(HBO) - In order to improve local farmers' income, Lac Son district has been striving to attract businesses and promote the role of cooperatives in creating and building agricultural production and sale development linkages towards a safe and sustainable manner. In particular, amidst the complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, the development of these linkages has proved effective, contributing to promoting agriculture and timely sale of agricultural products, and ensure their quality.
Members of Hieu Thinh Green Agricultural Cooperative
in Nhan Nghia Commune (Lac Son) grow ginger to orders of the signed contract.
Hieu Thinh Green Agricultural Cooperative in Nhan Nghia
Commune currently has about 15 hectares of safe vegetables and livestock
farming. In this, the safe vegetable linkage model has a scale of 8 hectares,
and an income value of over 200 million VND per ha per crop. Ha Tien Thao,
director of the cooperative, said that over the recent years, the cooperative
has linked with the Republic of Korea’s enterprises to grow pumpkins, thus
contributing to increasing farmers' incomes. In addition, two years ago, the
cooperative signed a contract to produce ginger and pink banana with Pacific
Co., Ltd., which initially showed obvious effectiveness despite the complicated
developments of the pandemic. Therefore, the cooperative plans to expand the
farming area to meet the needs of the purchasers in a timely manner.
Determining that agricultural production has great value in
the economic structure of the district, over the past time, the district has
actively mobilised and guided local farmers to change the crop structure to
improve agricultural productivity and quality of key crops, and increase the
application of science and technology advances. As a result, the district has
gradually formed a number of concentrated and large-scale production areas, and
implemented production linkages.
Bui Van Khanh, Vice Chairman of the District People's
Committee, said agricultural and forestry production currently occupies for the
highest proportion in the economic structure of the district. From the end of
2021, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has oriented for an
investment project to build a preliminary processing factory and cold storage
to preserve agricultural products in the district. It has also supported the
locality to build infrastructure and roads to ensure the development of farming
areas. To facilitate the implementation of the project, Lac Son has been
implementing solutions to create conditions to attract businesses to invest in
agricultural production in the locality./.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended a groundbreaking ceremony for an electronic printed circuit board (PCB) factory at Da River Left Bank Industrial Park in Hoa Binh province on April 13. The electronic PCB factory is invested by Japan's Meiko Group at a total cost of 200 million USD.
In the first quarter of 2024, the credit institutions in the province have actively deployed the legal documents of the State and the State Bank relating to currency, credit and interest rates. At the same time, they have promoted the capital mobilization, focusing on the solutions to expand the credit investment along with strengthening the credit quality management, lending to priority programs to promptly meet the capital needs for export - business and consumer demand during Tet in 2024.
Outside the key economic region of Hoa Binh, yet Lac Son district has utilised its potential and strengths regarding labour, land, and transportation connectivity to attract investment to the locality, contributing to promoting socio-economic development.
In a move to expedite the execution and disbursement of the 2024 capital plan for ODA projects, aiming for a disbursement rate of over 90% of the allocated funding, the Hoa Binh People's Committee issued Document No. 483/UBND-KTN on April 3, 2024, regarding such efforts.
Nguyen Van Thap from Kim Duc hamlet, Vinh Tien commune, Kim Boi district, has built the brand of Hoa Qua Son for local fruits. His efforts have brought about income for his family and generated job opportunities for locals, helping hundreds of households escape from poverty.
The Hoa Binh administration was entrusted by the Prime Minister with a budget of 3.43 trillion VND (142.91 million USD) for investment in 2024. The provincial People's Council approved nearly 3.76 trillion VND, which has been meticulously allocated to projects, achieving 100% of the assigned capital plan.