Instructions to build Thanh Lam dried bamboo shoots into OCOP products

On May 27, the Coordination Office of the New Rural Development Program in Thanh Hoa province had a visit to survey, evaluate and guide the procedures to make dried bamboo shoots in Thanh Lam commune, Nhu Xuan district become an OCOP-grade product. province in 2021.

The delegation of the Coordination Office of the Provincial New Rural Development Program evaluated the dried bamboo shoots of Thanh Lam commune according to the criteria of OCOP products. In the locality, the delegation visited the raw material area, the exploitation, preliminary processing and processing of bamboo and bamboo shoots products of the people in the commune. With thousands of hectares of natural wild bamboo and hundreds of hectares of bamboo, bamboo and bamboo shoots, Thanh Lam commune has great potential for bamboo products. Exploiting and growing bamboo shoots and bamboo shoots has created many jobs for the people of Thanh Lam upland commune. It is known that the exploitation and processing of dried bamboo shoots has existed and developed for many generations in this highland commune of Nhu Xuan district. Hundreds of laborers have jobs and stable incomes from exploiting and developing bamboo materials, dozens of families specialize in purchasing for preliminary processing, drying and drying of bamboo shoots. Currently, the drying stage of bamboo shoots has drying kilns instead of depending on the sun. Currently, bamboo shoot products here have been ordered by many agencies and units as gifts with the nature of a typical product of Thanh Hoa highland. Thanh Lam bamboo shoots have a characteristic yellow color, aroma and are not mushy when cooked for a long time on the stove. Through the survey and according to the criteria of the OCOP product, the dried bamboo shoots in Thanh Lam commune basically meet the regulations. The product has also just been tested and meets the standards of food hygiene and safety. Thanh Lam dried bamboo shoots have been designed with logos, bags, boxes with eye-catching brands, and are chosen by many people as gifts. Officials of the Coordination Office of the Provincial New Rural Development Program have paid more attention to the stage of production organization and product labeling, soon completing the headquarters of Thanh Lam Production, Trade and Service Cooperative – the focal unit for production and implementation of procedures to be recognized for OCOP products.