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Building 10 sweet potato specialized growing areas for exportation

(VAN) The People's Committee of Vinh Long province has just approved the implementation of 2 projects to improve the productivity and quality of seed sources and Japanese purple sweet potato products for export.

The People's Committee of Vinh Long province has just approved the implementation of 2 projects to improve the productivity and quality of seed sources and Japanese purple sweet potato products for export.

The "Support the development of production in sweet potato specialized growing areas to serve exportation" project and the "Improving the quality of Japanese purple sweet potato varieties and building a quality seed supply chain" project will be supported by the Sub-Department of Cultivation and Plant Protection of Vinh Long province as an investor and will be implemented in Binh Tan district, Vinh Long province in the period of 2021-2023.

The total cost of implementation is nearly VND 22 billion from the source of funding for the agricultural cause to initiate Vinh Long province's agricultural extension program in the period of 2021-2025.

Two agricultural extension projects with a total cost of VND 22 billion will support the construction of sweet potato growing areas for export. Photo: Minh Dam.

Two agricultural extension projects with a total cost of VND 22 billion will support the construction of sweet potato growing areas for export. Photo: Minh Dam.

Accordingly, in the sweet potato specialized growing area of Binh Tan district (Vinh Long province), the project will build 10 growing areas specialized in sweet potato for export, secure disease safety and synchronously apply food safety production processes on export sweet potatoes with a scale of 10ha/area, and at the same time build 3 models of sweet potato production with VietGAP certification (90 ha).

In addition, the project will build a model of "supply chain of purebred sweet potato with seed quality standards" with a scale of 30 hectares and demonstrate the model of using purebred sweet potato varieties with seed quality standards on a scale of 300 hectares.

The project also organizes training courses and sessions, conferences on transferring good agricultural production processes (VietGAP), linking production, consumption and trade promotion of sweet potato products at home country and abroad.

Author: Minh Dam. Translated by Samuel Pham.

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