(PLO)- The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development wants Long An to make breakthroughs to gradually shift the thinking of agricultural production to an agricultural economy.
On March 6, a delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development led by Minister Le Minh Hoan came to inspect and survey a number of typical models of new countryside and product development OCOP (One commune one). product) in Long An province.
At the meeting, Chairman of Long An Provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Van Ut said that over the past time, agriculture has always been the backbone of the economy, especially during the complicated development of the Covid-19 epidemic.
However, the province is very interested in the development of agriculture and rural areas, in which focusing on building advanced new rural areas, model new rural areas in essence, not merely striving to achieve a few more. criteria compared with new rural construction.
Long An also directed the agricultural sector to focus on promoting the program of agricultural development with high technology application in association with restructuring the agricultural sector. At the same time, create conditions for ecotourism and agricultural tourism to develop.
| The survey mission at Chanh Viet Investment and Trading Joint Stock Company. Photo: CTV |
Speaking at the meeting, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan asked Long An province to quickly have breakthrough programs and ways to gradually shift from thinking about agricultural production to thinking about agricultural economy. At the same time, he emphasized, agricultural and rural tourism is a new trend, Long An should boldly go ahead and take the lead.
The functional sector always encourages agricultural tourism in Long An province to develop the program “Farming semester” to both create a space to play and experience, while building and cultivating a love of agriculture for generations of students. .
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| The delegation surveyed the actual model of seedless lemon for export in Thanh Hoa commune, Ben Luc district. Photo: CTV |
According to the report, up to now, the whole province has 118/161 communes that have met the new rural standards, of which, there are 28 communes that have reached the advanced rural standards; 4 district-level units that have met the standards/completed the task of building new rural areas are Chau Thanh, Tan Tru, Kien Tuong town and Tan An city. Currently, Long An province is preparing documents and procedures to submit to the Central Government to recognize Can Duoc district as meeting new rural standards and Chau Thanh district as meeting advanced rural standards.
Regarding OCOP products, the province currently has 77 products recognized to meet OCOP standards, of which 26 products are 4-star and 51 are 3-star. OCOP products mainly belong to the food, herbal, souvenir, furniture, etc.
Before that, the delegation surveyed the field at the export seedless lemon garden in Thanh Hoa commune, Ben Luc district, the production and processing line of lemons of the Lemon Viet Trading and Investment Joint Stock Company (Thanh Loi commune). , Ben Luc district) and check the activities of Thanh Hoa NTM commune, Ben Luc district.
HUONG DUONG
