Illustrative image (Source: VNA)Quang Ninh (VNA) – The “One Commune, One Product” (OCOP)agricultural trade fair will be held by the northern province of Quang Ninh inHanoi from January 11–15, 2019, just before Tet, the traditional New Year ofVietnam.
This will be the sixth year Quang Ninh has organised the OCOP fair,which was previously held in the province only.
Bringing the fair to Hanoi this year, Quang Ninh hopes to creategreater competition among its agribusinesses and cooperatives that wouldmotivate them to improve their products’ design and packaging to meet broadermarket demand. The event would also be an opportunity for them to raiseproduction capacity, expand market access and boost sales.
The fair will house about 80 booths with various OCOP products put ondisplay, ranging from food, beverage and herbal medicines to handicrafts andservices.
The Quang Ninh OCOP programme has been so far participated by 44enterprises, 64 cooperatives and 56 business households. It has providedemployment for more than 3,500 locals with a monthly income between 5 millionand 9 million VND (213 – 385 USD).
Since the final quarter of 2018, the province hasheld a host of three-day-per-weekOCOP events across Dong Trieu, Quang Yen, Hai Ha, Mong Cai, and Cam Pha to supportlocal participants of the programme in expanding their markets to traditionalwet markets, industrial zones, and residential areas.
In 2013, Quang Ninh was the first provincein Vietnam to pilot the programme, which was initiated by the Ministry ofAgriculture and Rural Development in 2008, following the model of Japan’s “OneVillage, One Product” (OVOP) drive and Thailand’s “One Town, One Product”(OTOP). Any OCOP brand will be registered as intellectual property andprinted on all products.
Concluding the first stage of the programme from 2013-2016,Quang Ninh developed 210 OCOP products. More than 180 economic establishmentsand households joined the programme.
A chain of OCOP points of sale have been open inall the 14 districts, towns and cities with product values up 20-30 percent.
During the second stage, the province will strive to have 250high-quality OCOP products by 2020, including at least 12 provincial-levelproducts, six others qualified to join the national value chain, and one to twocompetitive enough in the global market.
OCOP products broughtapproximately 239 billion VND (10.23 million USD) to Quang Ninh in the firstsix months of 2018, up 7.4 percent year-on-year. The revenue resulted in aprofit of 27.7 billion VND (1.18 million USD), an annual increase of 10 percentagainst the same period last year.–VNA
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