To date, Hung Yen province has 199 OCOP products recognized with 3-4 stars. (Photo: OCOP program of Hung Yen province)

Hung Yen has focused on developing a sustainable agricultural economy toward forming a high-added-value production chain in line with the locality’s resolution on restructuring the agricultural sector associated with building advanced new rural areas and model new rural areas for the period 2021-2025, with an orientation to 2030.

The One Commune One Product (OCOP) program has involved every locality in Hung Yen, boosting economic development and new-style rural area building.

Thanks to provincial financial support of 217,000 USD over the past five years to invest in infrastructure, production, processing, and packaging technology, and trade promotion, Hung Yen now has 199 OCOP products rated 3 or 4 stars.

Ly Thi Ha, Director of the Van Giang Safe Vegetable and Fruit Production Cooperative, said that since the Cooperative was certified as OCOP, the number of its customers has increased dramatically. The cooperative now supplies the market three tons of guavas and pears per day.

“By improving the quality, our products have been certified as OCOP. Since then, the company has become more widely known to customers. Our products have been highly appreciated in the market. In the future, we’ll further increase our rating to reach new markets, more demanding markets, and for export,” Ha said. 

To develop a sustainable agricultural economy, Hung Yen has shifted to new varieties and crops, applied VietGAP, GlobalGAP, and traceability standards, and linked digital transformation with high-tech agriculture, safe agriculture, smart agriculture, organic agriculture, and circular agriculture. 

“Thanks to using environmentally friendly fertilizers and applied high-tech, our products has been sold at higher prices and more importantly, consumers have greater trust in ours,” according to Nguyen Van The of Kim Dong district. 

Hung Yen intends to restructure the agricultural sector toward large-scale safe commodity production; apply high-tech; create high-quality, competitive, sustainable products; develop large-scale concentrated production areas; quickly introduce mechanization; adopt advanced production, processing, and preservation techniques, improve product quality, reduce costs, increase competitiveness, and add value.

There will be an emphasis on implementing social security policies in rural areas, and helping poor and near-poor households develop their production to escape poverty sustainably.

Le Trung Can, Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and Chief of the Office of the provincial Steering Committee on New-Style Rural Building, said the provincial steering committee has regularly listened to, inspected, and urged localities to review the criteria for new-style rural building, based on which to outline plans to further improve the criteria and the quality to meet the requirements set for each stage, especially the 2021-2025 period.

102 of Hung Yen’s 139 communes (73.4%) meet the advanced new-style rural standards, and 36 (26%) meet the model new-style rural standards. Hung Yen city, Van Giang district, and Mỹ Hào town have achieved the target of having all their communes accredited as advanced new-style rural areas.

By the end of the year, Hung Yen hopes to make all its communes advanced new-style rural areas, with 30% of them recognized as model new-style rural areas.

By 2025 Hung Yen intends to have all of its communes meet advanced new-style rural standards, half of its communes meet model new-style rural standards, and at least three district-level areas meet advanced new-style rural criteria.

Developing agriculture associated with advanced and model new-style rural building will help Hung Yen achieve the goal of becoming a modern industrial province and one of Vietnam’s leading localities in economic size and development level by 2030.