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Vietnam's policy to boost ethnic minorities' livelihood
Vietnam's policy to boost ethnic minorities' livelihood
27/9/19
Having
grown up with ancient tea trees, generations of family of Dao ethnic man Hoang
Tinh Kiem in Cao Bo commune, Vi Xuyen district, Ha Giang province have lived on
processing and selling tea. However, not until the recent three years, had Kiem
been striving for making ends meet as tea price was very low then.
Every
morning, Kiem and his wife get up very early to limb hills after hills for
collecting tea buds. Then they walk home with heavy baskets of tea buds hurting
their shoulders. They had never thought of escaping poverty, not to mention
earning quite a deal from the big old trees. However, a new project providing a
new way of farming, processing and selling has changed their life.
“We
had known nothing about expanding market and had no understanding on organic
farming so the tea production and price were so low. Since receiving support
from the local government and the International Fund for Agricultural
Development, the tea quality has been improved with more diverse products. We
have also been trained with farming techniques and doing business. During the
past three years, tea price has been tripled”, Kiem told the Vietnam News
Agency, citing his new pickup truck fully loaded with fresh tea buds. “I’ve
got this car thanks to selling tea last year. Tea trees are precious to us.”
So
far, Kiem has exported dozens of tonnes of organic tea products and
sufficiently provided for his whole family. Tea production has made the once
poor ethnic farmer a quite successful businessman with great vision for
business development.
“I
have advertised our tea products on social network platforms, including
Facebook and Zalo. Foreign customers start buying a lot. I hope there will be
more training courses on tea production and business practices so that our
organic tea products could reach further”, said Kiem.
In
a bid to improve the value of local tea products, Vi Xuyen district has exerted
efforts in raising people awareness on farming techniques in line with organic
and Vietnamese Good Agricultural Practice (VietGAP) standards, according to
Dang Thi Phuong, Vice Chairwoman of Vi Xuyen district People’s Committee.
Apart
from the local government’s assistance, the International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD) has been carrying out Community-based Poverty Reduction
Programme (CPRP) on various agricultural products, including tea for the period
of 2015-2020. The project has provided local ethnic households with financial
assistance to invest in production technology and expand business. The project
concentrates its resources to support Ha Giang province in developing value
chains for strong local products, including tea, orange, timber, cattle, honey,
among others./.
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All comments [ 16 ]
Physical and economic connectivity, market linkages, and labor market mobility are among the top drivers distinguishing best-performing ethnic groups from the rest.
Other factors include endowment of productive assets, access to education and healthcare, traditional institutions and local governance, gender roles, perception of ethnicity, and access to external support.
The poverty rate among Vietnamese ethnic minority groups was 23 percent (2016), three times higher than the national average.
There's a number of policy recommendations, including refocusing future ethic minority development agenda and enhancing the existing policies and mechanisms.
Future policies should focus on soft investment in production support and capacity development, access to labor market, women’s economic empowerment while addressing misperceptions and social stigmas.
Meanwhile, current mechanisms should go beyond physical connectivity improvements towards strengthening market institutions and actors to support doing business in ethnic minority areas.
Promoting the rapid and sustainable development of ethnic minority and mountainous areas and narrowing the development gap with other regions is the consistent policy of the Party, State and Government of Vietnam in the cause of socio-economic development.
the relevant ministries and agencies, especially localities, enterprises and development partners, should continue to research and implement their tasks, including building a system of synchronous policies on ethnic minorities in line with the socio-economic context in the period after 2020.
Sectors at all levels and localities should also pay due attention to the production development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, along with the promotion of value chain approach, as well as encouraging start-ups and innovation among ethnic communities.
Ensuring the rights of ethnic minorities along with combating the making use of ethnic issues in our country at present are theoretical, practical, fundamental and urgent issues, which need to be fully understood and synchronously, comprehensively, and persistently implemented.
The rights of ethnic minorities are generally classified into two catagories: one of common rights of each member of each ethnic group and the other of collective rights applied to ethnic minority community.
Effective ensuring human rights in the area of ethnic minorities is a vividly practical and legal evidence that refutes distortion, allegations and sabotage of hostile forces.
This will ensure that the implementation of ethnic policies is implemented in a synchronous, comprehensive and consistent manner with high sense of responsibility and awareness of the entire political system, majority and minority ethnic groups, and of all economic sectors.
Ensuring the rights of ethnic minorities and fighting against schemes to take advantage of ethnic issues are unanimous in the common goals, leadership and management, in unified national and ethnic interests and use of forces.
The common goal of securing the rights of ethnic minorities and combating the exploitation of ethnic affairs is to build a prosperous people, strong country, democratic and civilized society.
Ensuring the rights of ethnic minorities and fighting against the exploitation of ethnic issues is an issue of special importance in national construction and defense.
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