(HBO) - In recent years, mountainous communes of Mai Chau district have actively expanded vegetable cultivation areas. Approximately 80 percent of vegetable output of the district is provided for Hanoi, Hung Yen, Hai Duong, Quang Ninh, and Hai Phong.
In order to increase the supply chain of safe food in
general and safe vegetables in particular to protect consumers’ health, the agro-forestry-fishery
product quality management sub-department
selected Tan Son commune of Mai Chau district to build a safe vegetable production
and consumption model applying Vietnamese Good Agricultural Practices (VietGAP).
Member
households of the Tam Hoa Cooperative applythe VietGAP production process
in vegetable cultivation.
Carried out since July 2018, the model is joined by
the Tam Hoa agricultural service and development cooperative and ten vegetable-farming
households. In order to effectively implement the model, many measures have
been taken to upgrade and improve infrastructure facilities to meet VietGAP
requirements for vegetable cultivation. A training course was organised for 20
local residents both members and non-members of the cooperative.
In order to ensure the efficient and sustainable
development of the Tam Hoa agricultural service and development cooperative,
the sub-department has supported the establishment of the VietGAP board to coordinate
with the cooperative in developing a quality management system, which focuses
on quality policy and objective, techniques for chayote, choysum, cabbage,
spinach, and pumpkin farming.
The system also includes regulations on management and
use of seeds, cultivation land, fertilizers, plant protection products; harvesting
and processing; and handling violations in meeting VietGAP requirements.
The cooperative has signed contracts and memoranda of understandingfor supplying safe
vegetable products with a number of safe
vegetable trading establishments
in Hanoi, Bac Ninh and Hung yen provinces./.
After several unsuccessful attempts to raise pigs, buffaloes and cows, Nguyen Hong Minh who resides in Mui hamlet, Hoa Binh city’s Doc Lap commune decided to try breeding bamboo rat.
Chairman of the Hoa Binh People’s Committee Bui Van Khanh on February 2 held a Lunar New Year meeting with businesses, investors and cooperation in the locality. The event drew Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Council Bui Duc Hinh; Vice President of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hoang Quang Phong; representatives from the Vietnam Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Vietnam Association of Young Entrepreneurs; as well as leaders of local departments, sectors and localities and 200 local businesses, cooperatives and investors in the locality.
Following the successes achieved in 2023, the local agricultural and rural development sector, localities and cooperatives are gearing up for first orders of the year, as part of their efforts to boost agricultural exports.
Most workers at enterprises in the northern province of Hoa Binh have turned to work just one week after the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday.
The Hoa Binh Power Corporation (PC Hoa Binh) has directed its units to build plans as well as arrange resources to ensure stable electricity for local winter-spring crop production.
On February 28, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Hoa Binh province coordinated with Minh Trung Vietnam Group joint Stock Company, Hoa Binh branch in Luong Son industrial park, Luong Son district organized a ceremony to export Bat Bao lotus porridge to the Japanese.