(HBO) - In seven months of 2019, the Women’s Union of Mai Chau district carried out a series of activities to assist its members in starting their businesses.
The Women’s Union of Mai Chau
district transfers a charity house to its poor member in Pa Co commune’s Pa Co
Con hamlet.
Understanding the group’s demand for exchanging and learning
from business experiences, the union has organised consultations on the
subject, advising its members on market expansion and encouraging them to join
startup training courses. Regarding female farmers who wish to start their own
businesses, the union guided them to switch from small and ineffective
production models to cooperatives and value chain-based economic models.
Staff of the union focused on helping its members make
business plans and get access to credit via its collaboration with the Vietnam
Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) and the Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural
Development (Agribank).
Currently, different chapters of the union are managing over
64 billion VND (2.7 million USD) of outstanding loans from the VBSP for 1,891
local households, and more than 49.5 billion VND from the Agribank for 838
households.
Apart from promoting startup activities, the union in
collaboration with local authorities has worked to eradicate poverty in
building new-style rural areas. In the first seven months of 2019, it chapters
across the district donated more than 295 million VND, 4,425 working days, and
8,847 kg of rice for disadvantaged members./.
After more than four years of implementing a project launched by the Hoa Binh Party Committee’s Standing Board on developing agriculture and promoting product consumption linked with building new-style rural areas for the 2021-2025 period, the province’s industry and trade sector has made significant strides, greatly contributing to local socio-economic development.
Luong Son district has identified 2025 as the year for the accelerated breakthrough to successfully implement the socio-economic development plan for the 5-year period from 2021 to 2025. The district has been focusing on executing the plans and trying to achieve a GRDP growth rate of approximately 15%.
Since the beginning of this year, under the direction of the Department of Agriculture and Environment, the Sub-Department of Agricultural, Forestry, and Fishery Product Quality Management has strengthened the integration of the professional activities to promote and guide the organizations and individuals in the production and trading of agricultural, forestry, and fishery products to comply with the legal regulations regarding the use of chemicals, pesticides and veterinary medicines in crop cultivation, livestock farming and aquaculture. They also provide guidance to processing and manufacturing establishments on keeping the records to trace the product origins and using food additives from the approved list according to the regulations.
Hoa Binh province saw a significant rise in state budget revenue in the first two months of 2025, heard a meeting chaired by Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Quach Tat Liem.
Ha Thi Ha Chi, a 26-year-old graduate in law, has taken an unconventional path by returning to her hometown in Mai Chau district to establish the Tong Dau Cooperative, creating stable jobs for local women and bringing Thai ethnic brocade weaving to the global market.
As the Lunar New Year 2025 approached, pork prices surged, creating a profitable season for farmers in Tan Vinh commune, Luong Son district. Taking advantage of the rising demand, Can Minh Son, a farmer from Coi hamlet, sold over 30 pigs at 69,000 VND/kg, each weighing more than 100 kg. After deducting expenses, his family earned a profit of over 50 million VND.
