Nghe An aims to have 50,000 hectares of fruit trees, with exports reaching 80 - 100 million USD by 2030.

On the afternoon of September 27, the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee continued its regular working session in September 2021 under the chairmanship of comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council.

Also attending were comrades: Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; representatives of the Central Organizing Committee, comrades of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and a number of relevant departments and branches.

Comrade Nguyen Van De - Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development presented the draft Project. Photo: Thanh Duy

The Provincial Party Standing Committee has given comments on the draft "Project to develop and expand fruit tree areas associated with processing industry and product consumption for the period 2021 - 2030".

Nghe An has the largest natural area in the country, diverse terrain and soil, suitable for growing and developing many types of fruit trees. Currently, in the province, there are many types of fruit trees with the potential to develop into commercial products.

By 2020, the area of ​​fruit trees in the province had reached 22,802 hectares, with an output of 260,695 tons; production value reached from 2,000 to 2,600 billion VND/year, accounting for about 8-10% of the production value of the cultivation sector.

Orange harvest in Yen Thanh district. Photo: Xuan Hoang

However, the current limitations are that fruit trees in the province are generally scattered; intensive investment is low, application of scientific and technical advances is limited; management and seed production still have many shortcomings; the market is unstable; production linkage and processing industry are still limited.

Nghe An identified fruit tree development as one of the breakthroughs in restructuring the agricultural sector in the 2021-2025 and 2025-2030 periods, aiming to reorganize production, mobilize all investment resources to expand and develop fruit trees, form concentrated production areas; attract investment in processing industry; consume products...; exploit and effectively use land resources and strengths of each region and locality.

Comrade Ho Le Ngoc - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Internal Affairs Committee gave comments on the draft Project. Photo: Thanh Duy

The development of the "Project to develop and expand fruit tree areas associated with processing industry and product consumption in the period of 2021 - 2030" is necessary to contribute to the successful implementation of the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress, term 2020 - 2025.

The draft project sets a specific target that by 2025, the total fruit tree area in the province will reach 30,000 hectares, and by 2030, it will reach 50,000 hectares. The output in 2025 will reach about 425,395 tons, and in 2030, it will reach 789,160 tons.

The value of fruit tree production by 2025 will reach 4,500 - 5,000 billion VND; by 2030 it will reach 8,500 - 9,000 billion VND, with an average growth rate of 12.5 - 13.5% in the 2021 - 2030 period.

The draft project also aims to attract at least three processing facilities with a capacity of 200,000 - 250,000 tons/year. The total capacity by 2030 will reach 300,000 - 350,000/year (accounting for 40 - 45% of fruit output).

In particular, Nghe An aims to form and develop fruit output for export with a turnover of about 80 - 100 million USD by 2030.

At the meeting, giving comments on the draft Project, the Standing Committee members suggested that the advisory agency evaluate the planning work to develop fruit tree areas.

Referring to the content of the draft Project, comrade Hoang Nghia Hieu - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that currently, among the crops, fruit trees bring the highest efficiency, averaging more than 100 million/ha, even some types bring in income of 500 million/ha.

Comrade Hoang Nghia Hieu - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke to clarify some contents of the draft Project. Photo: Thanh Duy

The draft project has developed very detailed and specific implementation plans. In particular, for the expansion of fruit tree growing areas, the planning has been calculated as follows: Using perennial and annual tree growing areas, converting ineffective rice growing land, especially in the planning of 3 types of forests, reducing the area of ​​forestry land for production forests to convert to agricultural land for fruit trees.

However, according to the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, to successfully implement it, the entire political system needs to be involved; to assign tasks, direct decisively, and have fundamental solutions. First of all, it is necessary to build effective models, attract businesses to invest, and at the same time, link up on a cooperative scale to increase people's income, and move towards expanding the area of ​​fruit trees.

Concluding this content, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy highly appreciated the objectives set out in the draft Project. If the Project is implemented effectively, it will contribute to job creation, increase income for farmers; improve gardens; build new rural areas; attract investors in the field of preservation and processing; and at the same time have a positive impact on the environment.

Overview of the working session on September 27 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee. Photo: Thanh Duy

Going into the content of the draft Project, the head of the Provincial Party Committee noted that it is necessary to choose an appropriate number of key trees, avoiding spreading; the specific implementation process needs to be deployed in stages, and first of all, it must be a model and a pilot.

Along with that, the implementation process of the Project needs to focus on the linkage mechanism, inviting experts to work with the province; the goal is to have high quality products, capable of entering "difficult" markets; focus on building and promoting product brands. Special attention must be paid to the implementation organization stage, having a cooperation and linkage mechanism, as well as the participation of the entire political system.

Based on discussion and analysis, the Provincial Party Standing Committee approved the Project on developing and expanding the area of ​​fruit trees associated with processing industry and product consumption for the period 2021 - 2030.

Also in the working session this afternoon, the Provincial Party Standing Committee approved the draft Directive on promoting the development of high-quality intensive forest plantation material areas associated with sustainable forest certification and wood processing industry for the 2021-2025 period, along with a number of other important contents.

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