(HBO) – The farmers’ associations at all levels in Kim Boi district have worked to raise local farmers’ awareness of the benefits from the "One Commune, One Product” (OCOP) programme so as to better engage them in developing OCOP products.

 Honey harvesting at Green Life Cooperative in Hop Tien commune, Kim Boi district, carried out in accordance with food hygiene standards.


Last year, honey farmed at Green Life Cooperative in Hop Tien commune, Kim Boi district, was recognised as a provincial three-star OCOP product. The cooperative's farmers have strictly follow good hygiene practices while harvesting the honey, which is later packaged in glass jar with traceability stamps.

Director of Green Life Cooperative Dinh Cong Thuan said that the cooperative has received support from the communal and district farmers’ associations in connecting farmers and developing honey product in value chain.

With 4,500 hives that can produce some 40,000 litres of honey a year, the cooperative earns around 6 billion VND (244,300 USD) in revenue.

Over the past years, the OCOP programme has been carried out across Kim Boi district, with focus given to the popularisation work and the holding of conferences and training courses for farmers’ associations at all levels.

Besides, the district has also worked to guide cooperatives, household businesses, and individuals to choose standout products and register to join the OCOP programmes.

The good production and business emulation movement has been promoted by local farmers’ associations that instruct and encourage local farmers to enhance safe agricultural production for local staples towards development of OCOP products.

The associations have supported their members and cooperatives in getting loans from the Farmers Support Fund to branch out production models, with priority given to development of OCOP products.

During 2018-2023, 354 farmers get a loan of 7.8 trillion VND to develop business and production. Additionally, the associations have paid due heed to technology transfer, helping farmers get access to advanced technologies for farming. 

Thirteen production value chain models have been built by local farmers’ associations with a view to popularising and expanding market for local products.

The associations have joined hands with the district, the Vietnam Post and the Viettel to organise 19 training courses for 1,300 people, helping them to put up nearly 100 agricultural products for sale on e-commerce platforms.

An array of local farm produce has hit the shelves of large supermarket chains such as BigC, Metro and Winmart, besides wholesale markets inside and outside the province.

According to President of the district Farmers’ Association Nguyen Manh Hung, the district has 10 three-star OCOP products, three collective brands granted by the National Office of Intellectual Property, three planting area codes, and two packaging facility codes.

The associations will step up communications work, and carry out support activities for farmers so that they will have a full understanding about the OCOP programme, he said, adding the move will help encourage the farmers improve, build, and popularise local agricultural products, making contributions to the district’s new-style rural area building.

 


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