(HBO) - Currently, there are 38 enterprises, 23 cooperatives and more than 1,131 individual households in Kim Boi district have engaged in the industrial and handicraft production and trading, of which there are 75 households producing and processing and 1,065 households doing businesses of all kinds.

Hung Nhu One-Member Limited Company in Rach Hamlet, Dong Bac commune (Kim Boi) has been sewing bags for supermarkets, contributing to creating jobs with the stable income for many local workers.

In the past years, the district has leaded and directed the appropriate authorities and grassroots levels to focus on propagating and encouraging the enterprises, the production establishments and people to actively exploit the natural resources available in the locality for developing the production, processing and consuming the products.

The production facilities have closely followed the market demand in and outside the district, focusing on improving the quality of the product to maintain and find new sources to meet the customers' requirements. The Department of Economy and Infrastructure of the district has been trying to advise and propose the appropriate authorities to put the planning of Kim Boi industrial cluster into use to increase the strength of the district market soon.

In 2018, the value of the industrial and handicraft production of the district reached 375 billion VND (at fixed prices in 2010), reaching 117.2% compared with the plan. In 2019, the district has set the targets and plans for industrial and handicraft production to reach 347 billion VND according to the fixed prices and 441 billion VND according to the current unit prices. In the first quarter, the result was over 85.45 billion VND at the fixed prices, reaching nearly 109.5 billion VND at the current prices.

Some main products are about 28,000 m3 of the exploited stones; 5.5 million bricks of building bricks; iron lotus, 11,000m2 of the painted sheet metal; 9,500 tons of preliminarily-processed agricultural products; 137.5 thousand products of Chit brooms; 160,000 kinds of pants and clothes; 3,750,000 m3 of soft drinks and so on.

Especially, Dong Bac commune has developed 4 knitting rattan and bamboo production facilities, sewing bags for supermarkets, creating jobs for many local laborers in the district.


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