(HBO) – The year-end marks the harvesting season of Phuc San small taro in Mai Chau district. The specialty has increasingly well-known thanks to its good quality.
Phuc San taro put up for sale in a market in Mai Chau town.
Ha Thi Thoan, a local trader, has sold Phuc San
taro for many years in a market in Mai Chau town. She said taro put up for sale
must be carefully selected and cleaned to attract customers. Many have bought
Phuc San taro for their families and as a gift.
Customers often flock to Mai Chau at in weekends
to buy Phuc San Taro. Nguyen Thi Minh Thuong from Hanoi said she has enjoyed
the specialty for many times, and other members of her family like taro when it
is cooked with pork ribs or duck.
like her friends, Thuong bought up to 40kg of
taro for her family, relatives and friends during the trip.
According to Tran Manh Tan, deputy head of the
district's Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Development, Phuc San taro has made
its name in the market. As compared with taro grown in other localities, Phuc
San taro is bigger and has better quality thanks to favourable weather and soil
conditions.
This year, farmers in former Phuc San commune
(now Son Thuy commune) has maintained an area of 40ha of taro, with each ha
yielding about 18-20 tonnes. Notably, the product has an origin-tracing stamp,
helping to increase its competitiveness in the market.
With a limited output, Phuc San taro is mainly
sold in the Mai Chau town market, stores selling specialties in Hoa Binh city,
and a number of stores in Hanoi.
This year, Phuc San taro is sold at prices
ranging from 23,000 - 25,000 VND per kg. It has been harvested from
mid-October, and would be sold out in mid-December.
Through tourism and services, the product has
become increasingly popular among consumers nationwide.
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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