Hai Duong city promotes consumption of agricultural, OCOP products

Participants in the conference on promoting the consumption of Hai Duong city’s agricultural and OCOP products

Participants in the conference were representatives of the Departments of Industry and Trade, Agriculture and Rural Development; the provincial Business Association; leaders of 25 wards and communes; agricultural service cooperatives; and a number of businesses producing and trading agricultural and OCOP products in the city.

At the conference, representatives of some enterprises and cooperatives discussed advantages of and difficulties in producing and consuming agricultural and OCOP products in the locality.

They suggested that authorities and specialized agencies work out measures and mechanisms in building safe cultivation zones and developing supply chains to limit the agricultural sector’s seasonal character.

In addition, it is necessary to strengthen regional connection and create links for OCOP product consumption.

There are nearly 3,000 ha of rice, 600 ha of perennial crops, 120 ha of peach, and nearly 700 ha of water surface for aquaculture in Hai Duong city.

Regarding animal husbandry, the city has steadily developed 25,000 porkers, 450,000 poultry, and 800 buffalos and oxen, raised and exploited 3,500 – 4.000 tons of aquatic products.

To date, Hai Duong city has had 38 4-star OCOP products and 21 3-star ones.

Together with a 1st-grade urban area’s economic growth and restructuring, the city authorities have attached special importance to developing peri-urban agriculture to create a green belt to remedy inadequacies of urbanization and industrialization.

With this orientation, in the coming time, the city authorities will build agricultural cultivation regions following VietGAP standard, encourage and create conditions for organizations and individuals to build factories to preserve and process agricultural products, intensify cooperation between businesses and people to create valuable products, actively apply science, technology, and digital transformation, select advanced and modern production models suitable to production conditions, etc.

At the conference, 20 businesses and agricultural service cooperatives signed a memorandum of understanding on underwriting agricultural and OCOP products of Hai Duong city.

NGUYEN MO