(HBO) – Building chain agricultural production models is a new way to help farmers sustainably improve products’ value. In particular, as Mai Chau district’s agricultural sector is on small scale, linkage is very necessary, especially manufacturing in value chain in tandem with branding. Under the chain agricultural development policy, Mai Chau district has carried out two projects on growing garlic and quash using funding from the national target programme on new rural development in Mai Hich commune since 2017.
Accordingly, participating
households received State support with 70 percent of seedlings and varieties, 5
percent of fertilisers, and training courses on plant growth periods. An automatic
irrigation system have been built to serve three hectares of safe vegetables in
Hai Son hamlet, 56 percent of the project’s cost will be sourced from the local
budget and the remaining for workforce was from farming households.
These are value chains linking
farmers with businesses which will be responsible for the supply of seedlings,
intensive farming guidance, pest control and consumption.
Farmers in Ngoa hamlet, Mai Hich
commune, Mai Chau district grow garlic in value chain to bring economic efficiency.
The Luong Phu cooperative has
signed a contract on the supply of materials (seedlings, chemical fertilisers,
pesticides) and a garlic and quash consumption contract with farming
households.
The Anh Tu Cao Phong clean
orange cooperative has sealed a contract on building an automatic watering
system for vegetables. The two cooperatives are competent enough to meet
requirements set forth in the projects.
The agricultural and forestry
encouragement stations built a technical process for garlic and squash farming
that suits local conditions and held training courses for farming households.
Economic efficiency for garlic is estimated at
22 tonnes of fresh garlic per ha, earning 330 million VND per hectare at a retail
price of 15,000 VND per kg for 330 million VND per ha. The cost is 164 million
VND per hectare while the profit tops 165 million VND per hectare. Quash yields
43 tonnes per hectare at a retail price of 4,000 VND per kg, earning 172
million VND per hectare. The cost surpasses 81 million VND per hectare and the
profit nears 90 million VND per hectare.
With favourable climate and land advantages, the agriculture sector in Hoa Binh has been attracting investment from enterprises, organisations, and cooperatives, gradually asserting the position of some local specialties in the international market.
Currently, Luong Son district counts 905 business establishments operating in industry and handicraft, helping generate jobs and stable incomes for local labourers.
Hoa Binh scored the highest points in two out of the eight indicators of the Public Administrative Reform (PAR) Index ranking in 2023 that the Ministry of Home Affairs announced on April 17.
A working delegation from Hoa Binh province led by Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Bui Van Khanh is attending a programme to popularise Vietnamese products in the US and Canada on April 20-28.