Southeast Vietnam province focuses on developing high-tech agriculture
“The southeast province of Bình Phước is focusing on developing high-tech agriculture to improve productivity, profits and optimise production. According to Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Phạm Thụy Luân, the province has a lot of room to develop high-tech agriculture. The province possesses a variety of high-quality agricultural products such as durian, red-fleshed guava, green-skinned grapefruit, mangosteen, avocado, jackfruit, bird’s nest and melon.
Most products meet VietGAP and GlobalGAP standards, and the One Commune One Product (OCOP) certification.
Bình Phước has abundant agricultural land of nearly 425,000 hectares to develop raw materials for large-scale cultivation and livestock farming. Of this land, rubber trees account for 26 per cent of the country’s area, cashew trees account for more than 50 per cent of the country’s area and pepper trees account for 10.7 per cent.
The province has also been approved by the Prime Minister to plan many investment projects in the agricultural sector such as building modern technology slaughtering and processing factories for livestock and poultry, projects to develop eco-tourism areas and plan areas for cashew and rubber.”
*This article is excerpted from freshplaza.com website, published March 26, 2024