Tri Ton develops OCOP products

Recognition of OCOP products in Tri Ton district in 2025

Buying 6 hectares of land to set up a garden on Dai Mountain (Luong Phi Commune), Ms. Tran Thi Anh Quyen was "given" hundreds of naturally available banana trees. When it was time to harvest, she considered it an additional source of income without having to spend any money on care. When the price of bananas dropped, she thought of a drying solution, so she invested in an electric dryer. For a whole month, all the batches of bananas were spoiled. From those failures, she learned a lot of experience and gradually succeeded. The products were introduced to friends and relatives, receiving positive feedback. From then on, Ms. Quyen decided to develop this direction.

Ms. Quyen shared: “The longer the regular Siamese banana is dried, the drier it will be, and it will not form honey. That is the big difference when I make the Bay Nui Farm dried banana product, which is praised by everyone as delicious. After harvesting, the ripe bananas are naturally ripened. After preliminary processing, they are washed and a little wine and salt are added to prevent mold, fermentation and to enhance the rich flavor. A batch of dried bananas needs more than 24 hours to meet the requirements. The first step is to dry for more than 10 hours, then stop letting the banana form honey, and then dry the remaining steps. The finished product meets the requirements when the outside has a beautiful natural color, the inside is dry and soft. 50kg of fresh bananas will dry 30kg of finished bananas”. Ms. Quyen's dried banana product (called raw dried bananas of the Bay Nui Farm Business Household - Garden on the Clouds) is recognized as a 3-star OCOP product of Tri Ton district. This is a good sign when Ms. Quyen's "brainchild" is known by many people.

Head of the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Tri Ton district Nguyen Van Van said that the locality started implementing the OCOP Program in 2020. At that time, in the district, only Palmania Joint Stock Company's thick palm sugar was evaluated and classified as 4-star OCOP of An Giang province. In 2023, the district had 3 more products certified as 3-star OCOP, including: Ido longan of Ido longan cooperative group (Tan Tuyen commune); rice wine of Cong Chuan wine production facility (Lac Quoi commune); seedless lemon of Nguyen Minh Cong business household (Luong An Tra commune). In 2024, there were 4 more products certified as 3-star OCOP, including: Dried banana of Bay Nui farm - Vuon tren may business household; big-eared Lingzhi mushroom, Nuong farm cordyceps mushroom and Nang Nuong termite mushroom of Ta Danh Agricultural Cooperative (Ta Danh commune); 3 5-star OCOP products, including: Palm sugar syrup, Palm sugar powder and Palm sugar granules of Palmania Joint Stock Company.

Currently, the district has 10 OCOP products, including 7 3-star OCOP products and 3 5-star OCOP products at the national level. In 2025, the unit will support 8 economic entities to complete OCOP dossiers; organize a district-level assessment and classification council for 9 products. In addition, coordinate and support entities to carry out linkages, promote and trade; improve packaging, designs, and brands; implement traceability, protect intellectual property rights to improve the quality of OCOP products, potential and typical products of Tri Ton.

OCOP is a program to develop the rural economy in the direction of promoting the internal resources of labor, culture, intelligence, creativity... of the locality. On that basis, improve people's lives, build new rural areas through products with typical brands of each locality and region. Vice Chairman of Tri Ton District People's Committee Tran Minh Giang said that in the coming time, the district will continue to propagate and raise people's awareness in implementing the OCOP Program extensively, regularly, continuously, in conjunction with the implementation of the National Target Program on New Rural Construction.

Localities support entities in developing raw material areas, building value chains, mechanization, small and medium-scale processing technology; developing packaging, labels, traceability; trade promotion; applying science and technology ; training human resources, vocational training; accessing preferential credit packages... Entities need to apply digital transformation, equipment to serve market connection, traceability, especially information technology application. At the same time, continue to improve product quality, moving towards upgrading the classification of 4-star and 5-star OCOP products.

DUC TOAN

Source: https://baoangiang.com.vn/tri-ton-phat-trien-san-pham-ocop-a420720.html