Khau nhuc, brown rice tea, black beans, Son Duong black xạ; Hoanh Bo guava; Dong Son upland rice, Dong Son upland taro… are 3-star and 4-star city-level OCOP products of Ha Long that Ms. Nguyen Thuy Ha, Director of Viet Hung Agriculture - Forestry - Fishery Cooperative, is the “midwife”. Each product contains her passion and dedication for clean agriculture and precious feelings for people of ethnic minorities.
Ms. Nguyen Thuy Ha (far right) and people from Dong Son commune go to the fields.
Ms. Ha said: “To do OCOP, we must choose products that are truly specialties and typical of the region that cannot be found anywhere else. Only then will we not lose the quality of OCOP. The cooperative will carry out legal procedures, purchase products, and be responsible for marketing products for the people. We also closely coordinate with the commune authorities to mobilize, propagate, and guide people to participate in the production of OCOP products in a specialized direction, improve quality, and expand production areas.”
Finding a genuine OCOP product is like “looking for a needle in a haystack”. For example, in Dong Son, who would have thought that the rice grains and potatoes grown on the highlands of the Dao people here could be sold like hotcakes in the city? Choosing to go back to the mountains and forests, to each garden to instruct people on how to irrigate Hoanh Bo guava trees with fish fertilizer; following people through the forest, across streams to each rice field, potato field… Ms. Ha has never complained of being tired. She always radiates positive energy and passion.
When asked what secret helped her win the hearts of the people, Ms. Ha smiled: “The people are very honest! I speak the truth, do the truth, treat the people sincerely, then in return they will be sincere with me!”. After Son Duong, Dong Son, this year Ms. Ha embarked on a potential OCOP project for yellow camellia flowers growing on Thien Son peak, Ky Thuong commune. She said: “This year, I strive to make a 4-star OCOP for Ky Thuong yellow camellia flowers. The flavor of the camellia flowers growing among the clouds here is rare anywhere else.”
The common point of female entrepreneurs when doing OCOP is that they all come from the mindset of creating good, healthy products for the health of the community. They are concerned with the question of how to get more and more people to use high-end products? For businesswoman Nguyen Thi Mai Phuong, Deputy Director of Phuong Thuy Production and Trading Company Limited (Uong Bi City), "health" is the reason for her to change her career from a bank employee to developing the 4-star OCOP brand for Cordyceps sinensis (DTHT) products.
Ms. Nguyen Mai Phuong checks the packaging process of cordyceps soaked in honey.
Having precancerous cells in her body, after giving birth to her third child by cesarean section, Ms. Mai Phuong's health declined dramatically. Through a friend, she learned about and used the Cordyceps product. After a period of use, her health improved significantly, she decided to cultivate this mushroom herself. Initially, she used it for herself, her family, and acquaintances. Later, when everyone welcomed and encouraged her to produce and commercialize it to provide quality products to the market, Ms. Phuong boldly invested in factories and machinery to produce Cordyceps on a large scale. Thus, from a consumer, she became a producer.
Coming to high-tech agriculture as an amateur, she learned while working. After 4 years of development, Phuong Thuy Production and Trading Company Limited has mastered the technology of cultivating medicinal Cordyceps mushrooms with high medicinal content. The Cordyceps products produced by the company have been recognized as a typical 4-star OCOP product of Quang Ninh province and a model production point of Uong Bi city. Every year, her production facility welcomes many local delegations from inside and outside the province to learn from her experience.
From DTHT, Ms. Mai Phuong has launched many products such as dried and fresh DTHT, DTHT tea, DTHT soaked in wine, soaked in honey... With high quality, beautiful designs and affordable prices, favored by many consumers in and outside the province, the product is currently exported according to orders of some coal industry units, consigned to a system of 200 pharmacies in the province and gradually distributed to the national market.
With their contributions to the OCOP program and the construction of the new rural areas, Ms. Nguyen Thuy Ha and Ms. Nguyen Thi Mai Phuong are contributing to the development of Quang Ninh's OCOP brand, improving its quality and affirming the brand not only at the provincial level but also at the national level. At the same time, they leave a unique mark of women when participating in the production of OCOP products, which is both gentle, decisive, dedicated and visionary.
Source: https://baoquangninh.vn/nu-doanh-nhan-dam-me-lam-ocop-3347045.html
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