Safe vegetables, ensuring food safety sold at Minh Cau Supermarket

Mr. Tran Ba Hang, Vo Nhai commune said: My family has more than 1,000 custard apple trees. To meet market demand, for many years, I have intensively farmed custard apples towards VietGAP. I find that if people do not produce products the market needs but produce what they have, they will forever "mark time" and the economic efficiency obtained will not be high.

Besides Vo Nhai, many households in specialized vegetable growing areas in the province have paid attention to agricultural production towards safety, organic and VietGAP. In Linh Son vegetable area, most households use biological plant protection products and organic fertilizers for production. Ms. Nguyen Thi Thanh, Ben Do hamlet said: "Abuse of plant protection products affects both producers and consumers. Even producers suffer more when regularly living and cultivating crops in a toxic environment. Therefore, for more than 10 years, Linh Son vegetable growers have limited the use of plant protection products, inorganic fertilizers; actively used biological products in production...

Safe vegetables, ensuring food safety "made in Thai Nguyen" have been consumed quite strongly in Thai Nguyen

From the above sharing, it can be seen that the awareness of the people has changed very positively. This is the explanation for why the area of crops produced towards organic, VietGAP... in the province is increasingly high.

In addition to the positiveness of the people, the province has also had many mechanisms to encourage people to produce clean agriculture. For example, with tea trees, the province also supports certification of meeting Good Agricultural Practice standards VietGAP, other GAPs with a support level of 100% of the cost for first-time GAP standard certification, maximum VND 6 million/ha; 100% of the cost for re-issuing GAP standard certification, maximum VND 4 million/ha for organizations and individuals eligible for tea production scale (minimum from 5 ha). In addition, the province supports 100% of the cost for first-time organic standard certification, maximum VND 60 million/ha; 100% of the cost for re-issuing organic standard certification, maximum VND 40 million/ha. Supporting 70% of the cost of buying organic fertilizers, microbiological organic fertilizers, biological pesticides, biological products during the conversion to organic tea production for a maximum of 3 years and not exceeding VND 50 million/ha/year. Notably, to encourage people to improve product quality, ensure food safety and meet export needs, the province has a mechanism to support organizations and individuals producing, processing and consuming tea to build and certify quality management systems such as ISO, HACCP or other advanced Quality Management System certifications. The support level is 100% of the cost for first-time standard certification, maximum VND 50 million/facility. From the encouragement of the State and the positiveness of the people, to date, Thai Nguyen has formed concentrated production areas, intensive farming towards clean production for main, key and advantageous crops such as: Tea, rice, vegetables, flowers, fruit trees.

Many households in Vo Tranh commune are promoting tea production towards organic, VietGAP, ensuring food safety

With rice plants, the application of technical advances in farming has been promoted to increase product value, productivity and output. Accordingly, over 260 ha of rice certified for safe production according to VietGAP standards of the province are concentrated in Phu Luong, Phu Binh, Vo Nhai communes... Regarding tea trees, most of the concentrated production area in the province applies GAP, organic standards..., equivalent to about 17,800 ha of tea, of which, the area certified with VietGAP is more than 6,440 ha; the area certified with organic standards is 125 ha. These areas are all eligible to ensure food safety. With green vegetable production areas, people in the province have promoted the application of safe vegetable production technology, VietGAP using greenhouse, net house technology, automatic irrigation systems; off-season vegetable production... into production. Currently, the whole province has 339 ha of vegetables certified for safe production according to VietGAP standards. For fruit trees, the whole province has built a number of concentrated fruit tree production areas in Vo Nhai, La Hien, Quan Chu... Accordingly, in the area, there are over 1,100 ha meeting VietGAP, organic standards. Mr. Nguyen Ta, Head of the Sub-Department of Crop Production and Plant Protection said: In recent times, people in the province have invested in applying biological products in pest control, preservation, supplementary pollination to improve quality, design and value of agricultural products, ensure food safety, have high economic value and have a stable consumption market. This is the foundation for the province to continue promoting clean agricultural production in the coming time.