Fully tapping the advantages of climate, land, and farming tradition, Cao Phong district has promoted the development of citrus fruit growing areas into concentrated production ones, helping increase production value and bringing stable incomes to many households in the locality.
Statistics show that Cao Phong district has
over 1,740 ha of citrus fruit trees, including 1,357 ha of orange, 73 ha of
tangerine, 56.6 ha of lemon, and over 257 ha of pomelo. It is home to 179
hectares of orange cultivated in accordance with VietGAP standards, producing
over 20,000 tonnes in the 2023-2024 crop.
Cao Phong district is home to 179
hectares of orange cultivated in accordance with VietGAP standards.
All communes and the town in the district have
areas dedicated to citrus cultivation, mainly in Hop Phong, Tay Phong, Bac
Phong, and Thu Phong communes, and Cao Phong town.
Director of the Office of Agriculture and Rural
Development of Cao Phong district Bui Van Dan stated that to improve the value,
yield, and quality of citrus fruits, local farmers are focusing on applying
scientific and technological advancements in production and intensifying
investment to turn fruit cultivation into a key sector in the local
agricultural commodity structure.
Apart from maintaining the stable cultivation
areas, the office has advised the district People's Committee to instruct
localities to concentrate on intensive cultivation and improving the quality of
planting areas.
Localities have promoted citrus cultivation in
line with VietGAP and organic standards to turn out high-quality and safe
products that meet the increasing demand of domestic and export markets. In early 2023, the district exported nearly 7
tonnes of Cao Phong orange to the UK.
Dan said to sustainably develop citrus fruit
planting areas, Hoa Binh province has approved a project on replanting citrus
fruit trees for the 2021-2025 period with a vision to 2030.
To meet the domestic consumption and export
demand, the province will focus on producing specialty varieties with high
competitive advantages in each locality, expanding the application of good
agricultural production practices, towards 100% of products from concentrated
areas ensuring food safety standards, having growing area codes and
traceability.
Attention will be paid to promoting the
development of citrus fruit production and processing industry; and encouraging
businesses, especially large ones, to invest and link with farmers in the
citrus fruit value chain; and accelerating the formation of regional linkages
in producing, selling and exporting ci
trus fruit
products.
A working delegation from Hoa Binh province led by Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee Nguyen Van Chuong held a working session with the Thai Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Vietnam (ThaiCham) on the sidelines of the "Meet Thailand" event co-hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Thai Embassy, and the People's Committee of Lao Cai province on August 28 in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai.
Despite impacts from the complicated developments in the region and the world, Hoa Binh saw good signals in import-export activities in the first half of 2024.
Promoting the application of digital technology in new-style rural area building is an important criterion, contributing to the development of agricultural and rural economy, improving people's lives, and gradually narrowing the gap in service quality between rural and urban areas.
Determining industrial development as a driving force for socio-economic development, Lac Thuy district has stepped up the dissemination work to raise awareness of officials, party members, and people of the policy of forming and developing industrial clusters, while developing resolutions and action programmes, and including them in the local socio-economic development planning on promoting the development of these clusters.
With funding from the National Target Programme for socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, localities in of Hoa Binh province have invested in essential infrastructure which helps improve local people's lives.
Hoa Binh city has allocated 654 million VND (nearly 26.200 USD) for supporting the protection and sustainable development of 507ha of natural forest to carry out Project 3 on sustainably developing agricultural and forestry production to tap into the potential and advantages of regions to produce goods in value chains.
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