Promoting the strengths of each region

The Tri Yen women’s soy sauce production group in Long Khanh village, Tri Yen commune (Yen Dung district) was established in 2015, including six members.

Member of the women’s union of Da Mai ward (Bac Giang city) produce safe vegetables.

To make a good batch of soy sauce, the women must prepare fragrant glutinous sticky rice (yellow flower sticky rice), green beans, white salt and clean water. Most of the ingredients for making soy sauce are carefully selected. Thanks to compliance with that production process, each year the group provides the market with about 6,000 liters of soy sauce, at a price of 40,000 VND (1.72 USD) per liter.

In 2018, the Yen Dung district Women's Union and the communal Women's Union supported 10 million VND (430 USD) to help the group register a label for their product. Thereby, the product labeled ‘Tri Yen soy sauce’ made by women has been known by many people, becoming a local specialty with consumption doubling and tripling compared to the past.

In addition to instructing each other on production techniques, members of the communal Women’s Union have been sent to attend many training programmes on safe agricultural production and consumption. The Tri Yen women’s soy sauce production group displayed and introduced products at the Vinh Nghiem Pagoda Festival, the women's creative start-up festival, and trade promotion seminars in 2019. 

In the coming time, the group will continue to invest more in machines, contributing to modernizing the production process and increasing production.

The women’s union members in Que Nham commune (Tan Yen district) have learned and joined the group of producing commodity crops up to VietGAP standards for more than 2 years. The commodity crop production area reaches about 17ha in different villages. Most crops are selected according to the seasons such as onion, garlic, vegetables and sweet corn. In addition, some members have also planted and expanded the area of medicinal plants such as ginseng.

Supporting members to maintain sustainable production

Higher consumer awareness of safe agricultural products results in increasing difficulties that members of safe agricultural production groups are facing. At present, the models of cooperative groups membered by women or established with support from the women’s unions at different levels are mostly small-scale, with scattered production areas. Capital difficulties hinder their investment in technical application.

In order to support women union’s members in a timely manner, since the project "Supporting women in starting a business in the 2017-2025 period" was launched in 2017, the provincial Women's Union has appraised and provided 43 women’s projects and cooperative groups with total loans worth over 3.8 billion VND (163,500 USD) taken from capital sources to support women in economic development and startup, the National Fund for Employment, and the national target programme on new-style rural area building

Giap Thi Chinh in Que Nham commune (Tan Yen district) grows sweet corn in a safe manner.

According to Pham Thi Hang, Vice Chairwoman of the provincial Women's Union, her union has directed its chapters to strengthen links to expand production scale to increase product quality and value, and create products with registered labels and origin certification to meet consumer needs, toward safety. It has also launched communication campaigns to encourage its members to participate in training courses on safe agricultural production, ensuring compliance with regulations.

The women’s unions at all levels have persuaded their members to sign commitments to producing, processing and trading safe agricultural products.

Based on the characteristics and strengths of the locality, each unit has its own way to support women to develop and expand production and trading of safe farm produce.

Benefit from “Accompanying poor women” Fund in Tan An commune

(BGO) - Thanks to proper collection, classification and treatment of household waste, the women’s union of Tan An commune, Yen Dung district, Bac Giang province earns some tens of million VND (some 432 USD) annually to support poor women and children.

100 million VND offered to Women’s Union in Da Mai ward in creative startup contest

(BGO) - The Vietnam Women's Union collaborated with the Vietnam Climate Innovation Centre (under the Ministry of Science and Technology) to organise a ceremony in Hanoi to honour  the creative ideas at the creative startup contest  themed "Women and the future of green economy".

Bac Giang team win first prize at National Women’s Physical Training and Sports Festival

(BGO) – The Women’s Union in the northern province of Bac Giang on June 20 – 21 participated in the National Women’s Physical Training and Sports Festival held in Bac Ninh city (Bac Ninh province) to practically respond to Vietnam Health Programme and celebrate Vietnam Family Day (June 28).  

Helping with livelihoods for poor women

(BGO) - Helping disadvantaged women with jobs and stable income to early escape poverty is the goal that the Women's Unions of all levels in Tan Yen district (Bac Giang province) set out in 2019. The material support, the provision of livelihood means, and the establishment of models and clubs to support women to escape poverty have been effectively implemented by many grassroots-level unions.

Bac Giang inks coordination programme to protect women and children in 2019-2022

(BGO) – The Bac Giang provincial Women’s Association on May 21 joined hand with the provincial Public Security Force, Supreme People’s Procuracy and People’s Court to ink the coordination programme in women and children protection in the period of 2019 – 2022.  

Tuyet Mai