(HBO) – Assisting farmers in developing livelihoods is one of the focal tasks of the Farmers’ Union of Lac Thuy district. Thanks to the union’s support and their own efforts, many member farmers have escaped from poverty and become rich.

 


Cadres from the Lac Thuy Farmers’ Union visit a member who was provided with capital to develop livelihood.

Duong Xuan Manh, Chairman of the Lac Thuy People’s Committee, said to help members promote livelihoods, the district Farmers’ Union has ordered its subsidiary units to encourage farmers to restructure plant and animal husbandry. The units have also been told to reform advisory activities; the provision of capital, seeds, breeds, scientific and technical advances, and vocational training; as well as job creation for members. These activities have helped connect farm produce and food production and business models in the district while actively supporting start-up ideas.

Identifying the support fund for farmers as an important resource for helping members develop agriculture, all-level farmers’ unions have stepped up communications to raise cadres and members’ awareness of developing capital sources for the fund. To ensure its effective use, they also proactively set up the boards for fundraising and fund control and make annual plans for the fund use. As a result, the Lac Thuy support fund for farmers is now worth more than 4.5 billion VND.

Thanks to the fund, the district Farmers’ Union has formed 10 projects offering loans for agricultural development.

For example, Bui Thi Nhan, a resident in Trang Son hamlet of Khoan Du commune, was given a no-interest loan of 20 million VND (867 USD) which helped her family purchase a heifer. After two years, the sale of two calves of that cow enabled them to repay the original debt. This means of livelihood promises a considerable source of income for Nhan’s family to improve their living standards.

To provide capital assistance for member farmers, the union has also worked with relevant sectors to take many concerted measures such as coordinating with Agribank to lend over 245 billion VND to 1,895 members, with the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies to lend nearly 73.5 billion VND to 1,900 members, and with Lien Viet PostBank to give 1.9 billion VND in loans to 23 households.

Farmers’ unions at all levels have also fostered a movement that encourages farmers to emulate in production and business and help one another in sustainable poverty alleviation.

To uphold achieved attainments, the Lac Thuy Farmers’ Union is set to increase mobilising and capitalising on resources and supplying advice on production and business plans in the time ahead. It will also strongly associate the funding provision with the monitoring of capital use while equipping farmers with scientific and technical knowledge, thereby creating conditions for members to sustainably escape from poverty and contribute to the implementation of a plan on agricultural restructuring towards higher added value and sustainable development./.

 


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