OCOP products bustling to welcome Tet

Báo Tin TứcBáo Tin Tức23/01/2025

With food safety standards, clear origin, and beautiful designs, many OCOP products from localities in Nghe An province have been trusted and chosen by consumers as gifts during the Lunar New Year. This is also the most important season of the year for many OCOP entities.

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This year, the trend of choosing OCOP products as gifts has increased.
Enhancing the value of local specialties From traditional processing methods, Thao Hao Bo Giang Production and Trading Cooperative, Tuong Duong district has brought consumers bo giang meat products with rich flavors of the Thai ethnic people in the highlands of Nghe An province. With the desire to enhance the value of local specialties, Ms. Tran Thi Thao, Director of Thao Hao Bo Giang Production and Trading Cooperative, has begun to select raw materials, maintaining the traditional manual production method and spices, bo giang meat has a sweet and fragrant taste in every fiber of meat. This helps the product retain its characteristics while still ensuring food safety and hygiene criteria. In addition, to make the product accessible to many consumers, Ms. Thao also invests in eye-catching packaging and labels with full information. “To serve orders for the Lunar New Year, for nearly a month now, the cooperative has had to import 3 tons of fresh meat to produce nearly 10 quintals of beef, packaged and vacuum-sealed for customers to use and give as gifts. In addition to producing quality beef, Thao Hao Beef Cooperative has also researched and tested to diversify products for the market such as: Tuong Duong beef, Tuong Duong sausage, Giang pork, Smoked pork belly... Up to now, the cooperative has been recognized as having 4 products that meet OCOP 3 stars", said Ms. Thao. In order to have abundant and stable sources of raw materials, the cooperative has also promoted cooperation to expand raw material areas with Ky Son and Que Phong districts, creating more output for livestock farmers in the province. Currently, Tuong Duong beef products of Thao Hao Beef Production and Trading Cooperative are available nationwide and on the shelves of Go Supermarket and Lotte Mart Vinh Supermarket. Nghe An mountainous region has many delicious agricultural products and specialties such as yellow beef, black pig, black yam, wild bamboo shoots, wild banana flowers, upland sticky rice... Not only that, through the processing hands of the people, these ingredients become many outstanding traditional dishes such as bamboo rice, grilled chicken, grilled fish, rice wine... delicious and high quality, suitable for the tastes of many consumers today. Besides, veal ham production workshops in Nam Dan, Thanh Chuong, Do Luong, Yen Thanh districts... are also boosting production to supply Tet goods to supermarkets, agents, and customers inside and outside the province. Nghe An ham currently has many large-scale production facilities, with an output of tens of tons/year; in which, many ham products of many entities are recognized as 3-star, 4-star OCOP. OCOP ham is available in supermarkets and modern retail chains nationwide, is favored by consumers and is a popular food choice during Tet. Ms. Nguyen Thi Chau, Owner of Chau Huong ham production facility, Nam Nghia commune, Nam Dan district, said that in preparation for Tet orders, during this peak month, her production facility consumed 40 tons of ham to make products. Chau Huong ham currently has 3 main products: ham made from rolled thigh meat, rolled pork belly and rolled corn, each product has its own delicious flavor, so customers will have many choices according to their needs. In addition, the facility also has other diverse products such as goat ham, sour veal sausage, grilled grilled spring rolls, salted veal tendon, beef cartilage sausage... which are also quality items that are popular on consumers' Tet dinner trays. Improving quality and design
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Beef jerky and sausage products of Thao Hao Beef Jerky Production Facility, Tuong Duong District are favored by consumers every Tet holiday.
Not only focusing on improving quality, OCOP product brand owners also focus on improving designs and innovating consumption channels to bring consumers the best products during the traditional Tet holiday. Many production facilities and cooperatives in Nghe An have received orders early, increased promotion, and made constant efforts to expand production and business. Hand-painted gift boxes are an advantage that helps lotus products of Phuc An Farm, a brand of Loc Phat Production, Trade, Service and Investment Joint Stock Company, become more unique, eye-catching and stand out from other products in the same segment. Not only focusing on quality, each lotus product of Phuc An Farm also carries deep spiritual value through each painting carefully crafted by artisans from Phuc An, rustic images familiar to Vietnamese people. To date, the company has launched 15 product lines made from lotus, including key products such as lotus heart, red lotus tea, wooden lotus tea, lotus-scented tea, lotus leaf tea, dried lotus root... and jams from other agricultural products. Phuc An Farm's products have achieved 3-star OCCOP certification at the provincial level, and some products are exported to the US, Australia, Japan, Korea and Laos. Mr. Nguyen Xuan Huy, founder of Phuc An Farm, said: "Our partners are very diverse, from large and small companies in many fields to departments and branches... Therefore, we have launched many products that are good for health and imbued with the cultural values ​​of the Vietnamese people. This Tet holiday, we have launched 5,000 gift boxes to the market, ensuring both aesthetics and quality". At this time, OCOP production facilities are also rushing to complete products to serve the Tet market. With the current demand of customers increasingly preferring traditional products, especially those that have been certified by OCOP because they ensure food safety and are good for health. Therefore, in addition to focusing on producing individual products, many establishments also offer unique Tet gift baskets to serve the gift-giving needs. Tet gift baskets with prices ranging from 250 thousand VND to several million VND/basket/box, provide customers with diverse options and are suitable for gift-giving needs during this year's Tet holiday. Ms. Nguyen Thi Lien, owner of Baly Foods cereal production facility, said that the facility always researches and develops new products to meet market demand. This year's Tet version is not only welcomed by the domestic market but also ordered by many businesses as gifts for partners. This year, the trend of choosing OCOP products as gifts has increased, therefore, OCOP entities have linked and cooperated with each other to launch quality Tet gift products such as: products processed from lotus combined with Shan Tuyet tea; crispy dried jackfruit, dried mango combined with lotus tea; beef jerky, Chinese sausage combined with Khau Hin wine, fermented wine... which are popular in the market. According to Mr. Nham Sy Thanh, Director of Lotte Marth Vinh Supermarket, in the past two years, consumers have increasingly welcomed Vietnamese specialty agricultural products, especially local specialties. This is thanks to quality goods, uniqueness, support from transportation as well as the encouragement of the spirit of domestic consumption. In addition to focusing on producing orders to serve the Tet market, businesses, cooperatives, and entities are also interested in designing OCOP product gift baskets with eye-catching designs to facilitate customers to give gifts during Tet. In fact, many OCOP products are not only of good quality but also beautifully designed, easily penetrating supermarket chains and clean food stores. This not only contributes to the development of the rural economy but also aims at export. Mr. Nguyen Ho Lam, Deputy Director of the Department of Economic Cooperation and Rural Development of Nghe An, said that currently, thanks to the application of science and technology in production, product designs are improved, have barcodes, QR stamps for traceability, many products are registered for intellectual property and geographical indications, so they meet the strict requirements of the market. Making OCOP products into gifts and presents for Tet will open up a new direction in product consumption, at the same time, enhance the level, enhance the brand and create a promotional effect for OCOP products.
Article and photos: Bich Hue (Vietnam News Agency)
Source: https://baotintuc.vn/kinh-te/san-pham-ocop-tung-bung-chao-tet-20250123075219677.htm

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