The Vietnamese Good Agricultural Practices (VietGap) model is one of safe production, harvest and processing processes for agricultural products encouraged for application by functional agencies. In Binh Duong, many farming households have applied VietGap standards into agricultural production, especially towards urban and hi-tech agricultural models, bringing them hi-economic efficiency.
Applied on models
Le Van Phan is known as the “king” of tangerine in Bau Bang district’s Tru Van Tho commune. Noticeably, his 10-ha tangerine garden has had methodical investment for cultivation. According to him, farmers now attach more special importance to producing safe agricultural products. The VietGap model will create a close production process, in which pesticide must be used properly. This will help generate safe agricultural products, contributing to protecting the environment.
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This is Doan Lai Uyen’s mushroom farmstead in Bau Bang district’s Lai Uyen commune
Huynh Doan Thong in Bau Bang district’s Lai Uyen commune has also effectively developed a chili pepper model for seed in pots under Israeli technologies.
Grasping customers’ psychology in using clean agricultural products, many farming households in the province over the past time spent hundreds to billions of dong on building production models under VietGap standards. Vu Thi Hue in Phu Giao district’s An Binh commune said that her family has bravely developed a rock melon model under high technologies on 2,000 square meters with total investment of VND500million.
Many other cultivation and animal husbandry models under VietGap standards have also been implemented across the province. They include Pham Van Tao’s pig farm in Bau Bang district’s Lai Uyen commune, Nguyen Quang Quy’s swallow farm in Bau Bang district’s Tru Van Tho commune…
Stable source of income
Agricultural production under VietGap standards requires great investment from VND500million to more than VND1billion. But, economic efficiency is also very huge. According to Tran Minh Dung in Bau Bang district’s Long Nguyen commune, thanks to hi-tech application, his chicken farm reaches the annual profit of more than VND700million.
Similarly, Huynh Doan Thong’s chili pepper model with a total area of 8,200 square meters has also brought high economic efficiency. After around 6-7 months of cultivation, his chili pepper garden secures more than VND150million in profit. Or, with a 37-ha sweet tangerine garden, Le Van Phan collects the annual profit of millions of billion.
Pham Van Bong, Vice-Chairman of provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development said that products from models under VietGap standards in the province have obtained high quality and ensured food safety and hygiene, so they find it easy to be consumed with stable prices. Along with high economic efficiency, agricultural production under VietGap standards has helped raise farmers’ awareness of the quality of products in production and business. Hence, this is a necessary way to enhance the quality of the local agricultural products for better competitiveness.
It is known that provincial People’s Committee has approved the Project on developing an area specialized in growing citrus fruit trees in North Tan Uyen district’s Hieu Liem commune. Accordingly, the commune is expected to have 12 hectares of green-skin pomelo, orange and sweet tangerine meeting VietGap standards in the period of 2014-2017. The project has absorbed 8 households, including 6 with new cultivation of 7 hectares of green-skin pomelo, orange and tangerine and 2 with intensive cultivation of 7 hectares of king orange.
Reported by Khanh Dang-Translated by K.T
