The 13-billion-VND project supports these communes in shifting economic structure, improving income from the same area of farming land, creating jobs and building new-style rural areas.
The project comprises of a number of sub-projects, including using Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) in organic agriculture.
Members of an organic vegetable production group
in Dam Trong village, Nuong Dam commune, Kim Boi packs vegetables before
labeling origin stamps.
The GPS Kim Boi coordinating board was founded with nine members, said Nguyen Thi Minh Anh, Vice President of the Women’s Union of Kim Boi district and head of the committee.
With the help from the faculty of crop production, the North Vietnam College of Agriculture and Rural Development – a member of the coordinating board, the GPS Kim Boi coordinating board has piloted applying PGS in eight agricultural cooperatives in three communes – Vinh Tien, Cuoi Ha and Nuong Dam – including four organic vegetable, two safe chicken farming and two bee farming cooperatives.
These cooperatives have a total of 45 members who have been assisted to take a PGS-standard test of soil and water quality. The coordinating board has opened three training courses on organic vegetable farming and PGS monitoring, inspection and approach.
The committee now has its own logo and origin traceability stamps while four organic cooperatives from the villages of Lung, Dam Rung, Lam Trong and My Tay from the four selected communes have been granted with PGS certificates after being cross-checked by other cooperatives./.
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