Bao Yen develops key agricultural products

As a locality with great potential for agricultural development, Bao Yen district has promoted the planning of crop and livestock structures with high productivity, quality, and economic value and applied science and technology in production to form concentrated commodity areas.

After the Provincial People's Committee issued a list of key agricultural products (according to Resolution 10 dated August 26, 2021 of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee on the strategy for developing agricultural commodities in Lao Cai province to 2030, with a vision to 2050), Bao Yen district reviewed key and potential local products to plan concentrated commodity areas. The district identified key local products as tea, bananas, cinnamon, mulberry, hill and forest economy and pig farming, hill chickens, ducks, etc.

In order to have a basis to convince people to convert production, the district directed the communes to review the total area of agricultural land in the area. With the area of ineffective agricultural cultivation, the localities developed a plan to advise people to convert to key crops with high economic efficiency according to the approved plan. From 2022 to now, the district has converted 653 hectares of land for growing corn, cassava, and ineffective mixed gardens to crops with higher economic value such as cinnamon, tea, grapefruit, banana, etc.

At the same time, the district has promoted the transfer of scientific advances in agricultural production, supporting and creating conditions for organizations, individuals and enterprises to invest in developing high-tech agriculture and safe agriculture. The district has coordinated with the Institute of Vegetable and Fruit Research, the Department of Cultivation and Plant Protection to conduct a model of testing high-quality banana varieties in Xuan Hoa and Bao Ha communes and the Queen guava variety in Bao Ha commune. Conducted a model of testing the use of EMI biological products for a number of key crops including grapefruit, dragon fruit, tea and cinnamon in the communes of Viet Tien, Xuan Hoa, Luong Son, Minh Tan, Thuong Ha and Tan Duong.

For sustainable agricultural development, essential infrastructure of concentrated commodity production areas must be invested in. The district has mobilized many resources to renovate, upgrade and complete the intra-field traffic system, irrigation works, pumping stations and repair and maintain other essential infrastructure works serving agricultural production. Up to now, 100% of communes have concrete or asphalt roads to commune and village centers, facilitating the trade of goods; 100% of communes and villages have national grid electricity. The irrigation system has been invested in with 20 reservoirs, total capacity of 1.577 million ^m3 , 492.81 km of canals, of which 376.4 km of canals are solidified to serve year-round irrigation for rice, crops and aquaculture.

Grasping the general trend of the whole country, the district propagated and mobilized enterprises, organizations and production and business establishments to implement digital transformation in production and business. As a result, 100% of cooperatives in the area have used electronic invoices, more than 30 agricultural products have been attached with traceability stamps and some products have been registered with barcodes. Most of the district's special agricultural products are sold on e-commerce platforms or via social networks.

Through implementing solutions to develop key agricultural products, the district has formed and expanded the area of concentrated agricultural production areas associated with brand development such as the tea growing area of 564.8 hectares in Xuan Hoa, Luong Son, Tan Duong communes, with a tea harvest output of 350 tons; the banana growing area of 256 hectares in Xuan Hoa, Yen Son, Kim Son communes, with an average yield of 20 tons/ha; the cinnamon area in the district reached 24,900 hectares.

The whole district has more than 28,520 hectares of forest, mainly cinnamon, tung, and linden, with the output of exploited planted forest wood reaching 14,000 ^m3 ; a total herd of more than 35,000 pigs; more than 490,000 hill chickens, 19 livestock farms; a total herd of more than 42,000 ducks. Currently, 8 enterprises have surveyed and prepared for investment, 2 enterprises have completed upgrading their factories, and 25 cooperatives are operating stably.

To develop key products in a sustainable direction, in the coming time, the district will focus on attracting businesses to invest in agricultural development.
Ms. Trinh Thi Duyen, Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Bao Yen district.

At the same time, strengthen trade promotion, boost agricultural product consumption; raise people's awareness, change small-scale farmers' thinking, switch to large-scale, modern, sustainable agricultural production methods. Continue to train, educate, and foster agricultural workers. Improve the capacity and activities of professional staff, agricultural extension system, veterinary, and services serving local agricultural production in transferring science and technology to farmers.

With the synchronous implementation of solutions, we believe that the key agricultural products of Bao Yen district will increasingly affirm their brands, have stable output, conquer customers inside and outside the province, contribute to raising the value of agricultural products, and increase income for producers.

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