(thiennhienmoitruong.vn) - With more than 84 thousand hectares of fruit trees, Son La is rising to become the fruit capital of the North. From this advantage, Son La strengthens the work of granting and strictly managing growing areas and facilities that are granted codes, ensuring the quality of fruit exported to many markets.
Son La Provincial People's Committee said that in the first 6 months of 2024, Son La's fruit tree output for export reached about 12.2 thousand tons with an estimated value of nearly 82 billion VND. Some of these products have opened their markets in previous years and are gradually becoming Son La's export strengths, such as mango (7.6 thousand tons), banana (4.56 thousand tons), passion fruit (37 tons) ...
In the first 6 months of the year, many typical fruits and vegetables of Son La province were exported for the first time when many new markets were opened in the first 6 months of the year. Typically, at the beginning of the year, the first dragon fruits of Ngoc Hoang Agricultural Cooperative, Na Bo commune, Mai Son district were exported to the Scottish market. Immediately after that, 5 tons of red-fleshed dragon fruit of farmers in Chieng Pha commune, Thuan Chau district were also officially exported to the Italian market, through Ngoc Hoang Agricultural Cooperative. In the 2024 plum crop, 10 tons of Son La Ruby plums of Noong Pieu indigenous agricultural cooperative, Phieng Khoai commune, Yen Chau district were exported to markets considered difficult such as Germany, England, France, Czech Republic with an average price of 250 - 300 thousand VND...
With more than 84 thousand hectares of fruit trees, Son La is rising to become the fruit capital of the North.
From 2017 to present, the area of land for growing fruit trees and fruit output of Son La has continuously increased, currently reaching nearly 85,000 hectares; fruit output reached 453,554 tons; an increase of 91.2% in area, 210.5% in output (307,489 tons) compared to 2017. Some main fruit trees have high commodity value and have formed concentrated production areas, such as: Longan in Song Ma and Mai Son districts; Yen Chau mango; Mai Son custard apple; plum, avocado of Moc Chau district; hawthorn of Muong La, Bac Yen, Thuan Chau. The whole province currently has 5 high-tech agricultural areas; there are 2,714 hectares of crops applying good agricultural production processes and equivalent standards, with an output of 43,570 tons/year; there are 8,200 hectares of organic production and organic orientation.
With these advantages, in recent years, Son La has strengthened the work of granting and strictly managing codes for fruit growing areas in particular and agricultural products for export in general. With the fierce competition between agricultural products in the world market today, granting certificates of traceability for agricultural products of international standards has become an urgent matter for the agricultural sector. The code for growing areas is considered an important passport for agricultural products for export. Therefore, the establishment of codes for growing areas is a very necessary task to create trust for consumers with products of clear origin, quality guaranteed to serve market demand, thereby contributing to bringing agricultural products to the world.
The issuance of growing area codes not only helps consumers and authorities easily trace the origin, meet the requirements of importing countries through production according to certain processes with pest control, ensuring food safety, but also helps farmers realize that production issues are closely related to product quality and price. At the same time, this can be considered the "key" in building trust in the quality and reputation of Vietnamese agricultural products in general in the international market as well as the economic benefits of farmers.
In the first 6 months of 2024, the province is maintaining 214 growing area codes, including 205 export growing area codes, 09 growing area codes for the crop sector with a total area of 3,121.81 hectares. Maintaining 205 growing area codes for export to markets, including: 119 export codes to China; 30 export codes to the United States; 41 export codes to Australia; 09 export codes to Newziland; 03 export codes 2 to the EU; 03 export codes to other markets.
Total number of crops granted export codes: Mango 69 codes, longan 108 codes, banana 16 codes, plum 05 codes, macadamia 01 code, dragon fruit 02 codes, passion fruit 04 codes. Maintain 09 codes for growing areas including: Plum 02 codes, longan 02 codes, mango 02 codes, coffee 01 code, vegetables and strawberries 01 code, rice 01 code. Agricultural product packaging facility codes are maintaining 11 codes: Son La city 04 codes, Mai Son 03 codes, Song Ma 01 code, Yen Chau 01 code, Moc Chau 02 codes. Packaged products include longan, mango, macadamia, passion fruit.
The whole province has monitored 188 growing area codes including: 74 mango growing area codes, 109 longan growing area codes, 05 plum growing area codes. In the districts of Van Ho, Moc Chau, Yen Chau, Mai Son, Bac Yen, Song Ma; Thuan Chau; Muong La and City. As a result, 182 growing area codes are eligible to continue to be maintained, 06 codes are proposed to be revoked to convert to other crops.
Functional sectors need to step up training to propagate and guide localities and facilities to build growing areas to ensure code issuance.
To protect and maintain the codes of growing areas and packaging facilities, in addition to the supervision of management agencies, businesses and farmers must consider this as a type of asset and have the awareness to protect themselves. If violations are detected, they must take action to notify the authorities to protect their codes. The relevant agencies need to step up training to propagate and guide localities and facilities to build growing areas to ensure the issuance of codes. In the immediate future, focus on building growing area codes to serve domestic consumption. When ensuring the formation of linkage chains and finding markets, expand to export.
Continue to advise the province to issue mechanisms and policies to support localities in forming growing area codes. Strengthen the organization of production linkages for farmers in growing areas granted export codes; proactively do a good job of cleaning the garden, records and documents recording the entire process of impact on the garden, monitor the detection and treatment of harmful organisms in the garden, use of pesticides and fertilizers.
In the coming time, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, in coordination with departments, branches and localities, will continue to implement Plan No. 263/KH-UBND dated November 8, 2023 of the People's Committee of Son La province on the establishment, issuance, management and supervision of codes for growing areas and agricultural product packaging facilities for export in Son La province in 2024 and Decision No. 3156/QD-BNN-TT dated August 19, 2022 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on the issuance of temporary guidance documents on the issuance and management of codes for growing areas; Official Dispatch No. 6234/BNN-TT dated September 20, 2022 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on the issuance and management of codes for growing areas.
Organize propaganda and training for farmers in communes achieving new rural areas and communes with plans to be recognized as advanced new rural areas on establishing, managing and monitoring codes for growing areas and packaging facilities for export. Strive to issue 36 new codes for growing areas to achieve the target of 250 codes for growing areas in the whole province, monitor 23 codes for growing areas and 02 packaging facilities.
According to: thiennhienmoitruong.vn