18 Phu Tho tea products have received provincial-level certification of 3 stars or higher.

The development of tea cultivation in Phu Tho province has received close attention and guidance from the provincial People's Committee, resulting in significant achievements. To date, the province has 18 tea products that have received OCOP certification at the provincial level with 3 stars or higher, including 10 tea products with 4 stars.

In 2020, the "Phu Tho Tea" certification mark was granted protection, contributing to enhancing the prestige, economic value, and competitiveness of tea products in the province. Tea production efficiency has improved significantly, with many households becoming wealthy from tea cultivation, making an important contribution to socio-economic development and the construction of new rural areas in many localities. To further improve the economic efficiency of tea production and develop the tea industry into a key high-value-added sector of the province, on August 10, 2022, the Provincial People's Committee issued Plan No. 3092/KH-UBND on the development of tea in the province for the period 2022-2025.

The plan aims to restructure the tea industry by strengthening linkages, developing concentrated commodity production areas, improving the efficiency of production organization forms, and forming and developing enterprises, cooperatives, production groups, and farms that link production, processing, and consumption along the industry's value chain; applying science and technology synchronously in all stages from production to processing to contribute to improving productivity, quality, and production efficiency; ensuring food safety in production, applying good agricultural practices (GAP, organic farming, etc.), building brands and trademarks for products, increasing added value, competitiveness, and sustainable development; and strengthening promotional and trade activities to expand product consumption markets. Simultaneously, strengthen the development linkages of concentrated commodity production areas, focusing on reviewing the land fund of the Forestry Company under the Vietnam Paper Corporation and transferring it to the province for management; attracting investment to develop high-quality green tea raw material areas linked to deep processing and diversification of tea products; paying attention to improving existing tea raw material areas, supplementing and replacing barren tea areas with high-quality varieties for processing and export.

Specifically, by 2025, Phu Tho aims to stabilize the tea cultivation area throughout the province at approximately 15.7 thousand hectares, with an average yield of 125 quintals/hectare of fresh tea buds, and a production volume of 195 thousand tons, an increase of 5.3% (10 thousand tons) compared to 2021; to plant new and supplement the area of ​​poor-quality tea plantations by about 600 hectares to increase the concentrated production area to over 6 thousand hectares; focusing on reviewing and effectively exploiting about 270 hectares of land handed over by forestry companies to the province for management; encouraging the replacement and improvement of tea with high-quality tea varieties, and developing concentrated production areas of high-quality green tea in key districts: Doan Hung, Ha Hoa, Thanh Ba, Yen Lap, Thanh Son, and Tan Son;

Furthermore, the province also focuses on applying technical measures, safety standards, management systems, and productivity improvement tools in tea production and processing. The goal is to achieve 90% of tea growing area applying IPM (Integrated Pest Management), and over 40% of tea growing area applying good and safe production practices (GlobalGAP, RA, VietGAP, organic, etc.) (approximately 6,000 hectares, of which 2,600 hectares are newly certified to VietGAP standards). The aim is to diversify tea products, striving for green tea and deeply processed tea products (Oolong, herbal, matcha, etc.) to account for over 40% of the processing structure; aiming for an average green tea product value of approximately 135 million VND/hectare; and achieving a 40% rate of products produced through cooperative and linkage models. 100% of members of agricultural production cooperatives, farms, and core farmers in concentrated production areas receive training to improve their capacity in management, updating and applying technical advancements, and market information.

The province also strives to ensure that 100% of concentrated tea production areas are managed, assigned planting area codes, have packaging facilities, and are traceable according to the requirements of importing countries; to build and establish safe tea production areas, link production and processing, and create and develop 3-4 points to promote the tea culture of the ancestral land associated with tourism.

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Source: https://moit.gov.vn/tu-hao-hang-viet-nam/18-san-pham-che-phu-tho-dat-chung-nhan-cap-tinh-tu-3-sao-tro-len.html