About safe vegetable area

Vegetables are a major food need for everyone's daily menu, so ensuring this food source is clean is to protect the health of users. Over the years, Phu Tho town has planned safe vegetable production into large areas, suitable for modern suburban agricultural production, convenient for care, harvesting, transportation and consumption, creating a premise for the town's agricultural sector to build other specialized areas.

Truong Thinh Agricultural Cooperative builds production models in the direction of organic, safe, convenient in production and product consumption.

For a long time, Phu Loi village in Phu Tho town has been famous for its large vegetable growing area, supplying vegetables, tubers, and fruits to all markets in the province. In 2012, Truong Thinh Agricultural Cooperative was established, connecting people in Phu Loi village to produce safe vegetables, helping to improve the quality of vegetable products and stabilize output. In order to meet market demands, members of the Cooperative are trained to improve their qualifications and techniques, master safe production processes with strict rules on the use of pesticides, biological and organic fertilizers, contributing to environmental protection, improving the health of producers and consumers.

Up to now, the cooperative's vegetable growing area has been granted a growing area code with more than 10 hectares. The products produced by the cooperative are currently consumed at wholesale markets, town markets and neighboring markets, restaurants, and kitchens of some schools in the area. In the coming time, the cooperative will continue to accompany member households to learn from experience, improve production techniques, enhance product quality, create jobs for rural workers with stable income, contributing to the socio-economic development of the locality.

Mr. Vu Xuan Phuong - Director of Truong Thinh Agricultural Cooperative said that currently, the Cooperative has nearly 60 member households associated with safe vegetable production, creating stable jobs for dozens of local workers with an income of more than 6 million/person/month. To have safe and quality vegetables, the Cooperative has invested in building and effectively exploiting facilities for processing, packaging and consuming spices that meet food hygiene and safety standards. At the same time, strictly comply with the steps prescribed by VietGAP standards from land preparation, water sources, fertilizers, planting, spraying pesticides, care to harvesting, preliminary processing...

In addition, the application of technical advances and safety and quality standards in production is increasingly being paid attention to. The whole town currently has more than 15 hectares of vegetables with growing area codes. The granting of growing area codes has helped farmers standardize the process of caring for and managing crops, improve competitiveness, and expand consumption markets. Therefore, the efficiency of vegetable production is increasingly improved in the direction of concentrated goods, ensuring food safety, meeting market requirements.

However, the development of safe vegetable production areas in the town still faces some difficulties such as: small production scale, lack of linkage, no formation of large-scale specialized concentrated production areas associated with stable processing and consumption markets in the chain, the linkage between the development of raw material areas and processing facilities is not tight, the area certified for safety standards is still low; productivity, quality and value of products are not commensurate with potential and advantages; attracting businesses to invest in developing production, preservation, processing and consumption is still difficult.

To overcome difficulties and promote existing advantages, the town's agricultural sector focuses on prioritizing the development of specialty and indigenous vegetable varieties, organic production, supporting production and processing facilities to improve their capacity and skills in organizing production, monitoring quality, accessing markets, and providing product information; establishing, granting and managing codes for growing areas and packaging facilities to serve preliminary processing, processing, and product consumption, ensuring food hygiene and safety, meeting the demand for domestic vegetable consumption and aiming for export, contributing to increasing income for producers and protecting public health...

Hoang Huong

Source: https://baophutho.vn/ve-vung-rau-an-toan-218303.htm