Ham Yen District issued Plan No. 37/KH-UBND dated February 2, 2024 on developing agricultural cooperatives in restructuring the agricultural sector and building new rural areas and identified it as one of the solutions to implement the Project on restructuring the agricultural sector and the Plan to implement the National Target Program on building new rural areas for the period 2021-2025.
Ham Yen has proposed many important solutions for implementation, focusing on improving the quality of human resources for cooperative management and operation; effectively implementing the Law on Cooperatives and current policies to support the development of agricultural cooperatives; improving the quality of production, business and service activities. In particular, promoting trade promotion activities, product and service consumption, supporting the application of information technology, digital transformation in production, business and cooperative management while improving the effectiveness of state management of agricultural cooperatives.
A typical example is Tan Thai Tea Cooperative 168 in Village 5, Tan Thanh Commune, Ham Yen District. Overcoming many difficulties, this cooperative has succeeded in building a brand and bringing many Tan Thanh tea bud products to convenience stores, product display booths and many supermarkets across the country. Since 2017, the cooperative's tea products have been certified with trademarks and origin traceability stamps. Currently, the cooperative supplies 8 OCOP 3-star green tea products.
Currently, Tan Thai Tea Cooperative 168 has 30 members with over 16 hectares of tea. Each year, members of the group use over 40 tons of fertilizers and biological products. Members who need support with fertilizers are fully supported by the cooperative in the form of "deferred payment by product" without interest. This is one of the motivations that helps people stick with and care for their tea trees.
In addition, the cooperative is cooperating with over 50 households with a total area of over 30 hectares. Mr. Phung Thanh Do's family (village 5, Tan Thanh commune) shared that his family is cooperating to grow more than 1 hectare of tea with Tan Thai Tea Cooperative 168. Thanks to production according to technical standards, the tea trees can be harvested from 10 to 12 crops per year, and the cooperative guarantees to buy them at a stable price of 120,000 - 150,000 VND/kg. Each year, Mr. Do's family earns over 150 million VND. In addition, during the harvest season, Mr. Do also creates jobs for 5 to 7 workers, with wages from 150 to 200,000 VND/person/day.
According to the Director of Tan Thai Tea Cooperative 168 Ban Van Duong, in order to create quality tea products, people's thinking about tea cultivation must change. Therefore, he has opened training courses on safe tea production for farmers, established production teams to facilitate management and monitoring. At the same time, he supplies fertilizers and biological products according to VietGAP standards..., ensuring that tea plants are cared for properly, with stable quality and flavor.
By the end of 2023, Ham Yen district had 72 cooperatives operating in the agricultural sector. In 2024, the district established 07 new cooperatives. The activities of cooperatives have a significant impact on supporting member households' economies through providing input material services, improving production techniques, processing and consuming output products, moving towards producing OCOP products, producing according to VietGAP standards, in order to improve production efficiency, increase product value, increase income and create jobs for members and workers, especially in the field of agricultural production. Initially, many cooperatives have participated in exporting products.
Ham Yen aims to have over 40% of agricultural, forestry and fishery households in the district participating in agricultural cooperatives by the end of 2025. One of the important solutions to develop agricultural cooperatives in the area that Ham Yen district has proposed by the end of 2025 is to promote the application of high technology in the production and consumption of agricultural products; develop agricultural commodity value chains associated with production linkages, providing processing services and consuming agricultural products.
In addition, the district will continue to promote participation in the supply chain to export agricultural products directly abroad; at the same time, promote propaganda, consultation and support for cooperatives to access policies to support the development of agricultural, forestry and fishery production; OCOP products and new rural construction in the province. In particular, focusing on specific policies to encourage investment, develop cooperation, link production and consumption of agricultural and rural products.
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