Vietnam: Support local agricultural specialties

Published 2021년 4월 9일

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The article highlights the challenge faced by Farmer Ho Huynh Khanh in finding locally grown agricultural specialties in Ho Chi Minh City markets due to their low productivity and high cost. These specialties, such as green cabbage, okra, and bitter melon, are being replaced by more productive varieties, leading to their disappearance from local markets. Despite the efforts of the Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the One Product per Commune Program (OCOP) to revive these local specialties, the lack of a proper market and the high cost of transportation are preventing their recovery. The article also mentions the potential of exporting these unique agricultural products and the conservation of local and endemic plant genetic resources through the National Genetic Fund Program.

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Difficult to buy Farmer Ho Huynh Khanh (Binh Chanh district, HCMC) recalls, in the past, in the districts surrounding Ho Chi Minh City there were green cabbage, okra, bitter melon with its own flavor and quality. For example, mustard greens in Binh Chanh have a spicy taste like mustard while current broccoli varieties only have a mild taste. However, in later time, such local agricultural specialties were gradually less grown by farmers because of their low productivity. In the opposite direction, because of low productivity, these products are less popular in the market due to their high cost. Recorded in many traditional markets as well as the supermarket system in Ho Chi Minh City shows that the indigenous agricultural specialties are almost absent, not present. At Tan Phu market (Tan Phu district), walking around the fruit stalls, we found to buy wet jackfruit, turmeric ... typical types of jackfruit in Vietnam but none of them have. Most are like Thai jackfruit. According to ...

Source: Sggp