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 with the national OCOP program.
Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Van Phuong said the OCOP program responds to both the needs of developing tourism and building new-style rural areas in combination with restructuring the agricultural sector.
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Paper flower making in Thua Thien - Hue |
The provincial agricultural department is assigned to coordinate with local administrations to make a list of key and advantageous products of each locality along with assessment of the technological level, capital and labor related to each product, towards building the OCOP project to be carried out in the province during 2018-2020.
In 2015-2017, Thua Thien – Hue spent more than 42 billion VND (over 1.82 million USD) on a similar program called One Village – One Craft – One Product. It will continue to implement this scheme in 2018 and beyond.
The OCOP program is expected to create more jobs for the rural workforce, who are usually idle outside of the two main cultivation crops of Winter-Spring and Summer-Autumn.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) launched the One Commune, One Product (OCOP) program worth nearly VND 45 trillion (about USD 2 billion) in May this year.
According to the Central Coordination Office on New Rural Development, OCOP is an economic development program in rural areas focusing on increasing internal power and values, contributing to the implementation of the National Target Program on New-style Rural Area Development for 2016-2020.
The program aims to produce and offer quality products and services that are competitive at home and abroad, with priority given to cooperatives and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It is also expected to raise local income and meet national criteria on new-style rural areas for 2016-2020.
Source: VNA