Vegetables of Van Duc Agricultural Service Business Cooperative in Gia Lam district. It has exported 300-500 tonnes of organic vegetables each year. (Photo courtesy of Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development) The department said Hanoi now has 35 rice planting areas, 104vegetable planting areas, 56 fruit tree planting areas, 66 aquaculture areas,and 162 livestock areas.
This is an advantage for Hanoi to become one of the localitieswith the potential to export key agricultural products.
Hanoi also has 16 coded banana and longan planting areas and fourcoded packaging facilities with a daily capacity of 30 - 50 tonnes of exportproducts in each facility.
In addition, the capital city also has 1,649 products belonging tothe One Commune One Product (OCOP) Programme, including 20 potential five-starproducts, 1,098 four-star products, and 534 three-star products. They includemore than 1,000 food products.
It is one of the favourable conditions for the city's agriculturalproducts to approach strict markets, boosting agricultural exports.
To support businesses and cooperatives in expanding export marketsfor vegetables and fruits, Deputy Director of the municipal Department ofAgriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Ngoc Son said Hanoi needs to continuecoordinating with ministries and branches to strengthen connection andpromotion activities for the official export of agricultural products.
It will strengthen training courses for agricultural, forestry andfishery production and business establishments on regulations on quality andfood safety, and control of imported and exported foods to promote farmingproduce production and export.
Those courses focus on market information, guidance on registeringcodes for production areas, and quarantine regulations, as well as importcontrol procedures of the markets of China, the Republic of Korea, and Japan.
Hanoi also will promote information on free trade agreements,including the EVFTA and CTPP, and foreign market barriers to improve thequality of agricultural products, meeting the increasing requirements of theexport markets.
Additionally, the city is promoting the development of codedquality and safe specialised farming areas associated with traceability. Italso focuses on building brands for key agricultural products, ensuring exportstandards.
In particular, via the support for the development ofcooperatives, Hanoi has built 141 farming produce production chains, including59 chains producing animal products, and 82 chains producing plant products.
Le Xuan Truong, deputy head of Hanoi's Sub-Department ofCultivation and Plant Protection, said that the city needs to supportcooperatives, businesses, and farm owners in applying high technology to theproduction and processing of key commodities for export.
To do this, it must have policies to encourage and supportplanting areas and packaging establishments in developing the scale ofcommodity production under the requirements of the importing countries. Inaddition, it is necessary to support farmers and cooperatives in applyinge-commerce to access potential markets in the world.
Nguyen The Lam, Director of Khanh Phong Agricultural Cooperativein Me Linh district, said if his cooperative participates in training courseson cross-border e-commerce and marketing, it expects to approach morecustomers.
Lam shared that sometimes, guava can only sell for 10,000 VND perkilo, but if this kind of fruit is exported, the selling price is likely toincrease, and the pressure on consumption in the harvesting season will alsodecrease.
Meanwhile, many cooperatives have continued investment inproduction to increase linkages and expand export opportunities in many forms.
For example, Dong Tam Livestock and Service Cooperative in QuocOai district has invested in a closed animal husbandry process. Besidespromoting consumption at wholesale markets and exporting directly, thecooperative also provides products for large supermarket systems, such as CoopMart and AEON.
Especially, the AEON supermarket system is present in manycountries, so Hanoi's products appearing at this supermarket system will be anopportunity to approach many foreign consumers.
Dong Phu Organic Agriculture Cooperative in Chuong My district haslinked with two businesses to build a chain from production to export for riceproducts, thereby increasing the value of local rice and income for farmers.
Nguyen Van Minh, Director of Van Duc Agricultural Service BusinessCooperative in Gia Lam district, said that Van Duc commune has 220ha of safevegetables, including 26.9ha of vegetables produced under VietGAP standard.
Now, besides supplying supermarkets, wholesale markets andneighbouring provinces, the cooperative has also exported 300-500 tonnes ofsafe vegetables each year to Taiwan (China) and the Republic of Korea.
Dai Thanh Agricultural Cooperative in Quoc Oai district isdeveloping 160ha of planting fruit trees according to VietGAP productionstandards, including 115ha growing longan.
Therefore, Dai Hoang late ripening longan is not only a specialtyof Hanoi market, but also consumed at supermarket systems and exported to theRepublic of Korea, Malaysia, the US and Poland.
According to the Hanoi Department of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment, Hanoi's agro-forestry-aquatic product export value reached 1.75billion USD in 2022. Of which, the export value of agricultural products andfoods reach 871 million USD, up 12.2% on year; and timber and wood productexport value was 883 million USD, up 17.5%./.
VNA
