The economy of Go Cong Tay district is mainly agricultural production, in which rice is the main crop with an area of 8,229.68 ha; annual crops 914.93 ha with main crops such as corn, watermelon; perennial crops 5,602.23 ha including coconut, grapefruit, dragon fruit and aquaculture 252.82 ha.
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| Dong Son dragon fruit has been granted export registration number. |
In recent times, district leaders have always paid attention to and directed the improvement of agricultural product value, especially creating conditions for enterprises and cooperatives to link production and consumption, improving the competitiveness of local agricultural products.
In particular, the Department of Agriculture and Environment has guided the implementation of MSVT work and agricultural product packaging facilities for export. The District People's Committee has issued documents to guide regulations and list of documents for granting/maintaining MSVT for export. At the same time, training on granting and managing MSVT for leaders, agricultural officials, and cooperatives of communes in the district has been organized.
Along with that, every year, the District People's Committee issues a plan to implement the work of requesting the issuance and management of MSVT in Go Cong Tay district; develop and disseminate temporary procedures for the issuance and management of MSVT, packaging facilities and guidance documents of the provincial Department of Agriculture to communes, organizations and individuals in need of issuance of MSVT and packaging facilities in the district.
4 export MSVTs have been granted, of which the MSVT of Vina T&T Import-Export Trading Service Company Limited has exported dragon fruit to the US market with an output of 792 tons; MSVT of fresh coconut of Thanh Nhut commune, the granted unit is signing a contract with Hung Thinh Phat Clean Agriculture Cooperative with an output of 10,644 tons. For dragon fruit and watermelon exported to the Chinese market, the cooperative only consumes domestically through dragon fruit warehouses in Cho Gao district. |
The district directs the district's Department of Agriculture to organize training on MSVT propaganda; coordinate with the district's Agricultural Service Center to provide training, advice, guidance on recording farming diaries, and establishing growing areas for farmers.
At the same time, organize study tours for officials, cooperatives and farmers participating in export growing areas on the work of granting and managing MSVT, packaging facilities at the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (now the Department of Agriculture and Environment) of Ben Tre province; participate in the raw material area, export coconut packaging facility of Mekong Fruit Import-Export Company Limited in Chau Thanh district, Ben Tre province.
According to the Head of the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Go Cong Tay district, Le Thi Thanh Minh, the implementation of MSVT work has always been of interest to the district leaders, with specific assignments of tasks for each unit, and synchronous and effective coordination from the district to the commune level in the implementation of registration, establishment, inspection and supervision of MSVT.
Inspection and supervision of MSVT are carried out regularly. Through this work, the functional unit has propagated to cooperatives and farmers to understand the purpose and significance of establishing MSVT as well as safe production conditions for export. Since then, farmers have been interested in coordinating to carry out this work well.
As of April 2025, the whole district has implemented 41 MSVTs, of which 37/41 have been granted MSVTs, of which: 33 MSVTs have been granted codes domestically; 8 MSVTs have been implemented for export, of which 4 MSVTs have been granted codes, and 4 MSVTs are waiting for the importing country to grant export codes.
The inspection and supervision of MSVT are carried out according to regulations, 100% of the growing areas meet the requirements of the importing countries. In 2025, the district will carry out 20 MSVT (17 domestic MSVT and 3 export MSVT) with an area of 1,099.3 hectares on rice, coconut, grapefruit, etc.
BUILDING A BRAND FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS WITH MSVT
According to the District Department of Agriculture and Environment, in addition to the achieved results, the implementation of MSVT still has some difficulties such as: Recording cultivation diaries, pests, and tracking books is too large due to small cultivation areas; small-scale production areas, intercropping many types of crops causing difficulties in pest management, not applying uniform technical processes, affecting product quality when exporting...
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| Thanh Nhut fresh coconut has been granted MSVT for export. |
To promote the achieved results and overcome the remaining difficulties, in the coming time, the District Department of Agriculture and Environment will continue to support, guide, establish new and maintain the growing areas that have been granted MSVT in the district; continue to propagate and guide the production households in the areas granted codes, focusing on guiding farmers to apply production processes, manage pests and diseases in a safe and biological direction, record production diaries and carry out fruit wrapping to ensure food hygiene and safety according to the requirements of the importing country.
According to Vice Chairman of Go Cong Tay District People's Committee Le Van Ne, in the coming time, the District People's Committee will advise the superiors to pay attention to investing in infrastructure, transferring scientific and technical advances, applying high technology to production-linked fields, especially redesigning fields to facilitate mechanization, completing internal irrigation, electric pumping stations, upgrading traffic, supporting farmers to buy machinery and equipment for production and harvesting. In addition, the district continues to implement support policies under the One Commune One Product Program for products participating in linkages such as: Displaying, promoting products, building brands for OCOP products, supporting participation in digitalization activities, anti-counterfeiting... At the same time, regularly checking, monitoring, and evaluating the effectiveness of implementing ongoing linkage projects/plans. The district will also continue to direct propaganda and guidance for production households in the area granted MSVT, focusing on guiding farmers to apply production processes, manage pests and diseases in a safe and biological manner, record production diaries and carry out fruit wrapping to ensure food hygiene and safety according to the requirements of importing countries. Next is to encourage expansion and production linkage in the direction of concentrated specialized cultivation to create large production areas supplying goods to meet the needs of import and processing enterprises. |
At the same time, encourage expansion and linkage of production in the direction of concentrated cultivation to create large-scale production areas to supply goods to meet the needs of importing and processing enterprises. Along with that, carry out inspections and supervision of enterprises, cooperatives and production households in the growing areas that are granted codes on compliance with pest management measures, fruit packaging, use of fertilizers, pesticides, and import of electronic software.
At the same time, organize training courses to improve the professional qualifications of state management staff and technical staff on MSVT, agricultural product quality management and traceability. The district creates conditions for MSVT growing areas to connect directly with purchasing, processing, exporting enterprises and modern distribution channels.
Along with that, we support the branding of key agricultural products of the district with MSVT, participate in domestic and foreign fairs and exhibitions to promote products, contributing to affirming the position of Go Cong Tay agricultural products in domestic and foreign markets.
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