Ia Pa creates a chain of links in agricultural production

(GLO)- Recently, the People's Committee of Ia Pa district (Gia Lai province) held a conference to discuss investment solutions and orientations for agricultural production development in the area. With an open-door policy to attract investment, the district hopes to promote its potential and advantages, build linkage chains to promote sustainable agricultural development.

Many potentials and advantages

Ia Pa has many potentials and advantages for agricultural development. According to Vice Chairman of the District People's Committee Tran Quoc Tuan, the whole district has 33,643 hectares of agricultural land (accounting for 38.73% of the natural area), of which annual crop land is 29,800 hectares and perennial crop land is 3,843 hectares. The total cultivated area in the period of 2016-2022 reached 35,578 hectares. In 2022 alone, businesses and people converted about 1,563 hectares of single-crop rice land and ineffective annual crop land to grow tobacco, watermelon, sweet potatoes, and biomass corn, bringing high economic efficiency; forming concentrated production areas of 5-50 hectares for rice, sugarcane, tobacco, and biomass corn, with links with businesses in production and product consumption. Up to now, the district has 3 OCOP products including: Son Dong bird's nest, TBR97 rice and Hoan Binh green-skin grapefruit.

The district's livestock industry is gradually shifting from small-scale, scattered to concentrated livestock. The total livestock herd in 2022 is nearly 111,000, mainly cows, buffaloes and pigs. The district has 4 farms with a scale of raising from 4,800 to 20,000 pigs/year; 5 livestock farms have been approved by the Provincial People's Committee for investment, with a scale of raising from 2,400 to 24,000 pigs of all kinds; 17 farms are completing investment application procedures.

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View of the conference on investment solutions and orientation for agricultural production development in Ia Pa district. Photo: Vu Chi

Based on the investigation and survey, the district has developed a plan for agricultural production development until 2025. In particular, the district continues to maintain a number of key crops such as: 3,500 ha of rice, 4,100 ha of sugarcane, 5,700 ha of cassava, 2,780 ha of cashew, 2,020 ha of corn, 1,100 ha of tobacco, 1,800 ha of fruit trees, 780 ha of vegetables, and 140 ha of medicinal plants. At the same time, concentrated agricultural production zones are zoning associated with the chain of production, processing, and product consumption. The district strives to have 5 OCOP products with 3 stars at the provincial level or higher by 2025, including: bird's nest, deer antlers, rice, mountain goat meat, and straw mushrooms.

The Vice Chairman of the District People's Committee said: "Every year, the state capital invested in the district's agriculture sector is only about 4-5 billion VND, mainly for repairing the irrigation canal system. Therefore, to move towards rapid and sustainable agricultural development, enterprises play a particularly important role. Ia Pa currently has 5 main crops including sugarcane, cassava, rice, corn, and tobacco. Recently, the district has added some new crops with quite a lot of potential such as cocoa, watermelon, and sweet potatoes."

Open to attract investment

Although it has only been put into trial cultivation on an area of 30 hectares in Po To commune, cocoa trees have shown many advantages, suitable for the local climate and soil conditions. According to Ms. To Thai Ha - Deputy Head of Business Department (Trong Duc Cocoa Company Limited), the maximum capacity of the Company's processing factory is 1,000 tons of dry beans/year, but the raw material area in Dong Nai only meets 1/4 of the demand. The Company's goal by 2027 is to expand the cocoa area in Ia Pa to 1,000 hectares on the basis of building a chain linking with the people. "In the immediate future, the Company plans to build 4 pilot models with an area of 0.5 hectares/model in communes of Ia Pa district. People will be supported with 30% of the cost of installing irrigation systems and pesticides. The Company plans to build a farm in Po To commune to grow seedlings and transfer science and technology; “Building infrastructure for cooperatives and joint teams to process products on-site. This method not only creates jobs for local workers but also helps the Company reduce costs of transporting raw products,” Ms. Ha informed.

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Bao Luan One Member Co., Ltd. plans to develop a 1,000-hectare corn biomass material area in Ia Pa district. Photo: Vu Chi

Meanwhile, a representative of Bao Luan One Member Co., Ltd. is orienting the development of biomass corn in Ia Pa district. Mr. Nguyen Quang Vu, Director of the Company, said: Biomass corn is a short-term crop, suitable for the farming practices as well as the production conditions of ethnic minorities. Currently, the demand for raw materials for dairy farms is very large. Therefore, in the next 3 years, the Company plans to develop the raw material area to 1,000 hectares, focusing on the summer-autumn crop with about 800 hectares. The Company hopes that the district will invest in intra-field traffic infrastructure to facilitate the process of purchasing and transporting agricultural products.

Based on the opinions of enterprises, Chairman of the District People's Committee Huynh Van Truong affirmed: The agricultural potential of the district is very large. Therefore, the local government is always open to welcome and create the most favorable conditions for enterprises to cooperate in investing in production development. In the coming time, the District People's Committee will mobilize resources to renovate and upgrade the transportation system to facilitate the process of purchasing and transporting goods. At the same time, the district directs the People's Committees of communes to provide complete information on planning, land adaptation assessment projects, land use plans, models and projects being implemented for relevant departments and offices to synthesize and post on the district's electronic information page for enterprises to learn and choose to invest in order to bring about the highest efficiency.

Vu Chi

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