Province newly establishes 40 agricultural cooperatives

11/01/2019 15:11

(BNP) - In 2018, the province established 40 agricultural cooperatives, bringing the total number of agricultural cooperatives to 493 cooperatives with nearly 70,000 members.

Model of clean vegetable production of Hoang Gia cooperative (Binh Duong commune, Gia Binh district).

Among which, there are 310 agricultural service cooperatives and 183 agricultural specialized cooperatives with a total charter capital of VND 19.63 billion and an average of VND 39.8 million/cooperative. The cooperatives have expanded their scale, organized new services to create jobs for members as well as promoted joint ventures, built agricultural products brand… bringing high economic efficiency, increasing income for cooperatives and members.

Until now, the province has 11 cooperatives applying high technology in agricultural production such as intensive farming, production according to VietGAP standards, net house technology, membrane houses, and automatic irrigation systems. Typically, Hoang Gia Fresh Vegetable Cooperative (Gia Binh), Truong Manh Fishery Cooperative (Thuan Thanh), Duc Lan Agricultural Service Cooperative, Nguyet Cau (Yen Phong), Thien Duc Agricultural Service Cooperative (Que Vo) ...

In the coming time, the province focused on propagating the policies to support hi-tech agricultural production. At the same time, the province also supported the capital, land accumulation, experience in management and transfer of scientific and technical advances, especially building agricultural product brand associated with commodity value chains ...,thereby, helping cooperatives to develop sustainably, contributing positively to the province's socio-economic development.