Yen Bai promotes clean agriculture

Economy

Yen Bai promotes clean agriculture

Tuesday, August 24, 2021

YBO - In recent years, farmers in Yen Bai province have invested in clean agriculture using organic fertilizers and limiting the use of pesticides, thus contributing to protecting the health of both producers and consumers, and the environment as well.

Caring for vegetables at the Minh Tien safe vegetable cooperative.

In early 2020, the Minh Tien safe vegetable cooperative in Minh Tan village, Y Can commune, Tran Yen district earned a VietGap certificate for 1.4 ha of its vegetable fields. The event has sparked a green cultivation trend among all 14 members of the cooperative.

Nguyen Thi Men, director of the cooperative, said: "We now use organic fertilizers and manures; we chop and ferment green plants for use as fertiliser to replace chemical fertilizers. Pesticides should be sprayed and isolated properly. We use fungicides once when the tree has three leaves and since then the plants are watered only until harvest. With such method, we cut the amount of plant protection drugs by 80 percent and fertilizers by 60 percent compared to traditional farming methods”.

In line with Yen Bai’s agricultural restructuring toward higher added value and sustainability, clean farming development in association with building trademark and prestige are under the radar of the local competent agencies and people.

Among units receiving support for such development, the Dai Minh cooperative which grows specialty pomelo in Yen Binh district has nine member households and 35ha granted with the VietGAP certificate since 2019.

Nguyen Xuan Thuy, director of the cooperative, said "Since receiving the certificate, we have earned more orders from different types of customers in Hoa Binh and across the country.”

In the 2016 – 2020 period, the province assisted the implementation of 48 safe-agriculture certifications for local businesses. To date, it has 129 units applying modern quality management programmes like the VietGap. They include three pig farms producing 2,004 tonnes of meat a year; 113 tea growing and processing facilities producing 25,000 tonnes of tea products annually; and four others cultivating orange and pomelo for an annual productivity of 6,265 tonnes.

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