Agricultural restructuring - the driving force for building new rural areas in Dak Nong

Dak Nong restructures agriculture according to value chains and high quality, creating direct momentum for new rural construction.

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Cu Jut District (Dak Nong) has implemented many solutions to restructure the agricultural sector. In particular, the district focuses on restructuring agriculture associated with building new rural areas (NTM), considering this a great driving force for many criteria.

As a locality with strengths in agricultural development, Cu Jut focuses on developing perennial and annual crops. Currently, the district's annual crop area reaches 20,827 hectares; perennial crops 19,849 hectares. The district's total food output reaches over 101,000 tons/year.

The total food output of Cu Jut district in 2024 will reach over 101,000 tons.

In recent years, the district’s agricultural production has made positive changes towards intensive farming, improving productivity and quality. The locality has gradually transformed the structure of crops and livestock towards applying science and technology in production.

According to Mr. Ho Son, Head of the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Cu Jut district, from mass production, chasing quantity, up to now, people have applied techniques to increase productivity, quality, and bring high efficiency.

Cu Jut district implements policies to call for and support businesses to link with farmers and cooperatives to produce according to the value chain and consume products.

Cu Jut district has formed a number of concentrated specialized production areas such as soybeans in Nam Dong and Dak D'rong communes.

The district's agricultural production has gradually shifted from quantity agriculture to quality and high value agriculture. The economic growth rate of the district's agriculture, forestry and fishery sector in 2024 increased by 5.7%. The income value per hectare of cultivation reached 100 million VND. Thanks to that, the communes achieved and maintained the criteria on economy, production, income, and poor households.

By early 2025, the district had 7/7 new rural communes, of which 1 commune met the advanced new rural standards, Nam Dong commune, and 1 commune met the model new rural standards, Tam Thang. Agricultural restructuring contributed to helping the district increase its average income per capita to 62 million VND/person/year.

According to the leader of Nam Dong Commune People's Committee, after achieving the New Rural Commune title in 2017, in the period of 2021-2025, Nam Dong Commune began the process of building an advanced New Rural Commune. With the joint efforts of the Party Committee, the government and the people of all ethnic groups in the commune, up to now, Nam Dong has completed 19/19 criteria in the set of criteria for building an advanced New Rural Commune in the period of 2021-2025.

The total mobilized capital for building a model new rural area in Nam Dong commune in 2024 is over 26 billion VND, of which the people contributed nearly 6 billion VND to build infrastructure and develop production, improving living standards. Up to now, the average income per capita in the commune has reached over 65 million VND/person/year; the poverty rate has decreased to 1.31%;...

In particular, it can be said that the district and commune have paid due attention to the restructuring process of the agricultural sector according to the agricultural value chain. Nam Dong has effective cooperatives and agricultural cooperative groups, with 3 3-star OCOP products.

Nam Dong Commune, Cu Jut District has 3 3-star OCOP products.

In Dak R'lap district, agricultural restructuring also contributed greatly to helping communes successfully implement the new rural area. The district restructured agriculture towards concentration, commodity, and high-tech application to increase product value.

Currently, the district has over 8,879 hectares of agricultural production applying advanced irrigation, drip irrigation and nearly 9 hectares of greenhouses and membrane houses applied to produce vegetables, tubers and fruits, bringing high economic efficiency.

Dak R'lap district has over 8,879 hectares of agricultural production applying advanced irrigation, drip irrigation and nearly 9 hectares of greenhouses and membrane houses bringing high economic efficiency.

Specifically, in coffee production, with an area of ​​over 21,000 hectares, most of which have been replanted by people, using high-yield, high-quality varieties, with an average yield of 2.97 tons/ha. Many companies are associated with companies and agents inside and outside the province to produce coffee according to export standards.

According to Mr. Nguyen Quang Tu, Chairman of Dak R'lap District People's Committee, agriculture is still the main economic sector, accounting for the highest proportion in the district's economic structure, currently at 55%.

The results of agricultural restructuring towards high-tech, quality and standard agriculture have greatly contributed to helping the district achieve the goal of increasing annual per capita income, eliminating hunger and reducing poverty, and building new rural areas.

The district's average income per capita has exceeded the district's plan for the 2020-2025 period of 73 million VND/person/year, currently reaching 81 million VND/person/year. Dak R'lap currently has 10/10 communes meeting NTM standards, of which 1 advanced commune is Dak Wer and 1 model commune is Nhan Co.

Impressions of economic indicators of farm households

In 2022, the Dak Nong Provincial People's Committee issued a document on agricultural restructuring based on promoting the existing advantages of the locality. Dak Nong develops the production of key agricultural, forestry and fishery products, the potential of the province and local specialties that meet standards and quality, according to the industry value chain.

By early 2025, Dak Nong province will have 113 production and consumption links for agricultural products according to the value chain with about 10,000 households participating. The links belong to 11 agricultural product sectors that are all key, strong and potential of the province such as coffee, pepper, cashew, durian, mango, vegetables. Many links have farming processes that meet domestic and international good agricultural standards such as Viet GAP, Global GAP, Organic, 4C, Rainforest Alliance and UTZ...

Dak Nong's main crop, pepper, has its value enhanced thanks to restructuring according to the chain and industry.

These links developed between enterprises, cooperatives and agricultural households have built concentrated raw material areas to meet market demand.

Through linkage, it helps to improve economic capacity, apply advances and techniques in farmers' production; increase the added value of agricultural products through preliminary processing and processing to serve domestic consumption and export needs.

Mr. Ngo Xuan Dong, Deputy Director of Dak Nong Department of Agriculture and Environment, affirmed that the effective implementation of the goals of restructuring the agricultural sector at all levels and sectors has a direct decisive impact on the sustainable achievement of 19/19 NTM criteria.

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