As a pioneer in applying science and technology to production, the 19/5 Agricultural Development Services Cooperative has invested in an experimental garden of over 7 hectares. Here, the cooperative focuses on cultivating temperate fruit trees, selecting native plant species as rootstocks to create many unique, high-quality fruit varieties such as golden-peak plum, early and late-ripening plums, early-ripening peaches, milk grape, temperate pear, and silverberry, all of which are known for their strong growth and high productivity.

Mai Duc Thinh, Director of the cooperative, shared: “We’ve designed the garden to grow new crop varieties that meet technical requirements while also offering a visually appealing space for tourists. From the effective varieties tested here, we’ve partnered with local households, guiding them in applying scientific techniques and adopting these new varieties into their own production, delivering safe and quality products to consumers.”

At the Bon Bon Agricultural Tourism Cooperative in Muong Sang ward, the focus has been on selecting and cultivating unique plant varieties such as raspberry, American fig, cherry tomato, Shine Muscat grape, Colombian passion fruit, as well as giant gourds and pumpkins weighing from 50 to 100 kg – all contributing to a distinctive natural landscape that attracts visitors. At the same time, the cooperative is developing premium strawberry varieties such as Hana (Japan), King Berry (the Republic of Korea), Snow White, Pink Snow White, Sky, and Oishii (Japan). Each variety is cultivated using proper technical procedures to ensure top quality, freshness, and nutritional value.

The adoption of new varieties in production has been proactively and widely implemented by businesses, cooperatives, and farmers in Moc Chau. These new models are actively applying modern technology to cultivation. Techniques like greenhouse and net house cultivation, investment in automatic fertilising and irrigation systems, and the use of agricultural films help control plant diseases, reduce labour, maintain moisture, and ensure healthy growth and high productivity.
Now Moc Chau has 486 establishments applying water-saving irrigation systems on over 610 hectares, 141 greenhouses and net houses covering more than 100 hectares, over 1,120 hectares of fruit trees and vegetables certified with VietGAP and GlobalGAP standards, 24 planting area codes for export. Its agricultural production value reaches nearly 80 million VND (3,075 USD) per hectare.

Several newly introduced crop varieties have yielded high economic efficiency, such as sweet Palermo peppers, generating revenue of 500 million VND per hectare; yellow melons grown in greenhouses with a yield of about 30 tonnes per ha, sold for 45,000–50,000 VND per kg; South American watermelon, yielding 35 tonnes per ha, priced at 80,000–120,000 VND per kg; yellow-skinned dragon fruit, harvested 4 times per year, with a yield of nearly 30 tonnes per ha and a price of 50,000–80,000 VND per kg.

Thanks to the efforts, creativity, and shift in production thinking among farmers, new and economically effective crops have been successfully introduced, helping diversify agricultural products in Moc Chau while also creating high-quality, innovative products to meet consumer demand and support the development of eco-agricultural tourism.