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.
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.
