Many good models

According to the PCA, Bac Giang is home to several famous farm products which are consumed domestically and internationally. Particularly, the 20,000 ha lychee cultivation area is considered by Japanese experts as the biggest concentrated fruit growing area across the nation.

The overview of the meeting.

The province has 714 cooperatives, 461 of which operate in agriculture sector. The cooperatives have run stably and effectively with improved quality that matches to the common development trend of the economy.

Additionally, the province rank third nationwide in term of hill chicken scale and output. They are two key local farm products. However, the consumption of farm produce in the province in general and in cooperatives in particular has encountered several difficulties.

Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Duong Van Thai speaks at the meeting.

Attending the conference, Luu Xuan Kien, Deputy Director of Yen Dung Clean Vegetable Cooperative (Yen Dung district) said the cooperative cultivates vegetables and roots in over 30 ha in Tien Dung commune (Yen Dung district) with the quality as the crucial factor to achieve stable output.

The cooperative invested in hi-tech application into cultivation such as building the net and membrane houses, upgrading the canal and inner field road, equipping auto and modern irrigation system...; hence increasing the production effectiveness. The cooperative supplies more than 2 tonnes of vegetables and roots to Hanoi’s supermarkets on a daily basis.

Representative of Yen The Green Agriculture Cooperative (Yen The district) which is specialized at poultry breeding, consumption and processing shared the cooperative always takes initiative in promoting the products, joining the trade promotion events and actively searching for orders.

In 2018, the cooperative sold more than 100 tonnes of chicken feather to the market and dozens of tonnes of various processed products that nearly doubled the figure of the previous year.

Representatives visit the booths at the event.

Do Hoang Thach, Director of Vietnam Agriculture Promotion Joint Stock Company (Ha Noi) shared: “My experience is to boost up the product promotion and introduction while welcoming the customers’ feedback then collecting their honest and objective evaluation”.

Besides, some representatives believed that it is necessary to take the complete responsibility for ones’ products to create the trademark and prestige to the customers. The local advantage product should be prioritised. The products can be promoted via individual social networks because it is a good way to access to many customers.

Close linkage

Addressing the event, Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee Duong Van Thai affirmed on the important role of trade promotion to link the producer with the customers and accelerate the commodity circulation and distribution.

Acknowledging the importance, Bac Giang province has recently focused on trade promotion to help stabilise the consumption of several products. Many enterprises, tradesmen, businessmen and cooperatives joined this meeting to search for the partners so as to form more linkage and value chains. 

The local authority will create the best possible condition to the cooperatives to overcome the challenges and boost up the production development as well as product processing and consumption, he said.

All sides ink the memorandum of understanding for farm produce consumption between cooperatives and enterprises.

Agreeing with the Vice Chairman’s opinion, Vice Chairman of Vietnam Cooperative Alliance Le Van Nghi recommended to have strict contract in linkage in order to ensure the legal factor and governmental participation in the linkage chain to prevent the unfair trading cases and contract disruption

On the occasion, the cooperatives and enterprises in and outside the province inked the memorandum of understanding to consume the farm produce.

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