(HBO) – Quyet Chien, a mountainous commune in Tan Lac district and about 17km from the district downtown, has a total area of 2,000 hectares and a rough terrain with high rock mountains. The long, narrow valley strip with small fields is the commune's major agricultural production hub, which accounts for about 11.4% of the commune’s total natural area, and the rest is mainly forest land with forest and bold rock mountains.

 

Bieng villagers of Quyet Chien commune in Tan Lac district have switched inefficient rice farming areas into vegetable farms with higher economic values.


Provincial Road 440, which crosses the commune, has brought advantages to the locality in trading activities with neighbouring localities and regions. Currently, the majority of the 266 households with 1,730 people in Quyet Chien are living on agriculture.

Over the years, Quyet Chien has focused on implementing national target programmes, especially the new-style rural area building scheme. It has strengthened communications to encourage locals to transform the cultivation structure in a suitable manner. At the same time, the commune has support local residents in accessing capital from the Vietnam Bank for Social Policy to invest in economic production.

Bui Van Hoang, a Bieng villager, said that his family has developed 2,500sq.m of Korean white radish which has generated high economic values.

Hoang’s family is not the only in Quyet Chien to have successfully transformed their inefficient farms into vegetable farms to provide products to Hanoi and major cities across the country. Thanks to this solution, many have got out of poverty. The average per capita income of the commune has reached 36.5 million VND (1,509 USD). As a result, the rate of poor households in the locality has been reduced to 18.3%.

Dinh Cong Khoa, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, said that the commune is implementing three national target programmes, including the one on boosting socio-economic growth in the ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas in the 2021-2030 period. It have covered all aspects of the social life, creating positive impacts on these areas.

After two years of implementation, the programme has received positive response from local residents, contributing to optimising potential and advantages of the locality, boosting economic development, ensuring social welfare, improving people’s incomes, and maintaining political stability, social order and safety in the locality.


 

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