To agricultural products meet the technical barriers in export, the issuance and management of code of the plant is a mandatory task to perform. However, the ratio of the area of cultivation is a code-growing region is still very low, only concentrated in a number of fruit trees that the management of the plant was loose...
Date 28/3/2022, Ministry of Agriculture and rural development issued the directive 1838/CT-BNN-PESTICIDE on strengthening the management code of the plant and packaging facility, agricultural products for export.
In it, emphasizing the task of setting management code of the plant, packing facilities service directory go into the quality and efficiency over; at the same time enhance the accountability of the institutions and individuals involved, contribute to the construction, agriculture, professional, and sustainable.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and rural development, in the past year, work setting and code level of the cultivation, packaging facility has achieved many positive results, contribute to improving the reputation of Vietnam's agricultural products on international markets and increasing exports.
However, there are many local not really proper attention to this work. The area of cultivation is the code of the plant were too few, and only focus in a number of fruit trees staple.
Meanwhile, the monitoring of the cultivation, packaging facility after the grant of the code number at a local number there are still many limitations, not to ensure the maintenance of the full technical requirements according to the regulations of the importing country.
In particular, the status of “impersonation” code and violation of regulations on plant quarantine, food safety, or the prevention of Covid - 19 of the cultivation and packaging facility still exists.
In Just the 1838/CT-BNN-PROTECTION, Ministry of Agriculture and rural development delivered to the plant protection Department must perform 6 tasks.
One is finishing construction of the national standard; update documentation about setting up and management of planted area, base packed to training for the organizations and individuals involved.
The second one is actively negotiating with the technical agency of the country of export to open up the market, increase the number code of the plant, packing facilities are allowed to export; solve the technical barriers to facilitate export activities.
Thirdly, coordinate local enhanced management and monitoring the cultivation base package guaranteed to meet the specified phytosanitary and food safety.
Four is building the documentation and specifications for each object apply (farmers, business, technical staff, local...) about the regulations, phytosanitary, food safety, according to the chain, from production to export on each type of horticultural products; ensuring the rule of easy to understand, accessible, and easy to apply.
The year is strengthening apply information technology to manage the data base of the plant, packaging facility ensures the use of effective data and traceability fast, transparent.
Sixthly, coordinate and support the construction of the development plan the cultivation, packaging facility on the basis of fact, the peculiarities and needs of each local.
“The set and the code number of the planting base, packing agricultural products is a mandatory requirement of the market and international practices to ensure compliance with regulations of the exporting country on phytosanitary, food safety and traceability. These problems affect the prestige of Vietnamese agricultural products in the international market as well as exports of general of the agricultural sector”. Only the 1838/CT-BNN-PESTICIDE.
Besides the main task assigned to the Department of plant protection, Ministry of Agriculture and rural development also assigned to the Department, related Services coordination Department of plant protection in the propaganda, set to deploy code manager cultivation base packing.
With the Department of Economic cooperation and rural development coordination Office Program targets National new rural construction, the Ministry of Agriculture directed to research, proposed to take the norm of the code of the cultivation base, packed into the Program target Program National new rural development Program, each commune one product (OCOP).
Ask the local to promote digitization management code of planted area, enhance the application of information technology in the management of planted area, base packing. Specific proposal to the provincial, city, directing the Department of Agriculture and rural development coordination on the platform, database, national plant protection Department building. Only the 1838/CT-BNN-PESTICIDE.
With Extension center National unit responsible for building, training programs, communication about code of the planting base, packed in planning annual activities of the system of agricultural extension.
Department of quality Management, Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and carry out the implementation of the program monitoring residues of plant protection in the planted area is level code.
The ministry of Agriculture and rural development also suggested that the people's COMMITTEE of provinces and cities directly under the Central government building, additional targets of the code of the cultivation base, packed into resolution, program, scheme, action plan development, socio-economic development at local time; at the same time building policies to encourage, support and development of the plant, base packing according to the scale production of goods to meet the requirements of the country of export.
Recommendations on training, raising awareness for organizations and individuals at local time, the Ministry of Agriculture and rural development given requirements: Farmers need to be guided on the process of cultivation according to manual inputs, save, safe and effective; take notes and complete the related records in the production process served traceability; monitoring of residues of pesticides; maintain the quality of the planted area, packaging facility has been provided code.
Besides, the department and the department of Agriculture, district level, strengthen the inspection and the management, use code of the cultivation base, packed on location; layout focal information.
The directive also suggest these associations strengthen the propaganda for membership of the code of the plant, packing facilities, especially regulations, phytosanitary, food safety of the country of export; coordinate Department of plant protection and local agencies in the development code of the cultivation base, packed for export.