Overcoming many difficulties and challenges, Thanh Hoa agriculture "reached the finish line" in 2024 with a series of achievements. According to Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Thanh Hoa Cao Van Cuong, these results are a positive signal in the roadmap for developing modern agriculture, following trends and practical requirements.
Add new milestones
According to the head of the provincial agricultural sector, 2024 will be the first time Thanh Hoa has a direct rice export order. This is a new milestone for the agricultural sector in the province with the largest rice growing area in the Central region as well as the northern provinces. Last November, Lam Son Sugarcane Joint Stock Company signed an order to export nearly 300 tons of rice to the Singapore market. This is the Japonica J02 rice product line, produced from pure rice varieties of Japanese origin, grown according to modern agricultural technology, VietGAP standards. The event is considered to be of great significance because rice is the main product of Thanh Hoa agriculture - a locality with up to 230,000 hectares of rice, accounting for the majority of the total food output always maintained at about 1.5 million tons/year. It is worth noting that this official export shipment of 300 tons is only a small part of the 35,000-ton order that the company has signed with its partner, which will be exported in the near future. As expected, the next batches of rice will be exported by the partner, Kematsu Company of Japan, to other demanding markets such as Australia and Japan.
The forestry sector also recorded a new success in selling forest carbon credits for 393,361 hectares, earning nearly VND 200 billion in 2024. This is the result of many years of efforts by the sector and forest growers to produce and care for forests according to strict international standards. Along with that, green farming models and emission reduction are also focused on by businesses, localities and farmers. Most typically, at the end of December 2024, Lam Son Sugarcane Joint Stock Company signed a cooperation agreement with Japanese enterprises to implement a project to reduce carbon emissions for sugarcane raw material areas. Accordingly, two Japanese enterprises will work with Lam Son Sugarcane Joint Stock Company to implement the project according to the method of improving and managing agricultural land with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in sugarcane production, while increasing carbon reserves in the soil. Starting from 2025, the project will be piloted on an area of 500 hectares, then officially put into commercial operation from 2026 and expanded to 8,000 hectares. This event not only opens up a new direction of development but also promotes sustainable agricultural development for Thanh Hoa province's agriculture.
After many years of organization, in 2024, the Conference on connecting supply - demand and displaying agricultural products and food safety in Thanh Hoa province held last October recorded record numbers. For the first time, the number of participants was recorded at 260 booths with hundreds of types of agricultural products, OCOP products, and regional specialties. After 5 days of organization, the event attracted more than 18,500 visitors and shoppers, bringing in a total revenue of about 18.5 billion VND for the subjects and many long-term consumption contracts were signed.
In applying scientific and technological advances to agriculture, in addition to many high-tech agricultural models, last year, Thanh Hoa was recognized and introduced into the production structure 3 new rice varieties with high yield and quality. These are the 2-line hybrid rice variety TBH222; 2 3-line hybrid rice varieties are KH9C16 and TB456. This success contributed to the cumulative data to date, the whole province has successfully researched and selected 12 rice varieties, imported and tested 6 new sugarcane varieties with high yield and sugar content; restored 5 local crops: areca nut sticky rice, purple sticky rice; Luan Van grapefruit; Van Du orange; tapioca tangerine; Kim Tan sugarcane. At the same time, successfully applied tissue culture technology to propagate disease-free crops; gerbera, orchids, sugarcane, bananas...
Last year, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Thanh Hoa also left its mark in streamlining the apparatus according to Resolution 18-NQ/TW of the Central Executive Committee of the Party. The Department successfully merged 3 fishing port management boards: Lach Bang, Lach Hoi and Hoa Loc into the Thanh Hoa Fishing Port Management Board in a streamlined manner but still ensuring the implementation of assigned functions and tasks. The Thanh Hoa Irrigation Planning and Design Team was also merged with the Provincial Center for Domestic Water and Environmental Sanitation to reduce the number of units under the department. "This is a proactive action of the department to reduce the number of units, although there has not been specific direction from the superiors" - Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Van Cuong emphasized.
Exceeding targets, towards modern agriculture
In 2024, natural disasters caused damage to agricultural production; landslides, damage to traffic works, irrigation works, dykes, and houses in some localities in the province, affecting the development of agricultural production. In livestock farming, the epidemic situation across the country remains complicated, especially in the four provinces bordering Thanh Hoa, where African swine fever in pigs and rabies in cats and dogs have been reported, but Thanh Hoa has controlled them well. With the proactive and flexible direction and management of provincial and industry leaders, the support of the business community and all classes of people, most of the targets of the agricultural sector have been achieved and exceeded.
Crop production achieved a product value of 125 million VND/ha, an increase of 5 million VND/ha compared to 2023. The main crops continued to have a good harvest, with an average rice yield of 61.3 quintals/ha, an increase of 1 quintal/ha compared to the plan. During the year, the whole province flexibly converted 1,578.2 hectares of low-yield and low-efficiency rice land, reaching 101.3% of the plan (KH). To date, Thanh Hoa has 109 growing area codes for rice, fruit trees, vegetables, etc., an increase of 40 growing area codes compared to the same period. The whole province continues to maintain concentrated production areas associated with production linkage and product consumption with a total area of over 80,000 hectares. At the same time, maintain and develop intensive crop areas and concentrated production areas that bring high efficiency and value, such as 150,000ha of high-yield, high-quality intensive rice, 20,000ha of intensive corn, 12,000ha of intensive sugarcane, 14,000ha of safe vegetables, 420ha of high-tech ornamental flowers and plants, 14,500ha of concentrated fruit trees, and 18,500ha of animal feed trees.
The fisheries sector continues to develop synchronously and comprehensively in both exploitation and aquaculture associated with combating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and participating in protecting sovereignty at sea. The total output of exploitation and aquaculture in the province reached 219,702 tons, exceeding the plan by 3.1%, up 1.9% over the same period. In terms of aquaculture, the province continues to deploy a model of intensive white-leg shrimp farming in the direction of high technology, farming in greenhouses and net houses with a farming area of about 220 hectares, an increase of 50 hectares compared to 2023.
Along with the successes in the livestock and forestry sectors, most of the industry's targets have been achieved and exceeded. The industry's overall growth rate (VA) reached 4.31% (1.31% higher than the plan). Food output in 2024 reached nearly 1.56 million tons. The area of land accumulation and concentration for large-scale, high-tech agricultural production reached 6,568.9 hectares (6.2% higher than the plan). The forest coverage rate of the whole province reached 53.86% (0.06% higher than the plan). The rate of rural households using clean water reached 98% (100% higher than the plan)...
The National Target Program on New Rural Development and the One Commune One Product (OCOP) Program have been focused on and directed with great results. In 2024, the whole province will have 2 more districts and 17 communes meeting the New Rural Development standards; 2 districts and 33 communes meeting the advanced New Rural Development standards; 11 communes meeting the model New Rural Development standards; 120 OCOP products. By the end of 2024, the whole province will have 15 district-level units meeting the standards and completing the New Rural Development tasks; 377/465 communes, 803 mountainous villages and hamlets meeting the New Rural Development standards; 2 districts, 123 communes meeting the advanced New Rural Development standards; 27 communes, 558 villages and hamlets meeting the model New Rural Development standards; 597 OCOP products have been recognized, including 1 5-star product, 60 4-star products, and 536 3-star products. The program has created a strong and profound influence with many creative ways, making Thanh Hoa continue to be one of the leading provinces in the country in building new rural areas. The most prominent and bright spot of the whole country is the movement of donating land and contributing to building new rural areas.
According to the commander of the provincial agricultural sector, “recently, there has been a trend that households, cooperatives, cooperatives and enterprises have been interested in shifting from output to value in agriculture. Instead of producing what they have, the sector and its subjects have gradually shifted to producing what the market needs. At the same time, we are moving towards high-tech agriculture, organic agriculture, circular production, multi-value, and export. Many models and areas for clean agricultural production, specialty products, product branding, and low carbon emissions have been established, such as: 770ha of Cay Noi sticky rice, 890ha of areca nut sticky rice, 244ha of rice - fish, 8ha of rice - earthworms, 170ha of Van Du oranges, 56ha of Luan Van grapefruit, 47ha of Ngoc lychee, rice production towards reducing emissions, creating carbon credits of 90ha. The industry has identified a number of tasks to develop modern agriculture such as building key production areas for each field, increasing calls for businesses to develop high-tech agriculture, applying and transferring science and technology into production...
Article and photos: Le Dong
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