POTENTIAL AND PROSPECTUS IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF LAI CHAU PROVINCE, VIETNAM

province government to have specific solutions in the future to bring high-tech agriculture becomes a key economic direction of the province.


Introduction
Lai Chau is the northwestern province of Vietnam, with an area of 9,068.79 km2 of which the land used for agricultural production is 84,209.3 ha. With many diverse topographical features such as valleys, low hills, forests, high mountains, many big rivers...Lai Chau province has many conditions in agricultural development, especially endemic crops. In the past 5 years, many policies in the agricultural development of Lai Chau provinces such as planning of planting areas, supplying seeds, farming techniques, supporting procedures, and capital for agricultural production and processing enterprises. At the same time, with the active participation of the farmer, agricultural enterprises, agriculture's Lai Chau prospered with the increase in productivity and value of agricultural products, some products were present at many supermarkets and reaching the world markets such as tea, Seng Cu rice, banana, medicinal plants...
During the research process, through the secondary data, the authors have analyzed and evaluated the situation of agricultural development of Lai Chau in the period 2015-2020. The authors found that despite the level the growth rate of agriculture in Lai Chau province has had many achievements but compared with the existing potentials, the development speed is not adequate. Therefore, the article focuses on assessing the existing potential of the agricultural sector, perceptions, and expectations of the people in the province for future agricultural development, thereby suggesting many long-term options to increase the contribution of agriculture in the economic structure of Lai Chau province, improve the quality and value of agricultural products so that farmers' income increases.

MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY
2.1. The method of data collection (2) The head of the household, the processing establishments, and the agricultural enterprise's Lai Chau province -150 surveys.
(3). Leaders of specialized divisions and departments at the People's Committees of province and districts in Lai Chau province-152 surveys. + Content of the survey: survey respondents about their prospects, potentials, and expectations for the agricultural development of Lai Chau province in the future 2.2. Methods of processing and analyzing data -General statistical method: Synthesize the data on the contents of production, processing, consumption, environment, and chain of agricultural products in Lai Chau province. The data are used to synthesize and evaluate each agricultural product over the years, according to production development stages.
-Method of comparison: Based on the data collected through the contents to be researched, comparing changes over the years, between reality with the set target, the participation of actor's chain of agricultural products. This contributes to a more comprehensive assessment of the research problem.
-Qualitative analysis method: using the results from the group questionnaire, the authors will analyze the potentials in the agricultural development of Lai Chau province and people's expectations for the level of agricultural growth during the period. From then on, building some plans to bring modern agriculture with many endemic agricultural products to be the main development direction of the locality.

Result of agricultural development in Lai Chau province in the period 2016-2020
Agricultural development in Lai Chau province has been paid attention to and invested in through supportive policies, scale expansion planning, consumption support, and product development. Along with the supports from the central budget such as Decree 210/2013/ND-CP dated December 19, 2013, of the Government on policies to encourage enterprises to invest in agriculture and rural areas, the target program country sustainable poverty reduction (program 30a, 135). Lai Chau province has issued and implemented many policies to support product development such as Policy of converting land to planting rubber trees; Policies for developing high-quality tea areas; Policy for developing cinnamon; Policy for the development of special apple; Policy to support fruit tree development; Support for livestock development...With many supporting capital sources, including central budget capital, the provincial budget has supported agricultural production in the 2016-2020 period, reaching about 2.602,563 billion VND.
The economic structure of the industry has shifted positively, the growth rate of the agricultural sector has been fairly good, the production value increased on average 5-6% /year. The cultivated area of food crops has increased every year; People have focused on investing in intensive farming, so crop productivity is increased...Food security is guaranteed and there is a part of agricultural products sold outside the province.
To quickly develop high-quality concentrated tea areas linking the development of raw material areas with the construction of processing factories. Plant structure has changed positively in the direction of promoting advantages, bringing high-value varieties into production, people have paid more attention to investing in intensive farming, increasing productivity and quality. By 2020, the output of some valuable agricultural products of the province includes quality rice area reaching 3,021 hectares, the output will reach 15,105 tons; the tea area is 6,995 hectares with an output of 30,860 tons of fresh tea bud; macadamia trees are 2,704 ha, cinnamon trees reach 6,356 ha.
The cooperative and cooperative economy develops rapidly in both quantity and quality. The role of the cooperative is increasingly strengthened and confirmed in the socio-economic development of the province. Currently, the province has 91 businesses and cooperatives operating in the agricultural sector.
However, the achieved results are not commensurate with the local potential: -Agricultural production of goods is underdeveloped, small in scale, does not yet have key products, linking the chain of agricultural commodity production is not yet developed, application of agricultural production processes is still very limited.
-Valuable agricultural products and brands have not been formed in the domestic and international markets, and the competitiveness of agricultural products remains low. Agricultural enterprises and cooperatives account for a small proportion, so the level of diversification of agricultural products is low, not improving the value of products.
-Trademark registration, branding, and granting of planting area codes are still few. Currently, there are 08 certified products for trademarks, 01 products (Seng Cu rice in Than Uyen) with geographical indication, product barcode registration, banana trees in some concentrated banana-growing areas (Phong Tho, Sin Ho) have been given a planting area code.

Analysis of potentials in the development of construction and agricultural product development in Lai Chau province
During the investigation, the authors synthesized and found that there are 3 main potential groups according to the respondents who consider having the main influence on agricultural development of the province, including Natural conditions, Culture traditional agricultural chemistry, Agricultural production development policy, and infrastructure. Potential in forest development: Lai Chau also has diversified and rich forest resources. The whole province currently has 434,521 hectares of forested land, with a diversified vegetation system, especially soil and climate suitable for many types of high-value forest products such as grinding, tau, po mu, cinnamon, and special apple... Potential in developing precious medicinal plants: some highland districts such as Sin Ho and Muong Te has a cool climate all year round and have a large area of primary forest, so it is suitable for developing some medicinal plants such as: black, cardamom, dong Quai...

Potential in policy and infrastructure for agricultural production development
From the policies of the Government in the agricultural and high-tech agriculture development, leaders of Lai Chau province have issued many resolutions and guiding documents related to agricultural development, seed support, fertilizer, technology, and capital for localities to create specialty products with advantages such as Resolution No. 13/2019/NQ-HDND dated July 23, 2019, of the Provincial People's Council, providing policies to support the association of production and consumption of agricultural products in the province; Decision 1446 / QD -UBND dated November 5, 2019, and 1447/QD-People's Committee on important products and products to encourage and prioritize support to link with production and product consumption in Lai province Chau; Decision No. 29/QD-UBND dated 14/01/2020 of the Provincial People's Committee approving the Project to develop some medicinal plants in the period 2020 -2025, with a vision to 2030 in Lai Chau province;

Results from primary data
Conducting interviews with 03 groups of subjects in Lai Chau province, the authors found that the respondents had quite similar results in assessing the potential impact on agricultural development of the province. The results are shown in Table 1 as follows: households with the highest rating reached 85%/total respondents, followed by the group of managers reaching 80%/the total number of respondents and the group of enterprises and purchasing households reached 75%/total number of respondents. Policy and infrastructure for agricultural production development are also chosen by the majority of respondents as the potential to help develop the value chain with the following results: 80% for households, 95% for households group of enterprises, purchasing households, 100% of groups of managers. In this context, the respondents gave 5 main groups, including Policies to support agricultural development; Traffic system; Hydropower system; Labor resources; Diversity in the forms of organization of agricultural production, processing, and consumption with a level of the consent of 70% or more of respondents.
With the potentials to build and develop the value chain of agricultural products of Lai Chau province with many opportunities to promote in the future, when asked about the prospects of agricultural product consumption in the province, the target groups all said they believe in the possibility of developing and expanding market for Lai Chau agricultural products in the future. Table 2, over 80% of the respondents realize that in the future the main potential customer group will be customers outside the province. Thanks to the incentives in the policies to attract businesses, promote product promotion, and invest in infrastructure, Lai Chau's agricultural products will be known and favored by many consumers across the country, especially the typical local agricultural products. At the same time, businesses and collectors also boldly focused on exporting goods to some markets such as China, Taiwan, Russia... with key products such as tea, medicinal plants, rice...

Orientation in agricultural development in the coming time
In the coming time, 100% of respondents feel that it is necessary to expand agricultural production in different ways such as the increase in output, production equipment, labor ... At the same time, realize that Increasing the level of linkages between stakeholders will promote agricultural production, increase the value of agricultural products. The highest proportion of respondents choosing the plan to develop agricultural enterprises, because businesses can manage product quality, process, and consume most actively, thereby bringing efficiency. the biggest fruit in sustainable agricultural development. Next is a cooperative model with the rate of choice between 15-30% depending on the respondents. Combining the above economic sectors is the cooperation linkage in each stage of the value chain, which is selected in the range of 10-15%. The remaining 20% is for other members including cooperative group; farm; family. From there, the authors suggest some options for the development of agricultural products in Lai Chau province in the coming time as follows:  Diversify agricultural products -Development of key products: Towards the in-depth development of national key products, provincial products, and local products.
-Development of agriculture in potential areas: It is necessary to plan production areas with favorable conditions and the ability to plant typical crops to form large-scale commodities, associated with the regional strengths in high-quality agriculture, clean technology, and high added value...  Developing commodity value chains The first, Developing agricultural products towards the direction of high technology application; sustainable development associates production with processing.
Secondly, to develop agricultural products based on exploiting the advantages of each agro-ecological region. To build and develop brands of local "specialties" or natural advantages to develop regional brands (such as Cong Cu rice, Co Giang glutinous rice, Da river fish, Sin Ho medicinal herbs, tea...).
Thirdly, the planning for the development of agricultural products of the province goes hand in hand with the investment and restructuring of crops and animals; encourage land accumulation to form large sample fields.
Fourthly, to encourage all economic sectors and investors inside and outside the province to invest in developing agricultural products in key regions. To focus on production areas and stabilize the product supply source as a premise for the processing industry.
Last, Develop diversified forms of agricultural organization and agricultural product transactions. Renovating the organizational model and management modes of state agricultural enterprises; consolidating the development of cooperatives and farmers' cooperative economic groups; development of large-scale commodity farms; encourage the development of value chain tissue with the key role of processing and consuming enterprises.

CONCLUSION
With a province facing many difficulties like Lai Chau, agricultural development is still the main direction in the province's economic growth in the coming time. However, development should focus not only on increasing output but also on increasing the value of crops, investing in deep processing of agricultural products ... thus, will help agriculture develop sustainably. To do that, the province, districts, businesses, and farmers need to focus on several issues as follows: Improve the quality of agricultural products: Improving the quality of plant and animal breeds: Coordinating with other units to research and transfer new, disease-free, high-yield, and high-quality crop and animal varieties.
Organize training courses and increase the application of technical advances to improve productivity and quality of agricultural products: organize training for farmers on modern agricultural production processes; to intensify the application of scientific and technological advances to production to improve the quality of agricultural products.
Innovating technology, improving processing capacity: using high technology in product preservation and packaging's such as vacuum machines, incubators, packaging machines to improve product quality; supporting businesses and cooperatives to invest in building, renovating, and upgrading technology lines; to invest in modern equipment and equipment for agricultural production and processing.
Branding, developing the product consumption market Branding, trademarks for products: building, managing and using "geographical indications" for specialty products originating from Lai Chau; building a set of brand formats: logo, label, sologan, flyer, the website of agricultural products; design, packaging modern, safe, suitable for consumer tastes and friendly with the environment.
Promoting trade promotion activities, participating in and expanding markets: expanding consumption markets through many different forms of sales; connecting product markets; promote product brand...

Complete the infrastructure system for the development of value chains of agricultural products
Improve the quality of planning construction and effectively implement sectoral and sectoral planning's.
Innovating the content and methods of investment in agriculture and rural areas in the direction of increasing the rate of investment capital for the agricultural product processing