Focus on sustainable economic development, increasing income for farmers

Implementing the New Rural Development Program, localities in Quang Ninh have achieved many achievements in socio-economic development, poverty reduction and sustainable income increase for people.

Leaders of Ba Che district visited the model of growing yellow tea flowers combined with raising chickens of Mr. Ninh Van Senh's household (Lang Loc village, Thanh Lam commune).   Photo: Binh Minh (Contributor)

Promoting rural economic development

Thanks to the strong dissemination of the New Rural Development Program to all classes of people, Ms. Phi Thi Oanh's family (Tan Hop village, Quang Tan commune, Dam Ha district) boldly converted 3 hectares of rice fields to grow guava according to VietGAP standards. From growing guava, Ms. Oanh's family has stabilized their lives with an income of 100 million VND/year.

Ms. Oanh shared: Since switching to the guava growing model following VietGAP, my family has used microbial fertilizers to ensure the quality of clean guava for consumers, so income has gradually become more stable.

Passion fruit growing model of Mr. Dang Van Giang's family (Trai Dinh village, Dam Ha commune, Dam Ha district).

In Trai Dinh village, Dam Ha commune, Dam Ha district, Mr. Dang Van Giang's family decided to renovate more than 3.5 hectares of ineffective sour rice fields and established Truong Giang Agricultural Cooperative to grow passion fruit. Mr. Giang said that passion fruit trees are suitable for the climate and soil here, so he applied high-tech growing methods. Since then, passion fruit trees have grown well, and are expected to yield 50 tons of fruit each year, earning VND800 million to VND1 billion per year.

In the Van Yen orange growing area (Van Yen commune, Van Don district), many households and garden owners, in addition to focusing on developing oranges for the consumer market, also focus on renovating gardens, organizing orange picking experiences, camping... to attract tourists to visit, take photos, and promote agricultural products.

Tourists experience orange picking at Van Yen Farm Cooperative (Van Don district).

Mr. Tran Van Hau, Director of Van Yen Farm Cooperative (Van Don) said: With the strength of growing oranges, we are currently combining experiential agricultural tourism with eco-tourism, attracting a large number of tourists. This is a new direction to increase income for local people.

From the new rural construction program, people have known how to rise up to get rich legitimately; change their thinking to build effective economic models, increase income, and stabilize their lives.

Focus resources on development

Identifying production development as one of the key solutions to help people, especially those in mountainous, remote and isolated areas, have stable jobs and increase income, the province has mobilized all resources to help people develop production, avoiding the mentality of waiting and relying on others.

Farmers in Quang Thanh commune (Hai Ha district) harvest Atlantic potatoes.

Based on the strengths of each locality, to reorganize production, Quang Ninh focuses on restructuring the agricultural sector, developing large-scale, concentrated commodity agriculture in a modern direction. In particular, the province chooses the form of cooperation, linking production and consumption of agricultural products according to the value chain, promoting the consolidation and development of cooperatives closely linked to the OCOP program, increasing product value in a sustainable manner.

To invest in agriculture and rural areas, the province has allocated preferential credit capital, encouraged credit institutions to lend to agriculture, farmers and rural areas; supported credit for cooperatives, enterprises and farming households to develop production and business; and improved access to credit.

Ba Che Cinnamon Company Limited and other coordinating units organized the giving of cinnamon seeds to people in Don Dac commune, Ba Che district.

To create links for sustainable product consumption, many regional cooperation activities have been effectively implemented by the province. Trade promotion activities have also been promoted on the basis of cooperation, development, and expansion of consumption markets.

All levels and sectors have stepped up support for units and enterprises to participate in production connection and product consumption activities through conferences, seminars, fairs, forums for connection, introduction and promotion inside and outside the province, domestically and internationally; gradually complete product categories and product groups to meet the requirements and regulations of importing countries; guide and support key agricultural facilities and products of the province to link chains to participate in e-commerce trading floors, apply IT... From 2020 to present, the Department of Industry and Trade has supported connecting and introducing products of enterprises in the province to Vietnamese counselors in Korea, Japan, Australia, Malaysia, India, China...

A special feature in the socio-economic development of the province is that digital transformation has become one of the breakthrough solutions in product consumption and promotion. All levels, sectors and localities have actively promoted the organization of conferences, training programs and guided people to participate in e-commerce platforms, social networks, livestream to sell products, etc. Quang Ninh Center for Promotion and Development of Industry and Trade has promoted the introduction of OCOP products of the province to reputable e-commerce platforms, coordinated livestream to introduce products and innovated activities and forms of organizing fairs and exhibitions, etc., contributing to expanding the market for local agricultural products. The database system for tracing the origin of safe agricultural, forestry and aquatic products of the province has also been built and applied QR-code technology, ensuring information transparency for consumers.

Currently, 100% of OCOP products that meet standards (from 3-5 stars) have been posted on e-commerce platforms such as Postmart.vn and Voso.vn, packaging and labels have been improved and upgraded, product labels are fully recorded with mandatory content according to regulations. The whole province currently has 23 points introducing and selling OCOP products; some points also have websites introducing goods and selling through social networking sites...

With many effective solutions, Quang Ninh has gradually narrowed the regional gap, helping local people stabilize their lives and increase their income sustainably.

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