Need to link in agricultural production

​Production linkage will help individual farmers have the opportunity to buy input materials, sell products at good prices, which is shared by suppliers of materials and agricultural products at workshop on Supporting farmer members to participate in collective economic development associated with agricultural product consumption recently organized by the Provincial Farmers' Association.

Workshop to support farmers to participate in collective economic development

Also according to the comments, when participating in the market economy models, farmers have easier access to preferential credit sources, applying science and technology to improve productivity and income.

Easy to buy input materials, sell products at good prices

Sharing at the above workshop, Mr. Le Huu Thien, Vice Chairman of the Provincial Farmers' Association, said that production associated with product consumption is an inevitable trend in modern agricultural development. Units that purchase agricultural products for processing and export on a large scale cannot find each household to order, but must go through a representative organization. Similarly, farmers want their produce to sell well and at a good price. Manufacturers and suppliers of materials also want to give incentives to sustainable customers. To help farmers improve production and business efficiency, associations at all levels have propagated, mobilized and guided farmers to build and participate in economic models such as cooperatives, cooperative groups, high-yield clubs, professional associations and many households have risen to become rich.
Sharing this issue, Mr. Tran Quoc Huy, Deputy Director of Cooperative Development Fund (Dong Nai Cooperative Alliance), said that linking farmers together, cooperatives in the same industry, cooperatives with businesses are increasing. This cooperation has overcome some limitations of the single household economy such as: lack of capital, production experience, sustainable output; Enterprises lack raw materials for production. According to Mr. Huy, at present, the Central Government and the province have many policies to support and protect the economic units such as loans with preferential interest rates; invest, support the application of science and technology in production and consumption of agricultural products.

Duong Thi Viet Huong, Deputy Director of the Provincial Post Office, said that in the past time, Dong Nai's postal system has supported the consumption of agricultural products for many provinces and cities, but Dong Nai has no products to sell to your province, and there are many agricultural products lacking on the post office's e-commerce platform. The post office will support putting on the floor, designing images with advertising information, transporting goods to consumers for products that have been certified by the Farmers' Association or the Department of Industry and Trade as typical rural industrial products or the program One Commune One Product (OCOP). The task of the economic units and farmers is to produce good quality products.
From a business perspective, Mr. Tran Quang Tinh, Director of Viet Farm Trading Co., Ltd (Xuan Loc district) said that the company is cooperating with a number of livestock farms to treat waste and organic fertilizer production. The company's ambition is to accompany many farmers to build sustainable agriculture by developing organic fertilizer production from livestock waste, both to overcome environmental pollution and create quality fertilizer and good price.

“We really want to have a long-term cooperation with farmers, clubs, cooperative groups, agricultural cooperatives. On one hand, we have a stable source of raw materials for fertilizer production, and on the other hand, we have a place to consume our products in fields and gardens. This cooperation brings economic and environmental benefits to both sides, "- Mr. Tinh shared..

Preliminary cocoa processing in An Vien commune (Trang Bom district), a cooperation project between An Vien Agriculture and Service Cooperative and Bamboo Capital Joint Stock Company

Compliance with responsibility when cooperating
Mr. Duong Minh Giang, Director of An Vien Service Agriculture Cooperative (Trang Bom district) said that the cooperative is a useful place for farmers. Through cooperative farmers can buy fertilizers and plant protection drugs of the company at good prices, some units even send engineers to the garden to guide farmers in effective care techniques. Cooperatives also stand out to sign contracts with enterprises so that farmers do not have to worry about output and prices. According to Mr. Giang, since joining the cooperative, he gave up thinking that production must be intensive farming and increasing productivity. He adheres to fertilizing, using drugs according to the dosage, so the "health" of the tree and the soil is different.
According to the general assessment, the economic units have initially promoted their role with farmers by supporting product consumption, improving economic efficiency by applying mechanization and science and technology into production. Create a stable raw material area to attract enterprises to invest or cooperate in production. Enjoy incentives from support policies of the State and enterprises. However, these units also admit that they are facing many difficulties such as farmers not complying with the sale of products according to the contract, leading to contract breaking, lack of resources to invest in warehousing and product display, costs input fluctuates continuously in the direction of increase, the consumer side is slow to pay, causing difficulties for farmers.

Mr. Le Hoang Dung, Deputy Director of Donafarm Joint Stock Company (Trang Bom) said that, over the past time, Thuan Huong Production Trading Company Limited (Dinh Quan) had to go to Australia, the cooperative cooperated in production and production. Consuming clean agricultural products from Thanh Binh (Trang Bom) to Europe, Viet Farm Trading Co., Ltd (Xuan Loc) has invested in a monumental selling point in Ho Chi Minh City but has not yet solved the problem. out for the product.
Mr. Dung said that the core direction to ensure sustainable agricultural production links is to build and support the information economy unit to become a center connecting farmers and businesses. Reorganizing production according to a value chain, the parties must agree and be responsible for the plan of production, harvesting, processing to distribution. This is a way to help businesses have a stable source of raw materials, control quality and production costs, and farmers also have stable output.
“I think that farmers and economic units need to innovate themselves, ensure output and quality of goods when participating in linkages with enterprises. On the side of enterprises, they must also support farmers with capital, science and technology, invest in the processing and promotion stages so that the products have stable output and increase the value of agricultural products, "- Mr. Dung expressed.

Linking between farmers, between producers and consumers is an important solution for sustainable agricultural development. At that time, farmers will reduce their concerns about output and prices, and the cooperative unit will not worry about the lack of raw materials for processing and consumption, but provided that the parties must be bound and comply with their responsibilities.

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