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Vietnam promotes rural development in central regions
Vietnam promotes rural development in central regions
9/9/19
A conference was held in Tam Ky city, Quang Nam province, on September 7 to review the 10-year implementation of the national target programme on new-style rural area building in the south-central coastal and the Central Highlands regions.
The two regions comprise 13 provincial-level localities with more than 15 million people, accounting for 16 percent of Vietnam’s population, and over 40 ethnic minority groups.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong said building new-style rural areas is the most successful among all the national target programmes, and the Party and State have funded trillions of VND every year for each locality to carry out this work.
According to a report at the event, after nearly 10 years of implementing the national target programme, the south-central coastal and the Central Highlands regions have been funded with about 365 trillion VND (nearly 15.9 billion USD) from the central budget and different sources.
So far, 604 or 42.41 percent of the 1,424 communes in the two regions have been recognised as new-style rural areas.
Four out of the eight south-central coastal localities, namely Da Nang city and the provinces of Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh and Binh Thuan, have reached the targets for 2020 assigned by the Prime Minister. Meanwhile, two of the five Central Highlands provinces, namely Dak Nong and Lam Dong, achieved their targets set for next year.
The two regions currently have the rate of communes earning the new-style rural status lower than the national average, which indicates that they are lagging behind other regions nationwide in this work, heard the conference.
Minister Cuong said the south-central coastal and the Central Highlands regions hold the most typical features for building new-style countryside as they have the largest space for developing agriculture and fisheries. Therefore, it is necessary to promote new-style rural area building here to capitalise on their advantages and potential and make their development level on par with that in northern and southern regions.
At the event, participants proposed measures to encourage local smallholders to take part in production chains, associate agriculture with tourism development, and boost hi-tech farming adaptive to climate change./.
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During the second phase, these localities have prioritised the use of their own budgets to fund new-style rural area building.
Local residents must have accessed credit loans to invest in agricultural production, especially centralised production zone development and high-tech application.
Since the launch of the new rural development programme a decade ago, Binh Dinh has become home to 77 out of the 121 communes that are new-style rural areas.
The ultimate goal of the new rural development campaign is to improve locals’ life, and that is why the use of modern technology in lives and production is significant.
All central provinces should conduct more effective rural activities and pay more attention to remote and mountainous localities.
Funding from the State budget has been mainly used for constructing roads, schools, cultural establishments and clean water facilities; production value chain; and vocational training.
The National Target Programme on New-style Rural Area Building, initiated by the Government in 2010, sets 19 criteria on socio-economic development, politics, and defence, aiming to boost rural regions of Vietnam.
The list of criteria includes the development of infrastructure, the improvement of production capacity, environmental protection, and the promotion of cultural values.
after 10 years implementing the Party Committee’s Programme No.02-CTr/TU on branching out agriculture, building new-style rural areas and bettering local farmers’ lives, the added value of the agricultural sector increases 2.5 percent per year on average, while the total value of agro-forestry-fishery production inches up 3.6 percent.
Infrastructure development in rural areas has been well implemented, and even surpasses the set goal.
Under the programme, facilities like roads, electricity, clean water, schools and medical stations will be developed.
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