Tan Lac red-flesh grapefruit is delicious and called an 'offered to the King' specialty thanks to the local suitable soil and climate and proper cultivation techniques.
Departments, agencies, enterprises, cooperatives, and farmers in Hoa Binh province have been making efforts to boost production, diversify markets, and speed up the export of the province’s agricultural products as the year is nearing its end.
Implementing the One Commune One Product (OCOP) Program associated with local advantages, currently, Hoa Binh province has 114 OCOP products. In which, 22 products achieve 4 stars, 92 products achieved 3 stars, mainly specific product groups of the province.
According to Decision No. 3116 of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Hoa Binh province has 1 product in the list of 173 products and product sets of the country recognized and granted a certificate of typical national rural industrial goods in 2023.
The emulation blocks of Trade Union in all sectors has just summarized the activities of the trade union in 2023, implementing the key tasks in 2024.
In the afternoon of December 8th, in Cao Phong district, the Provincial Trade and Tourism Investment Promotion Center organized a conference to connect trade and product consumption between the businesses and cooperatives in the areas of ethnic minorities and the mountainous ones of Hoa Binh province. There was the attendance of the leaders from the departments, branches, People's Committees of the districts and the city and 60 businesses and cooperatives inside and outside the province.
In recent years, the application of scientific and technological advances in agricultural production in Kim Boi district of Hoa Binh province has brought about positive changes. People have shifted from traditional production methods to centralised and large-scale ones, bringing plant varieties and livestock with high economic value into production, helping to improve economic efficiency in the same cultivated area and increasing local people's income.
The Management Board of Hoa Binh Industrial Parks has defined the enhancement of quality of local industrial parks (IPs) as one of the key solutions to attract secondary investors. Currently, Hoa Binh has eight IPs with a total planned areas of over 1,507 hectares, two of which have had complete technical infrastructure system. Many IPs have seen high occupation rate, including Luong Son IP with 100%, Da River Left Bank IP 91.53%, and South Luong Son IP 60.08%.
In order to evaluate and promote the export of the key agricultural products of the province through information and propaganda work on the mass media, on December 1, the provincial Department of Quality Management of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Products organized a working group to work with the production and business establishments with export products in 2023.
These days, the people in Cao Son commune (Da Bac) are busy harvesting arrowroot. The price of arrowroot purchased by traders is 17 thousand VND/10 kg, nearly double that of the last year's crop.
The Center for Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion of Hoa Binh province coordinated to organize a conference to consume products in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.
Capitalising on the health benefits of cassava starch and its large plantation, the Nhuan Trach agricultural service and cassava starch processing cooperative in Dong Se hamlet, Nhuan Trach commune, Luong Son district, has successfully developed a product that meet the One Commune One Product (OCOP)’s 3-star standard.
The People’s Committee of Hoa Binh province on November 29 had a working session with businesses and investors from China, Hong Kong (China), and Singapore who came to learn about business and investment opportunities in the locality. Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the People’s Committee Bui Van Khanh chaired the session.
The first Hoa Binh province’s Da River Shrimp and Fish Festival, the Agricultural Fair and the OCOP Exhibition of the Northern Midlands and Mountainous Region 2023 last month featured nearly 200 booths of enterprises from 10 provinces and cities in the region.
Since late October, households, farms, and cooperatives in Cao Phong district, Hoa Binh province, have been rushing to harvest the 2023 - 2024 orange crop.
The One Commune One Product (OCOP) programme has helped encourage active labour among farmers, increasing production and creating high-quality products. In response to the programme, farmers in Phu Cuong commune, Tan Lac district, are working on their local sweet potato branding and forming a concentrated production area for better income and economic development.
Measures have been taken in Hung Thi commune, Lac Thuy district to eliminate hunger, reduce poverty and increase the income of residents. Currently, the commune has an average income of 51.1 million VND ($2,120 USD) per capita per year and its poverty rate is just 18%.
A delegation from Sao Do (Red Star) Entrepreneurs’ Club led by its President Nguyen Canh Hong has visited Hoa Binh to explore investment opportunities in the province.
Over the years, businesses located in local industrial parks (IP) have operated stably, completing and exceeding their plan and enjoying growth in revenue, export revenue and State budget payment, while contributing to creating jobs for local labourers.
In the cause of sustainable poverty reduction, the State’s supporting policies are considered a powerful lever to help poor and near-poor households escape poverty in Hoa Binh province. Over the past years, the Party committee and authorities of Tan My commune (Lac Son district) have always paid attention to and focused on implementing sustainable poverty reduction. Their efforts have produced positive results.
According to the report of the Provincial People's Committee, from the beginning of the year to the end of October, in the whole province there have been 45 off-budget capital investment projects the investment policies of which has been approved with a total registered investment capital of about 20,000 billion VND. There have been 760 projects in the provincen so far; there are 36 foreign direct investment projects with a total registered capital of about 608 million USD and 724 domestic investment projects with a total registered capital of about 275,000 billion VND.
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