Vice Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Nguyen Manh Quyen has signed Plan No. 320/KH-UBND dated November 27, 2025 on developing concentrated safe-vegetable production zones with full traceability, linked with processing facilities and consumption markets through 2030.

According to the plan, the city sets the following specific targets for 2030:

(1) The city will maintain concentrated, specialized safe-vegetable cultivation zones with annual output exceeding 400,000 tons.

Key vegetable groups include cruciferous vegetables, cucumbers, legumes, tomatoes, gourds and mushrooms.

The city will expand concentrated safe-vegetable production zones based on science and technology to ensure high-quality, safe and economically efficient products.

(2) For concentrated specialized vegetable zones: the city will strive to control pesticide residue levels below regulatory thresholds on 90% of production acreage.

For non-specialized, fragmented or interspersed vegetable areas, authorities will manage and guide farmers to follow safe-production practices.

(3) Traceability: over 30% of output from concentrated safe-vegetable zones must have full traceability.

(4) The city will strengthen training, technical instruction and knowledge-sharing in vegetable production, expand production zones applying advanced quality-management programs (GMP, HACCP, ISO 22000…), promote biological pesticides and organic fertilizers, apply information technology in production, supply, distribution and forecasting and expand e-commerce in agriculture.

Production organization

The city will develop large-scale, commercial-oriented vegetable zones applying mechanization, smart farming and advanced standards such as GMP, HACCP, ISO 22000, as well as organic, ecological and circular farming models.

The city will encourage value-chain linkages from input supply and production to processing and consumption.

Each concentrated safe-vegetable zone should form one to two value-chain models applying mechanization, smart agriculture and advanced production standards.

Science and technology solutions

The city will apply scientific research results in seed production and vegetable cultivation, including tissue culture, soil-free production technologies and precision agriculture.

Authorities will adopt advanced technologies suitable for specialized farming and consumer preferences.

The city will invest in modern technologies for producing high-value seeds resistant to pests and diseases, and expand specialty vegetable varieties and OCOP vegetable products.

It will expand mechanization across production and processing such as land-preparation machinery, planting machines, dryers, rapid-cooling equipment, grinders, motorized sprayers, drones and water-saving irrigation systems.

Authorities will develop vegetables grown in greenhouses and net houses and encourage smart, organic and agro-tourism-linked agriculture.

The city will organize training and technology-transfer programs on safe-production processes with traceability, pre-processing, processing and storage to reduce post-harvest losses.

It expects to organize one to two trainer-training courses and 100–150 farmer training classes annually on integrated pest management and new techniques in safe production, pre-processing and storage for about 10,000 farmers.

The city will promote safe-vegetable areas using advanced, high-tech, sustainable closed-loop farming processes that reduce greenhouse-gas emissions suited to ecological conditions and production scale.

Each year, the city will maintain and develop 10–15 safe-vegetable areas adopting Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS), VietGAP standards and biological–organic measures.

All concentrated agricultural zones will receive priority support to access and use modern traceability systems.

Promoting safe-vegetable products with plantation codes

Authorities will intensify communication on plantation-code regulations, packaging requirements for export and standards of import markets including the US, China, Japan, South Korea and the EU.

Each year, the city will organize forums, conferences and seminars; produce 8–10 television reports; and print promotional materials such as posters and leaflets.

State management tasks

Specialized agencies and commune- and ward-level governments will coordinate closely in developing production plans for concentrated vegetable zones.

Authorities will frequently inspect agricultural-input suppliers (seeds, fertilizers, pesticides).

Each year, they will conduct about 1,000 sample tests to evaluate compliance with food-safety requirements at production, pre-processing, distribution and circulation stages.

The city will strengthen information-technology use in management and maximize digital databases on seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, land, environment and weather.