Over the past years, Hoa Binh has recorded significant achievements in the implementation of a project on agricultural restructuring, and a programme on new-style rural area building. The provincial Party Committee has issued thematic resolutions, while the provincial People’s Committee has launched projects and policies with the aim of boosting production in farming, husbandry and fishery, agricultural product consumption and development of craft villages. Thanks to these efforts, such products as Cao Phong and Lac Thuy oranges, Tan Lac red-flesh grapefruit, Lac Thuy and Lac Son chicken, Luong Son goat, shrimp and fish in Da River, Luong Son organic vegetables and Hoa Binh honey, among others, have been promoted strongly.

During the 2015-2020 period, the agro-forestry-fishery sector grew by 3.45 percent, nearly doubling the national average, making Hoa Binh among the top performers in the northern mountainous area in this regard. Each hectare of farming land brings about 128.4 million VND per year.

The province has established 311 agricultural cooperatives and recognised 70 OCOP products. Its Cao Phong orange has received a graphical identification, and 21 other products have been granted collective trademarks.

Thanks to the support of local competent agencies, more than 2,300 hectares have got VietGap and safe production certificates, and 23 connectivity chains in agricultural production and consumption have been rolled out. The province has over 1,000 preliminary processing and preservation facilities, and nearly 500 processing establishments, which have helped promote local products at supermarkets and luxurious stores. A number of products like tea, banana, longan, fruits and vegetables have been shipped abroad.

Hoa Binh was one of the first three localities nationwide that have built and operated a product origin tracing portal, at hb.check.net.vn, which is a step towards e-commerce. A total of 72 businesses and cooperatives, with 400 products have joined the portal, and more than 8 million stamps of product origin have been affixed on products. In addition, by 2020, 76.3 hectares in the province had been granted nine codes.

Apart from the domestic market, a number of enterprises and cooperatives have focused on market study to step up exports.

The provincial Party Committee has issued a project on agricultural development and product consumption in combination with new-style rural area building for 2021-2025. The project is expected to fulfill the target of rapid, comprehensive development in agriculture and rural areas in Hoa Binh, towards modernity and expansion of the production of plants and animals that are of the province’s strength, thus forging exports and supplying materials for the processing industry.