With just over a month left until the 2025 Lunar New Year (Tet), businesses and agricultural cooperatives in Son La province are actively producing and diversifying their products to meet customer demands.

With dynamism, creativity, and a sharp entrepreneurial spirit, many young people in Son La province have established startups that optimise local products and cultural heritage, creating unique offerings.

In 2024, Son La province continues to restructure its agricultural sector, and promote the application of science and technology, and high technology in production, thus contributing to increasing productivity, quality, value, and competitiveness of products.

Farmers in Yen Chau district are working tirelessly to tend their orchards in preparation for the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, aiming to deliver high-quality products for substantial income during the festive season.

The Standing Board of the provincial Women's Union on December 10 coordinated with the Bo Sinh Primary and Secondary Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities in Song Ma district to organise a dialogue between children, school administrators, local authorities and parents with the theme "Listen to what children say".

In 2024, the total area for aquaculture is estimated at 3,011 hectares, a rise of 0.4% against last year, with total production from aquaculture and fishing expected to reach 9,678 tonnes, up 3.5% year-on-year.

Muong La district is now home to 24 hydropower projects, including three large-scale and 21 medium and small-scale ones.

To enhance value and establish the quality of agricultural products in both domestic and international markets, Son La province has stepped up the development of safe agricultural and aquatic product supply chains. It has adopted advanced technologies in production, created new supply chains, and controlled product quality at every stage, aiming for a green growth agricultural model.

Son La province boasts 885 agricultural cooperatives, alongside six agricultural cooperative alliances comprising 30 member cooperatives and over 600 labourers.

In 2024, the financial market in Son La province has remained stable, with credit institutions strictly adhering to regulations and directions from the State Bank of Vietnam on interest rates. These institutions have been committed to maintaining safe and effective credit growth, applying reasonable lending rates, and minimising non-performing loans.

Since the beginning of this year, Son La province has sold over 348,650 tonnes of various types of fruit, reaching 93% of the total production, with a value of over 5.31 trillion VND (209 million USD).

Son La province currently has 29 agricultural products granted protection certificates; including three geographical indications, 23 certification trademarks, and three collective trademarks.

Son La province currently has 154 OCOP (one commune one product) items rated 3-star or higher, imcluding 97 3-star, 56 4-star, and one national 5-star.

The Women's Union of Son La province, in collaboration with the management board of the Gender Responsive Equitable Agriculture and Tourism (GREAT) project, is organising a training course themed "Business Acceleration" for 33 women’s union members in Son La province from November 29 to December 1.

Moc Chau is paying attention to developing agriculture in combination with experiential tourism so as to gain higher economic efficiency.

The People’s Committee of Van Ho district on November 26 coordinated with the Centre for Research and Development of Agricultural Systems under the Field Crops Research Institute of the provincial Department of Science and Technology to organise a workshop to give comments on a dossier on the protection and development of the “Van Ho bamboo shoot” certification mark.

Farmers in Son La province have harvested 8,300 tonnes of coffee cherries since the beginning of this year’s crop.

Since the beginning of this year, the total aquaculture production in Son La province has reached over 8,100 tonnes, including nearly 7,000 tonnes from farming and over 1,100 tonnes from fishing.

Since the beginning of the year, plantations and production teams across Son La province harvested nearly 2,800 tonnes of latex as raw material to the Son La 28/10 Rubber Processing Factory, achieving 78% of the planned target.

Harnessing its potential and advantages, Muong district has consistently created favourable conditions for the development of collective economy, helping local cooperatives transform their mindset, apply technology, and improve productivity, quality, and competitiveness of their products. This approach has also generated stable employment and income for local labourers.