ASEAN rural industry development based on the OCOP model

DNHN - The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development sponsored a kick-off workshop on August 29 entitled "Establishing the ASEAN rural industrial development network under the OCOP model."

Specifically, the ASEAN Rural Industry Product Development network will be built on the model of one village and one product for the following purposes:

Cooperative, support, and connection among ASEAN nations; hence, encouraging cooperation activities, partners, and networks to put the potential capabilities of rural regions into play, and stimulate community innovation in establishing rural industries linked with the program. One Commune One Product (OCOP) and rural small and medium businesses, contribute to the country's socioeconomic growth and rural ASEAN prosperity.

Sharing experiences, reproducing policies, solutions, and models of livelihood development, creating employment, increasing incomes, boosting social security and poverty reduction, and conserving the rural environment are all related to the creation of OCOP products.

Connecting and encouraging rural industry product trade development - OCOP (domestic and foreign) of ASEAN nations, contributing to introducing, connecting markets, building effective trade networks, and ensuring inter-country sustainability for rural industry goods.

Mobilizing finance and technical assistance from non-ASEAN partners for the development of rural industries and rural small and medium businesses, as well as exchanging understanding and background information between ASEAN and its national and regional ASEAN partners.

Vietnam now has 8,340 OCOP items with three stars or above, more than 60.7% of OCOP topics with three stars or higher have grown income (up 17.6%/year on average), and selling prices of products after being officially recognized OCOP have increased by an average of 12.2%.

The initiative has helped to create jobs for employees by emphasizing the role of women and ethnic minorities. Vietnam establishes a particular objective of producing at least 10,000 OCOP items by 2025, prioritizing the growth of cooperatives, and small and medium-sized firms, and aiming for at least 40% of OCOP subjects to be cooperatives and 30% to be businesses.

Some of the important remedies that Vietnam will implement shortly include perfecting supporting mechanisms and policies, particularly to assist players in improving their production, trade, and product processing capability. Develop goods that benefit regional identity, awaken people's potential, creativity, and pride, and promote community values through OCOP product creation. Quality reinforcement and enhancement, technical restrictions, packaging, labelling, and product branding... Creating networks that connect local and international OCOP goods toward green and sustainable OCOP.

P.V