Tracing origin is an inevitable trend, a necessary direction to help clarify the origin, increase recognition and enhance the competitiveness of agricultural products. Recognizing that, in recent times, specialized agencies and localities have actively supported many production facilities to promote the application of the traceability system for agricultural products, especially the province's key agricultural products.
All products of Truong Son Medicinal Materials Cooperative are managed by Facefarm production diary software - Photo: LA
In 2024, Truong Son Medicinal Materials Cooperative, Cam Thanh Commune, received financial support from Cam Lo District to implement the Facefarm traceability system - linked raw material area traceability data. This is a production diary software based on Google Map platform that helps to easily evaluate the farm visually and accurately.
Facefarm helps to monitor the farm anytime, anywhere, quickly, record production logs using devices such as smartphones, tablets, computers... record a large amount of information very conveniently, data is stored safely and securely on the cloud. In addition, Facefarm also helps customers trace the origin of products via QR codes.
Director of Truong Son Medicinal Plants Cooperative Le Thanh Hue informed that the Cooperative is currently cooperating with more than 50 farming households to grow Melaleuca cajuputi and some other medicinal plants with a total area of about 16 hectares. Through the Facefarm production diary, the entire production process is recorded to help the Cooperative control the cultivation process.
From there, proactively plan, ensure the production process in a cycle, manage the quantity of materials as well as the harvest output. In particular, when creating a plan or production diary, Facefarm also updates the exact dosage, usage... of pesticides used in the field based on data from the Plant Protection Department.
According to Mr. Hue, if in the past, when scanning the QR code to trace the origin, consumers only received some simple information about the production unit and the production process, with the Facefarm production diary, consumers can trace the origin of the product from the beginning of planting until it reaches the market, and know the location of the garden through the map.
Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Phu Quoc informed that in 2024, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development coordinated with localities to organize over 100 training courses on how to apply the traceability system with nearly 5,000 people participating.
Support 9 agricultural production and processing establishments in communes that are built to meet advanced new rural standards, model implementation of digital transformation applications to trace the origin of key products with the quantity of 16,000 QR code stamps; support 3 establishments to establish records to trace the origin of key products associated with building raw material areas and being certified with VietGAP or equivalent in communes that are built to meet new rural standards.
In the processing sector, up to now, 70/279 establishments operating in the field of agricultural, forestry and fishery food processing have applied the traceability system. In which, most of the OCOP product owners have applied product traceability.
In the forestry sector, nearly 1.4 million tons of wood of all kinds originating from planted forests have been traced. In the fisheries sector, more than 9,500 tons of aquatic products exploited through fishing ports have been confirmed, certified and traced, reaching a rate of nearly 35%.
In particular, to help Quang Tri's agricultural products participate in export, in 2024, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has promoted the organization of granting and managing growing area codes (MSVT) and traceability. Up to now, the whole province has granted 1 packing facility code, 37 growing area codes in localities with a scale of nearly 2,880 hectares. Of which, 11 MSVT serve export and 26 domestic MSVT. Currently, there are 3 MSVT on passion fruit trees and 1 MSVT of packing facilities being negotiated with the importing country to complete the steps waiting for code issuance.
However, Mr. Quoc also admitted that the biggest barrier in applying traceability is having regular staff to implement data updates. However, in cooperatives, enterprises, and production facilities, there are no specialized staff to deploy the software, and farmers are not familiar with entering data on computers and smartphones, so it is difficult to apply it to actual production activities.
In addition, it is necessary to mention: the number of large-scale production and business enterprises is still quite small, mainly small-scale processing facilities, households still account for a large proportion. The scale of production is not highly commodity-oriented, agricultural product prices are unstable, natural disasters and epidemics often occur.
Mr. Quoc said, aiming for the goal of 100% of food produced and consumed meeting food safety standards and having clear origin according to regulations, in the coming time, along with promoting propaganda to production and business establishments, especially small-scale establishments and households, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development will continue to implement support policies on building and applying the product traceability system that has been issued.
Coordinate with relevant units to support and guide cooperatives, enterprises, and production facilities on the content and methods of updating traceability information to ensure compliance with regulations, and support the application of traceability software.
At the same time, speed up the process of granting land use right certificates to create conditions for organizations and individuals growing large timber forests and FSC-certified timber to feel secure in production, creating conditions for wood processing enterprises to have enough raw materials to produce and export products to the EU market.
Le An
Source: https://baoquangtri.vn/ap-dung-truy-xuat-nguon-goc-de-nang-cao-gia-tri-nong-san-190876.htm
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