Strengthening connections between businesses, cooperatives, and safe agricultural facilities in the province

Delegates attending the conference.

Attending the conference were representatives of the Department of Agriculture and Environment, Department of Industry and Trade; Provincial Clean Agricultural Products Association; representatives of leaders of a number of communes and wards of the province and nearly 100 enterprises, cooperatives (HTX), and agricultural production establishments in the province.

In recent years, Ninh Binh agriculture has had positive developments, with more and more effective production models, safe agricultural products meeting VietGAP, HACCP, ISO, organic agriculture standards... The whole province has 980 OCOP products recognized by the Provincial People's Committee as having 3 stars or higher. Currently, the whole province has 5,100 enterprises, cooperatives, production facilities purchasing, pre-processing, processing agricultural products, aquatic products, and food; 230 facilities and enterprises building and applying advanced quality management programs such as: VietGAP, HACCP, GMP, ISO; 279 raw material areas are granted growing area codes... To promote trade promotion and develop agricultural product markets, in recent times, the Department of Agriculture and Environment has actively coordinated with departments, branches, and localities to promote propaganda and promotion; focusing on organizing activities to search for and develop markets, build distribution channels, and consume agricultural products; Organize training courses on trade promotion, branding, AI application for business owners, cooperatives, production facilities; encourage units to build and publish product quality standards, build brands, product packaging designs, use QR code stamps to prevent counterfeit goods, etc.

Comrade Truong Quoc Bao, Provincial Party Committee member, Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment spoke at the conference.

At the conference, representatives of departments, branches, enterprises, cooperatives, and production establishments focused on exchanging, resolving difficulties, and sharing practical experiences in the process of organizing production, processing, and consuming agricultural products. At the same time, introducing and promoting typical agricultural products and strengths of Ninh Binh, promoting investment cooperation, and developing sustainable and effective agricultural value chains. Based on agreements and consensus, enterprises signed cooperation and coordinated to form new linkage chains, contributing to increasing the value of agricultural products, expanding the market for safe agricultural and aquatic products, and affirming the safe agricultural brand of Ninh Binh on the map of Vietnamese agricultural products.