnerships with authorised recruitment firms.
An award ceremony to announce the official certification for Mai Chau district’s Bangana lemassoni fish, a specialty of the locality because of its unique flavour, was held recently in the district.
