(HBO) – Hoa Binh province defined key areas for investment, considering it as an important orientation to help the agriculture sector effectively develop agricultural expansion encouragement activities over the past 25 years. This is also a drastic direction of the provincial People’s Committee when it approved the "major agricultural expansion encouragement during 2016-2020” project.
Photo: Staff of the provincial Agricultural Expansion Encouragement Centre instruct farmers in Vinh Tien commune, Kim Boi district, how to mix raw food to improve the efficiency of local husbandry farming.
Under the agricultural expansion encouragement project for the 2016-2020 period which is carried out at a total cost of some 200 billion VND, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development recommended the provincial People’s Committee to pay due attention to prioritised projects, making investment in the sector become a driving force in each production fields.
Investment capital has been injected into five programmes, including citrus tree development, safe vegetable cultivation, soil improvement, enhancing quality of sugarcanes and seedling production.
Regarding the husbandry sector, developing local cattle and poultry in companion with building brands, developing intensive farming of grazing livestock, and developing beekeeping farms are three prioritised projects.
Meanwhile, the province has given priority to expanding aquaculture in reservoirs. For the forestry sector, advanced technologies in varieties and production techniques will be applied to expand farming areas of large-scale forest and non-timber forest products.
Since its establishment, the local Agricultural Expansion Encouragement Centre has built more than 2,000 farms using high technologies, organised over 15,000 training courses for nearly 400,000 cadres and farmers. In addition, over 700 fact-finding tours and seminars were held, drawing the participation of some 10,000 people. The centre has also accelerated communication on the mass media./.
After the Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays, trade union members and workers in Hoa Binh province returned to work with an excited spirit at the beginning of the new spring. Throughout the workshops, factories and enterprises, they were full of enthusiasm, immediately getting to work, striving to excellently complete tasks and production and business targets.
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