New chances

At present, the province has more than 700 cooperatives and cooperative unions, including more than 400 units operating in the field of agricultural product manufacturing and processing. However, only over 10 percent of them signed regular contracts to sell products with businesses.

Businesses commit to purchasing forest honey products of the Thao Moc Linh Agricultural Service Cooperative (Son Dong district).

The Thu Duc wholesale market management enterprise (Ho Chi Minh City), the Binh Phuoc agricultural market (Binh Phuoc province) and Nazo Company Limited (Hanoi) signed memorandum of understanding on promoting the consumption of agricultural products with five agricultural cooperatives in Bac Giang province.

Accordingly, these businesses will be responsible for selling products of the Dong Tam 3 Agricultural Cooperative, the Hiep Hoa Organic Agricultural Cooperative Union (Hiep Hoa district), the Than Truong Cooperative (Yen The district), the Hong Xuan Agricultural Production and General Services Business Cooperative (Luc Ngan district) and the Thao Moc Linh Agricultural Service Cooperative (Son Dong district).

The purchasers committed that all contracts will be signed before the harvest season. For Nazo Co., Ltd. (Hanoi), in addition to consuming fruits and vegetables of all kinds, the unit will support cooperatives in building production areas, buying processing equipment, and preserving goods according to safe procedures.

Nguyen Duc Hien, Chairman of the provincial Cooperative Alliance, said "The signing of the memorandum of understanding between the five local cooperatives and cooperative union with enterprises and wholesale markets helps members' goods to be promoted and consumed stably. At the same time, it is also a motivation for cooperatives and cooperative unions to improve their product quality”.

Maintaining quality

Immediately after signing the MOUs, these five units have joined local authorities and professional agencies to start production. The Than Truong Cooperative in Xuan Luong commune (Yen The district) is implementing many measures to maintain and improve the quality of tea cultivation and processing.

With this prospect, the cooperative continues to direct its members to develop safe tea areas on 25 ha of member households and more than 100 ha of affiliated households; build value chain; support the use of automatic watering system and microbial fertilizer and purchase products with prices 10 – 15 percent higher than those in the market. It also strengthens the monitoring of compliance with production processes to ensure safety and efficiency.

At the Hong Xuan Agricultural Production and General Service Business Cooperative (Luc Ngan district), farmers have exerted efforts to take care of lychee, preparing the best conditions for products to meet market requirements. The household of Giap Van Huy in Kep 1 village, Hong Giang commune (Luc Ngan) are actively taking care of and preventing harmful pests and diseases on lychee.

He does not use chemicals, but only preventive biological products. Currently, 22 the cooperative’s member households are carrying out a safe caring process on a total area of more than 20 ha of lychee according to VietGAP and GlobalGAP standards in Hong Giang and Quy Son communes...

The provincial Cooperative Alliance has held a discussion on the content of the minutes signed with cooperative members. The alliance also advised the provincial People's Committee and local authorities to facilitate businesses’ purchase of products while guiding people how to produce and supporting them in stamping, labelling and packaging.

Hoang Tien Hung, head of Hiep Hoa district's Agriculture and Rural Development Division, said: “Recognizing that this is a great opportunity for local agricultural production, the division is proposing the district People's Committee have a mechanism to support all the goods stamping and packaging of the Dong Tam 3 Agricultural Cooperative and the Hiep Hoa Organic Agricultural Cooperative Union (Hiep Hoa district)".

Along with the measures of management agencies, not only the five above-mentioned units but also all remaining agricultural cooperatives in the province have actively invested in cultivation and improving production techniques in order to make linkages in agricultural product consumption favourable in the future.

Bac Giang women start business from farm produce

(BGO) - In order to encourage rural women to start their business, the Women's Union of Bac Giang province has organized the contest "Women’s innovative startup ideas in production and trading of agricultural products". Through this contest, many ideas have been implemented, bringing about encouraging results.

 

Over 100 billion VND invested in processing line of farm produce

(BGO) – The G.O.C Food Processing Export Joint Stock Company (G.O.C) in Tan Dinh commune, Lang Giang district (Bac Giang province)  has invested over 100 billion VND (about 4.3 million USD) in installing new processing line of farm produce. 

 

Support trademark development for community farm produce

(BGO) – The People’s Committee in the northern province of Bac Giang has approved for the project to build and develop the provincial level community farm produce in the period of 2019 – 2021, the Department of Industry and Trade (DoIT) reported. 

 

Tan Yen stamps on farm produce for origin traceability

(BGO) – Tan Yen district in Bac Giang province has paid due attention to supporting the local farmers in brand protection and stamp for agricultural produce’s origin traceability to promote the products’ prestige, hence helping them earn a good income and expand the consumption market.

 

Bac Giang strives to ensure condition to export farm produce to China

(BGO) – Recently, the Chinese market has requested several condition when importing the farm produce from Vietnam and other countries. To meet the criteria and ensure a smooth product consumption, the northern province of Bac Giang has applied many solutions. 

 

Hoang Phuong