Kim Boi district develops concentrated vegetable production areas

8/28/2017 - 5:40:30 PM

(HBO) – Besides rice and maize fields, Kim Boi district in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh has a large vegetable growing area. The district supplies vegetables for consumers around the year. Thanks to convenient traffic system and favourable natural conditions, concentrated vegetable growing areas have been developed in the communes of Vinh Dong, Ha Bi, Nam Thuong, Vinh Tien, and Tu Son.

Ha Bi agricultural cooperative (Kim Boi district) prepares vegetable seedlings for safe vegetable production.

According to the district’s Division of Agriculture and Rural Development, Kim Boi now has over 2,500 hectares of vegetables in 27 communes, producing some 44,500 tonnes. Cucumber, winter melon and pumpkin account for 44.6 percent of the total area, while leaf vegetables make up 43.5 percent, and root vegetables, 11.9 percent.

Khuong Minh Trung, head of the agricultural and forestry encouragement station, said the district has favourable conditions for vegetable growing, particularly in the communes of Du Sang, Vinh Dong, Ha Bi, Trung Bi, Kim Boi, Kim Binh and Son Thuy.

However, it is necessary to ensure safety in producing vegetables in tandem with processing and consumption, in a bid to enhance the products’ competitiveness, effectively use land and human resources, and improve incomes for farmers, thus contributing actively to the local socio-economic development.

According to Trung, the district is developing high-value and safe vegetable growing areas in line with standards, with consumption contracts and sustainable production connection.

In 2016, safe vegetable growing areas were zoned off in 25 out of 27 communes in the district, with a combined area of 1,522.3 hectares.

Farmers were provided with techniques to grow safe vegetables. Cooperatives were encouraged to establish specialised teams while publicity campaigns were conducted to help farmers grow vegetables in line with the VietGAP standards, raise legal awareness among safe vegetable growing households and groups, and promote trade exchanges and seek consumption markets.

In 2017, billions of VND were invested in developing safe vegetable growing models, as part of the project to produce safe vegetables from 2016 – 2020. Accordingly, four hectares have been zoned off for growing safe vegetables in Ha Bi and Sao Bay communes with the participation of 70 local households. The Ha Bi and Sao Bay cooperatives together with local farmers have developed product chains.

The district is expected to have 50 hectares of safe vegetables by 2020, and develop large-scale fields of vegetables, thus generating much higher value than other crops./.

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