Participating in the "Rural Youth Startup Project" Contest 2024, th Son La provincial Youth Union proposed five projects by local young people to compete at the central level.

Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee Nguyen Thanh Cong, who is head of the provincial Steering Committee for production, processing, sale and export of agricultural products (Steering Committee 598), chaired a conference in Song Ma district on July 3 to review the committee’s performance in the first six months of 2024 and launch tasks in the second half.

Since the beginning of 2024, localities in Son La province have focused on protecting raw agricultural product areas, especially the fruit tree area. The work of issuing and maintaining growing area codes to ensure quality and safety to serve processing for factories, domestic and foreign markets continues to receive due attention.

Implementing the project on applying high technology in agriculture and developing organic agriculture, in recent years, Dong Sang commune, Moc Chau district has encouraged organisations and individuals to invest in high-tech and organic agriculture; comply with farming processes, techniques and standards; and gradually change farming habits.

Effectively tapping potential and advantages, in recent years, Van Ho district has implemented many solutions to promote high-tech agriculture and formed many concentrated commodity production areas, creating products with high productivity and quality, contributing to increasing locals’ income.

Since the beginning of this year, Son La province has focused on directing and promoting the development of high-tech agriculture, clean agriculture, and organic agriculture in association with the expansion of raw material areas for processing.

On these days, farmers in Phieng Khoai, Yen Son, Long Phieng, Chieng On communes of Yen Chau district are excited to enter the pear harvest. This year, this fruit continues to have a good harvest and good prices. Along with other fruits such as banana, mango, plum, pear trees have been grown by farmers in mountainous and border communes of Yen Chau district, initially bringing about high economic values.

The province has 83,460 hectares of industrial crops, including 51,455 hectares of annual industrial trees (41,325 hectares of cassava, 10,033 hectares of sugarcane, and 97 hectares of soybeans), down 2.8% year-on-year; and 32,005 hectares of perennial industrial trees (5,857 hectares of tea, 20,926 hectares of coffee, and 5,222 hectares of rubber), up 4.9% year-on-year.

Thuan Chau district on June 21 held a ceremony to mark the departure of its dragon fruit shipment to the Italian market in the 2024 crop.

Referring to the "sweet banana, fragrant mango" region of Yen Chau, one cannot ignore a product that has created a brand. That is round mango, a native mango variety attached to the people of Yen Chau for many generations.

In 2024, Phu Yen district has successfully attached QRcode and EGAP electronic diary to rice products in 50 households, with 8.22 hectares of 128 plots in the "My home field" model.

After putting Son La province’s plum up for sale at the Saigon Co.op supermarket chain in Moc Chau district, the provincial People's Committee and the Saigon Union of Trading Cooperatives (Saigon Co.op) on May 25 coordinated with relevant units in organising a festival highlighting the locality’s plum and other agricultural products in Ho Chi Minh City.

Since the beginning of the year, the Plant Protection Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has granted six new planting area codes to Son La province in service of exports, raising the total number in the locality to 293.

Since the beginning of the crop, Son La province has sold nearly 18,000 tonnes of plums in the domestic market, with an estimated value of over 383 billion VND (15 million USD).

A range of culture, tourism and “One Commune-One Product” (OCOP) products, along with traditional foods of Moc Chau district and other localities were introduced at a space set up at the May 8 Square on May 17.

Right from the beginning of the year, the People's Committee of Son La province has directed departments, agencies, sectors, and People's Committees of districts and Son La city to develop plans to organise trade promotion activities to introduce and promote agricultural products in diverse forms, helping enterprises and cooperatives search for partners and sign product consumption contracts.       

Mai Son district boasts favourable soil and climate conditions for high-tech agriculture. Over the past years, it has focused on developing “One Commune-One Product” (OCOP) items, contributing to improving the competitiveness of local products and increasing income for farmers.

As a district with fertile land and a climate suitable for many types of crops, Mai Son district has zoned off commodity-oriented agricultural production areas under value chains to increase product value, contributing to promoting local socio-economic development.

Six coffee samples of Son La province competed in the Vietnam Specialty Coffee Competition 2024 (Vietnam Amazing Cup 2024), organised by the Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Association in the Central Highlands of Dak Lak in mid-April.

Quynh Nhai district currently has more than 10,000 hectares of reservoir water surface. This is an advantage for the district to develop cage culture and fish catch. With a large farmed and caught fish output, local cooperatives and production and business households have gradually developed typical local products and built its Da River fish brand.