The negative in the purchase of pepper discovered in the past time, although it is just the “worm that makes the pot of soup”, but the pepper production, processing and export industry also needs to find out solutions to prevent blocking as well as sustainable development in the future.
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Farmers in Bu Dop district, Binh Phuoc district are drying pepper.
The “worms”
Recently, from the case that Thao Dung Company specializes in purchasing pepper in the area of Loc Ninh district, Binh Phuoc province for export, it was involved in the scandal of “a mixture of coffee peels dyed with pin and gravel” in Dak Nong province. public opinion expressed concern and concern.
It is worth mentioning, not only the act of mixing “battery-dyed impurities” into pepper products has just been discovered and is being handled by the police, a year ago, Bu Gia Map district police, Binh Phuoc province discovered cases of “magic” turning small pepper into solid and beautiful pepper with chemicals …
This incident the authorities seized more than 700 kg of “enchanted” pepper. In addition, Binh Phuoc province authorities have raided and caught an establishment cooking and mixing pepper with impurities in Binh Dien village in Binh Son commune, Phu Rieng district.
Through inspection, the competent forces caught the above subjects who were cooking two large pots of impurities without labels indicating their origin, including plastic impurities, dark brown color and bad smell. mixed with flat pepper.
Recipe to mix 50% impurities with 50% small pepper and then mix together and dry.
The above cases, though only single, have partly affected the reputation and brand name of Binh Phuoc pepper in particular, the Vietnamese pepper industry in general. Since March 2014, Loc Ninh pepper has been labeled collective pepper.
The successful building of the collective brand for Loc Ninh pepper products is a great success, bringing benefits to pepper growers whose products have specific strengths in the household economic model, contributing to poverty reduction.
Returning to the past impurity story, the director of Binh Phuoc Department of Industry and Trade Nguyen Anh Hoang said that although it was promptly detected and prevented from handling, many management measures were needed to prevent cases from occurring. The same serious work affects the quality of coffee, pepper in particular, and agricultural products in general.
As the locality discovered the above serious incident, Mr. Le Trong Yen, Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Dak Nong province, said that although this is only a special case, but unfortunately it has an impact. big to consumer psychology and local agriculture.
Currently, the police have prosecuted and arrested the subjects for further investigation and handling in accordance with the law. However, for the agricultural sector, this is a profound lesson in coordinating with local authorities to strengthen the inspection and supervision of agricultural production and trading establishments.
Develop a model of clean pepper production
As an enterprise specializing in pepper business in Loc Ninh and Bu Dop areas for many years, Mr. Nguyen Huu Phuoc, Director of CB One-Member Limited Liability Company, spoke up urgently if the enterprise had mixed impurities. and chemicals consumed in the market for any reason must be condemned.
Because this not only harms human health but also makes the pepper brand in Binh Phuoc province have a long-term influence on the brand.
Mr. Nguyen Duc Thao, Director of Loc Phat New-style Cooperative (Loc Hiep Commune, Loc Ninh District), said: “Currently, the cooperative is pursuing a model of growing clean pepper to provide partners. imported to extremely fastidious markets in Europe and other countries around the world. Do not let the worm make the pot irritating, affecting the farmers, especially the cooperative members, who were infested in the above-mentioned scandal. Accordingly, the functional sectors need to drastically inspect and control the cleaning of the market to protect tens of thousands of households living on pepper trees. ”
Mr. Nguyen Duc Thao said that the cooperative currently signs a consumption contract with the Nedspice Spice Limited Liability Company (The Netherlands). Accordingly, the production of clean pepper for export is bound to many very strict conditions.
Specifically, members of farmer households participating in the production chain of the cooperative must follow the proper care technique from fertilizing and spraying with the correct dosage.
Limit the use of chemical fertilizers to ensure harvested products are free from chemical residues and pesticides and other regulations.
As a result, households participating in the clean production chain are sold by the exporter at a price higher than the market price.
In addition, the purchasing and exporting contracting unit also provides additional bonuses to farmers who meet clean standards of pepper at VND 4,500 / kg.
The new Hung Phuoc pepper sustainable production cooperative in Hung Phuoc commune, Bu Dop district has 80 members, mostly farmers, who have joined the cooperative with the process of producing clean pepper for export.
Accordingly, members of the cooperative joining the Sustainable Clean Pepper Production Club, in addition to being rewarded at a common unit price of VND45,000 / kg, are also provided with an additional support of VND 2,000 / kg by the exporter.
Mr. Dao Duy Hai, Director of Dong Thuan Organic Pepper Cooperative, Village 6, Nhan Co Commune, Dak R’lap District, Dak Nong Province, said that with an organic pepper growing area of about 55 hectares, the above output 50 tons of clean pepper products, able to meet the most stringent standards of the world market.
Cooperative organic pepper products are always ordered by collectors and at double the selling price of pepper in the market. Currently, the cooperative’s products have been exported directly to the Netherlands.
The development of clean and sustainable agriculture is an inevitable direction; in which, there is pepper industry.
This is a requirement of the market and also the responsibility of the agricultural sector as well as each farmer household, as well as companies, purchasing and processing establishments. Currently, many localities in the Southeast and the Central Highlands are organizing and developing many models of growing clean pepper.
The main goal is to improve economic efficiency, build a clean pepper brand, and ensure the sustainable development of pepper.
According to the Vietnamplus.vn
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