(HBO) – Over the past years, the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP)’s branch in Luong Son district, the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh, has successfully implemented the Government’s preferential loan programmes. Through entrusted organisations and associations, the loans have come to the right persons, helping them overcome difficulties and escape from poverty sustainably.


Duong Quoc Lap, in Lam Truong village, Truong Son commune, Luong Son district, invests in fruit tree planting.

Duong Quoc Lap, in Lam Truong village, Truong Son commune, Luong Son district, got a loan of 30 million VND from the VBSP to plant nearly 2 hectares of oranges and pomelos. His orchard is expected to generate about hundreds of millions of Vietnam dong each year. 

With simple and rapid procedures, long terms and low interest rates, the preferential loans are necessary for poor households and social policy beneficiaries in Luong Son district. Hundreds of local households have accessed the loans and used them effectively. 

Currently, the VBSP’s branch in Luong Son district is implementing 15 credit programmes for social policy beneficiaries. Most of them have been entrusted partially through political-social organisations, with entrusted loan balance accounting for 99.2 percent of the total loan outstanding balance. 

The district has 245 saving and lending groups in 20 communes and townships. At the end of 2018, loans worth 68.5 billion VND were given to local households, with accumulated loan outstanding balance exceeding 254.5 billion VND by 9,564 households. Debt collection was over 50.4 billion VND and overdue debts make up only 0.1 percent of the total loan outstanding balance. 

The bank and its entrusted organisations have instructed their staff to follow procedures, and coordinated with relevant agencies to create favourable conditions for members of the saving groups to participate in training courses on husbandry, cultivation and capital management./.

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