Hoa Binh speeds up agricultural restructuring

In the first six months of 2021, the agricultural sector of Hoa Binh and localities across the province have taken measures to implement agricultural restructuring plans and projects, speed up work under the National Target Programme on New-Style Rural Area Building and other related programmes and projects, while proposing ideas to realise production development policies. The State management over agriculture and rural development has also been strengthened.

Photo: A household in Nhuan Trach commune (Luong Son district) has invested in livestock breeding facilities, which produced high economic efficiency.

According to the provincial Statistics Office, the cultivation area in the first half of this year is estimated at 64,000 hectares, reaching 100 percent of the plan. Currently, the total acreage of citrus fruit farms in Hoa Binh has reached 10,800 hectares. In the 2021-2022 crop, the area of sugar crane fell sharply to 5,782 hectares, equal to 76.7 percent of the plan.

Localities across the province have continued to transform their crop structure and merge fields . In the 2018-2020 period, the province managed to merge 2,057.4 hectares of fields. In the first six months of 2021,  a total of 1,500 ha of ineffective rice fields have been converted to other plants of higher value.

The province also paid attention to restructuring the livestock breeding sector, concentrating on developing native animals and large-scale breeding farms.

In 2021, local farmers continued to restore pig farming as advised by local authorities, with the number of pigs rising 0.5 percent over 2021. Fish farming has also been developed.

Communication campaigns to popularise the law on food safety and agro-forestry-fisheries product quality have been intensified. The province has also supported the building of safe farm produce supply chains, while strengthening food safety inspection. In the first six months of 2021, local authorities conducted inspections  of production facilities having VietGAP and organic certificates, and assisted six out of 40 facilities with origin tracing stamp, fulfilling 15 percent of the yearly plan.