The negatives in the purchase of pepper that have been discovered in recent times are just a matter of “worms that make the soup pot”, but the pepper production, processing and export industry also needs to set out solutions to prevent this problem. and sustainable development in the near future.
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Farmers in Bu Dop district, Binh Phuoc are drying pepper.
The “worms”
Recently, from the case of Thao Dung, which specializes in purchasing pepper in Loc Ninh district, Binh Phuoc province for export, got involved in the scandal of “mixed coffee shells dyed with pin and gravel” in Dak Nong province. Public opinion expressed concern and concern.
It is worth mentioning that not only the act of mixing “battery-dyed impurities” into pepper has just been discovered and is being handled by the police, a year ago, the police of Bu Gia Map district, Binh Phuoc province have discovered cases of “magic” turning flat pepper into solid, beautiful pepper with chemicals…
In this incident, the authorities seized more than 700kg of “enchanted” pepper. In addition, Binh Phuoc provincial authorities once raided and caught a factory mixing pepper with impurities in Binh Dien village in Binh Son commune, Phu Rieng district.
Through inspection, functional forces caught the above subjects red-handed cooking two large pots of impurities without labels stating the origin, including plastic, dark brown and foul-smelling impurities used for cooking. mixed with crushed pepper.
The recipe for mixing is 50% impurities with 50% flat pepper and then mixed together to dry.
The above cases, although only isolated, have partly affected the reputation and brand of Binh Phuoc pepper in particular and Vietnam’s pepper industry in general. Since March 2014, Loc Ninh pepper has been labeled as a collective pepper.
The successful building of a collective brand for Loc Ninh pepper products is a great success, bringing benefits to pepper farmers whose products have particular strengths in the household economic model, contributing to poverty reduction.
Returning to the past adulteration story, Director of Binh Phuoc Department of Industry and Trade Nguyen Anh Hoang said that although it was promptly detected, prevented and handled, many management measures are needed to prevent such cases from occurring. The same serious thing affects the quality of coffee, pepper in particular, and agricultural products in general.
As the locality that 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 just an isolated incident, it unfortunately has an impact. to consumer psychology and local agriculture.
Currently, the police agency has prosecuted and detained 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 inspection and supervision of agricultural production and business establishments.
Developing a clean pepper production model
As an enterprise specializing in pepper trading in Loc Ninh and Bu Dop areas for many years, Mr. Nguyen Huu Phuoc, Director of CB One Member Limited Liability Company, urgently spoke up, if the enterprise has acts of mixing impurities. and chemicals used in pepper to be sold on the market for any reason must be condemned.
Because this is not only harmful to human health but also makes Binh Phuoc province’s pepper brand suffer a long-term brand influence.
Mr. Nguyen Duc Thao, Director of Loc Phat New-style Cooperative (Loc Hiep Commune, Loc Ninh District), expressed: “Currently, the cooperative is pursuing a model of growing clean pepper to supply export partners. export to extremely fastidious markets in Europe and countries around the world. Do not let the worm upset the soup pot, affecting the farmers, especially the cooperative members who were infected in the above-mentioned scandal. Accordingly, functional sectors need to drastically inspect and control the market to protect tens of thousands of households living on pepper trees.
Mr. Nguyen Duc Thao said, currently, the cooperative has signed a consumption contract with Nedspice Spices Limited Liability Company (Netherlands). Accordingly, producing clean pepper for export is bound by many strict conditions.
Specifically, members of farmer households participating in the cooperative’s production chain must adhere to proper care techniques from the stage of fertilizing and spraying with the right dose.
Limit the use of chemical fertilizers to ensure that the harvested products are free from chemical and pesticide residues and other regulations.
As a result, households participating in the clean production chain will be sold by the exporter at a price higher than the market price.
In addition, the unit that signed the purchase and export contract also supports and rewards farmers who meet the standard of clean pepper products at 4,500 VND/kg.
The Hung Phuoc new-style cooperative for sustainable pepper production 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 participating in the Club of clean and sustainable pepper production are not only rewarded with a general unit price of 45,000 VND/kg, the exporter also supports an additional 2,000 VND/kg.
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 area of about 55 hectares of organic pepper, the output is over 50 tons of clean pepper products, which can meet the strictest standards of the world market.
Organic pepper products of the cooperative are always ordered by purchasing units and have a selling price twice as high as the price of bucket 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; including the pepper industry.
This is a requirement of the market and is also the responsibility of the agricultural industry 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 sustainable development of pepper.
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