Two Dong Nai enterprises honoured at Vietnam OCOP Festival 2025

On December 20, at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel in Hanoi, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment in coordination with the Hanoi People’s Committee held the Vietnam OCOP Festival 2025.

The Vietnam OCOP Festival 2025 is a practical activity celebrating the achievements recorded in 2025 by the Capital and the country, in celebration of the Vietnam Communist Party and the upcoming Lunar New Year of the Horse 2026. The event aims to promote the values and achievements of the OCOP (One Commune One Product) programme after more than seven years of implementation, affirming its important role and contribution in realising Vietnam’s aspiration for strong development amid deeper international integration.

Nguyen Son Binh, Deputy General Director of Ha My Joint Stock Company (JSC) (centre), is among 22 outstanding national OCOP entities honoured at the event. Photo: Ha My

The Vietnam OCOP Festival 2025 features 220 booths, showcasing outstanding products from provinces and cities nationwide, along with 16 international booths representing eight countries around the world.

Running from December 20 to 23, the festival includes a wide range of economic, cultural and social activities. Alongside the opening ceremony and the honouring of outstanding national OCOP entities, the programme also features the forum “Improving quality and developing OCOP products”; the exhibition space “Vietnam – convergence and dissemination” for OCOP products; an international OCOP zone; and digital transformation showcases. Notably, the festival introduces an oil painting stretching more than 300 metres on the theme “Vietnam – the country and its people”, depicting rural achievements through fine arts.

Visitors at the OCOP product exhibition booth of Ha My JSC. Photo: Ha My

“More than 18,000 OCOP products are on display at the festival, representing nearly 10,000 enterprises, cooperatives and production households from across the country. Each Vietnamese OCOP product carries the story of a land, a community and a persistent journey of ‘doing it genuinely – doing it responsibly – seeing it through to the end’. These are stories of people – farmers who dare to think and act; and of cooperatives and small- and medium-sized enterprises that persevere in start-ups rooted in local resources and cultural values,” said Minister of Agriculture and Environment Tran Duc Thang at the opening ceremony.

Cashew nut products of Ha My JSC on display at the Vietnam OCOP Festival 2025. Photo: Ha My

At the event, the Organising Committee honoured 22 outstanding national OCOP entities associated with digital transformation, green transition, and the promotion of agricultural and rural tourism. Ha My JSC (Dong Phu commune) and Nga Bien Import-Export Co., Ltd. (Xuan Hoa commune) are the two enterprises from Dong Nai province recognised at the festival. Both companies operate in the production, processing and trading of cashew nuts — one of Dong Nai’s key agricultural products. The province is widely regarded as the nation’s “cashew capital,” not only known for producing some of the finest cashew nuts in Vietnam but also for having the largest cashew-growing area and serving as the country’s major cashew processing hub.

Ha My JSC and Nga Bien Import-Export Co., Ltd. currently have multiple processed cashew products certified as OCOP three-, four- and five-star products, including salt-roasted cashew nuts, unsalted roasted cashew nuts and white cashew kernels.

By Minh Luan – Translated by M.Nguyet, Thu Ha