(HBO) – Restructuring the agricultural sector in association with building new-style rural areas in Hoa Binh province has yielded positive results, helping form many agricultural product chains, giving a facelift to rural areas, and improving local residents’ life.
The 7th Orange Festival and Cao Phong
Trade Fair attract crowds of visitors.
Secretary of the Party Committee of Hien Luong commune Nguyen Dang Giap said
the locality completed the new-style rural building in 2019, and it is focusing
on improving the quality of criteria.
Implementing resolutions and projects on agricultural and rural development,
the commune has focused on promoting the development of the aquaculture
sector, community-based tourism, and changing the crop structure.
From a low-income commune, Hien Luong has achieved a per capita income of about
42 million VND (nearly 1,790 USD) per year.
According to Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural
Development Nguyen Huy Nhuan, in 2022, the local agro-forestry-fisheries sector
posted GRDP growth of about 4.57%, 1.56% higher than the target, and production
value of over 12.48 trillion VND.
The department coordinated with localities and sectors to implement programmes,
projects and action plans on restructuring the agricultural sector and speed up
the implementation of the National Target ProgrammeforNew
RuralDevelopment and sectoral development target programmes.
Across the province, each commune has met an average of 16 new-style
countryside criteria. Besides, 95.5% of the rural residents have had access
hygienic water. The forest coverage stays stable at more than 51.5%.
Farm produce production-consumption models have been deployed to districts and
Hoa Binh city. Many key agricultural products such as sugarcane, longan,
banana, and citrus fruits have been sold to demanding markets like Japan, the
Republic of Korea, and the EU.
Large and concentrated commodity production areas with highly intensive
cultivation conditions have been developed across the locality, including
orange cultivation areas in Cao Phong, Kim Boi and Lac Thuy, contributing to
improving the incomes of local farmers.
Hoa Binh has so far had 73 communes recognised as new-style rural areas,
accounting for 56.58% of the total; 21 advanced new-style rural communes, one
modelnew-styleruralcommune, 60 model residential areas, and
174 model gardens.
Hoa Binh province has developed 123 products meeting the standards of the
"One Commune, One Product” (OCOP) programme, including 99 given three
stars and 24 with four stars./.
In the first quarter of 2024, the credit institutions in the province have actively deployed the legal documents of the State and the State Bank relating to currency, credit and interest rates. At the same time, they have promoted the capital mobilization, focusing on the solutions to expand the credit investment along with strengthening the credit quality management, lending to priority programs to promptly meet the capital needs for export - business and consumer demand during Tet in 2024.
Outside the key economic region of Hoa Binh, yet Lac Son district has utilised its potential and strengths regarding labour, land, and transportation connectivity to attract investment to the locality, contributing to promoting socio-economic development.
In a move to expedite the execution and disbursement of the 2024 capital plan for ODA projects, aiming for a disbursement rate of over 90% of the allocated funding, the Hoa Binh People's Committee issued Document No. 483/UBND-KTN on April 3, 2024, regarding such efforts.
Nguyen Van Thap from Kim Duc hamlet, Vinh Tien commune, Kim Boi district, has built the brand of Hoa Qua Son for local fruits. His efforts have brought about income for his family and generated job opportunities for locals, helping hundreds of households escape from poverty.
The Hoa Binh administration was entrusted by the Prime Minister with a budget of 3.43 trillion VND (142.91 million USD) for investment in 2024. The provincial People's Council approved nearly 3.76 trillion VND, which has been meticulously allocated to projects, achieving 100% of the assigned capital plan.
Hoa Binh province has mobilised all resources to propel local agricultural products to make inroads into foreign markets, towards lifting the export turnover of key agricultural products to 137.8 million USD by 2030, accounting for 3.4% of the locality’s total export value of goods.
The locality aims to export farm produce to the US, the European Union, the UK, China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea.
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