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Thua Thien – Hue focuses attention on One Commune-One Product

The central province of Thua Thien – Hue has defined priorities for its One Commune – One Product (OCOP) programme during 2018-2020, which are mostly local specialties and services.
Thua Thien – Hue focuses attention on One Commune-One Product ảnh 1Paper flower making in Thanh Tien village in Phu My commune of Thua Thien - Hue. The village is well-known for its 300-year craft of making paper flowers. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The central province of Thua Thien – Hue hasdefined priorities for its One Commune – One Product (OCOP) programme during2018-2020, which are mostly local specialties and services.

There are six groups of products being targeted, which are food,beverages, herbal medicines, fabric and garment making,souvenir-decoration-interior, and rural tourism and sale services, in line withthe national OCOP programme.

Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Van Phuong saidthe OCOP programme responds to both the needs of developing tourism andbuilding new style rural areas in combination with restructuring theagricultural sector. 

The provincial agricultural department is assigned to coordinate withlocal administrations to make a list of key and advantageous products of eachlocality along with assessment of the technological level, capital and labourrelated to each product, towards building the OCOP project to be carried out inthe province during 2018-2020. 

In 2015-2017, Thua Thien – Hue spent more than 42 billion VND (over 1.82million USD) on a similar programme called One Village – One Craft – OneProduct. It will continue to implement this scheme in 2018 and beyond.

The OCOP programme is expected to create more jobs for the ruralworkforce, who are usually idle outside of the two main cultivation crops ofWinter-Spring and Summer-Autumn.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) launched theOne Commune, One Product (OCOP) programme worth nearly 45 trillion VND (about 2billion USD) in May this year.

According to the Central Coordination Office on New Rural Development,OCOP is an economic development programme in rural areas focusing on increasinginternal power and values, contributing to the implementation of the NationalTarget Programme on New Rural Development for 2016-2020.

The programme aims to produce and offer quality products and servicesthat are competitive at home and abroad, with priority given to cooperativesand small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It is also expected to raiselocal income and meet national criteria on new-style rural areas for2016-2020.-VNA
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