Binh Duong Industrial Promotion provides great support to small and medium enterprises Phu Yen: Local industrial promotion supports the development of strong products |
According to statistics from the Department of Industry and Trade Kien Giang, in the province there are currently about 75 fish sauce production and processing establishments, of which the most concentrated is Phu Quoc city with about 56 enterprises, reaching a capacity of about 15 million liters of fish sauce/year, the rest are scattered in Rach Gia city and Kien Hai district. Every year, Phu Quoc supplies the market with over 30 million liters of fish sauce, bringing in revenue of over 600 billion VND, creating jobs for thousands of local workers.
In order to have the fish sauce processing industry develop as it is today, recently, the People's Committee of Kien Giang province has issued many strong support policies, in which industrial promotion work has contributed a significant part.
National industrial promotion supports the development of fish sauce processing in Kien Giang province. Photo: VNA |
Talking about this, Mr. Le Minh Trung - Deputy Director of the Department of Industry and Trade of Kien Giang province, said that the industrial promotion activities in recent times have supported fish sauce processing establishments focusing on a number of contents such as: Applying advanced and modern machinery and equipment; improving management capacity, participating in fairs to promote product brands, supporting establishments to invest in showrooms to introduce typical rural industrial products...
In particular, in 2021, Kien Giang has developed a national pilot industrial promotion project "Supporting rural establishments in Kien Giang province to invest in developing fish sauce processing in the 2022-2024 period". After 2 years (2022 and 2023), the project has been implemented with 4 main contents (the 3rd year - 2024 is waiting for funding for implementation), the total implementation cost is 9.852 million VND, of which the national industrial promotion fund supports 3.150 million VND; the counterpart fund of the beneficiary unit is 6.702 million VND.
At the Conference to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of the national pilot industrial promotion project "Supporting rural establishments in Kien Giang province to invest in developing fish sauce processing in the 2022-2024 phase" held recently, a representative of the Department of Industry and Trade of Kien Giang province acknowledged that the project has created favorable conditions to support establishments to innovate machinery and equipment, expand investment, develop production; improve productivity and product quality; reduce environmental pollution emissions; ensure food hygiene and safety; improve export capacity; increase economic value for products, increase profits for enterprises, and contribute to the process of increasing local budget revenue.
The project has contributed to encouraging and supporting cleaner production at fish sauce processing facilities to improve the efficiency of using natural resources, raw materials, fuels, and materials; minimize emissions and limit the increase in pollution; protect and improve environmental quality and human health.
However, the leaders of the Kien Giang Department of Industry and Trade also pointed out difficulties in implementing the project. Accordingly, some establishments registered for support from the industrial promotion fund did not implement according to the approved plan, due to financial constraints.
On the other hand, Phu Quoc city has a development orientation. Travel, therefore, environmental issues must be given top priority. Currently, Phu Quoc fish sauce processing facilities are scattered throughout the city, so handling environmental pollution during the production process is a difficult problem that needs to be solved.
The national industrial promotion project has just been implemented by the locality, so in the implementation process, there are still many difficulties and confusions regarding procedures, documents, steps for making advances and finalizing payments. At the same time, the budget allocated for the project has not yet met the needs of the facilities, especially supporting investment projects to repair and upgrade environmental pollution treatment systems, so it has not really created a strong driving force to promote investment in fish sauce processing facilities.
With the above difficulties, the representative of the Department of Industry and Trade of Kien Giang proposed that the local Department of Industry and Trade supplement the annual industrial promotion fund according to the registered plan to meet the needs of establishments in the province, especially the fund in 2024. At the same time, continue to approve the project "Support for rural industrial establishments in Kien Giang province to invest in developing processing of agricultural and aquatic products in the period of 2025-2027".
Sources: https://congthuong.vn/kien-giang-khuyen-cong-quoc-gia-ho-tro-phat-trien-nghe-che-bien-nuoc-mam-352172.html