(HBO) - In 2010, many households in Tuan Lo commune (Tan Lac district) boldly replaced trees in their gardens with citrus trees, with positive outcomes recorded initially. By the end of 2018, the entire commune housed close to 50 hectares of citrus trees, of which 20 hectares were producing fruits for sales. Citrus cultivation has helped many households secure good incomes and gradually improve their living standards.
Tran
Van Tinh’s citrus garden in Tan Thanh hamlet generates between 400 and 500
million VND each year.
The entire
commune has over 10 families who have at least 1 – 2 ha or more of land under citrus
trees, while the rest have between 3,000 and 4,000 square metres or plant the
trees on their unused land lots.
Visiting
Tran Van Tinh’s citrus garden in Tan Thanh hamlet, we learned that in 2014, he
started the cultivation of 600 orange trees and 30 pomelo trees across some 1.1
hectares of land. To date, Tinh has invested about 1.6 billion VND into the
garden. All fruits from his garden are sold to traders from Hai Duong, Thai
Binh, and Hanoi. In 2017, his family sold 17 tonnes of fruits for 400 million VND.
In 2018, Canh orange suffered a crop failure due to hard weather, but Tinh harvested
and sold 7 tonnes of yellow-flesh orange, at 16,000 VND per kilo.
In order to help local households expand citrus cultivation,
the commune’sauthorities have assignedthe Community Learning Center to
work with other sectors and organisations in organising relevant training and technology transfer courses. In
2018, eightsessionsof this kind took place,
attracting a large number of families. The commune, meanwhile, joined the Vietnam
Bank for Social Policiesand Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development in helping locals access loans in line with regulations./.
In Lac Thuy district, communes have been succeeded in promoting their One Commune-One Product (OCOP) products while others are still struggling to position their typical farming products in market. Some communes in the district still fail to have their products met OCOP programme’s requirements, while others have seen their certifications expired.
The inspectorate agency of Hoa Binh province has issued Official Dispatch No. 1090/TTr-PCTN to provincial departments, agencies, localities, business associations, enterprises, and investors regarding measures to improve informal component indexes of the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI).
Hoa Binh is taking concrete steps to improve its investment environment, with a strong focus on supporting businesses, settling obstacles for strategic investors, and creating opportunities for robust development in the coming years.
Under the blazing early summer sun, the construction site of Nhuan Trach Industrial Park (IP) in Luong Son district is abuzz with activities from dawn to dusk, a testament to the determination of the investor to meet their construction targets on schedule.
