Raw tea area of Cam My Tea Cooperative, Tat Thang commune, Thanh Son district.
Implementing Resolution No. 05/2019/NQ-HDND dated July 16, 2019 and Resolution No. 22/2022/NQ-HDND dated December 9, 2021 of the Provincial People's Council (replacing Resolution 05) on policies to support and encourage agricultural and rural development in Phu Tho province, 1 enterprise and 4 cooperatives have been supported with a total budget of nearly 5.2 billion VND by 2023. The supported enterprises and cooperatives have met the standards of having raw material areas in the province, having production and processing projects associated with building green tea brands with a processing capacity of 50 tons of fresh tea buds/year or more and approved by competent authorities; supporting costs to improve the quality of raw material areas; improving production and processing technology; building, developing brands and promoting trade. The maximum support level is 1.2 billion VND/project.
The implemented projects have all formed chains linking production with processing and consumption of high-quality green tea, initially bringing practical results. The above capital sources have supported enterprises, cooperatives, and production households to update regulations, equip knowledge, and change their thinking on safe and sustainable production; invest in expanding scale, upgrading green tea processing line equipment, improving designs and packaging, building brands, and promoting trade, contributing to improving the quality, value, and expanding the market for green tea products. To date, 8 products of the project's implementing entities have met OCOP standards from 3 to 4 stars.
As one of the four supported cooperatives, Cam My Tea Cooperative, Tat Thang Commune, Thanh Son District, has two products that meet the 4-star OCOP standard. Ms. Nguyen Thi Cam My - Deputy Director of the Cooperative excitedly said: "From the support policy according to Resolution 22 of the Provincial People's Council and other capital sources, the Cooperative has had more favorable conditions to invest in machinery, upgrade green tea processing equipment, help the product quality to be more uniform, packaging designs to be more beautiful... to meet the increasingly high demands of the market. In 2023, the Cooperative was recognized by the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers' Union as one of the 63 outstanding agricultural cooperatives nationwide".
However, the reality shows that the results are not yet commensurate with the province's tea development potential. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic and political conflicts between world economies, the prices of input materials and supplies have increased, while the selling price of products has decreased, making consumption and market expansion difficult. In 2023, unfavorable weather, heat, and drought over a large area have greatly affected the growth and development of tea plants. Most enterprises and cooperatives producing and processing green tea in the province are still small in scale, and their financial potential is not strong enough, so there are few subjects participating in project development, and mobilizing counterpart investment capital, especially cooperatives, still faces many difficulties.
Comrade Tran Tu Anh - Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development said: In the coming time, the Department of Agriculture will continue to coordinate with other departments and localities to widely disseminate the contents supported under Resolution No. 22/2021/NQ-HDND dated December 9, 2021 of the Provincial People's Council and the procedures for implementing support policies to authorities at all levels and people for understanding and implementation. Review and select enterprises and tea production cooperatives with potential in terms of capital, labor, land and production organization to participate in programs and projects to continue developing tea trees. Focus on directing the implementation of innovation in production organization forms, focusing on creating favorable conditions for the development of enterprises and tea production cooperatives according to the value chain. Improve the capacity and efficiency of production and business activities of tea production cooperatives, effectively implement the "One Commune One Product Program" (OCOP) associated with developing production according to key product groups, products that are local specialties, including tea products serving the domestic and export markets.
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