Speeding up preparation of agricultural products for Tet

"After the flood, silt will return"

Speaking about the difficult time HCM City experienced through the peak of the pandemic, Ms. Pham Thi Huan, General Director of Ba Huan Co., Ltd. emotionally said: “The Covid-19 pandemic has cause hardship for the egg industry, especially during the time the city implemented strict social distancing and eggs but could not be sold.

“However, with the encouragement and support of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), especially the Working Group 970, our company’s "3-in-site" production chain of was not broken. Wherever the circulation was stuck, it would be solved by Group 970 so we did not break at all."

Ms. Huan said when HCM City implemented social distancing, people were not allowed to go out and army forces helped them buy goods. At that time, egg consumption, especially chicken eggs faced many difficulties resulting in inventories. Therefore, businesses had to take various measures to solve the situation such as coordinating with departments, agencies to reduce prices, issuing promotion sales including “buying one get one free”... so that eggs can reach each person and residential area for consumption.

"During the pandemic, even though the price of raw materials increased, we were determined to stabilize the market so that to help people and the city’s authority fight the pandemic," said Huan.

Speaking about the upcoming orientation, Huan said that the company planned to focus on husbandry ensuring high nutrition for egg products. She wished the country's agricultural industry to more develop. "'After the flood, silt will return'. In the direction of the country's agricultural industry, we should develop models of growing corn so that we don't have to import from abroad," said Huan.

To prepare for the year-end supply, the General Director of Ba Huan Co., Ltd. said that the company had focused its resources on launching a number of new products such as pasteurized chicken and roasted chicken sausages with cinnamon apricots. ... At the same time, the company could also meet about 1.5 million eggs/day at the peak of the year-end and Tet holiday. "This is an increase of 500,000-700,000 fruits compared to the normal level," she said.

According to Ms. Huan, currently, the price of raw materials and feed has increased by 20-40%, however, to serve the market demand at the end of the year and the Lunar New Year, the company will make every effort to ensure sufficient supplies and stockpile avoiding the shortage of goods, with appropriate prices, especially on the occasion before, during and after the Lunar New Year-the Year of Tiger 2022.

Satisfying the consumption needs

Speaking with Vietnam Agriculture Newspaper, Ms. Pham Thi Ngoc Ha, Director of San Ha Co., Ltd. said that as an enterprise following a closed supply chain mode,l during the recent Covid-19 outbreak, the company also encountered many difficulties, like any other food supply enterprises in HCM City.

According to Ms. Ha, for the food industry, all works from the beginning process of selecting breed sources, cultivating and producing goods for the market, to the market consumption, have been planned carefully by enterprises to prepare supplies for the whole year.

“When the pandemic happened, despite facing many difficulties, San Ha company as well as other agricultural food producers, all accept that challenges considering them as the common obstacles of the whole society, and try to find solutions to gradually overcome them.

“Since the Covid-19 pandemic occurred, the Government, the MARD, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of National Defense and relating departments including HCM City Department of Industry and Trade all focused on fighting the pandemic. This made businesses feel Ok and safe and regarded it as a great consolation. San Ha Company always has a ‘fire’ in its heart and is very confident that all difficulties will get away. After the rain, the sun will shine again," said Ha.

With nearly 2,000 employees at San Ha's supply chains, factories, and offices in Long An Province and HCM City, the "3-on-site" model makes it face many difficulties. “When implementing such model in Long An, the factory encountered problems due to so many F0 cases resulting in a shortage of workers…

However, the company also benefit much from the implementation of such a “3-on-site” model because it had helped review all of their production process and activities, thereby adjusting and correcting so as not to lead to panic, but confidently facing challenges," Ha said.

Speaking about the preparation of supplies for the upcoming Lunar New Year, the Director of San Ha Co., Ltd. said the company has set up a plan since before. Now, the enterprise only has to review it carefully and accelerate production ensuring sufficient supply for Tet according to the scheduled plan, as well as the actual market needs, in the context of safe conditions adapting to the pandemic.

According to the plan, every day, San Ha provides about 150-200 tons of products of all kinds of goods. However, Ms. Ha is most concerned about the shortage of unskilled labor to operate and prepare for Tet goods. "In the near future, San Ha will invest in some modern machinery, so the company in Long An is very eager to find workers," said Ha.

Regarding the price of goods during Tet, Ha said, despite pressures from increased input costs, the company will try to balance so that to share difficulties with customers and will ensure adequate supply of goods without an increase in product prices.

At a conference held on the afternoon of November 12 to review the food and goods supply chain in HCM City during the 4th pandemic outbreak, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of HCM City Phan Thi Thang highly appreciated the responsibility, dynamism and creativity of all enterprises in joining hands with Ho Chi Minh City under the support of the Government, ministries, especially the Ministry of Industry and Trade, MARD, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of National Defense, Ministry of Public Security to help Ho Chi Minh City get good results in fighting against the Covid-19 pandemic, ensuring social security and suppling adequate food for people during the extended lockdown.