Ms. Nguyen Kim Thuy, born in 1974, Director of Ky Nhu Cooperative, located in Tam Vu 1 hamlet, Thanh Hoa commune, Phung Hiep district, Hau Giang province, shared: "Currently, about 30% of farmers in Hau Giang province, including myself, are raising clean and safe crops, while 70% still follow the old traditional methods."
Ms. Nguyen Kim Thuy, Director of Ky Nhu Cooperative - Outstanding Vietnamese Farmer of 2024, from Hau Giang province. Photo: HC
The current general mindset among farmers is to cultivate whatever product is profitable, without controlling production volume or inputs such as fertilizer, pesticides, feed, and aquatic medicines. This leads to products failing to meet the standards for export to demanding, large markets, and only selling to smaller, less stringent markets. Consequently, supply exceeds demand, resulting in a situation where a bumper harvest leads to low prices; small-scale, fragmented farming households struggle to find buyers, prolonging harvesting times and leading to losses.
Personally, from the beginning of my entrepreneurial journey to the establishment of Ky Nhu Cooperative, I have always guided its members to cultivate clean products, from seedlings and plant varieties to the quality of fertilizers, pesticides, and feed, following a biological and organic approach. This involves strict control of inputs, from the final product to the consumer's table, adhering to VietGAP and GlobalGAP standards, following a closed-loop production chain, and processing according to HACCP and ISO 22000 standards.
The development orientation of Ky Nhu Cooperative is to produce and market clean, high-quality products (In the photo: Ms. Kim Thuy promoting her products at provincial trade fairs). Photo: HC
Currently, the input products of Ky Nhu Cooperative have stable quality and meet export standards. However, the biggest challenge for our cooperative is that while we produce clean, high-quality products, our selling price is not significantly higher than similar products of lower quality or those that have not been inspected.
Furthermore, in business partnerships, many companies pressure the prices of clean products, refusing to buy them at higher than market prices, opting to offer the same price as unclean, substandard products.
Currently, there are many processing facilities and companies engaging in unfair competition, producing and processing many similar products with the same name, but with substandard quality, deceiving consumers, and selling them at prices about 50% lower than genuine, high-quality products. This leads to difficulties in selling genuine, high-quality products at fair prices.
Because of these difficulties, our Ky Nhu Cooperative had to provide additional services to generate stable income for the cooperative.
On behalf of the cooperatives producing clean products in Hau Giang province, I would like to earnestly request that the relevant authorities intervene to protect what is true and right, giving our farmers the motivation to produce and do business, and to protect the brand of Hau Giang's specialty snakehead fish; so that we can confidently replicate more models of raising snakehead fish, eels, frogs, etc., that are clean, safe, and better for Hau Giang province.
Source: https://danviet.vn/mot-giam-doc-htx-o-hau-giang-len-tieng-ve-viec-dam-bao-quyen-loi-cua-san-xuat-nong-nghiep-sach-20240917101914839.htm
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