The People's Committee of Ha Tinh province directed the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to closely monitor weather, natural disasters, and epidemics to promptly adjust production, ensuring the production target of over 500,000 tons of rice per year in the following years.
Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Hong Linh has just signed a document on behalf of the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee to direct the implementation of the Prime Minister's Directive on ensuring national food security and promoting sustainable rice production and export.
Localities have the responsibility to closely monitor the situation, inspect and supervise the production, circulation and consumption of rice in the area.
Pursuant to Directive No. 24/CD-TTg dated July 3, 2023 of the Prime Minister on ensuring national food security and promoting sustainable rice production and export in the current period; considering the proposal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in Official Dispatch No. 2391/SNN-TTBVTV dated August 24, 2023, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee assigned departments, branches and localities to focus on implementing a number of related tasks.
Accordingly, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development shall preside over and coordinate with departments and branches to direct localities to review the development orientation of large-scale, high-quality rice production areas, ensuring the area of land dedicated to rice cultivation; closely monitor the weather, natural disasters, and epidemics to promptly adjust production, ensuring the production target of over 500,000 tons of rice/year in the following years. Preside over and coordinate with the Department of Industry and Trade, People's Committees of districts, cities, towns, and enterprises to closely monitor the production situation and rice output by type and season of the year to balance rice sources to serve the consumption needs of rice in the province and firmly ensure the province's food security in all situations.
The Department of Industry and Trade monitors the activities of rice export traders, especially the maintenance of business conditions, promptly reports and proposes solutions to deal with problems arising in practice in the province. Presides over and coordinates with departments, branches, localities and relevant agencies and units to organize trade promotion activities such as fairs, trade connection conferences, etc.; creates conditions for traders to participate in trade promotion activities with foreign markets. Supports enterprises, cooperatives, and agricultural product processing establishments in the province in developing and applying e-commerce to promote, introduce, search, and expand domestic markets and export markets.
The Provincial Market Management Department strengthens the management of the area, deploys professional measures to monitor and grasp the market situation, supply - demand developments, and selling prices of rice products, in order to develop inspection and supervision plans and propose solutions to contribute to stabilizing the market. Actively coordinate with relevant forces in the area, strengthen close monitoring of rice prices; inspect and control business establishments, wholesale and retail outlets, markets, supermarkets, commercial centers, etc. in the area to grasp the supply and selling prices; prevent violations in price listing, speculation, hoarding, unreasonable purchase and selling prices for rice products. Strengthen inspection, prevention and strict handling according to legal regulations for violations related to the transportation and trading of rice of unknown origin.
The provincial Customs Department guides rice import and export enterprises to carry out customs procedures in accordance with the law. Proactively remove difficulties and obstacles in rice export within its authority, especially in the face of increasing technical barriers.
The People's Committees of districts, cities and towns shall direct functional departments and People's Committees of communes, wards and towns to develop plans and organize rice production to ensure the set targets of productivity, quality and output; promptly provide information to relevant departments and branches on the productivity and output of rice according to each type and production season in the area.
Coordinate with relevant agencies to closely monitor the situation, inspect and supervise the production, circulation and consumption of rice in the area and maintain the minimum circulation reserve of rice export traders according to regulations; strictly handle cases of speculation, illegal profiteering, pushing up rice prices unreasonably high, causing instability in the market and reputation of Ha Tinh rice brand.
Proactively grasp the situation and new information, promptly respond to situations arising in the locality to periodically or suddenly report at the request of the Provincial People's Committee and relevant departments and branches on the output, types of rice, and unsold commodity rice and expected yield and output of rice and rice harvest by type and production season in the locality to promote production and ensure food security in the province.
Provincial departments, branches, agencies, units, People's Committees of districts, cities and towns, according to their functions and tasks, proactively and actively implement drastically, synchronously and effectively the tasks and solutions assigned by the Provincial People's Committee in Official Dispatch No. 3372/UBND-KT 2 dated June 30, 2023 on implementing the strategy for developing the rice export market to 2030 and Official Dispatch No. 3690/UBND-NL 5 dated July 31, 2023 on implementing the Prime Minister's Telegram on strengthening the implementation of tasks and solutions to promote rice production and export.
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