OCOP locomotive

Foreign tourists enjoy wild lemon jam products of Mau Son Ecological Farm Cooperative at the product display booth.

Mau Son Ecological Farm Cooperative (Bo Pam village), Mau Son commune was established in February 2020. The cooperative's main products are wild lemons, wild honey, and leaf-fermented wine.

Mr. Hoang Phuc Thang, Director of Mau Son Ecological Farm Cooperative, said: Right after its establishment, through the propaganda and orientation of the commune government, the Cooperative registered to participate in the OCOP program. Accordingly, the Cooperative focuses on implementing the criteria of: ensuring food hygiene and safety, building labels, product stories... In addition, to develop OCOP products from wild lemons, the Cooperative has diversified its products. Along with that, the Cooperative has also received active guidance and financial support from the commune government and specialized departments to design logos, print packaging and labels, promote products... Since its establishment, the Cooperative has had 5 products evaluated and classified as 3-star OCOP; the value of the products has increased from 30 to 50% compared to before participating.

Similar to Mau Son Ecological Farm Cooperative, realizing that participating in the OCOP program contributes to building and promoting the brand, Thanh Loc Cooperative (Ban Phai village, Mau Son commune) also actively improves its products.

Mr. Ly Minh Hieu, Director of Thanh Loc Cooperative, said: The Cooperative has focused on researching and applying science and technology to successfully produce Mau Son 6-toed chicken breeds using artificial insemination. To build product brands, since 2022, the Cooperative has actively completed the application to participate in the OCOP program. Up to now, the Cooperative has 2 products that have been evaluated as OCOP: Mau Son 6-toed chicken (3 stars) and Luc Dinh Nui Tuyet chicken (4 stars). Currently, the Cooperative sells from 300 to 500 commercial chickens per month at prices ranging from 180 to 200 thousand VND/kg.

Not only the above two subjects, according to statistics, since the implementation of the OCOP program up to now, the whole Mau Son commune has 18 products achieving OCOP certification with 17 products achieving 3 stars, 1 product achieving 4 stars.

To achieve the above results, recently, the commune government has identified typical products, formed a chain of production, processing and consumption of products; at the same time, directed the specialized department to propagate and guide the subjects to build profiles to participate in the OCOP program. The commune government also supported cooperatives and subjects to design, innovate packaging, labels, product quality standards and connect product consumption through eco-tourism and e-commerce platforms.

Ms. Duong Thi Thu Hang, Head of the Economic Department of Mau Son Commune, said: Through the OCOP program, products are increasingly known to many people, the consumption market is expanded; the value of products has increased from 15 to 20%, some products have increased value by over 30% compared to before; consumption has also increased from 15 to 20% compared to before participating in the OCOP program. In the coming time, the department will continue to advise the Commune People's Committee to develop strong, typical local products such as frogs, salmon, etc. to participate in the OCOP program.

With those efforts, in October 2025, Mau Son was the only commune in the province to receive a certificate of merit from the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee for its outstanding achievements in implementing the Project "One Commune One Product Program (OCOP) of Lang Son province for the period 2021 - 2025, oriented to 2030".

Source: https://baolangson.vn/dau-tau-thuc-hien-chuong-trinh-ocop-5065418.html