Illustrative photo (Source: nld.com.vn) THGroup has for instance been building a hi-tech dairy cow farm and milkprocessing plant in An Giang province since the end of February. Whencompleted, it will be the largest closed-loop dairy cow farming project in theMekong Delta with around 10,000 cows.
Otherdairy companies too have been investing in farms, boosting raw milk productionby 12.9 per cent last year to 1.1 million tonnes.
THis also developing a hi-tech co-operative model to work with dairy farminghouseholds in An Giang.
Fruitprocessing businesses are working with farmers to ensure regular supply andsatisfy foreign markets' requirements with respect to origin. Farmers havetheir fruits bought at high prices. Vina T&T, for instance, isbuying star apples at 40,000 VND (1.73 USD) per kilogramme, doublingthe market price.
TrungAn Hi-tech Agriculture JSC is working with farmers in Kien Giang province and CanTho city to grow 1,400 hectares of organic rice, guaranteeing them much higherprices than the market.
PhamThai Binh, general director of the company, told NguoiLao Dong (Labourers) newspaper that the most important factor forsuccessful co-operation is guaranteeing farmers’ incomes.
PhamNgoc Hoang, General Director of Hoang Ha Commerce and ProductionCompany Ltd, said small farming households account for a large part of Vietnam’sagriculture, but export markets demand consistent quality and absence of chemicalresidues.
Businessesneed to work with farmers to buy raw materials, but there should be policies toensure certain crops are not overly farmed, which will keep output undercontrol and ensure businesses collaborate with farmers, he added.
Thefirst two months of 2021 saw exports of agriculture, forestry and aquacultureproducts rise by 16.6 percent year-on-year to 6.17 billion USD.
Exportsof agriculture, forestry and aquaculture last year were worth 41.2 billion USD,partly due to the development of specialised farming areas that allowlarge-scale production and traceability of origin./.
VNA
