(HBO) - Dung Phong commune is working to improve the lives of local people through creating large fields via land accumulation in Bai Be 2 and Dong Moi villages, and attracting investment from the Quang Ha garment making company into the locality. It is expected that when the company put into operation its factory in the commune, it will create jobs for 100 local workers.

Dung Phong is mainly an agricultural commune with the main crops being rice, corn, sugarcane and citrus fruits. During the 2015-2020 term, the commune actively encouraged local farmers to switch to plants with high economic value. Up to now, a number of rice cultivation areas have been converted to sugarcane, and hillside land has been used to grow citrus fruit. Currently, the commune has an area of 335.7 hectares of sugarcane and 180 hectares of citrus trees. Local authority reported that economic growth reached 10 percent in which agriculture accounts for 55 percent; handicrafts account for 25 percent; the per capita income reached 45 million VND/year and the poverty rate was 5.6 percent. The commune has maintained results it made under the new style rural area building programme and is building model residential areas and gardens.

In the 2020-2025 term, the commune's Party Committee aims for a decent and sustainable economic growth. It will work to accelerate economic restructuring and labor restructuring, while improving the quality, efficiency and the competitiveness of the local economy. In order to fulfill this task, the commune Party Committee is focusing on leading and directing the review and supplementation of socio-economic development plans in association with the new style rural development programme. The committee will also direct the evaluation of the effectiveness of economic models, and put forward investment policies to expand and develop quality and effective models; creating favorable conditions to attract investment...

Regarding agriculture and forestry, the commune will focus on industrialisation and modernisation of agricultural production, and on developing livestock in the direction of semi-industrial model.

In the economic development roadmap for the period of 2020-2025, the commune's Party organisation has outlined many breakthrough solutions in economic development, creating motivation to complete the tasks and successfully achieve economic development goals, including a 10-percent economic growth rate, per capita income of 62 million VND a year, and a poverty rate of under five percent./.