Apart from introducing farm produce and other local products, the five-day event will include conferences and seminars on supply-demand networking, brand name building, OCOP startups and rural tourism.

Visitors to the fair.

Nguyen Huu Lap, Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Ben Tre province, said the OCOP programme aims to spur rural economic development by increasing values and competitiveness of traditional and special products and services.

Ben Tre has devised an OCOP project for 2018-2020 with a vision towards 2030 and selected quality products for the first OCOP fair, the official added.

Along with OCOP goods, the province is displaying special agricultural products like coconut, pomelo and longan.

As of May 2019, 46 provinces nationwide had ratified OCOP projects, plans and programmes, and five of them, namely Quang Ninh, Bac Kan, Quang Nam, Lao Cai and Ben Tre, rated their OCOP goods.

In 2013, Quang Ninh was the first locality in Vietnam to implement the programme, which was initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in 2008, following the model of Japan’s “One Village, One Product” (OVOP) drive and Thailand’s “One Town, One Product” (OTOP).

OCOP programme targets production in value chain

(BGO) - Bac Giang has been selected to organize a national conference to implement the Prime Minister's Decision on "One Commune One Product (OCOP) Programme in the 2018-2020 period" on July 14 in Bac Giang city. 

OCOP programme for 2018-2020 approved

On behalf of Prime Minister, Deputy PM Vuong Dinh Hue, Head of the Steering Committee for the National Target Programmes, has signed Decision No. 490 / QD-TTg approving the One Commune, Once Product (OCOP) programme, which will be implemented nationwide.

Bac Giang approves for “One Commune One Product” programme

(BGO) – The provincial People’s Committee province has approved for “One Commune One Product” programme (OCOP) in the northern province of Bac Giang for the period of 2018 – 2020 with the vision toward 2030.

Bac Giang’s staples exhibited in one commune one product fair

(BGO) – The Exhibition Fair of One Commune One Product (OCOP) and Hi-tech Agriculture in the Northern Midland and Mountainous Area – Thai Nguyen 2018 is scheduled on August 31 to September 6, 2018, in Thai Nguyen city (Thai Nguyen province). 

Source: VNA