(HBO) - Statistics from the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP)'s branch in Hoa Binh province showed that as of October 31, the total policy credit balance in the locality reached over 3.57 trillion VND.
The bank has been deploying 11 policy credit programmes for poor and near poor households, and other policy beneficiaries. In the first ten months of 2021, more than 30,000 customers had got access to loans with a total value of over 1.1 trillion VND.
The outstanding loan growth mainly focused on lending programmes for business households in difficult areas (269 billion VND), near-poor households (202 billion VND), households newly escaped from poverty (185 billion VND), and poor households (176 billion VND).
In addition, the bank has also had a loan programme worth 3.2 billion VND for employers to help them pay wages to their labourers that have to stop working due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and restore their production activities.
In the context of complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, policy credit programmes in Hoa Binh have contributed to ensuring social security, promoting sustainable poverty reduction and new-style rural construction in the locality.
In the first ten months of 2021, policy credit programmes helped generate jobs for over 3,500 labourers, and develop nearly 16,000 clean water and sanitation projects./.
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.