Nghe An: Cooperatives link production and consumption of safe agricultural products

December 16, 2016 10:44

(Baonghean.vn) - On December 16 in Vinh City, the Provincial Cooperative Union organized a conference on Linking Production and Consumption of Safe Agricultural Products. Thereby, enhancing the role of cooperatives in localities in organizing production and linking consumption of agricultural products in the development of the market economy.

Đại diện các HTX trong tỉnh tham dự hội nghị.
Representatives of cooperatives in the province attended the conference.

Nghe An currently has 434 agricultural cooperatives, providing regular jobs for more than 53,000 workers. Of which, about 120 cooperatives have joint venture contracts and partnerships with businesses in the supply and consumption of products. Thereby, the value of crops and income for members are increasingly increased. However, most of the province's cooperatives are small-scale, fragmented, and not yet connected into a sustainable value chain.

Nowadays, we have deeply integrated into the world economy, with a series of multilateral and bilateral free trade agreements signed, economic sectors will face many opportunities as well as great challenges in terms of competitiveness. Therefore, if they do not innovate themselves, cooperatives will find it difficult to compete in terms of quality and price.

Ông Nguyễn Như Thiện, Chủ nhiệm HTX nông nghiệp Thanh Văn (Thanh Chương) trao đổi ý kiến tại hội nghị.
Mr. Nguyen Nhu Thien, Chairman of Thanh Van Agricultural Cooperative (Thanh Chuong) exchanged opinions at the conference.

At the workshop, representatives of cooperatives in the province discussed the following contents: how to link cooperatives to create a value chain of agricultural products to help cooperatives promote their strengths and increase income for members. At the same time, they discussed the principles of linking production and consumption, difficulties and advantages. Promoting the establishment of the Nghe An Union of Cooperatives for safe agricultural product production and consumption...

Cooperatives need to grasp market demand to orient development, produce safely and prove product safety. To do so, it is necessary to build specific processes and require all cooperative members to strictly comply to create trust with the market.

HTX sản xuất kinh doanh và dịch vụ cây ăn quả Xuân Hợp (Quỳ Hợp) liên kết với tư thương thu mua cam cho thành viên.
Xuan Hop Fruit Production, Business and Service Cooperative (Quy Hop) cooperates with traders to purchase oranges for members.

To survive and be competitive in the market, cooperatives and groups have sought a new development trend, which is to link production and business. Thereby, it helps cooperatives expand their production scale, create sustainable production chains, and stabilize the economy for member households. Currently, with increasingly high demands on product quality, volume of goods, etc., individual farmers cannot do this. Therefore, linking farmers with cooperatives, production cooperatives with consumption cooperation according to the process from production - processing - building brands, trademarks of goods to consumption, and expanding the market has become an inevitable trend.

Quynh Lan

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