An area of ​​1,000m2 of melons is grown in a membrane house, applying advanced farming techniques according to Israel’s high technology, using organic fertilizers, misting irrigation of the Cooperative for Production and Consumption of Safe Vegetables Long Thuan, Hong District Ngu, after more than 70 days of cultivation, has now started harvesting to supply the market. In this crop, the weather is favorable, the melon yield is about 3.5 tons/1,000m2, of which the weight of each fruit is 1.7 – 2.5kg. With the selling price of 40,000 VND/kg, minus investment expenses, the cooperative earned a profit of over 20 million VND. In particular, the pairs of melons planted with pictures, engraved letters according to orders for double profits. Currently, in Hong Ngu district, some farmers have boldly converted traditional farming methods to organic farming to meet market demand. Investing in a membrane house to grow melons is initially costly (several tens of millions of dong/house, depending on the area) but in return, it limits pests and diseases, and produces safe products, so the cultivation efficiency after each crop is nearly high. twice that of the outside.

The Lotus Agricultural Cooperative in Uncle Ho’s hometown has planted 65 different varieties of lotus on an area of ​​120ha, bringing high economic value and serving tourism. (Photo: Bich Hue/VNA) The lotus growing areas are planned as raw material areas to create landscapes to attract visitors to experience. (Photo: Bich Hue/VNA) Nam Dan district will study and select strategic products from lotus for investment and development in combination with eco-tourism to name Sen Village. (Photo: Bich Hue/VNA) Nam Dan district will study and select strategic products from lotus for investment and development in combination with eco-tourism to name Sen Village. (Photo: Bich Hue/VNA) White, pink and yellow lotus are the three main varieties of lotus grown by the Lotus Agricultural Cooperative in Uncle Ho’s hometown to serve tourists. (Photo: Bich Hue/VNA) White, pink and yellow lotus are the three main varieties of lotus grown by the Lotus Agricultural Cooperative in Uncle Ho’s hometown to serve tourists. (Photo: Bich Hue/VNA) The Lotus Agricultural Cooperative in Uncle Ho’s hometown grows 65 different varieties of lotus on an area of ​​120ha, bringing both high economic value and tourism service. (Photo: Bich Hue/VNA) Visitors can experience the technical stages of growing, harvesting, processing lotus and enjoy culinary art and visit and shop for lotus products. (Photo: Bich Hue/VNA)

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.

Dong Chau fish sauce production area outside Xuan Phuong village, Thach Kim commune is very clean. “From 1991 to present, Dong Chau fish sauce is known by many people for its rich and delicious taste. However, the product is only around in the province but has not been able to reach major markets,” said Director of Dong Chau Cua Sot Seafood Export and Processing Cooperative, Luu Thi Chau. “There are many ingredients to produce fish sauce, but anchovies (striped anchovies) are still the first choice because of their high nutritional content, delicious taste, and relatively “soft” price. However, this material is only purchased within 24 hours from the time the fish is caught. If beyond that time period, selling cheap Dong Chau establishments will not buy because they cannot produce good fish sauce “- the director of the cooperative added. The members of the cooperative open the jar lid and prepare to stir the soaked ingredients Brass anchovies usually appear from June to December every year, quite abundantly in Ha Tinh waters with the selling price of 20 million VND/ton, so it is very convenient for Dong Chau to produce in large quantities. However, to be able to produce delicious and quality fish sauce bottles and create a brand, the cooperative workers must carefully select fresh, delicious fish that have not been iced, use clean salt and sufficient dosage. After washing with sea water to dry, anchovies are marinated at the ratio of 4 quintals of fish/1 quintal of salt and 2 kg of hearing (brown rice with golden brown) and then incubated in jars. One month after marinating, the producer opens the jar lid and then uses a tool to stir it from top to bottom. Then every 5-7 days, continue to stir to ensure the fish is cooked evenly. After 18 months, each jar containing 250 kg produces “oven” of 70-80 liters of grade 1 fish sauce with the selling price of 120,000 VND/liter. After harvesting, grade 1 fish sauce continues to be salted, soaked, and stirred 2 to 4 times in a period of 1 month, the producer collects about 40 liters of type 2 fish sauce (selling price 60,000 VND / month). liters) and 30 liters of fish sauce grade 3 (30,000 VND/liter). The “secret” to creating delicious, pure fish sauce drops is to use the traditional method of salting fish sauce on the basis of making the most of the sun. Also thanks to many years of experience in traditional craft, Dong Chau fish sauce attracts consumers thanks to the factors of color, protein and characteristic taste. However, in order to produce high-quality brands, not everyone understands the hardships of this profession. Workers do not have a day off, often have to work under the hot sun of the sea, because the sun is good, the fish sauce is delicious. Not only the taste, but the yellow color of Dong Chau fish sauce also “scores” the product Known for its delicious and rich fish sauce, no preservatives are used, so the products of Dong Chau Cua Sot Cooperative are ordered by many foreign customers. After 18 months (May 2019) investing in “improvement”, with a total capital of 500 million VND, renting the premises, paving the cement floor, building the campus, buying 100 porcelain pots (jars), buying production materials packaging, labels… Dong Chau fish sauce has achieved 3-star OCOP product brand on December 17, 2020. Thanks to OCOP branded products, after a short period of time, production output increased from 200, 300 liters/month to 500, 700 liters/month. In particular, on the occasion of the Lunar New Year 2021, the cooperative consumed more than 1,200 liters. So far, Dong Chau fish sauce brand has produced and consumed there. Dong Chau is favored by small traders in major domestic markets such as Hanoi, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa, Ba Ria – Vung Tau, etc. Dong Chau fish sauce is packaged in glass bottles and plastic cans with beautiful designs. According to Mr. Vo Ta Binh – Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Loc Ha district, due to the rich experience in making traditional fish sauce, it has been invested in “improvement”, so the Dong Chau brand has attracted a lot of domestic customers. In particular, the cooperative also creates stable jobs for 7 people with an income of 5 – 6 million VND/person/month. “From the initial success, in the coming time, the cooperative wants to continue to invest in expanding production to increase the capacity to 1,500, 2,000 liters/month. However, the most difficult thing at the moment is the lack of production space. Therefore, if the functional departments of Loc Ha district create favorable conditions to help, the cooperative will embark on realizing the set plan,” added Ms. Luu Thi Chau – Director of the cooperative.

Located on the edge of the city. Tuyen Quang, about half an hour’s drive from the city center, Su Anh cooperative is now replicating the tea variety originating from Taiwan, which is used to make oolong tea. This is a tea variety with high quality, mild aroma, and suitable for the province’s soil. According to Mr. Nguyen Cong Su, owner of the cooperative, the finished oolong tea has been deodorized. This is not suitable for the majority of Vietnamese consumers, who are familiar with the acrid taste of famous brands such as Tan Cuong and Thai Nguyen tea. To bring a high-end product closer to users, Su Anh cooperative has imported all tea varieties, which are used to produce oolong tea. However, in the processing stage, Mr. Su’s cooperative kept the same method as that of traditional tea so as not to lose the tannin – the factor that causes the characteristic acrid taste. The entire tea production process is invested with modern equipment by Su Anh cooperative. In particular, this machine to kill yeast and flavor tea was purchased by the cooperative for about 100 million VND. The use of the machine is to keep the yeast killing process at a stable temperature, avoiding the phenomenon of over or under fire compared to traditional wood burning. Besides technology, input factors are also particularly interested in Su Anh cooperative. According to Mr. Su, before harvesting, he often tells workers to wait for a few days of strong sunlight to prevent the tea from being pale. After being picked, tea must be brought to the factory within a few hours, so that the tea leaves are not crushed or crushed. Ngoc Thuy tea products of the cooperative are completely hand-picked, following the “one shrimp two leaves” standard. This is the top, freshest and youngest part of the tea plant. To ensure quality, Su Anh cooperative has opened many workshops, close to the raw material area, to ensure the processing progress. Compared to oolong tea originating from China, Ngoc Thuy tea of ​​Su Anh cooperative is more accessible in price. In particular, the tea still retains the characteristic acrid taste according to the taste of Vietnamese people. The product has achieved 4-star OCOP certificate of Tuyen Quang province.

Quite common use These days, Mr. Phan Thanh Thai (Dien Son commune, Dien Khanh district) is always busy collecting straw in the field of Lung bridge. From the day the field was harvested, his straw rolling machine had to work continuously to ensure that the straw was not wet or slowed down. Mr. Thai said that in the past, he received a contract to supply rice straw to other places, but it had to be done manually. Recently, he invested in buying a straw rolling machine and then connected it to a plow to deploy the machine. In addition, he also rented a straw rolling machine to secure the contract to supply straw rolls to the provinces and cities: Phan Thiet, Phan Rang, Lam Dong. 1 straw rolling machine ensures a productivity of 500 rolls/day, each roll weighs 20kg. Harvesting straw in the field of Cau Lung, Dien Khanh. The mechanization of straw handling by a straw rolling machine is now quite popular. Mr. Nguyen Truong Sanh – Director of Dien Lac Agricultural Cooperative (Dien Khanh) said that Dien Lac farmers have been selling straw rolls for several years now. Dien Lac Commune has 180ha of 2-crop rice, more than 50% of the area is used for straw rolling machines, except for the small and fragmented area located in residential areas and flooded areas that cannot be harvested. Harvesting straw by machine helps to save labor, straw is used for many purposes such as making mushrooms, root cabinets, fodder for cattle… Currently, on average, 1ha of harvested rice is purchased for 600,000 VND, help farmers have more income from straw. The cooperative makes a contract with the person who has the machine, sells straw to customers in need and pays debts of the cooperative members to the cooperative from selling straw. According to Mr. Nguyen Kien – Chairman of the Farmers’ Association of Cam Tan commune, Cam Lam district, recently, farmers in the commune have also known to sell rolled straw to customers. Large fields are mostly harvested by machine, estimated 70-80%. The commune is encouraging farmers to use biological products to treat rice straw to improve the soil. Should replenish the land The advantages of machine harvesting are clear, however, through the sale of straw, harvesting by machine also raises controversial issues. Users of the machine believe that, in addition to the above advantages, the use of straw rolling machines also helps to cut off the source of pest spread in the field from untreated straw, preventing the next rice crop from being poisoned with straw. untreated straw, and at the same time resists smoke pollution from burning copper… People who are worried about the depletion of soil colorants think that the sale of rolled straw should not be encouraged, because in this way the source of nutrients From the straw is increasingly lost, the soil will gradually degrade because of the lack of organic matter, the yield will decrease in the following crops if there is no other source of fertilizer to compensate. Both of the above comments are valid. However, in fact, for a long time, farmers have paid little attention to nutrients for the soil, leading to poorer soil quality, especially in the one-crop rice area. If in the past, when inorganic fertilizers were not widely used, the soil was difficult to degrade because farmers used a lot of organic fertilizers to fertilize crops, even cooperatives were worried about buying fertilizers from the northern provinces. such as Lam Thao and Van Dien for farmers. Currently, farming in the way of “instant noodles”, running with inorganic fertilizers makes the soil increasingly degraded, so the source of fertilizer from rotting straw is meaningful. Therefore, agricultural extension officers advise that harvesting straw by machine is still necessary and suitable with the current level of technology. Farmers need to pay attention to the issue of nourishing the soil when taking away the source of rice straw, funding from the source of selling straw. Only in this way can the role of mechanical machinery be promoted, and at the same time the arable land is not degraded and degraded. VL

Place to save memories That old life recedes as quickly as possible into the past like a nap. That was the 70s and 80s of the last century, the time we could never forget with the busy days, the “big screen screen projection, earth theatrical performances” was very special. It was so innocently interesting and the “incidents” lingered in the cooperative’s storehouse full of memories. I remember vividly about the warehouse yards of the three villages of Tri Can, Kien Hung and Duong Hoa. The three cooperative warehouses are in three different villages, but the building style is very similar. When we were growing up, the warehouse was ever there. The yard is very large. All three are located in the center of three villages to facilitate collective activities when the village holds games on holidays, New Year and cultural performances between production teams when the planting season begins, The harvest is over … A movie screening session at the cooperative warehouse yard. (Artwork from the internet) Tri Can village is a warehouse of the second team as the center of three production teams: One, Two, Three. Kien Hung village is the warehouse yard belonging to Team Five, which is the center of four production teams: Bon, Nam, Sau, Bay and this is also the central warehouse yard of Thieu Hung commune. There is another yard in Duong Hoa village. This warehouse is centrally located in the production team 10 for 4 teams: Eight, Nine, Ten and Eleven. At that time, the warehouses at that time, during the rice harvest season, all the production teams of the three villages gathered rice for plucking. By the way, this yard is used to dry rice. During the season, rice was spread over the yard and the young men were assigned to guard the whole area. These days, my hometown is happy like the association, I think back to remember and regret it. The warehouse yard is also a place for mobile film projection teams and art troupes of the province to visit and perform for my hometown people to enjoy with neighboring communes whenever there is an emulation movement. Each warehouse yard is a row of solid and solid warehouses. The warehouse was built very big, very big, located inside the yard and arranged very tidily for the convenience of cars, tractors and oxcarts to pull in and out. The warehouse area has many large houses, used to store staple food, the door is tightly closed so that thieves cannot get in and steal, extending a few rows of headlines. The column is made of something that is difficult to peel off. It seems that the warehouse belongs to a rich farmer from a very distant childhood. The roof is tiled with fish scales, this type of tile is difficult to find nowadays, sometimes there are still a few houses left, but the moss is old and old. This tile roof, birds and bats love because this is the quietest place for them to live because the ceiling is very high, no one can play with. Warehouse fence walls are built with bricks, high green stones. On the wall of that fence, people planted many fragments of glass bottles. We dare not play with these glassware for fear of bleeding. Fear of ghosts – an interesting childhood fear At the end of the rice harvest season or there is no event, the warehouse yard will return to a quiet, dull look and only the rice plucking machine is waiting for another harvest season to come. The tranquility of the yard and the ventilation are the ideal places for our children to play. In the afternoon, we gathered to hop on the ground to measure and measure the length of the yard. Remembering the long yard, we jogged from the north to the south end of the yard tired. The yard is tiled with the red ship, the square brick next to the size of 30 cm, straight line. On this brick background, watching the screen projection on the big screen is very interesting. Because the yard was too large, the children gathered together to count how many rows and bricks would take a long time to finish. Tiles are glaring in the eyes. We are also kind of goofy, so we count the number of bricks for sweating to have a quiz about ice cream betting. Yet many of them also gave up, sometimes even adults. My grandmother heard us arguing about winning and losing about the number of bricks in the garlic-stained yard and immediately threatened: “The yard is hiding a lot of ghosts”. Hearing that, we all panicked and did not dare to go there to play anymore, hiding behind her and whispered: “Grandma, people build a very high wall! How can ghosts hide?”. She did not explain any more. Seeing her silent, we feared and skeptically thought of all sorts of things to weave, whispering loud and small. The fear made us feel even more that if anyone in the village died, it would be early evening that we would not dare to pass the door of our room any more. We believe she is right because she is the person with the most image of that warehouse yard. From then on, whenever we walked across that warehouse yard, no one would say anything to each other, so we could not dare to turn around, afraid to turn around and fear that we could not run. We got past the front yard of the courtyard, and we breathed a sigh of relief, our faces rustling. Many of us even came up with a way to walk across the yard by asking the dog to follow to ease our fear. But sometimes when passing by, I kept hearing the birds singing in the warehouse and the wind blowing even more scared. During the day I was scared to wonder what happened at night. Hello! We scrambled to go in the middle. If the ghost clings, there are people who go first and go after. So every mother sent to the edge of the pond to pick vegetables and it was a bit dark, she would make it up like this and that to avoid going through the yard of the warehouse where she said there were “ghosts”. Later we thought “what the hell are you afraid of? Let’s be a hero!” and just invite each other out to the warehouse to play hide and seek to delight. Time passed by, the warehouse yard in my three villages was gone. Instead, they are the homes of the people in my hometown. Now that the decades have passed, we remember forever the storage yard full of memories at that time when we were delighted to play on the drying ground of the cooperative, and also went to the cinema, opera, row … Sometimes I come back and hang around here in the language of my homeland. COMPANION UNIT

Ms. Ngoc Giau picked up the tofu tofu from the cooking pan. Uncle Ba Hoang said, the cooperative currently has 38 members, producing tofu with a medium and large scale. Particularly with his oven has a scale of up to 180 pans, an average of 300kg-500kg of tofu ships can be produced per day. Smaller ovens range in production from more than a dozen pans to a few dozen cooking pans. Thanks to this job, people set up a career right in their homeland and help solve the rural labor force with stages such as cooking, transporting, drying … We went to My Hung 1 hamlet, My Hoa commune, where there are quite a few people making tofu but with a smaller scale. Ms. Nguyen Ngoc Giau and her husband are standing cooking 18 tofu pans. Giau said this profession is “hereditary” and that she and her husband chose to establish a career over the past 20 years. Tofu and tofu of Mrs. Giau and her husband do not sell enough, mainly in the market in Tra Vinh province. “This job is not heavy, but it has a constant job, since the chickens have not crowed. Having a regular income, staying at home, having time to care for the family and cultivating to earn more ”- Mrs. Giau said. Go to the house of Uncle Nguyen Van Hai, Giau’s biological father, to hear him talk about the traditional profession. Uncle Hai said that this profession must be present for over 100 years in My Hoa, he is also “inherited from his father”, but now he is very old, so he no longer cooks but passes on to his children. At that time, Uncle Hai said, when we went to that time, when I heard that My Hoa hometown, people mentioned Nam Roi pomelo and tofu tofu. Particularly tofu in My Hoa has been famous for a long time, everyone praised it delicious. According to Uncle Hai, although the tofu cooking profession is not difficult to do, but it takes patience and hard work because if an average of 18 cooking pans is taken, a cooking shift takes more than 20 hours to complete. That is not to mention the high season such as the big full moon day of the year, the traditional New Year …, the capacity must increase. Uncle Dinh Cong Hoang said: Thanks to the reputation, My Hoa tofu is very easy to consume in the markets of the Mekong Delta cities and provinces, especially Can Tho, Vinh Long, and Tra Vinh. However, the current difficulty is that the price of soybean ingredients used to cook tofu tofu is soaring, around 17,000 VND / kg that the profit is low, although the current tofu has increased by about 92,000 VND / kg (selling price at oven). Normally, for every 90kg of raw soybeans, 35kg-38kg of finished products are produced. “If any batch of raw soybeans are imported, which are young beans, cooked without scum to salvage tofu, the risk of breaking the tofu or even loss is high” – Uncle Ba Hoang shared. However, most people think “take the credit”, so everyone is enthusiastic about keeping the traditional profession of the homeland. Tofu tofu is also known as phuoc (the sound camp from Sino-Vietnamese) or scum, because this product is made from picking up soybean scum on a cooking pan. The way to make tofu tofu is also quite simple: soak soybeans, peel the skin clean and then grind it, and cook it on a large pan. Cook until a while, the bean paste will gather on the surface, the cook will pick it up and hang it on the pole right above the pan to dry. The trend of vegetarian cuisine is increasingly popular, so tofu tofu is also “crowned” because it is easy to eat, can process many dishes, from soup, stir-fry to warehouse, rolls … Tofu is also used to cook savory dishes such as isle, la-gu, curry … Thanks to the variety of cuisine of tofu, the product is selling very well. The view of a tofu cooking oven is very beautiful, and is loved by photographers. But if you try to stand in the cooking pan, you can see that the hot temperature makes the cook easily tired and sweat a lot if you are not used to it. Yet the professors feel normal and remember when the stove stopped setting the fire.

The OCOP Product Festival 2021 has 24 provinces and cities nationwide OCOP festival is held with the scale of nearly 150 booths of businesses, cooperatives, production establishments, craft villages … The stalls are arranged in 4 zones. Area 1 displays and exhibits OCOP products, with a scale of about 40 booths Zone 2, with the scale of more than 20 booths, Zone 3, with the size of more than 20 booths, Some typical fish sauce dishes of An Giang province An Giang alone has dozens of fish sauce products In which, many fish sauce products achieved OCOP Many OCOP products, typical products of 4 provinces and cities in the ABCD Mekong cluster (An Giang, Ben Tre, Can Tho, Dong Thap) Cereals, an OCOP product of Can Tho City This OCOP festival is really a strong driving force to promote the supply-demand connection between producers and consumers. This is an opportunity for units to introduce, advertise, expand markets and connect trade; Orientation of product production development according to market development needs OCOP product of Ca Mau province Dried shrimp is one of the OCOP products, which is also a specialty of Ca Mau province. A corner of a booth displaying OCOP products of Dong Thap province Mango – an OCOP product, Dong Thap province Mango products of Cho Moi district. In particular, the culinary culture space, about 14 stalls, introduces the delicacies of districts, towns and cities in An Giang province. Pancakes Pancakes served with vegetables in Bay Nui region./.

The locality at the forefront of the movement towards high-tech agriculture in Binh Dinh is the midland district of Hoai An. According to Mr. Vo Duy Tin, Deputy Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Hoai An District, there are 22 agricultural cooperatives in the district, of which 16 have transformed and operated under the Law on Cooperatives in 2012 and 6 specialized cooperatives. New agriculture is established in 2020. La’sfarm High-Tech Cooperative is one of the first units in Binh Dinh to apply high-tech vegetable production. Photo: Vu Dinh Thung. Since 2019, An Tin Agriculture Cooperative (Hoai An District) has pioneered clean rice production. The cooperative was the first unit of Binh Dinh to grow high-quality rice in an organic way. According to Mr. Bui Long Xuan, Director of An Tin Agricultural Cooperative, in the winter-spring crop 2020-2021, the cooperative produces 2.5 hectares of high-quality rice following the process of no chemical fertilizers, no pesticides, and only using organic fertilizers and microbiological fertilizers to create clean rice products. Currently, the cooperative’s organic rice has been certified, has its own packaging and labels. Initially, the cooperative sold organic rice at the price of 20,000 VND / kg and was well received by the provincial market. “In the coming summer-autumn crop of 2021, we will multiply the area of ​​high-quality organic rice production to improve our ability to meet the market, and at the same time, invest in the application of rice seeding technology and rice drying technology. improve the quality of clean rice products ”, shared Mr. Bui Long Xuan. La’sfarm High-Tech Agriculture Cooperative (Hoai An District) is also the first unit of Binh Dinh province to apply high technology to the production of vegetables and fruits. According to Mr. Tran Bao Diep, Director of La’sfarm High-Tech Cooperative, the cooperative is applying Israeli high-tech techniques such as growing vegetables in a greenhouse, automatic drip irrigation with timer and production control on the phone. smart, fertilize with microbiological fertilizers to create organic products according to VietGAP standards. “The application of high technology in production helps to create clean agricultural products, especially melon with beautiful designs, all sizes and delicious quality, very popular with the market”, Mr. Diep said. The fragrant cucumber by the Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology of the South Central Coast is planted with high technology. Photo: Vu Dinh Thung. Not only developing clean agricultural production models, Hoai An district also develops many linkage models from production to consumption of clean agricultural products locally. For example, the Agriculture Cooperative 19/4 in An Tuong Tay commune specializes in growing green grapefruit in the direction of VietGAP. The initial capital was 5 hectares of green skin pomelo in the garden of Mr. Nguyen Hoai Thuong (Cooperative Director), then the cooperative linked with many other members to increase the total area of ​​green skin pomelo of the cooperative to 55 hectares. Currently, 55 hectares of the cooperative’s green skin pomelo in the business period, each year can supply the market with hundreds of tons of fruit. According to Mr. Vo Duy Tin, Deputy Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Hoai An district, the chain of links will create a product that is similar in terms of fruit quality and quality. 19/4 Agriculture Cooperative will stand out to buy all products of farmers and sign contracts with businesses to sell the products. Mr. Tin said that the project on the chain of the 19/4 Agricultural Cooperative was built with a total investment of 25 billion VND, the heaviest cost was to build a preliminary processing house, cold storage to preserve products. warehouse and purchase cargo transport truck. This model is very necessary because in 1-2 years, the number of green pomelo areas to the business period in Hoai An district will grow very high. Up to now, the 19/4 Agricultural Cooperative has connected a focal point for product consumption with a business in Ben Tre. It is expected that, if successful, Hoai An pomelo can be exported to Europe and Korea. Mr. Trinh Hung Cong, owner of organic vegetable farm Yuuki Farm in Nhon Hau commune (An Nhon town, Binh Dinh province). Photo: Vu Dinh Thung. Developing clean agriculture for urban service In Hoai An district, there is also Thanh Nien Agricultural Cooperative, linking the youth force of communes with farmers to buy clean agricultural products in the area. When associating with farmers, the cooperative will guide farmers to produce vegetables and fruits in the direction of clean agricultural products, then set up a stall selling clean agricultural products at the district center for consumption and for sale outside the province. In An Nhon Town (Binh Dinh), there are also many models of clean vegetable and organic vegetable production that are operating effectively in the direction of developing clean agriculture for urban areas in association with the project of restructuring the industry. local agriculture. For example, Yuuki Farm organic vegetable farm with Japanese technology by Mr. Trinh Hung Cong in Nhon Hau commune. Yuuki Farm is producing and trading clean vegetables, roots and fruits such as vegetables, lettuce, tomatoes, carrots … Every day, on average, Yuuki Farm sells about 100 kg of clean vegetables according to the order. of 2 kindergartens in Quy Nhon city with 7 points selling clean vegetables inside and outside the province. Every month, after deducting expenses, Cong’s farm gives a profit of about 60 million dong. Green-skin melon application of high technology in Agriculture Cooperative 2 Nhon Tho (An Nhon Town, Binh Dinh Province). Photo: Vu Dinh Thung. Also in Nhon Hau commune (An Nhon town), the project of producing organic vegetables in a net house of Kei’s Japan Joint Stock Company was born in 2016. Many varieties of vegetables such as lettuce, okra, cucumber, vegetables … were brought from Japan and cultivated according to Japanese technology on an area of ​​7,500 m2. As a result, local people have direct access to the way of making soil, fertilizing, and planting to produce clean and safe vegetables. Currently, every day Kei’s organic vegetable garden provides more than 100kg of vegetables, tubers and fruits to the market with prices ranging from 20,000 – 40,000 VND / kg. Mr. Duong Quan Sy, a farmer participating in the project, shared: Through the outreach process, the project participants now have a firm grasp of the cultivation techniques and the company also implements mineral products for the people, thanks That farmer’s income is also higher. “Grasping the needs of consumers, Nhon Tho Agricultural Cooperative 2 has turned to organic agriculture. Currently, the cooperative has planted 3.4 hectares of safe vegetables, tubers and fruits in the right direction. Focus on the use of manure and microbiological organic fertilizers derived from natural by-products. The entire vegetable growing area is covered with nets to limit weeds, fertilize according to the norm using the drip irrigation system with Israeli technology and the use of pesticides of biological origin, nanotechnology, ensuring time. cups during cultivation. Cooperatives also use insect nets, antifungal products composted with manure. The products of vegetables, melon, cucumber of the cooperative are trusted by consumers ”.

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has just submitted a proposal to the Government to develop the Law on Social Insurance (amended) (social insurance). According to the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, the current development of social insurance beneficiaries is below potential, many people are subject to compulsory social insurance but have not yet participated. The current law is “missing” many subjects Data from the General Statistics Office shows that in 2019, the whole country had more than 5.6 million individual business households, eight times the number of enterprises. According to the tax authorities, the country has more than 1.7 million times of households paying tax (households with turnover less than 100 million VND / year do not have to pay). However, this group is not subject to compulsory social insurance, so very few individual business householders participate in voluntary social insurance. According to data from the Ministry of Planning and Investment, in 2019 there are about 23,000 active cooperatives, attracting nearly six million members. In which 1.2 million people work in the cooperative area. But according to the report of the social insurance agency, there are nearly 7,000 cooperatives registered to participate in compulsory social insurance for about 41,000 employees. “Through a survey in some localities, many business managers, managers and executives of unpaid cooperatives wish to participate in compulsory social insurance …” – said by the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs. Therefore, the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs proposes to add compulsory social insurance participants for individual business householders, business managers, managers and cooperatives without pay. Specific provisions on compulsory social insurance for employees who work part-time and participate in compulsory social insurance with civil servants, public employees, part-time workers at commune level who also sign labor contracts. moving. According to the assessment of the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, the above provision helps to increase the income of the social insurance fund in the short and medium term, while also increasing the expenditure from the social insurance fund in both short, medium and long term. The number of people who receive one-time social insurance to take care of their immediate life tends to increase. Photo: V.LONG Need to have a share in participating in social insurance According to the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, the nature of risk sharing is only evident in sickness, maternity, labor accident, and occupational disease regimes. The pension policy is designed to be heavy on the principle of payment – benefit (pay more and enjoy more and vice versa) but lack attention to the principle of sharing between high and low salary people. According to data reported by the Vietnam Social Security, by the end of 2017, the average pension is 4.26 million VND / person / month. In which, the highest is 101.3 million VND / person / month, the lowest is 1.3 million VND / person / month (more than 4,100 people have this pension). The large gap in pension discourages people with low wages, leading to an increase in the number of people who want to receive one-time social insurance. In recent years, each year about 600,000 people enjoy one-time social insurance and leave the social insurance system. Therefore, this agency proposes to amend the method of calculating the average monthly salary paid for social insurance to calculate the pension for the employee, in the direction of the average monthly salary paid for social insurance of that person and the average monthly salary paid for social insurance. of people participating in social insurance to calculate their pensions. Thus, there will be a certain share between the high-paid and the low-paid. “The narrowing of the pension gap will encourage the participants of low-wage social insurance to reserve the time to pay social insurance to enjoy the pension instead of receiving one-time social insurance …” – The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs assessed. The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs said that if allowed, the unit would be authorized by the Government to submit to the National Assembly for consideration and comments on the first bill at the second session of term XV (October 2022). Submit to the National Assembly for approval at the third session, term XV (May 2023). “Tighten” regulations on receiving social insurance once Currently, the condition to receive one-time social insurance is quite easy. Specifically, after one year of not participating in social insurance, the employee can receive one-time social insurance with the entitlement of 1.5 months of salary for each year participating in social insurance before 2014 and two months of salary for each participating year thereafter. Thus, with the contribution to the pension and death fund of 8% of the salary from the employee, the one year of paying 0.96 months of salary, the entitlement to two months’ salary upon receiving one-time social insurance is considered profitable. Along with having to wait too long to enjoy pension, employees will want to receive one-time social insurance to meet immediate needs. Therefore, it is necessary to adjust the regulations on one-time social insurance entitlement in the direction of having a roadmap to only deal with employees when they have reached the end of their working age but are not eligible for pensions without the need to continue paying. . Except for the case of going abroad to legally settle down or suffering from a dangerous disease and wishing to receive it once, or if the case is not yet over the working age, but receives one-time social insurance, the rate of entitlement is lower. In addition, the law also needs to amend the conditions for enjoying the pension in the direction of gradually reducing the number of years of minimum social insurance payment from 20 years to 15 years, towards 10 years with an appropriate calculated benefit level, creating conditions for The elderly, with a low number of years participating in social insurance, are entitled to pensions. 65% of Vietnamese elderly do not have a pension According to the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, by the end of 2020, Vietnam has about 14.1 million people after the retirement age (55 years old for women, 60 years old and older for men). Of which, only over 3.1 million people are enjoying the pension (accounting for 22.1%) and 1.8 million people are enjoying the retirement allowance. There are still about 9.2 million people after the retirement age (accounting for 65%) who have not participated in insurance or any other social security layer.

From Hermann Scholz, BR Quentin Orain used to be a well-paid engineer in the automotive industry in Munich. He gave up this job – for an empty room of around 300 square meters. A hands-on supermarket is to be built here in mid-July, organized as a cooperative. They bought some of the furnishings from a closed Karstadt, among the participants are craftsmen who help with the furnishings or designers who have already designed the shop windows. The receptionist comes to the front of the door. Customers are checked there – because anyone who is allowed to shop here has to be a member of the cooperative. The new market should make it easier to consume sustainably. “I was missing a place where there is everything, from the region, organic, and also with little packaging, with a full range, everything you need in everyday life,” says the Frenchman Orain. The Munich market was modeled on similar markets in New York and Paris. The “Park Slope Food Coop” has been operating in New York for almost 50 years and has 17,000 members. Orain worked for the Parisian cooperative “La Louve” for a while to understand what it takes to be successful. The most important thing, he concluded, is the close ties between the project participants and the market.

Cheaper than traditional shopping?

The model works like this: Each member of the cooperative acquires shares of at least 180 euros – there are discounts for low-wage earners. To this end, he works three hours a month. There are also permanent employees. The market should offer the entire range of a conventional supermarket. The highlight: there is a continuous surcharge of 30 percent on the purchase price. This is how the sales price is calculated. They cannot keep up with special offers from comparable organic markets. But on average you get around 15 to 20 percent cheaper when shopping, estimates Orain – and sometimes even cheaper for vegetables. The idea for the hands-on supermarket arose from the popular initiative “Save the bees”. The initiators came to the conviction that one should not only impose rules on the farmers – one must also offer them an opportunity to market their goods. That is why the cooperative is already building a network of suppliers around Munich. The participants themselves decide on the standards for the food they buy. It doesn’t always have to be organic – for example, good keeping conditions for the animals whose meat they offer are also important.

The products come from the region

Every second Friday Kristin Mansmann from the cooperative drives to the organic estate Wallenburg in Miesbach south of Munich and packs boxes of fresh vegetables into her small car. Then it goes to the organic cheese dairy Obermooser in Irschenberg. Until now, the dairy has only sold its products in the immediate vicinity; With the cooperative, she succeeds in making the leap to the large Munich market. Mansmann picks up orders at the two courtyards – the cooperative is already functioning as a purchasing community, as a test run for the supermarket, so to speak. She delivers the orders in a garage next to the Munich wholesale market hall. Members are already setting up a distribution station there. Each member can come at a specified time and receive their order. Everything seems a bit improvised, but you know each other, the atmosphere is relaxed and friendly.

Other cities are also planning hands-on supermarkets

The members of the cooperative have two motivations: the price – and the feeling of doing good. “The nice thing is that we know where things come from, you have a completely different connection to them,” says project participant Britta Bertsch. Manuel Schäffer only came by to have a look – but he already sees the advantages: “The work is manageable, and I have to pay in the supermarket too, and if in doubt, more than here.” The idea of ​​the hands-on supermarket seems to be slowly but surely gaining a foothold in Germany. There are already several purchasing cooperatives for fruit and vegetables, including in Munich. And when it comes to full-range supermarkets, Munich’s are the first, but also in Berlin (“Supercoop”) and Cologne (“Köllektiv “ ) want to start similar projects soon. The Munich cooperative needs around 800 members to function. She already has almost half.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam speaking and directing the conference. Photo: Quang Yen.

The number of cooperatives operating exceeded the set target

According to the report, by the end of March 2021, the country had nearly 17,600 agricultural cooperatives and 68 cooperative unions operating in the agricultural sector. Basically completing the target of 15,000 effective agricultural cooperatives assigned by the National Assembly and the Government.

Currently, 56/63 provinces and cities have issued a Resolution of the Provincial People’s Council on policies to encourage production and consumption of agricultural products; 48/63 provinces issued a list of key key products and commodities that need to be encouraged for development; 16/63 provinces have approved projects and joint projects of the province with 359 projects approved. In which there are 271 scientific organizations, 586,585 farmer households, 4,028 agricultural cooperatives participating in association with 1,867 enterprises. Out of more than 4,500 OCOP products, nearly 40% are owned by cooperatives and agricultural cooperatives.

According to statistics, there are 30,026 agricultural production and business farms nationwide, using 35,904 ha of land, 3.1 ha / farm on average; 3.7 employees / farm on average. The farm’s investment capital for production is VND 1,042 billion; average revenue reached 1,478 billion.

By the end of 2020, the country has 165 traditional occupations and 1,951 craft villages and traditional craft villages which have been recognized. The total number of establishments engaged in production and business in the rural industry is over 817,000, creating jobs for over 2.3 million workers, the total revenue from rural activities is over 236,000. billion VND, average income is 4 to 4.5 million VND / person / month.

In recent years, the level of mechanization of agricultural production in some stages has increased, especially for rice production. Targets for agricultural mechanization in some stages by 2020 will increase by 2-8% compared to 2019.

From 2017 to now, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has advised the Government to issue two important documents, namely Decree No. 40/2017 / ND-CP on management of salt production, processing and trading and Decision No. 1325 / QD-TTg of the Prime Minister on August 31, 2020 approving the salt industry development project for the period of 2021-2030. Salt production reaches about 1,350,000 tons, basically meeting the demand for salt in the country. To initially form industrial salt production zones in three provinces of Khanh Hoa, Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan.

However, despite strong changes in both quantity and quality, the scale of revenue and the size of members of the agricultural cooperative remains small. Leadership capacity of cooperatives is still limited.

The implementation of agricultural mechanization still lacks strategy and is not synchronous. Important policies such as investment in supporting infrastructure, especially infrastructure for production and business, land policy and especially credit are still the bottlenecks.

Therefore, at the conference, many opinions said that the key point for cooperative development is human, so it is necessary to pay attention to support and improve the cooperative management capacity for the board of directors and the president of the society. board.

Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam and leaders of Dak Lak province chair the conference.

In addition, delegates also said that relevant ministries should continue to review and complete the legal system, mechanisms and policies on collective economic development, agricultural cooperatives (land, tax, credit). use …), promptly remove difficulties and problems, create conditions for the collective economy and agricultural cooperatives to develop stably.

Especially when the Free Trade Agreements take effect, the issue of product safety, quality and food security; Commodity competition will take place very fierce. With its advantages and potential, economic cooperation through cooperatives and cooperative groups will contribute to increase product value.

Main mission

Speaking at the conclusion of the conference, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam asked localities to continue developing cooperative economies in the direction of mechanization of production, cooperation in investment in processing technology. to develop agricultural products in the direction of multidisciplinary and multi-occupations, adapting to the market economy, renewing production and business modes, in order to step by step improve the competitiveness of goods.

Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam emphasized that the task in 2021 is to continue perfecting the system of legal documents in violation of the industry law, promoting synchronous mechanization in agricultural production. Develop a rural career development strategy to 2030; Project to develop agricultural cooperatives to respond to climate change; Development of collective economy and cooperatives.

Conference scene. Photo: Quang Yen.

According to Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam, MARD is preparing to issue a circular guiding the functions, powers and tasks of the agricultural sector. Therefore, the organization of the local apparatus, depending on the situation of each locality, is structured and arranged properly, and at the same time, the local Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development advise to develop key programs and plans to help support and develop agricultural cooperatives.

“Currently, the cooperative infrastructure is very weak. Therefore, industries need to have mechanisms to support the development of cooperatives. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has tried to develop cooperative infrastructure for the past time, but it has not been as expected. We will try our best in the New Rural Program and make points in a number of projects ”, emphasized Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam.

At the end of the conference, Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam launched the 2021 Typical Handicraft Products Contest. Accordingly, the contest will receive works from September to October and summarize the awards at the Craft Village Fair. later.

“Now we must have a new mindset, that is to develop agriculture in the direction of combining multiple professions and associated with rural services. The second trend is that the OCOP Program is very effective, the rural industries are also attached to it, so we have to do research to promote this program. This is the task of the Department of Economic Cooperation and Rural Development to coordinate with localities in building long-term strategies ”, Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam.

Mr. Giap Van Huan (on the right), Chang village, Viet Tien commune, planted Thai jackfruit in a net house with an inert iron frame.

According to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Viet Yen district, from 2016 up to now, the district has been supported and invested more than 24.4 billion VND to build 116 mesh houses, high-tech agricultural production (CNC) film houses, each model is 1,000 m2 wide. In which, the Provincial People’s Committee supported 12,3 billion VND to build 40 models; the district supported people and cooperatives with 12.1 billion dong to build 76 models. Thereby, 100 net houses, membrane houses in Viet Tien commune, only Minh Tam General Agricultural Cooperative (referred to as Minh Tam Cooperative) has 30 houses to be built and put into use.

Despite a large investment, after a period of operation, most of the film houses, especially net houses, are ineffective. Currently, most of the net houses are left empty and torn. Many households voluntarily dismantle the steel frame and change the crop structure, wrong for the original purpose.

After the newspaper stated, the People’s Committee of Viet Yen district instructed the District Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to coordinate with the People’s Committee of Viet Tien commune to review and inspect the reality, invite Minh Tam Cooperative and the households to change the purpose of using net houses by themselves. job.

Mr. Ngo Xuan Trung, Vice Chairman of Viet Tien Commune People’s Committee, said on April 6 and April 14, the functions of the district and the commune People’s Committee invited representatives of Minh Tam Cooperative (the unit assigned by the District People’s Committee to be in charge of net houses, diaphragm houses in the area) and 9 households using net houses against the original commitment (in two villages of Chang and Ha) to the office to clarify the reasons for conversion and production orientation.

The torn net house area of ​​Minh Tam Cooperative has yet to be repaired.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Tu, Director of Minh Tam Cooperative, said that the reason for the rapid failure of the net is that the net house is not suitable for the sub-region here. Because this area often occurs strong winds that make the net quickly torn and torn. Minh Tam Cooperative as well as other households have invested in repairing, replacing but still ineffective. Due to the loss of intensive farming of vegetables (low selling price, crop failure …), farmers and cooperatives have changed crops.

At the working sessions, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Viet Yen district and the People’s Committee of Viet Tien commune requested Minh Tam Cooperative and the households to self-overcome, remove perennial trees, replant vegetables, tubers and fruits according to the original commitment. . The time to complete the remedy is before May 30, 2021.

The People’s Committee of Viet Tien commune also informs households participating in the project of building plastic houses and net houses in the area: If any household does not do this, they will be recorded in writing and sanctioned according to regulations. Households whose contracts have expired will be liquidated by the District Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and the People’s Committee of Viet Tien Commune.

Requesting Minh Tam Cooperative to remove torn, damaged nets and cover new nets before April 10; cleaning roads, canals and ditches in the net house area before April 24, 2021; directing staff to regularly check, grasp and guide member households and associate with the cooperative to grow vegetables, tubers and fruits in net houses, not to leave empty land.

Up to this point, Minh Tam Cooperative has not recovered the torn nets, covered with new nets as directed. Because according to Ms. Tu: “If we cover the net, we have to spend about 900 million dong so the cooperative doesn’t have the money to do it”. Households also reported that they do not have the budget to stretch new nets and apply for changing land use purposes because they have invested a lot of money to plant perennial trees.

Households participating in the project voluntarily converting crops for the wrong purpose were invited to the office of the People’s Committee of Viet Tien commune to work in the afternoon of April 14.

Talking about this issue, Mr. Than Van Thuan, Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Viet Yen district, said that the main reason leading to Minh Tam Cooperative and households participating in the net house project, the ineffective production is due to The cooperative has not yet built a preliminary processing area, cold storage for agricultural products, so the cooperative cannot sign production contracts with households and businesses (DN) for consumption.

To overcome this, the locality will soon request the Provincial People’s Committee to approve the planning of the preliminary processing zone, so that the district will have grounds to support the construction of this area. This is the basis for Minh Tam Cooperative to be eligible to sign production contracts with households and purchasing enterprises. Regarding net houses whose frame has been removed and the purpose of use changed, Mr. Thuan affirmed that he will give statistics, make records and strictly deal with it, requiring net owners to restore the status quo and grow vegetables and crops according to project. “We are determined to restore the efficiency of the greenhouse and net houses as soon as possible,” said Thuan.

The investment in building high-tech agricultural production zone is the right policy. However, the net houses and plastic houses are ineffective, some of them have changed their use purpose for a long time due to lack of management. Hopefully, local rights, cooperatives and people participating in the project will soon join hands to overcome, avoid wasting investment capital.

News, photo: Dai La

Exploiting the potentials and advantages available in the locality, the youth-owned cooperatives have really brought efficiency, created jobs and stable income, contributing to building a new countryside.

Graduating from the Intermediate School of Agriculture, Ms. Lo Thi Dung, of Thai ethnicity, from Tham Phe village, Muong Kim commune, Than Uyen district, Lai Chau province participated in the local delegation activities. Realizing that the water surface of the hydropower reservoir in the area is a great advantage, Ms. Dung has mobilized the young people in the village to contribute capital and borrow additional funds from the Central Youth Union to develop the model of cage culture.

Hua Na guava brand is an Ocop product and has a reputation inside and outside Lai Chau province, owned by union members and young people.

As the head of Tham Phé Cooperative, Ms. Lo Thi Dung shared that the biggest difficulty was initially capital to invest in production, then many young people in the village did not trust to take advantage of the lake’s water surface adopt fish. After 1 year of farming, the first fish cage was effective, so it was easier to mobilize young people. Up to now, the cooperative has mobilized more than 20 members to participate, with 12 cages of mausoleum, carp, etc.

“Our cooperative is supported with a capital source of 120 from the Central Youth Union and has repaired and remodeled houses and cages to serve the cooperative’s aquaculture activities. The cooperative looks forward to those years. Here, the Party and State are interested in and create conditions for the cooperative to access more preferential loans, so that the cooperative can expand further. , together with more developed cooperatives “- Ms. Lo Thi Dung said.

Youth union members and youth of Than Uyen district take the lead in the model of raising fish in cage on the hydroelectric lake bed.

Hua Na commune, Than Uyen district, Lai Chau province, the locality has advantages in land and soil suitable for many types of crops and livestock. From the initial model of guava, up to now, the young people in the commune have established more than 20 models of economic development such as fish farming, guava, strawberries, medicinal plants, and breeding cattle. Hua Na Cooperative is also a typical model of the collective economy of Lai Chau province, with the typical OCOP product “Hua Na guava”.

Mr. Do Van Tuan, Secretary of Hoi Na Youth Union, Than Uyen District, said: “The cooperative is managing 6 hectares of guava, about 5,000 square meters of strawberries and 5,000 square meters of medicinal plants. The past has created jobs for 20 to 25 local workers, especially for young people In the coming time, the commune union will also have many orientations for young people, such as progressing to travel abroad. ecological calendar, combining fruit tree areas in order to create output, create product branding “.

Fully exploiting the potentials and advantages of each locality, the commune authorities in Than Uyen district, Lai Chau province have oriented young people to start their business development, associated with building a new countryside. When young people start their business, they are all supported by the government in terms of land conditions and loans. From the area of ​​barren hills, bare land and immense hydroelectric lake-bed waters, the creativity of youth has created hundreds of effective economic models.

Mr. Do Manh Huan, Deputy Secretary of Than Uyen District Youth Union, said young people who set up a career have little experience, but their enthusiasm is redundant. They learn hard and are ready to stand up when they fail to achieve success. Up to now, Than Uyen Youth Union has established 7 cooperatives, providing jobs and stable income from 5 to 10 million VND per month for hundreds of workers who are ethnic minorities in the locality.

The youth-owned cooperatives in Than Uyen district have created jobs and stable incomes for hundreds of local workers.

Also according to Mr. Huan: “In the training activities related to start-ups and start-ups from the central government to the province, we all choose union members and young people to participate in training courses to improve their capacity in entrepreneurship. Every year, the district Youth Union organizes dialogues related to start-ups and business establishment and mobilizes the members and youths of the communes to participate.

Development models mainly focused on agriculture such as guava, fish cage, passion fruit. In the coming time, the District Youth Union will continue to accompany young people in starting a business, setting up a career, towards registering Ocop products “.

Economic development models in the form of linking cooperative members who are young people in Than Uyen have brought about practical results, with OCOP products branded “Youth Cooperatives”. The manufactured products are of high quality and safe for users and appear more and more in the market inside and outside the province. However, in order for economic models owned by young people to reach out, it is also necessary to have more incentives in terms of capital and chain of links in production and consumption of products./.

However, in order to achieve the growth target of 4.2% for the whole year 2021, the Capital’s agricultural sector is making efforts to implement many solutions, in which focusing on building models of linking production – consumption of agricultural products.

Strive to achieve the goal 4.2% growth
Explaining the reason for the growth rate of 2.51% in the first quarter of 2021 (compared with the same period of 2020, it is negative 1.17%), Director of Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Chu Phu My said that in the first months of the year, the details are relatively favorable for agricultural production. “The increase in poultry herds, the increase in the area of ​​vegetables and fruit trees has helped the Hanoi agricultural market to be stable, not under much pressure from the Covid-19 epidemic. On the other hand, good disease control and concentrated pig herd re-focus also contribute significantly to the growth of the industry. Specifically, the herd of pigs increased by 18.2%, poultry increased by 5.4%, aquatic production increased by 2.9% compared to the first quarter of 2020 “- Mr. Chu Phu My analyzed.

Growing high-tech vegetables in Dai Thinh commune, Me Linh district. Photo: Cong Hung

For example, in Dong Anh district, in the Spring crop of 2021, the whole district cultivated 866ha of all kinds, an increase of 10ha compared to the Spring crop in 2020, focusing on high-value leafy vegetables; At the same time, to increase herd and re-herd of pigs, chickens, buffaloes, cows and poultry. Up to now, the district’s pig herd has reached over 43,400 heads, an increase of 12% over the same period last year.
However, the Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development also warned of barriers to the growth target of 4.2% this year. That is, the epidemic situation in livestock and poultry is still complicated, especially the African swine fever, while there are not many slaughterhouses in the city that focus on ensuring safety and protection. food birth. On the other hand, raw material prices for animal feed still tend to increase; Inadequacies in policies to encourage enterprises to invest in agriculture and rural areas have not been basically removed. Production using high technology, linking in chains, increasing the rate of product processing is still limited.
Synchronize many solutions
In order to promote the strong growth of the agricultural sector in the coming time, enterprises and cooperatives must actively follow the consumption market. At the same time, to continue to build and promote effectively active production – consumption models. From a business perspective, the director of An Viet Group Joint Stock Company Do Hoang Thach shared that the company will give priority to building a plan to supply agricultural products to link production – consumption with farmers and cooperatives in the context of The market scene is forecasted to continue to have many fluctuations due to the impact of the epidemic.
Currently, in addition to focusing on taking care of the Spring crop, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in Hanoi is cooperating with localities to plan the Winter crop, suitable for the production situation and market demand. At the same time, to strengthen the building of models for linking production – product consumption, focusing on converting the plant variety structure in the production of rice and short-term vegetables; to expand the production area of ​​flowers and ornamental plants with high economic efficiency.
In the livestock sector, according to the Deputy Director of the Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Huy Dang, along with supporting businesses and cooperatives to develop a closed livestock chain, the Department will focus on building link chain models and supply chain point, in which cooperatives, manufacturing, processing and consuming enterprises are at the forefront. In addition, the Department will pilot a number of key livestock communes to become disease-free facilities to develop disease-free zones. On the other hand, continue to convert inefficient rice-cultivated low-lying fields in some localities to aquaculture models applying new technology.

“Along with accompanying businesses and cooperatives to develop the chain of production – consumption of agricultural products, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development coordinates with the Department of Industry and Trade of Hanoi to develop a plan to ensure the supply of raw materials for the product. export. ” – Director of Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Chu Phu My