A Cooperative Director in Hau Giang speaks out about ensuring the rights of clean agricultural production

Ms. Nguyen Kim Thuy, born in 1974 - Director of Ky Nhu Cooperative, located in Tam Vu 1 Hamlet, Thanh Hoa Commune, Phung Hiep District, Hau Giang Province, shared: Currently, Hau Giang Province has about 30% of farmers cultivating clean and safe crops, including me, while 70% still follow the old traditional methods.

Ms. Nguyen Kim Thuy, Director of Ky Nhu Cooperative - Outstanding Vietnamese Farmer 2024 from Hau Giang province. Photo: HC

The common mentality of people today is that whenever they see a product with a good price, they will grow it, without being able to control the output, the input, the quality of fertilizers, pesticides, feed, aquatic medicine, etc., leading to products that do not meet the standards for sale to demanding markets, large markets, but can only be sold to small, easy-going markets. From there, supply exceeds demand, leading to a situation where when the harvest is good, the price drops; small, fragmented farmers cannot find an outlet, prolonging the harvest time, leading to loss and loss.

As for me, from the beginning of my business until the establishment of Ky Nhu Cooperative, I always oriented the cooperative's members to grow clean products from animals, seedlings to the quality of fertilizers, medicines, food, etc. in a biological and organic direction, with strict input control, to output products and to the consumer's table according to Vietgap, Globalgap standards, in a closed chain, produced according to Haccp processing procedures, Iso 22000...

The development orientation of Ky Nhu Cooperative is to produce and trade clean, quality products (In the photo: Ms. Kim Thuy promotes and advertises her products at the province's exhibition fairs). Photo: HC

Currently, the input products of Ky Nhu Cooperative are of stable quality, meeting export standards. However, the biggest difficulty of our Cooperative is to produce clean, high-quality products but the selling price is not much higher than similar products, the quality of the products is lower or has not been inspected.

Not only that, in business cooperation, many companies also force the price of clean products, they do not want to buy at a higher price than the market price, equal to the price of unclean products, not guaranteed quality.

Currently, there are many establishments and processing companies that compete unfairly, producing and processing many products of the same type and name but with replaced quality, poor quality products, deceiving consumers, selling at prices about 50% lower than the price of real products, with the right quality, leading to many difficulties in selling products with the right quality.

Because of those difficulties, our Ky Nhu Cooperative has to provide many new services to have a stable income for the Cooperative.

On this occasion, on behalf of the cooperatives with clean product production models in Hau Giang province, I would like to earnestly request the competent authorities to intervene to protect the truth and the right, helping us farmers have the motivation to produce and do business, protecting the brand of Hau Giang specialty snakehead fish to develop; so that we are confident enough to replicate many models of raising clean, safe, and better snakehead fish, eels, frogs, etc. for Hau Giang province.

Source: https://danviet.vn/mot-giam-doc-htx-o-hau-giang-len-tieng-ve-viec-dam-bao-quyen-loi-cua-san-xuat-nong-nghiep-sach-20240917101914839.htm