(HBO) – Van Son commune of Lac Son district of Hoa Binh has completed only 11 out of 19 criteria of the national target programme on new-style rural area building.


Roads in Loi village, Van Son commune of Lac Son district are tough to travel.

 Van Son commune has 12 communes and 1,027 households with 4,641 members. Over the past years, the local Party organisation and government have paid great attention to mobilising resources for infrastructure development, including rural transport system and irrigation works to create optimal conditions for economic development, thus changing the face of rural areas.

 Being an agricultural locality, the income of locals is at 19.5 million VND per person per year, while the rate of poor households is 42 percent.

 Bui Van Nen, Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Van Son said that with low starting points, poor infrastructure and canal system as well as tough roads, the progress of new-style rural building in the commune has remained slow, affecting socio-economic development of the locality.

 Besides, locals’ awareness of the work is still poor, while their production habit is backward, making it difficult to apply science-technology to production, resulting in low productivity and outcomes as well as poor living conditions, he said.

 So far, Van Son district has finished concretisation of roads linking it with other communes by 29.6 percent, while 100 percent of local roads are still pathways. Every day, locals have transport their goods and agricultural products through muddy and rocky roads, including a 2.5km Van Son-Nhan Nghia road, and the road from Roc village  in Van Son to Moi village in Thuong Coc, said Nen.

 In the rainy season, many roads connecting communes and villages suffer from landslide, leading to serious traffic congestion, including the commune-to-commune road of Van Son-Mien Doi, Van Son-Thuong Coc and the local roads in Bung, Loi and Ray villages, he added.

 Poor transport infrastructure has led to difficulties in fulfilling the criteria in locals’ income. The economic structure of Van Son is still 90 percent of agriculture as locals mostly live on rice and maize cultivation.

 Due to rough terrain, the farming area is modest with backward cultivation techniques, the economic situation in the locality has seen no breakthrough changes.

 As part of efforts to improve incomes for locals, the commune has coordinated with the Agriculture and Rural Development Office of the district has opened training courses to give local cultivation, and animal breeding techniques, while encouraging them to develop hill-based economy as well as craft industries.

 However, locals’ poor awareness has still resulting in many difficulties in their access to science and technology, Nen stated./.

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