(HBO) – The farmers’ unions at all levels in Luong Son district have carried out various activities to help local farmers improve agricultural production’s output and escape poverty.
The activities were made various forms, such as developing various kinds of
economic models, providing support to access preferential loans, organisng training
courses, transferring science-technology, and supplying plant and animal
varieties, among others.
Le Duc Minh’s household in Lam Son hamlet, Lam Son district earns good
income from an effective cultivating model.
Le Duc Minh’s family in Lam Son hamlet, Lam Son district began growing fruit
trees over 15 years ago. A lack of knowledge about cultivating techniques and
capital made his orchard a failure.
But things began to improve when in 2011, he received support from the communal
farmers’ union. Minh had the opportunities to attend science-technology
transfer classes, while farming promotion experts came to guide the family in
how to take care of the trees. Besides visiting plantation models in different
places, he was able to access preferential loans to buy saplings and renovate
his orchard.
Thanks to the assistance, Minh’s family gradually overcame difficulties. At
present, the family earned nearly 100 million VND (4,300 USD) a year from the cultivation
of lemongrass and pomelo. In 2019, his orchard was recognised as a model
orchard in the district.
Minh
is not the only one in the locality to rise out of poverty thanks to help from
the farmers’ union. From 2020, the district farmers’ association has provided
support for 80 members, contributing to reduce poverty rate in the locality to
2.3 percent.
According to Nguyen Phung
Chinh, Chairman of the district’s Farmers’ Union, farmer assistance activities
have received wide support and become an important part of the association’s
programmes. The union and its local chapters have made efforts to learn about farmers’
needs and wishes and the specific situation of each poor household so as to provide
them with suitable support.
The association
has also organized various vocational training courses and courses offering
farming knowledge and advanced techniques. Since the beginning of 2020, the
association and its local chapters have held a total of 10 training courses in
bee keeping, bamboo and rattan weaving, industrial sewing, and free-range
chicken farming, with the participation of nearly 400 people. Fifty-seven
courses have also been organized in pest and disease prevention for over 2,850
people.
Its chapters
have been entrusted by the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies, the Vietnam Bank
for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank) and LienViet Post Bank to
provide their farmer members with soft loans. Thanks to this, a total of 308
billion VND worth of soft loans have been lent by the three banks to more than
5,300 households.
Nearly 4
billion VND has also been disbursed from the budget funded by the central and
provincial farmers’ associations for 14 projects of 114 households.
These efforts
have helped increase the number of successful business models in Luong Son,
which generate about 800 million – 1.2 billion VND in revenue annually and
employ dozens of workers each.
There were more
than 4,570 farmer households winning titles by the farmers’ union at different
levels in the province last year./.
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