(QNO) - Dien Ban, a land formed from the Thu Bon Delta, was once compared by writer Hoang Phu Ngoc Tuong to an “alluvial child”. That child has grown into a town, with strong industry and urbanization, but agriculture - farmers - rural areas (abbreviated as “Tam Nong”) are still the source of nourishment for this land to develop sustainably.
From the signpost
There are correct resolutions and policies that have become the guiding light for economic innovation. Remember in 1988, Resolution No. 10-NQ/TW (also known as Contract 10) of the Politburo on innovation in agricultural economic management was born, creating a strong "push" for the agricultural sector.
After only one year of implementing Contract 10, from a country with chronic food shortages, Vietnam exported 1.2 million tons of rice. The lesson of Contract 10 shows that if we know how to mobilize the people's strength and rely on the people, the Party's resolutions will quickly spread into life and receive the people's support and response.
Drawing on experience from Contract 10, the thinking of agricultural economic management was also renewed accordingly. In 2008, Resolution No. 26-NQ/TW of the Party Central Committee on agriculture, farmers and rural areas was issued with the goal of building a comprehensively developed agriculture in a modern, sustainable direction, with large-scale commodity production, high productivity, quality, efficiency and competitiveness, firmly ensuring national food security both in the short term and in the long term.
Resolution 26 also sets out the construction of new rural areas with modern socio-economic infrastructure; reasonable economic structure and forms of production organization, linking agriculture with rapid development of industry, services, and urban areas according to planning; stable rural society, rich in national cultural identity; improved knowledge, and protected ecological environment...
After 15 years of implementing Resolution 26-NQ/TW, agriculture in Dien Ban has developed in terms of production scale, maintained a fairly high growth rate, is the pillar of the town's economy, and firmly ensures local food sources. Agricultural production and business have developed strongly in the direction of transforming the structure of crops and livestock, applying science and technology, improving the quality and value of production, and expanding the consumption market.
Dien Ban has a total agricultural land area of 30,595 hectares, farmers account for 60% of the whole town's workforce. With the advantages, potential and the hard-working and creative spirit of farmers in agricultural production and new rural construction, it has made an important contribution to socio-economic development, improving the lives of local people. In 2018, the average income per capita reached 54 million VND/year, by the end of 2022, the average income per capita reached approximately 70 million VND/year.
The master of the land
In 2014, Mr. Nguyen Van Kiet (Dong Duc village, Dien Tho commune, Dien Ban town) opened a cattle and chicken farm on 1 hectare of his family's land. The farming process was successful, bringing high income to the family, so in 2017 he decided to rent 6.5 hectares of land to open a livestock and crop farm, of which 5 hectares were for organic rice cultivation; 1.5 hectares were for fish ponds and cow barns.
The first organic rice production model in Dien Tho field is a very dedicated model of Mr. Kiet. He cooperates with agricultural engineers and businesses to ensure the production process and stabilize the output of the product.
However, the implementation process also encountered many obstacles such as farming according to new methods without using chemical fertilizers, resulting in low productivity and high costs. Therefore, after the first crop, Mr. Kiet struggled to find ways to continue promoting production linkages. With determination and perseverance, after a while, the Phong Thu clean rice brand was born, meeting consumer demand and having a stable output.
Currently, Mr. Nguyen Van Kiet's farm has more than 70 cows, 7,000 chickens, and ponds with about half a million fish of various kinds. The farm provides 6 regular workers and 20 seasonal workers. His family's annual revenue is about 8 billion VND, after deducting expenses and labor, the net profit is 1 billion VND. Every year, he awards scholarships to 6 students who are children of poor farmers and provides financial support to 10 poor households under sponsorship.
Mr. Kiet shared that the biggest difficulty now is that diseases in livestock are difficult to control, and the price of animal feed has increased, which has somewhat affected production costs.
Not only Mr. Nguyen Van Kiet's model, in the town area, there have appeared many typical examples of good farmers in production and business. Many models of cultivation and livestock farming have spread and attracted many farmers to participate such as raising 3B cows in the direction of high technology in Go Noi, organic rice fields ST24, ST25 in Dien Tho, Dien Trung, Dien Minh, clean mushroom farm in Dien Thang Nam, farms, farms raising chickens, fish, pigs, frogs, apple snails... present in many places in the town area.
In the period of 2017 - 2022, the whole town of Dien Ban has 12,313 good farming and business households, of which 29 households are at the central level, 461 households at the provincial level, 2,500 households at the town level, and 9,323 households at the commune and ward levels.
The above examples show that by concretizing the "three agriculture" resolution into life, it will arouse the people's strength, farmers will better promote their role as subjects, contribute to promoting the transformation of production structure, economic development, and restoring and developing rural industries.
The material and spiritual life of farmers has been constantly improved, the poverty rate has decreased by an average of 0.5% per year, and there are no more households falling back into poverty. By the end of 2022, the total production value of the entire economy of the town will reach 23,774 billion VND, the town will have 481 poor households, 590 near-poor households, the number of well-off and rich households will increase, and the average income per capita will reach approximately 70 million VND per year. The rural appearance of the town has changed significantly; successfully building a new rural town in 2015, reaching the target earlier than the set target.
Mr. Nguyen Chanh Thien - Chairman of the Farmers' Association of Dien Ban town affirmed that from the change of mindset from livestock farming and small-scale agricultural production to linking agricultural economic development associated with market demand, promoting the advantages of each locality based on the foundation of science, technology and innovation, in the coming time, Dien Ban town will develop agriculture and build sustainable new rural areas in the direction of ecological agriculture, modern rural areas, and civilized farmers.
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