The Long Cốc Safe Tea Cooperative in Long Cốc commune has invested in a modern roasting and drying system, ensuring its products meet the OCOP 4-star standard.
Spreading the flavor of green tea from the ancestral land.
As a province with one of the largest tea-growing areas in the country, Phu Tho green tea brand has spread widely not only domestically but also has a firm foothold in many countries and territories. The OCOP program has breathed new life into the brand, helping to elevate the status of Phu Tho green tea.
Báo Phú Thọ•13/06/2026According to statistics, the province currently has 14,500 hectares of tea plantations, with a fresh tea leaf production of over 193,000 tons (ranking 3rd nationwide). Tea cultivation is distributed across 58 communes and wards, of which 28 communes have over 100 hectares of tea plantations, totaling over 13,000 hectares (4 communes have over 1,000 hectares of tea plantations: Minh Dai, Long Coc, Yen Ky, and Tay Coc), forming concentrated growing areas that facilitate the application of mechanization in production.
Ms. Pham Thi Hanh, Director of Long Coc Safe Tea Cooperative in Long Coc commune, shared: "Being recognized as an OCOP product is a 'ticket' that helps Phu Tho green tea overcome technical barriers and confidently enter major markets. To maintain the reputation and brand of Phu Tho green tea, after being recognized as an OCOP product, businesses need to continue to focus on and invest in improving the quality of raw material areas, machinery systems, and production lines to stabilize product quality and build customer trust."
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Increasing the value of OCOP products.After more than 8 years of development, the OCOP program has contributed to changing the economic landscape of the province's rural areas. However, to increase the value of products and meet market standards and demands, OCOP participants need a comprehensive and systematic strategy.
Linking value chains and enhancing the competitiveness of cooperatives.Production linkages not only help cooperatives overcome limitations in scale and resources, but also open up opportunities to improve product quality, build brands, and expand consumer markets. Through effective linkage models, many cooperatives in Phu Tho province are gradually increasing their competitiveness, affirming their role as an important bridge in the development of modern and sustainable agriculture.
Tien Lu: A streamlined system for more effective service to the people.After one year of operating the two-tiered local government model, Tien Lu commune has gradually overcome initial difficulties to build a streamlined, stable, effective, and efficient administrative apparatus. These initial results have strengthened the people's trust and created an important foundation for the local development in the new phase.
In the province, there are approximately 76 enterprises involved in tea production and processing, with an average output of over 60,000 tons per year, meeting the increasing demands of both domestic and export markets. More than 20% of these enterprises have invested in technology for processing green tea and other processed green tea products such as tea bags, matcha, bottled drinks, etc., including Phu Da Tea Company (Phu Long Tea Factory), SSOE Tea Company Limited, Cozy Tea Company, etc. Some enterprises are focusing on developing specialty and distinctive tea products such as Thanh Ba purple bud tea from UT Tea Investment and Development Company Limited, and Shan Pa Co tea from Phuong Huyen Company Limited.
Phu Tho province also has a large area of tea plantations applying high standards of safe production. The percentage of land applying IPM and ICM is 90.8%, and the area of tea plantations applying good and safe production processes (GlobalGAP, RA, VietGAP, organic, etc.) is 4,300 hectares. The entire province has 4,045 hectares of tea plantations that have been granted domestic planting area codes with 162 codes. At the same time, concentrated production areas have been established in key communes with an area of over 6,600 hectares. In addition, in many localities with large tea plantation areas, safe tea production sites have been established, linked to promoting and developing tourism in beautiful tea-growing regions, considered among the most unique in Vietnam: Long Coc and Thanh Thuy tea hills; the ancient Shan Tuyet tea hills in Duc Nhan, Pa Co, Van Son, and Xuan Son National Park...
The entire province has developed 39 tea products that have been recognized as OCOP products with 3 stars or higher, including 19 3-star products, 17 4-star products, and 2 5-star products from 21 entities. Businesses, cooperatives, and tea production and processing groups have strengthened production linkages and cooperation with tea growers, establishing 25 production and consumption chains for tea products with an output of over 22,600 tons per year.
The tea growing area of Long Coc Safe Tea Cooperative in Long Coc commune is produced according to VietGAP standards, meeting the requirements for improving product quality.
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Mr. Nguyen Truong Giang, Deputy Head of the Department of Crop Production and Plant Protection, stated: Phu Tho has the advantage of a large, concentrated raw material area, making it convenient to standardize varieties, processes, and manage planting area codes. It has a long-standing tea tradition, a "local story" to build the province's brand and specialty products, beautiful landscapes, and valuable national identity (Hung Temple, Long Coc and Tay Coc tea hills, Xuan Son ancient tea garden, Pa Co...). The large ecosystem of businesses and cooperatives makes it easy to organize a stable supply chain for large orders as well as products for niche markets. Besides developing OCOP products, stakeholders need to link with each other and with businesses to create value chains so that tea products can maximize their potential and efficiency, increasing income for people in the midland and mountainous regions.
Quan Lam
Source: https://baophutho.vn/lan-toa-huong-vi-che-xanh-nbsp-dat-to-256057.htm
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