To accompany the National Target Program on New Rural Development, every year, the Provincial Farmers' Association closely follows the province's New Rural Development targets to develop related contents and tasks. The Association has implemented models, programs, and projects for socio-economic development in a practical and specific direction, with contents related to criteria on income, environment, collective economy, cooperative economy, building the political system, etc.
Farmers' Association members of Cam Phu commune (Cam Thuy) are supported to build a hill garden economic model.
Since then, many movements have been implemented in practice, playing a role in promoting the construction of new rural areas in localities, typically the movement "Farmers compete in production, good business, unite to help each other get rich and reduce poverty sustainably". The Association has also strengthened propaganda, mobilization, direction and organization for farmers to actively participate in the emulation movement "The whole country joins hands to build new rural areas" in the period of 2021-2025 in conjunction with the implementation of the campaign "All people unite to build new rural areas, civilized urban areas". In the process of implementing the movements, the Association also focuses on promoting typical examples, good initiatives, experiences, new models, and effective methods for dissemination and replication.
In localities in the province, the core role of farmers has been promoted in implementing the New Rural Development Program. From 2023 to present, the association at all levels has mobilized members and farmers in the province to donate more than 214,000m2 of land; repaired and renovated more than 1,500km of rural roads and canals, and participated in the construction of 529 works of all kinds. Implementing environmental criteria, the grassroots farmers' association has built 522 self-management groups on rural environmental protection. In implementing production and income criteria, the whole province has had more than 142,100 farmer households producing and trading agricultural products registered and committed to ensuring food hygiene and safety. The association at all levels has also built 569 new farmer association models to participate in implementing food safety indicators. At the same time, mobilized more than 434,400 farmer households to register to build cultural families; 459,629 members and farmers participate in health insurance to meet cultural and medical criteria in new rural development in localities.
Every year, farmers' associations at all levels have coordinated with the People's Committees at the same level to launch, organize the evaluation of titles and organize the preliminary summary of the movement of farmers who are good at production and business, unite to help each other get rich and reduce poverty sustainably according to regulations. On average, the whole province has over 200,000 households achieving good production and business at all levels each year. From the movements, many farmers who are good at production and business have established enterprises, cooperatives, cooperative groups, branches, and professional associations, attracting and creating jobs for many workers, forming cooperative chains in production, business and product consumption. Farmers' associations at all levels also mobilize farmers to help each other with money, goods, plants and seeds to support thousands of farmers in difficult circumstances in the province every year.
Along with that, the associations at all levels have also increased activities to support farmers in terms of capital, materials, science and technology transfer, vocational training, providing market information, promoting and consuming products... Thereby, helping members and farmers raise awareness, change their thinking, boldly shift the structure of crops and livestock towards increasing added value and sustainable development. At the same time, continue to guarantee and accept entrustment with banks to lend capital to farmers to develop production and business with a total outstanding loan balance of nearly 16,000 billion VND to over 5,500 lending groups, with over 175,000 members. The associations at all levels have also effectively implemented the Farmers' Support Fund, reaching 37.1 billion VND with 77 projects for 599 households to borrow. Through that, farmers have built models of economic development, cooperative economy, collective economy, established cooperatives and enterprises. That is also the goal that the New Rural Development program aims for to develop production and increase income for rural people.
Over the past years, the Provincial Farmers' Association has coordinated with departments, branches, units and enterprises to organize training courses on science and technology transfer for hundreds of thousands of cadres and farmer members in the province. Up to now, local farmers have built 125 agricultural production models applying high technology and following high technology, associated with building value chains. Farmers in the province have also been supported with training, guidance on good agricultural practices, traceability stamps, labels and directly mobilized and supported to build 50 OCOP products; supported with materials for agricultural production following VietGAP. The Provincial Farmers' Association also coordinated with the Provincial Post Office and the Provincial Department of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Product Quality Control to organize 37 training courses for 2,446 students in districts, towns and cities on how to operate and put products on e-commerce platforms. Up to now, the number of agricultural products posted for sale on the postmart platform has reached 1,104 products, including 45 OCOP products.
To continue accompanying the New Rural Development Program, farmers' associations at all levels are continuing to propagate and mobilize cadres and members to donate land, contribute working days and money to expand roads, build public works and social welfare. Associations at all levels also coordinate to effectively implement policies on sustainable poverty reduction, health care, education and training, culture, physical education and sports, social security policies, especially health insurance, voluntary social insurance, and agricultural insurance for farmers.
Article and photos: Linh Truong
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