(HBO) - The Department of Economic Cooperation and Rural Development under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Hoa Binh province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the People's Committees of Lac Son and Yen Thuy districts, and Fusa Organic Agriculture joint Stock Company on May 20 signed a strategic cooperation agreement on implementing a pilot project to build a material area of agricultural and forestry products that meet standards for domestic consumption and export in Hoa Binh province in the 2022 – 2025 period.
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Representatives of the Department of Economic
Cooperation and Rural Development, the provincial Department of Agriculture and
Rural Development, the People's Committees of Lac Son and Yen Thuy districts
and the Fusa Organic Agriculture joint Stock Company sign the cooperation
agreement.
The parties agreed to work together to develop a fruit tree
material area in Hoa Binh province within the scale of the pilot project. Participating in the project, the Department of Economic
Cooperation and Rural Development will coordinate with the other parties to
disseminate and build a production and consumption linkage area of fruit trees
in the province, develop cooperatives, support training personnel, intensify
agricultural encouragement activities and high technology application, and step
up digital transformation in association with production linkage chains.
The provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural
Development will direct units to prioritise supporting the development of
cooperatives in the material area in order to develop it, and form production
and consumption linkages with Fusa; and step up agricultural extension
activities and application of high technology to implement the project.
The People's Committees of Lac Son and Yen Thuy districts
will prioritise the local budget to support the development of cooperatives in
order to develop the material area which links production and consumption with
the company.
Meanwhile, Fusa is responsible for developing an annual plan
and linking production with cooperatives to form a value chain of standard
fruit tree material area.
According to Fusa’s material area development plan in Hoa
Binh province in the 2023 - 2030 period, the company aims to develop the
material area for production and export processing, gradually forming commodity
production areas in accordance with VietGap and GlobalGap standards which apply
scientific and technological advances, innovate equipment in research,
breeding, cultivation, processing, extraction and technology transfer in order
to create high quality and competitive products.
The company will focus its resources on expanding the tree
area and annual crops to build specialised production areas for several crops
such as white sugarcane, purple sugarcane, chili, Cao Phong orange, Tan Lac
red-flesh pomelo, and passion fruit, with a total area of 500 ha, including 200
ha in Tan Lac district, 20 ha in Cao Phong district; 50 ha in Lac Son district,
100 ha in Yen Thuy district, 100 ha in Kim Boi district, and 30 ha in Luong Son
district./.
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