Synchronized Solutions Enhance Agricultural Production Value

In recent years, agricultural production has faced numerous challenges due to adverse weather conditions and increasingly complex outbreaks of diseases affecting crops and livestock. Nevertheless, through the implementation of comprehensive measures promoting agricultural development along the lines of “ecological, green, circular, and multi-value agriculture,” the province’s agricultural sector has continued to achieve positive progress.

Alongside environmental protection efforts and effective adaptation to climate change, Phu Tho Province has consistently identified high-tech agriculture as a strategic direction to enhance agricultural production value. The province aims to build a modern, smart, and ecological agricultural sector, with science, technology, and innovation serving as key foundations for development.

Phung Gia Mushroom Company in Binh Nguyen Commune has invested in deep processing technologies to expand its market reach.

Over the years, the provincial agricultural sector has intensified the transfer and application of scientific and technological advances, research outcomes, and innovative solutions in agricultural production. Particular attention has been given to restructuring crops and livestock while introducing advanced technologies aligned with the sector’s restructuring objectives.

The sector has also continued to implement demonstration models that apply integrated technical solutions linked with production and consumption chains for key agricultural products with local advantages. These efforts include developing Integrated Crop Management (ICM) models, maintaining and expanding safe food supply chains, and applying information technology in production and marketing through electronic traceability systems.

In 2025, the added value generated by the agriculture, forestry, and fisheries sector reached VND 45.4 trillion. The sector recorded a GRDP growth rate of 3.3%, accounting for 12.5% of the province’s total added value across all economic sectors.

Thanks to the widespread application of science and technology, numerous high-tech agricultural models have emerged across the province. These include the cultivation of safe vegetables and fruits in greenhouses and net houses in localities such as Phung Nguyen, Ban Nguyen, Tam Nong, Tam Duong, Vinh Tuong, and Kim Boi; the cultivation of Shine Muscat and Black Pearl grapes using water-saving drip irrigation systems under VietGAP standards in Thu Cuc and Phung Nguyen communes; and greenhouse melon production in Vinh Chan and Tay Coc communes.

According to Mr. Dang Ngoc Nga, Deputy Director of the Provincial Agricultural Extension Center, the implementation of integrated agricultural solutions has helped transform farmers’ mindsets from traditional agricultural production to agricultural economics. It also contributes to the development of concentrated commodity production zones that respond to market demand while applying clean, organic, and circular production standards, thereby supporting environmental protection and sustainable development.

The Cao Phong orange-growing area has developed specialized commodity production zones to increase the value of agricultural products.

To date, the province has established nearly 290 high-quality rice production zones covering almost 56,400 hectares. Approximately 2,200 hectares of crops are produced under organic, safe production, VietGAP, or equivalent standards. In addition, 686 concentrated cultivation zones for key agricultural products have been developed, covering a total area of 82,800 hectares.

The province has also established and managed 766 planting area codes covering nearly 9,800 hectares, including 106 codes for export production on more than 1,200 hectares and 660 codes for domestic consumption on nearly 8,500 hectares. Four export-oriented packing facilities have also been granted official codes. In 2025, the province had 48 agricultural, forestry, and fisheries exporters, with total export volume reaching nearly 185,000 tons and export revenue amounting to VND 1.326 trillion.

Furthermore, nearly 3,200 hectares of low-efficiency rice-growing land have been converted to alternative crops and production models generating economic returns three to five times higher than rice cultivation. Small-scale household livestock farming is gradually shifting toward concentrated and farm-scale production. Production linkages among farming households and between farmers and enterprises have also become increasingly common.

Across the province, 207 safe food supply chains have been established for key and specialty products such as tea, pomelo, bananas, vegetables, rice, seedless persimmons, meat and meat products, aquatic products, and OCOP products. A total of 75 facilities have adopted standards such as VietGAP, HACCP, and ISO, while 132 facilities have been certified as meeting food safety requirements. These supply chains involve 65 enterprises, 122 cooperatives and cooperative groups, and 20 individual business households.

Tho Van Commune is focusing on developing large-scale livestock farming models to improve economic efficiency.

This year, the province aims to achieve an agricultural, forestry, and fisheries GRDP growth rate of over 3.5%. To accomplish this goal, local authorities are actively implementing measures to restructure the agricultural sector, promote modern, efficient, sustainable, and multi-value agricultural production associated with eco-tourism, and develop organic, circular, and biosecure livestock farming systems that ensure disease safety and environmental protection.

At the same time, the province is focusing on developing concentrated aquaculture zones, encouraging the application of advanced technologies to enhance production value, diversifying high-value aquatic species, innovating agricultural production and business models, strengthening cooperation and value-chain linkages, expanding the application of science and technology in production and quality management, and promoting trade activities and market development for agricultural products.

Quan Lam