(HBO) – The Hoa Binh provincial People’s Committee held a conference with FPT Group on October 21 to promote investment and connectivity to market local farm produce. The committee's Vice Chairman Dinh Cong Su chaired the event.
Photo: Vice Chairman of the
provincial People’s Committee Dinh Cong Su speaks at the event
The province is now home to 70 products
certified by the One Commune, One Product (OCOP) programme. It also has over
3,500ha of fruits and more than 560ha of vegetables, nearly 2,000 fishing cages
and 22 breeding facilities certified as meeting standards, which is an
advantage in selling local farm produce to Hanoi. Several concentrated
vegetable cultivation areas have been formed with about 20 cooperatives and
enterprises awarded food safety certificates, which supply about 6,900 tonnes
of produce each year to the market.
At the meeting, the FPT group proposed a project
with the aim of turning Hoa Binh into a so-called "kitchen” of Hanoi, which
would be implemented by its subsidiary Sen Do joint Stock Company. The project
has a total investment of 500 billion VND, comprising six items and two stages.
Most of the capital would be used for marketing, branding and developing 1,000
safe vegetable selling points in Hanoi. In the first stage, to be
implemented from the fourth quarter of this year to the first quarter of
next year, safe vegetable cultivation will be piloted in Luong Son and nearby
areas with an estimated output of 2-5 tonnes each day to supply for stores in
Hanoi and a farm produce procurement and processing centre will be built in
Luong Son. In the second stage, the supply scale will be expanded gradually to
100 tonnes per day.
FPT Group asked the province to assist in
building brands for farm produce and planning cultivation areas in order to
ensure large-scale supply of produce with good quality. In the immediate
future, it hoped for support in land to build working office, transportation
and mechanisms for project implementation.
Vice Chairman Su vowed all possible support for
the investor and asked the group to soon complete the detailed project and work
with departments and agencies to conduct surveys for the building of the farm
produce procurement and processing centre in Luong Son.
He also instructed the provincial Department of
Agriculture and Rural Development to work with FPT Group to implement the
project, firstly forming joint-ventures with several cooperatives specialising
in safe vegetable cultivation to make use of available resources. Departments
and agencies were required to partner with people’s committees of cities,
districts and FPT Group to build quality production areas, expand production
scale, toward increasing the supply of fruits, aquatic products and meat for
the group’s farm produce retail system./.
