Developing typical products in Lai Chau city

Taking advantage of the climate, soil and local strengths, Lai Chau city has focused on developing distinct agricultural products, following the value chain linkage direction to bring economic efficiency and create stable jobs for people.

Mrs. Tan Thi Ly, in Cu La Nha village, like other households in Sung Phai commune, Lai Chau city, used to only raise one buffalo for pulling power. Their economy mainly relied on farming, so poverty was always persistent.

In recent years, thanks to policies supporting loans and technical guidance on developing livestock farming models, Ms. Ly has developed her family’s herd of more than 20 animals, mainly horses. Currently, not only has she escaped poverty, Ms. Ly also has hundreds of millions of dong in bank deposits.

Ms. Tan Thi Ly confided that in the past, her family only raised buffalo for their strength. In recent years, seeing the large market demand, her family switched to raising horses for meat. Horses are easy to raise, the herd grows quickly, so they quickly generate income. Currently, the selling price of horses is also very stable, whenever there is a call, traders come to buy immediately. Horses are bought to cook glue, make thang co, and make ham, which are very popular.... In the near future, her family plans to continue expanding the scale of the horse herd to meet market demand.

With the motto "for the health of consumers", Phu Truong Cooperative in Group 22, Dong Phong Ward constantly innovates technology, improves quality, and elevates the brand of 3-star OCOP products.

In addition to buffalo meat and dried pork, medicinal products account for the majority. Among them, the cooperative's main products that are favored by customers are ginseng starch, motherwort starch, and red glutinous rice turmeric starch.

Currently, the suburban communes of Lai Chau city are expanding the horse breeding model.

Ms. Le Thi Thom, Director of Phu Truong Cooperative, said that local dried buffalo meat, dried pork, and medicinal products are developing well, so the cooperative boldly invests in production to introduce and promote local products to domestic and foreign friends.

In the period of 2022-2025, the revenue of the previous year is always higher than the following year and develops quite sustainably. On average, each year, the cooperative produces more than 13 tons of finished products of all kinds, and sells all the products produced. In 2024, the revenue is more than 4 billion VND/year. Currently, the cooperative has 2 products of dried buffalo meat and dried pork that meet 3-star OCOP standards, and medicinal product lines that meet food hygiene and safety standards.

Like other communes and wards in the area, Dong Phong ward has focused on developing OCOP products, in line with the restructuring process of agricultural production, aiming to gradually build key agricultural products, typical of the locality, contributing to increasing income, enhancing product value and protecting the environment.

Lai Chau city has many cooperatives producing cordyceps.

An Ngan Cordyceps Cooperative, in Group 23, Dong Phong Ward, is a typical example in increasing product value and creating jobs for local workers.

Ms. Pham Thi Ha, Director of An Ngan Cordyceps Cooperative, said that the unit always focuses on building products along with improving quality, investing in designs and packaging to maintain reputation and expand the market. In addition to participating in trade fairs, the cooperative also actively introduces and promotes products on e-commerce platforms such as Zalo, Facebook, TikTok, etc. Currently, the facility has 2 OCOP products: freeze-dried Cordyceps and fresh Cordyceps.

Currently, the unit is employing 12 official workers, 10-20 seasonal workers with a basic salary of 6-9 million/month. In addition, the unit is also researching and adding some medicinal mushroom products such as black termite mushrooms, reishi mushrooms... into production to create product diversity and increase jobs and income for workers.

Mr. Bui Minh Tu, Vice Chairman of Dong Phong Ward People's Committee, said that based on Resolution 07 of Lai Chau Provincial People's Committee, each product receives support in terms of funding, packaging, labels, etc., so when orienting people to rely on local strengths to create typical products to become OCOP products, people are very supportive and responsive.

Lai Chau city supports people to promote, build product introduction and sales points.

To improve the quality and value of products, Lai Chau city has supported entities to implement safe and organic production processes; pay attention to selecting input materials with the criteria of "delicious, clean"; ensure food hygiene and safety in the process of processing beverage and food products. At the same time, it has increased the application of scientific and technical advances, using high technology to create products that meet market demand.

After the products are verified to meet the criteria, the city will guide people to complete the criteria to build them into OCOP products; support the promotion and trade promotion, build points to introduce and sell OCOP products; support the construction of advanced quality management certificates, build warehouses, factories, machinery and equipment for production, protect brands, build codes, barcodes, and QR Code electronic traceability stamps.

According to Ms. Duong Thi Nhai, Deputy Head of the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Lai Chau City, Lai Chau City has developed 55 typical products, which have been recognized as OCOP products. Of these, 53 products have achieved 3 stars and 2 products have achieved 4 stars; most of these products are only strong in Lai Chau production. The products promoted and sold stably on the market have promoted local agricultural production, formed specialized areas linked to create jobs and increase income for people.

Tran Anh Tuan

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