In recent years, the district's fruit products have created prestige with consumers, the consumption market has been expanded in many provinces and cities in the country and for export. To achieve this positive result, the district has helped and supported cooperatives and households to maintain stable production, maintain markets, especially foreign markets. Directed the district's Agricultural Service Center to strengthen the management of safe production processes, such as VietGAP, GlobalGAP; improve product quality towards organic agricultural production.

Up to now, the district has coordinated with the Post-Import Plant Quarantine Center I, Plant Protection Department, to evaluate and issue 48 growing area codes, with a total area of ​​481.7 hectares, output of 4,799 tons, of which 12 growing area codes are for longan exported to the US market; 23 growing area codes are for longan and mango exported to the Chinese market; 13 growing area codes are for longan exported to the Australian and New Zealand markets. Building safe fruit areas, developing linkage chains. In the district, there are 73 cooperatives operating in the agricultural sector, of which 48 cooperatives and companies produce fruit trees according to VietGAP process, with 982 hectares.

People of Chieng Khuong commune harvest early ripe longan.

Song Ma district has directed specialized agencies to coordinate with cooperatives to participate in displaying and introducing products at the "Son La - Hua Phan Tourism and Culture Festival 2024" in Hua Phan province, Lao PDR; coordinate with the Department of Industry and Trade to connect with the Department of Industry and Trade of Lao Cai province and Minh Khai Company to survey growing areas, find connections for consumption and export of agricultural products to the Chinese market. Direct specialized agencies to coordinate with relevant units to guide cooperatives and households to put agricultural products on e-commerce platforms Sendo, Shopee, Lazada, Pots mart, Voso... to connect consumption and export. Guide organizations and individuals to properly manage certified longan production material areas; Inspect and supervise cooperatives on records of fruit growing areas, people's use of pesticides, harvesting methods, preservation, and labeling with certified labels, such as "Song Ma Longan", "Son La Longan", "Son La Pineapple", "Son La Mango", "Son La Dragon Fruit" and the certified label "Song Ma Purple Sugarcane"... Maintain 2,994 longan drying kilns of processing facilities in the area; of which 2,262 are manual drying kilns; 732 are clean steam drying kilns to produce and process the 2024 longan crop.

Toan Thang Agricultural Service Cooperative, Na Nghiu commune, cooperates in purchasing green-skinned elephant mangoes.

Since the beginning of the year, the total output of fruit trees consumed in the district has reached over 7,820 tons (equal to 13.7% of the total output of the year); the estimated value is over 65 billion VND. Of which, 400 tons of mangoes were exported to the Chinese market. Some fruit products in the main harvest season, such as: Mango, banana, pineapple, early ripening longan... are mostly purchased by enterprises and cooperatives to supply to the system of supermarkets and clean fruit stores in provinces and cities across the country and exported to the Chinese market. Currently, the main season of longan is about to enter the harvest season, the district has directed specialized agencies, People's Committees of communes to coordinate with cooperatives and enterprises to collect and maintain traditional customers to introduce and promote the district's agricultural products.

With the participation of Party committees and authorities, the initiative of cooperatives and farmers, in 2024 Song Ma district will strive to achieve and exceed the plan for consumption and export of agricultural products, continuing to bring the district's fruit brand far and wide.