Farmers in Khanh Hoa develop green economy

Implementing the key tasks in the Action Program of the Provincial Farmers' Association to implement Resolution No. 09 of the Politburo on building and developing Khanh Hoa province to 2030, with a vision to 2045 and 2024, farmers' associations at all levels in the province have actively promoted and mobilized members and farmers in the province to continuously expand production scale, apply clean and organic agriculture to develop in the direction of green and circular agriculture, thereby achieving encouraging results.

Exciting movement of farmers

Le Quoc Toan - Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial Farmers' Association said that, in conjunction with farmers' movements, in 2024, members and farmers in the province will continue to implement the contents of the Action Program to implement Resolution No. 09 of the Politburo, striving to compete, both being good farmers in production and business, helping farmers who are still facing difficulties, and gradually building comprehensively developed Vietnamese farmers.

A mango garden meeting VietGAP standards in Cam Lam

According to statistics of the provincial Farmers' Association, thanks to constant innovation, improvement of scale, and cooperation in the production and business process, the agricultural production scale of members and farmers across the province has continuously increased, earning billions of VND each year. Typically, in Van Ninh district, there is the farmer Nguyen Trung Lap's household (Van Tho commune) producing and trading white-leg shrimp, creating jobs for 30 seasonal workers, with a total income of 3 billion VND/year; the household of Tran Thanh Hai (Van Thang commune) with Hai Xiu fish cake production, with a total income of 1.7 billion VND/year. In Ninh Hoa town, the household of Phan Duc Viet (Ninh Ich commune) with a model of raising fish fry and commercial fish on an area of 7,000m2, earns more than 1.7 billion VND/year; the household of Pham Minh Chinh (Ninh Trung commune) with a comprehensive farm model earns more than 1.8 billion VND/year. In Khanh Vinh district, there is Doan Nguyen Thanh's household (Khanh Dong commune) with 5 hectares of durian; Ha Thong (Khanh Phu commune) has a breeding cow farm; Hoang Thi Minh's household has a fruit tree growing model with dozens of hectares, creating regular jobs for more than 10 workers. In Khanh Son district, there is farmer Dang Tai Bay (Son Lam commune) who is good at growing durian, with a revenue of more than 14 billion VND/year, helping 8 other households to grow together. In Cam Lam district, there is a white-leg shrimp farming model of member Van Minh Cuong (Cam Hai Dong commune) with a revenue of 7 billion VND/year...

The common point of good farmers in production and business is that along with increasing the scale of production, farmers have gradually changed both in terms of production level and application of science and technology, applying clean, safe and environmentally friendly production. There are more and more shrimp and fish rafts and fruit gardens that meet VietGAP standards, providing the market with quality agricultural products, with clear origins, and commodity nature, in line with the province's orientation of developing green and sustainable agriculture. Along with increasingly clean and safe farming and livestock, many activities of cleaning village roads and alleys, collecting used pesticide packaging, collecting organic waste for fertilizer, etc. are actively participated in by farmers and have achieved many good results.

Towards green agriculture

According to the leaders of the provincial Farmers' Association, in 2024, the whole province will have more than 103,000 member households registered to achieve the title of excellent farmers in production and business at all levels. Through the assessment, there are 66,387 excellent farmer households at all levels, reaching 128.5% of the assigned target. Through the movement, many examples of excellent farmers in production and business have emerged, the number of cooperation models has increased, the quality, scale and efficiency of production and business have been expanded. Among the economic models, more and more farmer households have applied new agricultural production models, models of cooperation and association according to the value chain; effective economic models in agriculture and rural areas. Since the beginning of the year, the association at all levels has built 8 models of ecological agriculture, green agriculture, organic agriculture, high technology... combined with tourism; developed cooperation models, linking between enterprises with cooperatives and farmer households to produce and do business according to the value chain.

At the same time, the association coordinated to organize communication on environmentally friendly organic waste treatment methods for 400 officials and farmer members in Van Ninh district, Dien Khanh district and Ninh Hoa town; organized 6 tours to environmentally friendly organic waste treatment models within the framework of the project "Propaganda and mobilization of farmers to treat waste in Vietnam, contributing to the international community's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions" in Dien Khanh district, Van Ninh district and Ninh Hoa town with 264 officials and farmer members participating; continued to maintain environmentally friendly organic waste treatment models deployed in previous years. The association has also built 25 new environmental protection models to adapt to climate change; more than 100,000 members and farmers have registered and committed to producing and trading agricultural products that ensure food safety and hygiene... Thereby, helping farmers in the province raise awareness and apply clean and organic agriculture to develop in the direction of green and circular agriculture according to the Action Program of the Provincial Farmers' Association to implement Resolution No. 09 of the Politburo.

According to Le Quoc Toan - Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial Farmers' Association, the provincial Farmers' Association sets an annual goal of having 100% of the association bases do a good job of mobilizing members and farmers to carry out environmental protection tasks, build at least 1 model on environmental protection and adaptation to climate change. Every year, 100% of farmers' associations at all levels organize vocational training activities, consulting services, and support farmers to have conditions to develop agricultural production, increase income, and improve their lives; strive to have 100% of agricultural production households apply digital technology to production and trading of agricultural products by 2030...

Hong Dang

Translated by T.T