Departments, agencies, enterprises, cooperatives, and farmers in Hoa Binh province have been making efforts to boost production, diversify markets, and speed up the export of the province’s agricultural products as the year is nearing its end.
Workers of Kim Boi joint Stock Company in Lac Thuy district process and package fresh bamboo shoot.
This year, the province targets a 10% increase in the export revenue of agricultural products compared to last year. To this end, provincial authorities issued documents on mechanisms and policies to support producers, businesses, and cooperatives to promote agricultural production, improve product quality, and connect and expand agricultural product consumption markets.
The provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development issued Plan No. 237/KH-SNN, dated April 13, 2023, on promoting agricultural exports in 2023.
Since then, departments, agencies, districts, and Hoa Binh city in the province have taken measures in this effort with a focus on ensuring safe production, forming commodity production areas, supporting enterprises and households to get certifications of good agricultural production practices, and promoting the granting and monitoring of planting area codes, packaging facility codes and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification. They also promoted linkage between primary processing enterprises with concentrated production areas, and conducted trade promotion events in and outside the country.
So far this year, 77 local businesses and cooperatives with 360 agricultural products have been introduced at the product origin traceability portal hb .check.net.vn.
The province's Sub-Department for Quality Management of Agro-Forestry and Fisheries Products supported 29 businesses and cooperatives to participate in agricultural trade promotion programmes and 23 businesses and cooperatives to take part in the 2nd Hanoi Agricultural Product Festival Programme in 2023, and helped local businesses and cooperatives to get traceability stamps for over 141,000 products.
Local authorities also supported 40 cultivation, livestock, and aquaculture establishments to get certificated for VietGAP processes, GlobalGAP, organic, and ISO standards.
Director of the sub-department Nguyen Huu Tai said that since the beginning of this year, the province has exported over 19,900 tonnes of products to China, EU, New Zealand, Japan, and the Republic of Korea. Its key exports include sugarcane, banana, longan, red grapefruit, orange, Dien grapefruit, and lemongrass.
Food safety and traceability of agricultural, forestry, and fishery products at production and business establishments in the province have been enhanced. Enterprises have gradually overcome and adjusted production and business activities, diversifying their approaches to new markets and expanding their markets. It is expected that from now to the end of 2023, the province will export about 76 tonnes of fresh grapefruit from seven cooperatives and cooperative groups in the districts of Luong Son, Tan Lac, and Yen Thuy. Its main export markets are the EU, the UK, and the US.
The provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on November 20 coordinated with Hai Dang Group Hoa Binh Seafood Company Limited to release 1.5 tonnes of fries into Hoa Binh Lake to regenerate aquatic resources, with a total value of 266 million VND (10,460 USD).
On the afternoon of November 16, Nguyen Phi Long, alternate member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, held a reception for a delegation from the Indian Embassy led by Ambassador Sandeep Arya. The delegation included the chairperson of the Indian Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam, embassy personnel, and Indian businesses operating in Vietnam. Accompanying Long at the meeting were leaders of the provincial People's Committee and representatives from various departments and sectors.
Hoa Binh province hosted the "Meet India 2024" conference on November 16, marking a significant step in strengthening bilateral economic ties between Vietnam and India.
In recent times, with its core role in building and fostering great national unity, Cao Phong district's Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee has actively carried out its responsibilities and front work, and closely collaborated with member organisations to encourage locals to implement the Party’s guidelines, and the State’s policies and laws. At the same time, it has worked to promote the dynamism, creativity, and contributions of officials, Party members, and local people to help the district develop further.
From a type of bulb used as a seasoning for daily meals, thanks to the efforts of local authorities and farmers, shallots have become a commercial crop in Yen Thuy district, contributing to promoting the transformation of crop structure in agricultural production, bringing higher incomes to locals.
