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Bac Giang (VNA) – Bac Giang province will promote the switch and utility of scientific and technological advances in agricultural manufacturing, forestry and fisheries, in keeping with the People’s Committee of this northern province. 

The province attaches significance to the applying of nationwide and worldwide good agricultural requirements akin to VietGAP and GlobalGAP, clear know-how, organic know-how, and natural farming, in addition to to meals hygiene and security and environmental safety.

Bac Giang authorities will encourage the constructing of environmentally-friendly agricultural manufacturing fashions within the path of natural farming or round agriculture.  

Investment will probably be centered on key merchandise of the province, with the goal of elevating the manufacturing worth of Bac Giang’s seven key merchandise by a median 5% a 12 months. Production in concentrated farming areas will comply with meals security requirements; forests will probably be protected and developed together with defending water assets. Forestry economic system will probably be developed within the path of each defending the forest and rising incomes for locals.

Bac Giang plans to mechanise not solely manufacturing but in addition harvesting, post-harvest preserving and processing with a view to improve productiveness, high quality and competitiveness of agricultural merchandise. Attention will probably be paid to mechanization and automation of all hyperlinks within the manufacturing means of merchandise below the One Commune One Product (OCOP) programme.

At the identical time, the province will push digital transformation in agriculture, specializing in constructing a database of concentrated farming areas along with digital farming information to allow the monitoring of merchandise; and granting planting space codes, packaging facility codes and identification codes to farms and households practising animal husbandry based mostly on necessities of export markets.

It may also develop QR codes to assist promote native farm produce on digital platforms and use drones for spraying pesticides, fertilizer and sowing seeds.

The agricultural sector will construct linkages with different sectors and fields to steadily develop a wise agriculture that’s resilient to local weather change and ailments.

According to the provincial People’s Committee, the province will proceed to broaden the farming space following VietGAP and GlobalGAP requirements, aiming for 50% of whole vegetable acreage and 70% of litchi acreage assembly these requirements. Up to 60% of aquaculture acreage may also apply VietGAP requirements.  

Since 2009, the agricultural sector and localities in Bac Giang have promoted scientific analysis and the applying of scientific-technological advances in agricultural production, particularly excessive know-how.

Agricultural companies and district-level People’s Committee within the province have instructed the number of high-quality plant and animal varieties. For instance, native farmers have efficiently bred early-ripening litchi varieties, serving to rising the manufacturing worth of this specility fruit. The province has additionally experimented and put into use a number of citrus varieties.  

The province has additionally changed the previous tea varieties with new ones with larger yield and higher high quality.

High-quality rice farming areas now attain 42,675 hectares, accounting for 42.8% of the overall rice acreage within the province, whereas there are 15,340 hectares of litchi farms assembly VietGAP requirements, 519 hectares of litchi assembly GlobalGAP standards.

The space of orange farming following VietGAP, GlobalGAP is 1,669 hectares and that of pomelo involves 1,224 hectares.

There are additionally 11,840 hectares of protected vegetable assembly VietGAP requirements, provide greens for supermarkets, industrial parks and processing factories within the province.

The province additionally boasts 80,000 hectares of manufacturing forests. Bac Giang will promote the mechanisation and utility of science and know-how; enhance productiveness, high quality and effectivity of manufacturing forests within the path of optimising the manufacturing system, and the worth chain of forest merchandise.

Bac Giang will put money into intensive farming and apply methods to enhance the productiveness and high quality of forests, and plant new varieties with excessive yield and high quality. /.  

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