Rural industries - many results, many difficulties

Lam Dong's rural craft villages and industries have developed in a variety of forms, from household scale to cooperatives, small and medium enterprises, but their operations still face many difficulties in terms of capital investment in infrastructure, equipment for production, and improving the competitiveness of products in the market.

It is necessary to plan the development of mulberry growing, silkworm raising, and silk processing industries in conjunction with the overall planning for local socio -economic development.

According to the Lam Dong Rural Development Department, the province currently has 31 craft villages and traditional craft villages with a total of more than 16,550 regular workers, with a total revenue of more than 675.7 billion VND in 2024. The industry structure includes 5 groups, of which the proportion of craft villages accounts for 30% of brocade weaving, rattan and bamboo weaving; 23% of wine processing, rice paper making, mushroom production; 20% of mulberry growing, cocoon production, silk processing; 17% of growing and trading flowers of all kinds. The average income of craft village workers is nearly 4.3 million VND/person/month. In particular, silk production and processing workers in craft villages earn more than 7.2 million VND/person/month.

In particular, rural industries with total revenue in 2024 include the fields of handicraft production and trading (102 billion VND); ornamental plants (79 billion VND); processing of raw materials for production (22 billion VND); wooden products, ceramics, rattan and bamboo weaving, textiles, yarn, embroidery, knitting, small mechanics, glass (more than 1.5 billion VND). In general, the whole province is developing 5 groups of industries with 76 traditional occupations. Of which, 2 traditional occupations have been recognized by the Provincial People's Committee: Silver ring casting of the Churu ethnic group in Tu Tra commune, Don Duong district and brocade weaving in Village 4, Phu My commune, Da Huoai district...

In the recent past, the province has deployed nearly 6 billion VND of capital from the National Target Program on New Rural Development to support the development of craft villages in the area. Specifically, the support includes: 18 production development models; 2 industry development projects; 15 training courses, vocational training for 700 workers; construction and investment in equipment for 12 showrooms; participation in 14 fairs and festivals for 14 craft villages...

In particular, among the 35 rural tourism spots in the province deployed in the period of 2023 - 2025, there are 10 craft village tourism spots with famous brands of flower products in Da Lat city, "Bon Lang Biang" wine associated with Lang Biang tourist area; Buon Ka Tung brocade weaving associated with Da Long hot spring tourism; K'Long brocade weaving, Hiep An commune, Duc Trong district associated with National Highway 20 tourist route, Lang Ga tourist destination; mulberry planting, silkworm raising, silk reeling and silk weaving in Nam Ban town, Lam Ha district associated with Bay Tang waterfall tourist route, Ta Nung commune, Da Lat city; Dam Pao brocade weaving, Lam Ha district.

In addition to the above remarkable results, the Lam Dong Department of Rural Development also recognized the difficulties of the Lam Dong industry and craft villages, which are “lacking capital to invest in infrastructure, expand scale, change technology and advanced equipment for production. Meanwhile, the management level, production and business experience of the owners have not met the requirements. The quality of industry products is still low, the level of craftsmanship is uneven. Small and medium enterprises, cooperatives, cooperative groups, production and business households have not accessed preferential capital due to many procedures and short loan terms…”.

Therefore, the solution in the coming time needs to focus on supporting investment in key industries in the whole province in processing food, beverages, high-quality tea and coffee, sewing, brocade weaving, bamboo weaving, rattan processing, high-quality wood, civil, fine arts, mulberry growing, silkworm raising, silk reeling, silk weaving, etc. At the same time, continue to complete brand certification, design registration, packaging, product quality declaration; strengthen trade promotion, participate in domestic and international fairs to connect trade of local industry products.

In the long term, it is necessary to plan the development of key industries such as: flower growing, mulberry growing, silkworm raising, silk processing, brocade weaving, rattan and bamboo weaving for export, household wooden furniture, handicrafts; traditional industries of manual forging, mechanics, agricultural machinery repair, pottery; new industries of ornamental plants, embroidery, crochet. This planning is consistent with the overall socio-economic development planning of the locality in order to contribute to mobilizing investment resources to develop industry products associated with the long-term ordering needs of domestic and foreign customers.

Source: https://baolamdong.vn/kinh-te/202505/nganh-nghe-nong-thon-ket-qua-nhieu-kho-khan-khong-it-848415d/