A combined total of up to 100 typical agricultural and so-called One Commune-One Product (OCOP) products were put on public display at the Hoa Phong No 1 Agricultural Production Service Cooperative, Cam Toai Trung Village, Hoa Phong Commune, Hoa Vang District.

The 60m² showroom was developed at a cost of 200 million VND funded by the municipal Department of Agriculture and Rural, featuring sufficient furniture and equipment such as display shelves, coolers and freezers worth the same amount.

Notable amongst the 82 ‘made-in-Da Nang’ key agricultural products are Lingzhi mushroom, grilled coconut cakes, Hoa Phong fragrant sticky rice. Meanwhile, 18 OCOP products including Mat Troi Viet dried pure spirulina, Binh Minh and Huong Lang Co fish sauce, ‘Ba Lieu Me’ ‘banh kho me’ (dried sesame seed cakes), Ong Chanh ‘tre’ (a kind of fermented pork) caught a great deal of attention of visitors to the showroom.

In addition to displaying the aforementioned signature products, the venue is offering seeds and seedlings of such plans with high economic value as green skin pomelos and jackfruit, and OCOP product development manuals.

The OCOP model made its debut in 2008 in Viet Nam, following the model of Japan-initiated ‘One Village, One Product’ and Thailand-developed ‘One Town, One Product’.

It is an economic development programme for rural areas focusing on increasing internal power and values, which is also meant to help with the national target programme on upgrading rural areas.

By HOANG HIEP- Translated by A.T