HA TINH The organic agricultural and circular economy linkage chain of the Vietnam Circular Agriculture Association and the Que Lam Group with localities is spreading very strongly.
HA TINH The organic agricultural and circular economy linkage chain of the Vietnam Circular Agriculture Association and the Que Lam Group with localities is spreading very strongly.
Economic efficiency, environment and social responsibility
On the morning of March 11 in Ha Tinh, the Vietnam Circular Agriculture Association and the Que Lam Group held a conference to summarize the work in 2024 and deploy tasks for 2025.
According to the report at the conference, in 2024, the Vietnam Circular Agriculture Association has closely coordinated with the Que Lam Group and organizations and localities to gradually build a system of households linking organic agricultural economics and circulating the Que Lam value chain in many provinces and cities across the country.
With the motto of using successful models to raise awareness, build trust, and thereby spread the model, the Vietnam Circular Agriculture Association has attached great importance to and invested in building linkage chains in cooperatives, cooperative groups, and households linking organic agricultural economics and circulating the Que Lam value chain throughout the country.
Organic rice-worm model in Ky Anh, Ha Tinh. Photo: Hoang Anh.
The people are selected, educated, trained, guided, and provided with technical support by the Vietnam Circular Agriculture Association in collaboration with the Que Lam Group in the form of "hands-on" visits and learning from successful models; provided with organic microbial fertilizers, biological products, herbal tablets for disease prevention, seeds, animal feed, etc. and guaranteed to consume products at stable prices, higher than market prices.
As a result, in 2024, 23 cooperatives with 1,338 households were established; 8 groups of households with 129 households; 6 enterprises and 100 households directly linked with Que Lam Group, bringing the total number of households linked to organic agricultural economy and circulating value chain of Que Lam in the whole country to 1,570 households.
The total area of organic and circular farming reaches over 15,000 hectares, including rice, crops, valuable fruit trees and forestry trees; the total herd of organically raised livestock and poultry, circular economy reaches 484 sows, 7,385 pigs, 600 ducks, a yellow cow farming model and thousands of chickens.
The chain of cooperation linking organic agricultural economy, circular economy according to the value chain linking with the Vietnam Circular Agriculture Association and the Que Lam Group has all affirmed its effectiveness. The land is improved, porous, rich in nutrients, the quality of agricultural products is delicious, clean, the environment is improved, the health of producers and consumers is improved and brings higher income. This is the goal of the Vietnam Circular Agriculture Association and the Que Lam Group, at the same time the desire of producers, consumers and also the policy of the Party and State on developing green, clean, sustainable agriculture.
Mr. Pham Hai Thang, Director of Than Nong Agricultural Cooperative (Bui La Nhan Commune, Duc Tho District). Photo: Hoang Anh.
Presenting at the conference, Mr. Pham Hai Thang, Director of Than Nong Agricultural Cooperative, Bui La Nhan Commune, Duc Tho District (Ha Tinh Province) said: From an area of 5 hectares in the summer-autumn crop of 2024, in a short time, the Cooperative has cooperated with households to build 65 hectares of organic rice.
Organic rice production process basically achieves rice yield equal to or higher than conventional production, especially the ecological environment of the fields is restored.
The cooperative combines rice cultivation with earthworms and clams, building the Duc Tho earthworm rice brand that meets 3-star OCOP standards. In addition, the use of microorganisms to treat straw after harvest has helped create a source of organic fertilizer on the spot, reduce investment costs, improve the soil, and avoid the situation where people burn straw after harvest, affecting the environment and making the soil inhospitable.
Mr. Nguyen Hai Teo, a Pa Ko ethnic in Quang Nham commune, A Luoi district (Hue city) has participated in organic farming and circular economy since 2020. Up to now, Mr. Teo is raising 10 sows, selling 150 - 200 pigs each year, after deducting expenses, he earns a profit of 120 - 150 million VND.
“It can be affirmed that raising pigs according to the circular value chain in Que Lam can earn a profit of 1.7 - 2 million VND per pig. In addition, taking advantage of fertilizer from livestock farming, my family has grown vegetables, green-skinned grapefruit, and bananas, providing green vegetables for pigs and people to eat, and also generating additional income,” Mr. Teo shared.
In addition to economic efficiency, organic pig farmers and circular economy farmers also see many benefits when participating in the Que Lam value chain, being transferred safe and biological organic pig farming processes: No bad smell, no water use, no waste discharge, no disease, no environmental pollution; barns are built according to new technology modules to ensure ventilation in the summer and warmth in the winter.
In the context of household livestock farming still facing many risks, organic and circular economy-linked livestock farming households can rest assured when Que Lam takes care of inputs, purchases products at stable prices, especially provides mixed feed rich in nutrients and preparations for treating barns, tablets, herbal compressed tubes for fumigation for people and pigs to prevent diseases; is trained and transferred the process of raising sows and piglets...
In addition, realizing the philosophy of building responsible agriculture, households and cooperatives have built a chain of links to provide clean food to the community, contributing to protecting human health and the environment.
Lessons from Vinh Phuc and Ha Tinh
On the local side, Mr. Nguyen Hoang Duong, Director of Vinh Phuc Provincial Agricultural Extension Center shared: From 2022 to 2024, Vinh Phuc province has implemented straw treatment on over 15,000 hectares, with a total of more than 420 tons of biological products used.
Mr. Nguyen Hoang Duong, Director of Vinh Phuc Provincial Agricultural Extension Center, spoke at the conference. Photo: Hoang Anh.
Straw in the field after treatment with the product shows that the cultivated land has been significantly improved, adding beneficial microorganisms, nutrients, and organic matter to the soil to help protect the sustainable cultivated land environment. The product helps reduce the source of pests and diseases in the crop, increase the resistance of rice plants, reduce harmful pests and diseases, thereby reducing the use of pesticides on rice plants, bringing efficiency to the agricultural ecological environment. The use of the product to treat straw contributes to raising people's awareness because straw is not burned in the field after harvesting rice, does not cause dust and smoke that pollutes the environment and negatively affects the cultivated land.
The product makes the straw decompose quickly, limiting organic toxic gases in the soil, so when the rice is transplanted, the root system is reduced from organic poisoning, the phenomenon of yellow leaves is reduced, helping the rice grow and develop smoothly from the beginning, creating the premise for achieving high productivity and quality. The timely decomposition of straw has become a source of organic fertilizer for rice right in the field, helping farmers reduce about 20% of the amount of fertilizer for rice. The rice yield in the field treated with straw is about 20kg/sao (equivalent to 5.54 quintals/ha) higher than the average, contributing to a 9.14% increase in farmers' income.
Also in the period from 2022 to 2024, Vinh Phuc province has implemented a program to reduce environmental pollution in livestock farming using biological products with a scale of 16,300,000 chickens, 270,000 pigs, 1,400 beef cattle, 4,150 dairy cows in 9 districts and cities. Supporting nearly 7,000 hectares of various vegetables and fruits, using more than 9,400 tons of organic microbial fertilizers, both increasing economic efficiency and protecting the health of crops, livestock as well as farmers.
Mr. Le Ngoc Huan, Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Ha Tinh. Photo: Hoang Anh.
Mr. Le Ngoc Huan, Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Ha Tinh said: Implementing the Organic Agricultural Production Project, up to now, Ha Tinh province has more than 370 hectares of organic crops, more than 4,000 pigs raised in an organic direction, applying the circular economic model in most districts, towns and cities.
The results of the models have confirmed that organic agriculture and circular economy are mandatory directions, irreversible trends and strategies for Ha Tinh agriculture. In order for organic agriculture and circular economy to spread more and more strongly, Mr. Huan believes that it is necessary to focus on enhancing the role of state management agencies, business communities, cooperatives, focusing on farmers, enhancing community responsibility...
"It is necessary to consider organic agricultural products as "branded goods", and to encourage and protect organic farmers, to avoid the situation of real and fake products being mixed together, and fake products destroying real products," said the Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Ha Tinh.
Aspiration for a new era
Speaking at the conference, former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong affirmed: Vietnam is setting the ambition and target of double-digit growth. This means that the growth rate will be very fast, the challenge will be the issue of emission reduction. Meanwhile, at COP 26, the Prime Minister committed that Vietnam will reduce net emissions to zero by 2050. Many green growth and sustainable development strategies have been issued, requiring the entire political system, ministries, business community and farmers to work together to implement.
Conference delegates visit an organic agricultural products store in Duc Tho district, Ha Tinh province. Photo: Hoang Anh.
Vietnam's agricultural sector not only plays a role and position as a lever, support, and pillar in the country's economic development, but is also a field directly related to the issue of emission reduction.
“Agriculture is a large emitter but also a CO2 absorber, playing a pivotal role in the green growth strategy. To realize the country's green goals, the role of associations, business communities and farmers such as the Guilin chain is very important. From the initial core, the chain has now developed and spread, becoming a trend, penetrating deeply into households, cooperatives and small businesses. This is an extremely correct direction, both meeting practical requirements and realizing the policy of our Party and State of not leaving anyone behind,” former Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong emphasized.
Explaining the story of building the chain of Que Lam, Mr. Nguyen Xuan Cuong said that there are 3 main elements. Firstly, Que Lam has chosen the right microbiological technology as the core value, using microbiological technology is the direction of sustainable agriculture.
The second is to persevere and patiently accompany farmers, cooperatives, and localities to organize production and change workers' awareness. This is very meaningful because if awareness is not changed, all production will fail.
The third is to build the right process and guide, train, and transfer to farmers. These three factors combined have helped organic agriculture and the circular economy in the Que Lam chain spread throughout the country.
Former Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong speaks at the conference. Photo: Hoang Anh.
Sharing the sentiments of former Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Mr. Nguyen Hong Lam, Chairman of the Vietnam Circular Agriculture Association and Chairman of the Que Lam Group, also said that organic agriculture and circular economy have become major policies of the Party and State, contributing significantly to realizing major goals in the new era, the era of national development.
With the mission of accompanying farmers and localities to build a chain of links, taking the model as the central core, the Vietnam Circular Agriculture Association and the Que Lam Group determined: To teach farmers, we must understand their customs and practices, their conditions and circumstances, and let farmers see the practical benefits and practical effectiveness, then they will follow.
"There is no other way than building models that have been summarized by practical science, training by hand-holding methods, eating together, living together, and working together to be successful," said Mr. Nguyen Hong Lam.
Connecting the intelligence and passion of intellectuals and scientists
At the conference, the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations, the Vietnam Circular Agriculture Association and the Que Lam Group signed a cooperation agreement to promote the potential and intelligence of the scientific and technological intellectual team in scientific research activities, technology transfer; policy consulting and criticism; propaganda and dissemination of scientific and technological knowledge in the fields of agriculture, forestry, circular agriculture, etc.
Cooperate in communication to raise awareness of officials and members about policies, objectives, significance and effectiveness of green agricultural development and circular economy in agriculture; develop organic input products based on biotechnology to serve green, efficient, sustainable, environmentally friendly agricultural production, adapting to climate change...
Building and replicating sustainable and circular production models; promoting circular economic chains to solve urgent problems of environmental pollution, promoting efficient and sustainable use of resources, developing recycled and renewable materials; creating conditions for developing agricultural, organic and circular economic linkages along the value chain...
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