Currently, Son La province has a inhabitants of over 1.4 million individuals, together with 12 ethnic teams dwelling collectively; of which 84.46% are ethnic minorities; from July 1, 2025, the province has 75 administrative items, together with 67 communes and 8 wards. Son La has a sub-temperate local weather, fertile land, thick topsoil with many sorts of soil, and potential for fruit tree growth with 974,968 hectares of agricultural land (accounting for 69.03% of the province’s whole pure land space). The giant agricultural land space is a good situation for investing in large-scale fruit tree production[1], growing giant livestock farming and aquaculture.
With the promotion of sustainable, high-tech agricultural production, native authorities and related sectors have proven preliminary constructive outcomes in directing and implementing initiatives. Awareness amongst companies, cooperatives, cooperative unions, organizations, and people concerning high-tech agriculture has been enhanced. This has created a synergistic relationship between the growth of productive forces and production relations, emphasizing the continued and stronger application of science and technology in production, preservation, and processing; and linking it with the enchancment of profit distribution relationships to develop the production, processing, and consumption of fruit merchandise in a manner that enhances the worth chain and promotes sustainable growth. Simultaneously, in line with the nation’s more and more deep integration into the worldwide economy , the implementation of signed Free Trade Agreements and participation in new-generation Free Trade Agreements has opened up many favorable alternatives for the growth of high-tech agriculture in the province.
1. Current standing of science and technology application in agricultural production and key merchandise of Son La province.
In current years, Son La province has targeted on implementing science and technology duties aimed toward researching, transferring, and making use of technology to resolve breakthrough issues contributing to socio-economic growth, particularly analysis actions in the area of agriculture which have made necessary contributions to enhancing the productiveness and high quality of some key crops, livestock, and commodity merchandise of the province, selling the shift in financial construction in the direction of industrialization and modernization. Many of these duties serve to help the growth of key native merchandise, making a basis for tourism growth by offering high-quality tourism merchandise linked to the province’s key merchandise.
(1) The building and promulgation of mechanisms and insurance policies to help and promote the growth of native agriculture
Over the previous interval, actions supporting and selling the growth of key merchandise, distinctive merchandise, and merchandise with native benefits in the province have all the time obtained the consideration, management, and steering of the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial People’s Council, the Provincial People’s Committee, the Ministry of Science and Technology, together with the coordinated actions of purposeful companies and departments of the province, and the consideration and consensus of the grassroots authorities. This has created an necessary basis and authorized framework for departments, companies, the People’s Committees of districts and cities, enterprises, and cooperatives to successfully implement the building and growth of key agricultural merchandise of the locality.
The Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee issued Notice No. 121-TB/TU dated November 30, 2015, on some insurance policies for planting fruit timber on sloping land till 2020, with the aim and job of strongly shifting the space of corn and upland rice cultivation on sloping land to fruit tree cultivation; at the identical time, figuring out this as a key job of the whole political system from the province to the grassroots stage, requiring targeted management, direction, and synchronized group to deliver sensible outcomes. From 2016 to the current, Son La province has issued many associated paperwork to instantly or not directly help the growth of the locality’s key merchandise. In parallel with the issuance of authorized paperwork as a foundation for implementing help for the growth of key agricultural merchandise, Son La province issued Decision No. 1347/QD-UBND dated June 12, 2018, of the People’s Committee of Son La province; Resolution No. 113/NQ-HĐND dated February 28, 2019, of the Son La Provincial People’s Council on the promulgation of the record of key agricultural merchandise of Son La province, recognized 21 product teams as key merchandise of the province that have to be targeted on growing based mostly on the potential and benefits of the locality.
At the identical time, in order to leverage the native benefits in agricultural production and group power to develop the endogenous financial system, diversify production group fashions, and create many merchandise with distinctive traits of the province, Son La province has targeted on implementing Decision No. 490/QD-TTg dated May 7, 2018, of the Prime Minister on approving the One Commune One Product Program (OCOP Program). To date, the whole province has 214 acknowledged OCOP merchandise (together with 1 product with 5 stars, 62 merchandise with 4 stars, and 151 merchandise with 3 stars).
(2) Current standing of analysis and application of technology for the growth of key agricultural merchandise and merchandise with native benefits.
Current standing of national-level analysis and application of technology: During this era, the province has coordinated the administration of 3 national-level science and technology duties to develop key merchandise of the province, primarily specializing in agricultural growth (fruit timber, greens). Accordingly, a number of tasks have been successfully carried out: Research on scientific and technological options to enhance productiveness, high quality and sustainable longan production in Son La and some northern provinces has recognized 5 high-yielding, high-quality longan varieties/strains with promising cultivation prospects in Son La and some northern provinces, assembly the standards of the order; The venture “Applying technical advancements to develop new mango varieties in Mai Son district, Son La province” has planted 666 GL4 seedlings (0.8 ha) and 166 VRQ-XXI seedlings (0.2 ha) since July 2019 to certify the mom orchard, creating seedlings with good progress and growth and a excessive survival fee; The venture: “Building a model for asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.) production in Son La province” is at the moment getting ready the essential infrastructure to construct an asparagus production mannequin in Moc Chau district, Son La province.
Current standing of analysis and application of technology in the province: The locality has targeted on analysis, summarizing sensible experiences, and constructing scientific arguments for the right and versatile application of the Party and State’s tips and insurance policies to the province’s actuality; serving the objectives of socio-economic growth, nationwide safety and protection, in order to additional develop productive forces, speed up the course of of industrialization and modernization, contributing to the profitable implementation of the resolutions of the eleventh and twelfth Party Congresses and the Resolution of the Son La Provincial Party Congress.
Based on the outcomes of scientific tasks, options in agricultural growth in basic, and particularly some subjects, tasks, and applications equivalent to: “Building specific policy mechanisms to accelerate the implementation of the National Target Program on Building New Rural Areas, developing agriculture and rural areas”, “Restructuring the agricultural sector towards increasing added value and sustainable development in Son La province by 2030”, “Developing concentrated, sustainable agriculture, forestry and fisheries with high technology application by 2025, orientation to 2030”; “Economic linkages between businesses and farmers in high-tech agricultural production”, have been researched and proposed to difficulty sensible mechanisms and insurance policies that make an necessary contribution to the agricultural growth of the province. The mechanisms, as soon as carried out, are basically in line with the aspirations and needs of the individuals, creating motivation for them to develop high-quality, high-value agricultural commodity production. This has been met with widespread help from the individuals all through the province, creating a powerful momentum for production growth. People are regularly accessing and making use of scientific and technological developments to production, forming concentrated commodity production areas, and creating agricultural merchandise with excessive productiveness, high quality, and competitiveness to satisfy home and export calls for.
During the interval 2016-2024, 117 science and technology tasks had been carried out in the province, with agricultural tasks accounting for almost 50%. These tasks targeted on analysis, technology switch, and application to resolve breakthrough issues, contributing to socio-economic growth. In specific, analysis in the agricultural sector performed a vital position in enhancing the productiveness and high quality of key crops, livestock, and commodity merchandise of the province, selling financial restructuring in the direction of industrialization and modernization. Approximately 55 of these tasks supported the growth of key native agricultural merchandise.
Regarding crop cultivation: Many scientific and technological developments have been utilized to agriculture, notably the testing and introduction of many high-yield, high-quality plant and animal varieties; many new technological processes have been supplemented, perfected, and mastered in the fields of breeding, care, pest and illness management for crops and livestock, and preservation and processing of agricultural merchandise. Many outcomes have promptly served the implementation of the province’s agricultural growth insurance policies equivalent to: growing high-tech agriculture, growing fruit timber on sloping land, and restructuring the agricultural sector in the direction of sustainability. Notably, high-tech fashions for growing greens and flowers have considerably contributed to the formation of high-quality, concentrated vegetable and flower production areas, creating secure jobs and excessive incomes for native employees.
Research on the growth of key fruit crops equivalent to mangoes, longan, avocados, dragon fruit, and citrus fruits in the province has regularly led to the formation of concentrated fruit production areas. Many areas have been licensed as assembly VietGAP requirements, and manufacturers have been established, with export codes granted to markets in China, Taiwan, the United States, and a number of European nations.
Regarding livestock and aquaculture: Focus on researching and offering feed sources for pigs, dairy cows, and beef cattle from regionally accessible uncooked supplies equivalent to producing animal feed from corn, cassava, and fish; processing corn cobs, sugarcane bagasse, and ardour fruit peels as feed for dairy cows; choosing new grass varieties and processing grass for large-scale buffalo and beef cattle farming; making use of superior technological processes in goat, cattle, and pig farming; and technical processes for beekeeping.
Regarding forestry: Science and technology have had a powerful influence on conservation, safety, reforestation, and financial forest growth, equivalent to the application of science and technology in intensive cultivation and propagation of Caribbean pine to offer giant timber in Son La province; analysis on conservation and growth of the five-needle pine species; and analysis on sustainable group forest administration. The implementation of science and technology duties in the area of forestry has made a big contribution to defending and growing forest sources and growing earnings for the individuals.
Regarding irrigation and rural environmental safety: Research to establish water sources and options for offering home and agricultural water to water-scarce areas in Son La province; Research on the application of new applied sciences in the remedy of home waste and in processing, equivalent to the application of microbial technology to deal with agricultural by-products and livestock waste…
Regarding processing and preservation technology: Focus on investing in and making use of science and technology to reinforce the worth of agricultural and forestry merchandise in the space, creating high-value, branded native merchandise equivalent to hawthorn wine, banana wine, Yen Chau dried bananas, plum wine, Moc Chau plum jam, Son La honey; and Quynh Nhai fish sauce.
Regarding data technology: Information technology software program is being researched and utilized in instructing, in state administration actions, and in monitoring the progress and growth of crops; the data technology infrastructure in state companies continues to be upgraded with targeted and synchronized funding, regularly connecting the Provincial People’s Committee, provincial departments and companies, and the People’s Committees of communes and wards, regularly growing e-government and digital authorities; the provision of data companies to residents and companies in the province is regularly being improved.
Furthermore, in current years, Son La province has recognized the growth of ecotourism not solely as a tourism growth but additionally as an answer for inexperienced, environmentally pleasant financial growth, aiming to guard and develop pure ecosystems, contributing to the steadiness of pure biology, and concurrently defending the dwelling surroundings of individuals. Therefore, it has carried out a number of scientific and technological tasks to contribute to the preservation of native specialties related to tourism growth.
(3) Current standing of application and switch of technical developments, technological innovation, and equipment and gear serving production and enterprise of key native merchandise.
The Son La Provincial Party Committee issued Resolution No. 15-NQ/DH dated September 24, 2021, of the fifteenth Son La Provincial Party Congress for the 2020-2025 time period; and Resolution No. 08-NQ/TU dated January 21, 2021, of the Provincial Party Committee on the growth of agriculture, forestry, and fisheries in a concentrated, sustainable method, making use of excessive technology till 2025, with a imaginative and prescient to 2030. Accordingly, agricultural growth in the province will likely be carried out in phases, in accordance with the precise scenario of the locality, to satisfy the necessities and aspirations of the individuals and will likely be supported and embraced by companies in the province. In current years, the agricultural sector of Son La province has promoted funding in the growth of high-tech agriculture in a contemporary direction, bringing excessive financial effectivity to farmers all through the province. By 2026, the whole province could have established and acknowledged 9 high-tech agricultural zones; 11 enterprises and cooperatives will meet science and technology requirements, accounting for 91.7% of the whole quantity of science and technology enterprises in the province.
Regarding the switch of science and technology: many analysis and technology switch applications in agricultural production have been and are being strengthened and carried out: experimental production fashions, import of new varieties; analysis fashions for breeding and choosing plant varieties to serve production; growth of technical procedures and cultivation strategies appropriate for every sort of crop and every ecological area; strategies for illness prevention and management… to switch to farmers.
(4) Current standing of help for safety and administration of mental property rights for key agricultural merchandise of the locality
During this era, the focus was totally on offering steering on establishing industrial property rights (IPR) at the native stage, carried out usually and in accordance with authorized laws. This principally met the necessities of organizations and people in the province (offering session and steering on IPR institution procedures for organizations and people, primarily concerning the documentation for establishing trademark rights). For the province’s key agricultural merchandise, registration was primarily in the kind of geographical indications, certification marks, and collective marks, with just about no safety for industrial designs, patents/utility fashions.
To date, the province has 31 agricultural, forestry, and aquatic merchandise bearing geographical names which have been granted safety certificates by the Intellectual Property Office, together with 2 merchandise which have been granted safety certificates overseas. Intellectual property safety contributes to growing the worth of merchandise, increasing home and worldwide markets, selling native financial growth, and enhancing the earnings and dwelling requirements of the individuals, particularly in distant areas and areas inhabited by ethnic minorities.
The scientific and technological analysis duties have intently adopted the sensible necessities for the growth of agricultural production in basic, and fruit timber in specific, in the province. During implementation, analysis has offered technical options contributing to elevated productiveness and high quality of crops and livestock. Through the application of science and technology, high-economic-value crop varieties appropriate for native production situations have been chosen. The course of of producing new fruit tree varieties has been regularly perfected, offering native seedlings and decreasing seedling prices, thus facilitating the speedy growth of fruit tree cultivation and agricultural production areas. Many key agricultural merchandise of the locality have established and are establishing their manufacturers domestically and internationally, making constructive contributions to socio-economic growth and environmental safety in the province.
Besides the achievements talked about above, there are nonetheless limitations equivalent to the proven fact that many nice potentials and benefits in the province’s agricultural growth haven’t but been exploited; analysis and application of science and technology, particularly excessive technology and biotechnology in breeding, intensive cultivation of fruit timber, and technology for preserving and processing agricultural merchandise, haven’t but reached their most effectiveness; the effectiveness of transferring and replicating profitable fashions of making use of scientific developments has not but absolutely met the more and more excessive calls for of the current market,…
2. Orienting key duties and options
To promote the growth of key agricultural merchandise in Son La province, complete options are wanted. These options shouldn’t solely enhance entry to and application of science and technology but additionally create a good surroundings for the conservation and sustainable growth of native agricultural merchandise, linked to socio-economic growth and nationwide protection and safety, whereas the province continues to give attention to a number of key duties as follows:
Firstly, concerning the growth and implementation of main plans, tasks, and applications aimed toward making use of and transferring science and technology to help the growth of key native agricultural merchandise: give attention to researching and growing monetary mechanisms and insurance policies for technology switch, technology application, and the application of scientific analysis outcomes into sensible production and enterprise. Establish succesful middleman organizations to help native companies in looking for technology, technology switch, and the switch of exemplary superior scientific and technological application fashions.
Secondly, consideration ought to be paid to particular mechanisms and insurance policies to additional encourage analysis, application, and switch of science and technology into product growth, prioritizing achievements of the fourth industrial revolution, particularly in mountainous areas and ethnic minority areas. This ought to be achieved by growing funding and help ranges, offering non-refundable grants, and providing extra tax and credit score incentives.
Thirdly, concerning the growth of human sources to serve the application and switch of science and technology for the growth of native agricultural merchandise: Strengthen the group of coaching programs and technology switch in the area of market growth, science and technology, and innovation for administration workers and native companies. Innovate and enhance the high quality of human useful resource coaching, specializing in coaching high-quality human sources. Improve the high quality of the agricultural sector’s administration workers. Form an expert farming workforce and construct a rural labor pressure with excessive data and abilities to satisfy the necessities of new growth. Strengthen the coordination of the 5 stakeholders (farmers, universities, and schools inside and exterior the province), connecting coaching establishments ( universities and schools inside and exterior the province ), companies, state administration companies on agriculture, farmers, and rural areas in the locality in implementing vocational schooling.
Fourth, concerning science and technology applications supporting the application and switch of science and technology to develop key native merchandise: Criteria and situations for choosing key merchandise, specialty merchandise, and merchandise with benefits to obtain help: Clear origin and supply; product high quality decided by local weather, soil, and cultivation, care, and processing strategies. Content, kind, and technique of help: Support in the kind of science and technology duties. Requirements for the output product after help: The product receives help in enhancing processing and production technology; enhancing product status and high quality; Criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of product help, together with: Product high quality in comparison with related merchandise; Consumer analysis. Criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the science and technology help program: The outcomes of the program are replicated in localities and items with related situations. Method of organizing and implementing the science and technology program: Follow the laws on figuring out, choosing, and managing science and technology duties.
Fifthly, concerning regional cooperation and linkages (inside and exterior the area), help the application and switch of science and technology to develop distinctive merchandise and merchandise with native benefits. Enhance the capability and effectiveness of worldwide financial integration in agriculture and rural areas, develop cooperation with nations and worldwide organizations to draw capital, develop markets, and entry science and technology to serve the growth objectives of the sector. Improve the effectivity of mobilizing and using official growth help (ODA) and funding from home and international organizations and people for sustainable growth; selectively appeal to international direct funding.
Chau Dinh Duong – Son La Provincial Political School
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REFERENCES :
1. Documents of the 14th Congress of the Son La Provincial Party Committee, time period 2025-2030, and specialised resolutions of the Son La Provincial Party Committee and the Standing Committee of the Son La Provincial Party Committee;
2. Resolution No. 590/NQ-HĐND dated December 9, 2025, of the Son La Provincial People’s Council on the five-year socio-economic growth plan 2026-2030;
3. Report No. 686-BC/TU dated September 4, 2024, on the preliminary evaluation of the three-year implementation of Resolution No. 08-NQ/TU dated January 21, 2021, of the Provincial Party Committee on the growth of agriculture, forestry, and fisheries in a concentrated, sustainable method, making use of excessive technology till 2025; orientation till 2030;
4. Human useful resource growth plan for the interval 2025-2030; Sustainable agricultural growth plan linked with processing trade in Son La province for the interval 2025-2030, with orientation to 2035 (hooked up to Conclusion No. 188-KL/TU dated December 30, 2025 of the Executive Committee of the Son La Provincial Party Committee).
5. Report No. 700/BC-UBND dated December 19, 2024, of the People’s Committee of Son La province on the outcomes of implementing the Strategy for Science and Technology Development and Innovation till 2030 in 2024;
6. Report No. 10/BC-SKHCN dated January 9, 2026, of the Department of Science and Technology on the outcomes of science and technology actions, innovation and digital transformation in 2025, and key duties for 2026./.
[1] Son La Province Statistical Yearbook 2019
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