(HBO) - On December 12, the Hoa Binh provincial People's Committee kicked off the provincial Citrus Fruit Festival and Agricultural Fair 2018 in Cao Phong town (Cao Phong district).
Attending the opening
ceremony were Bui Van Tinh, member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary
of the provincial Party Committee; and Nguyen Van Quang, Vice Secretary of the
provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People's Committee.
The events attracted a large number of businesses and people in Hoa Binh and
from other localities.
Participating leaders cut the ribbon to begin the events.
Endowed with a favorable
geographic location, Hoa Binh holds potential to develop a diverse and highly
valued agricultural economy, which could in turn facilitate agricultural
restructuring, sustainable development towards high added value, sustainable
growth, and adaptation to climate change, in combination with new-style rural
building.
To date, the province has
formed a number of concentrated production zones, with 9,800 hectares of citrus
trees, accounting for 80 percent of total fruit area in Hoa Binh and 5 percent
the nation’s citrus tree area. Orange and pomelo are cultivated on 4,700 and
4,200 hectares, respectively. Particularly, the local trademarks of Cao Phong
orange, Lac Thuy orange, and Tan Lac red pomelo have been protected, with 10
percent granted with VietGap certificates. On an annual basis, Hoa Binh
produces more than 120,000 tonnes of citrus fruits and earns between 500 and
700 million VND per hectare on average.
Provincial leaders visit booths at the event.
Other popular local farming
products include Hoa Binh purple sugar cane, Hoa Binh "can” wine, Mai Chau brocade,
Luong Son organic vegetables, Tan Lac chayote, Son Thuy - Kim Boi longan, Da
River shrimp and fish, Lac Son and Lac Thuy chicken, among others.
This year, the Citrus
Fruit Festival, held at the provincial level for the first time, lasts until
December 13, while the Hoa Binh Agricultural Fair is scheduled to end on
December 16. The fair features 250 booths run by nearly 200 organisations and
enterprises. This is a chance for the province to promote its local
agricultural specialties, particularly citrus fruits.
On the occasion, the Vietnam
Certification Centre presented the VietGAP certificates to 10 orange-farming households
in Cao Phong district./.
With the motto of "polite, dedicated, professional, and lawful,” over the years, Phu Cuong commune in Tan Lac district has gradually improved the quality of processing administrative procedures, winning high satisfaction from local people and businesses.
Stretching over 300 meters, valued at hundreds of million dong and built to the new-style rural standards, a concrete road in De hamlet, Bac Phong commune, Cao Phong district, was completed by the end of 2023 thanks to the collective contributions of armed forces at provincial and district levels coupled with the active participation of military units stationed throughout the district.
Over the years, the People’s Committee of Lac Thuy district has issued many plans and programmes to speed up the administrative reform, aiming to better serve local people and businesses.
Kim Boi district is drafting 23 planning projects which are expected to help boost the local socio-economic development, attract investors, and mobilise resources for development, said Vice chairman of the district People’s Committee Tran Tuan Son.
They include the one on Bo urban area development until 2045, 20 zoning, and 12 on rural residential areas in communes.
This year, Hoa Binh province strives to have eight communes recognised as meeting new-style rural area standards and five communes satisfying exemplary new-style rural area standards. Since the beginning of the year, the provincial People's Committee has drastically directed the implementation of the national target programme on new-style rural area building to fulfil the set target.
Cao Phong district achieved positive socio-economic development results last year as drastic comprehensive measures were implemented with high determination of its whole political system, said the Secretary of the district Party Committee Ha Van Di.
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