(HBO) – Restructuring the agricultural sector in association with building new-style rural areas in Hoa Binh province has yielded positive results, helping form many agricultural product chains, giving a facelift to rural areas, and improving local residents’ life.
The 7th Orange Festival and Cao Phong
Trade Fair attract crowds of visitors.
Secretary of the Party Committee of Hien Luong commune Nguyen Dang Giap said
the locality completed the new-style rural building in 2019, and it is focusing
on improving the quality of criteria.
Implementing resolutions and projects on agricultural and rural development,
the commune has focused on promoting the development of the aquaculture
sector, community-based tourism, and changing the crop structure.
From a low-income commune, Hien Luong has achieved a per capita income of about
42 million VND (nearly 1,790 USD) per year.
According to Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural
Development Nguyen Huy Nhuan, in 2022, the local agro-forestry-fisheries sector
posted GRDP growth of about 4.57%, 1.56% higher than the target, and production
value of over 12.48 trillion VND.
The department coordinated with localities and sectors to implement programmes,
projects and action plans on restructuring the agricultural sector and speed up
the implementation of the National Target ProgrammeforNew
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Across the province, each commune has met an average of 16 new-style
countryside criteria. Besides, 95.5% of the rural residents have had access
hygienic water. The forest coverage stays stable at more than 51.5%.
Farm produce production-consumption models have been deployed to districts and
Hoa Binh city. Many key agricultural products such as sugarcane, longan,
banana, and citrus fruits have been sold to demanding markets like Japan, the
Republic of Korea, and the EU.
Large and concentrated commodity production areas with highly intensive
cultivation conditions have been developed across the locality, including
orange cultivation areas in Cao Phong, Kim Boi and Lac Thuy, contributing to
improving the incomes of local farmers.
Hoa Binh has so far had 73 communes recognised as new-style rural areas,
accounting for 56.58% of the total; 21 advanced new-style rural communes, one
modelnew-styleruralcommune, 60 model residential areas, and
174 model gardens.
Hoa Binh province has developed 123 products meeting the standards of the
"One Commune, One Product” (OCOP) programme, including 99 given three
stars and 24 with four stars./.
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.
