Bac Kan is a mountainous province located in the center of the Northeast region. Agriculture accounts for a large proportion of the province's economic structure.

Bac Kan has focused on transforming crop structure, expanding concentrated agricultural production, and using quality, high-yield varieties, enhancing intensive farming linked to consumption, carrying out food safety or VietGAP certification.

In order to promote the province's agricultural development, the province continues to call, attract and encourage businesses to invest in the agricultural sector; support linkage and cooperation in agricultural and forestry development.

Bac Kan province is connected to neighboring localities through a road network without border gates or borders, so there are certain difficulties in economic development.

Since the launch of the One Commune One Product (OCOP) Program, the Party Committee and People's Committee of Bac Kan province have closely directed organizations, businesses and especially the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to pay attention to produce OCOP products in accordance with the standards in the Prime Minister's Decision on the commercial development program in mountainous, remote and mountainous areas in the districts of Cho Don, Cho Moi, Na Ri, Ba Be, and Pac Nam.

The development and improvement of OCOP product quality has contributed to changing the production practices of ethnic minorities, creating new directions in production, trading in typical products and advantageous local products, promoting large-scale, concentrated production of goods, contributing to connecting product consumption, promoting production links, and expanding markets.

To date, Bac Kan province has had 184 OCOP products from three stars to five stars. Among them, there is one five-star product that has been regularly exported to the Czech Republic, which is dong vermicelli from Tai Hoan Cooperative (Na Ri district); 18 four-star OCOP products; 165 provincial-level three-star OCOP products. Many products have gained a foothold in the market and have become popular with many customers.

With many products developed from local agriculture and specialties, Bac Kan has become one of the provinces with a large number of OCOP products in the country, and many OCOP products are highly appreciated by customers.

Bac Kan province’s outstanding OCOP products include ginger sausages of Chi Lang cooperative (Na Ri district), HG mushroom pork pies of Hop Giang agricultural cooperative (Bach Thong district), Quynh Nien dry vermicelli of Quynh Nien cooperative (Ngan Son district), grilled rice cake of Thanh Yen Production Facility (Cho Moi district), smoked pork, Pac Nam indigenous pork sausage of the Agricultural Service and Development Cooperative (Pac Nam district), fresh persimmons of Tan Phong Cooperative (Cho Don district), Le Ha Tea of My Phuong Tea Cooperative (Ba Be district), fragrant zucchini of Duc Thanh Cooperative (Ba Be district) and many other specialty products that are of interest to many consumers.

Bac Kan province is in the process of researching to increase OCOP-certified products in quantity, style, design, and product quality, thereby implementing procedures to recognize products with 3-star standards or higher.

In order to increase the competitiveness of OCOP products, as well as the potential to develop products towards export goods, in the coming time, Bac Kan province will issue policies to support the upgrade the rankings of key products.

With advantages in the agricultural sector, Bac Kan province strives to build OCOP products towards sustainable export, making an important contribution to effective and sustainable rural economic development.

Bac Kan is investing in modern production machinery and equipment, diversifying product designs, increasing quality, meeting the needs and requirements of domestic and foreign markets.