Support local rice production
According to the Decree, the State Budget supports rice production as follows:
1- Support 1,500,000 VND/ha/year for land specialized in rice cultivation;
2- Support 750,000 VND/ha/year for remaining rice land, except for upland rice land that is spontaneously expanded without following the planning and land use plan for rice land;
3- Additional support of 1,500,000 VND/ha/year for land specializing in rice cultivation in rice growing areas with high productivity and quality.
The Decree clearly states that the rice-growing land area supported under Points 1 and 2 above is determined based on land statistics of provinces and centrally run cities announced by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the year immediately preceding the first year of the budget stabilization period. For the budget allocated for 2025, it is land statistics of provinces and centrally run cities announced by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of 2023.
The area of rice-growing land supported under the provisions of Point 3 above shall be determined by the Provincial People's Committee under the provisions of Clause 2, Article 5 of this Decree and announced in the year immediately preceding the first year of the budget stabilization period.
For the year in the period of budget stabilization, the support mechanism from the central budget to the local budget for the policy prescribed in Clause 1, Article 14 of this Decree applies the principle of support from the central budget to the local budget to implement social security policies issued by the central government for each period.
The Provincial People's Committee is responsible for managing and allocating supported budget sources to implement rice land protection according to regulations.
Use of support funds
According to the Decree, the use of funds by people who are allocated land or leased land by the State for non-agricultural purposes from land specialized in rice cultivation must be paid according to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 12 and the state budget funds to support rice production in the local budget balance expenditure estimate according to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 14 of this Decree shall be prepared by the People's Committee at the provincial level and submitted to the People's Council at the same level based on the actual conditions of the locality, to specifically decide on the principles, scope, support levels and use of support funds for the following activities:
- Support for rice land users: use legal rice varieties for production; apply production processes, technical advances, and technologies recognized by competent state agencies; build demonstration models; conduct agricultural extension activities; organize training, coaching, and link production and product consumption;
- Improve and enhance the quality of rice-growing land;
- Evaluate physical and chemical properties; build agrochemical soil maps for rice-growing areas periodically every 5 years;
- Repair and maintain agricultural and rural infrastructure works in the commune;
- Support for purchasing copyrights for protected rice varieties.
Investment policy, support for infrastructure investment, application of modern science and technology for rice growing planning areas with high productivity and quality
According to the Decree, the State's investment in infrastructure development from the central budget with additional targeted funds for localities is carried out in accordance with the principles, criteria and norms for allocating public investment capital from the state budget in each medium-term period issued by competent authorities, in which priority is given to investment in irrigation and traffic works in rice-growing planning areas with high productivity and quality; the process and procedures are implemented in accordance with the law on public investment.
Investment support for businesses
According to the Decree, enterprises are supported by the state budget with up to 100% of the cost when investing in the construction of irrigation and traffic works in areas planned for high-yield and high-quality rice cultivation.
Projects applying certified greenhouse gas emission reduction rice production processes; projects applying circular economic models; certified organic production projects; projects linking rice production along the value chain. (i)
Projects on processing food products; projects on manufacturing biological products, processing raw materials and high-tech products from rice, rice and rice by-products that meet the legal regulations on high technology. (ii)
The Decree clearly states that the project as prescribed in point (i) above must have an area of 500 hectares or more, the project as prescribed in point (ii) must have a total investment of 30 billion VND or more, and the state budget will support a maximum of 40% but not more than 15 billion VND/project to purchase production lines, equipment, technology, and technology copyright.
Capital sources, subjects, support processes, procedures and implementation procedures for support are implemented according to Government regulations on policies to encourage enterprises to invest in agriculture and rural areas.
Capital sources and support procedures for economic organizations with foreign investment capital are implemented according to separate provisions of law.
Investment support for cooperatives and cooperative unions
According to the Decree, investment projects to develop infrastructure in areas planned for high-yield and high-quality rice cultivation are allowed to use State policies according to the Government's guidance detailing the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Cooperatives.
Cooperatives and cooperative unions join together to implement one of the following projects in the planning area for high-yield and high-quality rice cultivation: Project applying certified greenhouse gas emission reduction rice production process; certified organic production project; project linking rice production according to the value chain. (iii)
Projects on production and processing of food products; projects on production of biological products, processing of raw materials for high-tech products from rice and by-products from rice. (iv)
The draft clearly states that the project specified in point (iii) must have an area of 100 hectares or more, the project specified in point (iv) will be supported by the State with a maximum of 100% of the investment capital for the cost of building project infrastructure, purchasing production lines, equipment, technology, and technology copyright, but not exceeding 5 billion VND/project.
Forms of support, support levels, regulations on support from public investment capital, procedures for synthesizing support needs, support implementation methods and post-investment management mechanisms shall comply with the provisions of the Law on Cooperatives and documents guiding the implementation of the Law on Cooperatives on policies to support investment in developing infrastructure and equipment.
Projects under the above provisions shall receive one-time support from the State. In case a project or project item has received support from the State budget under this Decree, it shall not receive support from the State budget under other legal provisions and vice versa.
The Decree takes effect from the date of signing (September 11, 2024).
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