In order to create quality agricultural products, ensuring standards, suitable to the needs and tastes of the market and consumers, in recent times, cooperatives and people in the province have promoted the development of safe agricultural production models. At the same time, the agricultural sector and localities are encouraging people to practice good agricultural production according to VietGAP and organic standards for sustainable development.
Organic melon production area of Cam Bo organic production group, Thanh Minh commune (Thach Thanh).
Being a poor mountainous commune, people in Thanh Ky commune (Nhu Thanh) always develop traditional and manual agriculture and have not given up the habit of abusing inorganic fertilizers and pesticides in the production process. Therefore, agricultural products are mainly consumed freely in the market, and sustainable production and consumption chains have not been formed. Recognizing the problems in local agricultural development and understanding market tastes, since 2022, Ms. Ha Thi Lan's family in Thanh Xuan village has cherished the dream of developing safe and sustainable agriculture. Ms. Lan said: “The market trend is to use clean, safe agricultural products according to VietGAP and organic standards... so when the products do not meet the above standards and quality, they will be difficult to sell, especially in demanding markets. Therefore, I have learned from experience and invested hundreds of millions of VND to “modernize” my family's agricultural production area to create quality products with high economic value.”
It is known that Ms. Ha Thi Lan's family has invested about 300 million VND to build greenhouses, net houses, and invest in an economical and automatic irrigation system to produce more than 800m2 of safe vegetables, tubers, and fruits. Thanks to the persistence in the direction of developing safe agricultural production, since 2023, Ms. Lan's family's production area has stabilized with 3 production crops/year. Products such as cantaloupe, honeydew melon, organic vegetables and tubers of Ms. Lan's family are widely consumed at a number of safe agricultural product stores in Thanh Hoa City, bringing in revenue of more than 300 million VND/year. Currently, Ms. Lan's family is completing the VietGAP production certification and plans to expand the production scale, guide, and gather a number of households with a tendency towards "clean" production in the locality to form a reliable production address, providing safe agricultural products to the market.
As one of the few organic agricultural production units in the province, the Cam Bo organic production group, in Cam Bo village, Thanh Minh commune (Thach Thanh), has built more than 15,500m2 to produce certified organic products, such as onions, garlic, melons and rice. Ms. Truong Thi Hien Hien, leader of the Cam Bo organic production group, said: "Through participating in seminars and training at a number of conferences of the district and non-governmental organizations, we realized that only production that meets organic standards and quality can improve economic efficiency for agricultural production. Therefore, since 2022, a group of 14 local households has linked, supported and built the Cam Bo organic agricultural product brand. Up to now, after more than 2 years of development, our products have been trusted and consumed strongly in the Hanoi and Thanh Hoa city markets through linkage chains and consumption of safe agricultural products". Through the initial success of the production group, the clean agriculture movement has spread strongly in Thanh Minh commune, raising the total area of safe agricultural production in the commune to 5.05 hectares.
According to statistics from the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, currently, in the province, the trend of safe agricultural production (VietGAP, organic, organic) has been developing strongly in all fields of cultivation, livestock, aquaculture, with 2,471.8 hectares of agricultural production meeting VietGAP standards; 13.6 hectares of organic certification and about 5,100 hectares of organic production. During the production process, the subject always strictly complies with the requirements of the standards, choosing organic fertilizers and microbial pesticides to care for crops. Plant care diaries are recorded daily, from fertilization, disease prevention to covering with nylon film to protect crops... Thanks to that, the products meet the requirements of food safety, good productivity and quality, and profits are 20-30% higher than traditional farming methods.
To promote safe agricultural production, the Standing Committee of Thanh Hoa Provincial Party Committee issued Directive No. 10-CT/TU dated October 16, 2022 on leadership and direction to promote the development of clean agriculture, organic agriculture, and circular agriculture in the province; Thanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee approved the Project on organic agriculture development in Thanh Hoa province, period 2022 - 2030 for implementation, in order to specify the goals, tasks, and solutions of the Project on organic agriculture development in the period 2020 - 2030 of the Prime Minister. Accordingly, Thanh Hoa province has applied mechanisms and policies on land accumulation and concentration, policies on agricultural, rural, and farmer development... to support, form, and develop effective and sustainable organic agricultural production models. At the same time, encourage organizations and individuals to invest in building infrastructure, promoting processing and consumption of safe agricultural products, organic agriculture according to value chains... Thereby creating conditions for farmers to expand the production of safe agricultural products, contributing to increasing people's income.
Article and photos: Le Hoa
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