Building a sustainable agricultural product consumption chain

Currently, the whole Son La province has 39 vegetable chains, 178 fruit chains, 15 tea and coffee chains; over 100 establishments apply VietGAP, GlobalGAP... to help sustainably consume agricultural products.

Son La currently has over 350,000 hectares of agricultural land. Taking advantage of the climate and land, localities have focused on developing agricultural raw material areas in the direction of in-depth investment, improving productivity and product quality to serve factories and processing facilities. At the same time, forming production, processing, product consumption chains and building brands for the province's key agricultural products, contributing to promoting the district's agriculture to shift in the right direction; focusing on increasing productivity, quality, and increasing average income value per unit of cultivated land area.

Building a linkage chain helps Son La agricultural products expand their output (Photo: Minh Thu)

In Mai Son district, district leaders have focused on propagating and orienting farmers, cooperatives, and enterprises to invest in and develop high-tech agricultural production; linking production and consumption of agricultural products in chains. During the linkage process, producers strictly follow care and harvesting techniques, ensuring quality and standards of processing plants. Enterprises properly and fully implement the terms of the contract to purchase products at the announced price. Authorities strengthen state management, ensuring close links between farmers - the state - enterprises.

In Song Ma district, implementing the plan to develop raw material areas for processing factories, the district has directed agencies and units to coordinate with communes to review the current status and land allocation capacity, propagate and mobilize people to convert ineffective crop land, community land, unallocated agricultural land, allocated land with low economic efficiency, land with the potential for intercropping...

In addition, businesses in Son La have also strengthened their production and consumption chain links to increase product value. For example, Son La Sugarcane Joint Stock Company has invested tens of billions of VND in providing seeds and fertilizers to households that have signed a commitment to grow sugarcane; supporting road construction to transport raw sugarcane; lending money to farmers to invest in production and repair houses, creating trust and close ties between people and businesses.

According to the Department of Industry and Trade of Son La, the province currently has 17 factories and 543 agricultural processing facilities. This is an important condition for localities to develop raw material areas for processing. Currently, enterprises and cooperatives have signed contracts to consume products with households in the province to build raw material areas, with 20,782 hectares of coffee; more than 15,700 hectares of tea; 10,136 hectares of sugarcane; over 42,000 hectares of cassava; more than 1,200 hectares of raw materials of Dong Giao Food Export Joint Stock Company... The province has 39 vegetable chains, 178 fruit chains, 15 tea and coffee chains; over 100 facilities applying VietGAP and GlobalGAP good agricultural production practices that are still in effect; 216 planting area codes were granted, with a total area of ​​more than 3,000 hectares of crops for export to markets: Australia, UK, USA, France, Japan, Korea, China, UAE...

Source: https://congthuong.vn/son-la-xay-dung-chuoi-lien-ket-tieu-thu-nong-san-ben-vung-357663.html