Tan Hoa commune in Can Tho City has begun an effort to consolidate the region growing its local specialty mango, 'cat Hoa Loc,' into a standardized zone of about 30 hectares and to align the standards from cultivation to shipment into a single one. In this plan reported by a Vietnamese agriculture-and-environment paper dated September 9, 2026, the aim is to shift from unstable trading left to middlemen to a mechanism in which processing and export companies contract directly with producer groups. For Japanese importers and processors, it offers material for gauging whether they can secure early a region that can promise quality and quantity up front\u2014whether fresh, dried or as puree.<\/p>\n
Tan Hoa commune (x\u00e3 T\u00e2n H\u00f2a) belongs to Can Tho City in the Mekong Delta. According to local authorities, fruit-tree planting reaches 3,074 hectares in all, of which cat Hoa Loc mango accounts for about 300 hectares. The farmers involved number 849 households, and 29 growing zones across 368 hectares of fields are already registered. Tree age centers on 10\u201325 years, with some old trees exceeding 30 years remaining.<\/p>\n
By area alone it looks like a sufficient region, but the reality is scattered small plots, with the quality and quantity of shipments not aligned. Harvest timing and fruit size differ from field to field, and because many farmers sell to middlemen, prices are left to the market and unstable. Rising production costs, disrupted flowering and fruit set from climate change, and pest pressure have all compounded, and a structure in which the region's bargaining power is slow to grow has continued.<\/p>\n
The heart of this plan is to start from a standardized zone of about 30 hectares in which about 70 households participate, launch a cooperative (HTX), and connect directly with companies. Participating farmers follow a unified cultivation process, keep a farming journal, and manage the materials they use. In future they aim to obtain a growing-area code and bring the fruit to a state where its history can be traced.<\/p>\n
Another feature is the idea of reversing the order of contracting. Rather than harvesting first and then looking for buyers as before, the company is made to present standards\u2014fruit size, ripeness, packaging and delivery date\u2014first, and the field is built to match those standards. Because the specification the buyer wants is the starting point, producers know what and how much to prepare before they grow. The idea of buying to match a specification the case of buying Da Lat artichokes under specifications by part<\/a>- it overlaps with that too.<\/p>\n