It can be affirmed that the allocation of land, forest, protection and development of forests associated with creating stable livelihoods and improving the lives of people in ethnic minority and mountainous areas is a major, practical and humane policy of the Party and State. However, to put this policy into practice, there are still many difficulties and obstacles, causing the allocation of land and forest to not be as effective as expected. Recorded in Khanh Vinh district, Khanh Hoa province. Thanks to the highly effective use of resources from national target programs, especially the national target program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas for the period 2021 - 2025 (National Target Program 1719), An Lao district (Binh Dinh) is making strong changes in poverty reduction work. On the afternoon of November 12, at the headquarters of the Ethnic Minorities Committee (ECC), Deputy Minister and Vice Chairman Nong Thi Ha warmly welcomed the delegation of prestigious people among ethnic minorities in Lao Cai province. The delegation consisted of 17 prestigious people, led by Mr. Ly Seo Vang - Deputy Head of the Ethnic Minorities Committee of Lao Cai province. Attending the reception were representatives of leaders of some departments and units under the Committee for Ethnic Minorities. After the recent floods, many forest areas in Lao Cai were destroyed by landslides and whirlwinds, many of which were damaged in areas with rugged terrain and high mountains, making afforestation difficult. However, with the determination to "heal the green lungs", Lao Cai province has had many solutions to gradually re-green the lost forest area. It can be affirmed that land allocation, forest allocation, forest protection and development associated with creating stable livelihoods, improving the lives of people in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, is a major, practical and humane policy of the Party and State. However, to put this policy into practice, there are still many difficulties and obstacles, causing land and forest allocation to not be as effective as expected. Recorded in Khanh Vinh district, Khanh Hoa province. Areca nut prices in Dak Lak were at a record high of nearly 100,000 VND/kg, then suddenly dropped by half, traders bought sparingly, drying kilns were temporarily closed, farmers were worried. The story of areca nut prices fluctuating has been repeated many times, so Dak Lak province recommends that people should not massively expand the area of areca planting. Thanks to the effective use In order to effectively utilize resources from national target programs, especially the national target program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas for the period 2021 - 2025 (National Target Program 1719), An Lao district (Binh Dinh) is making strong changes in poverty reduction work. In recent days, households in Van and Mun villages (Ia Ly town, Chu Pah district, Gia Lai province) have been worried and anxious when the breeding pigs provided under Project 2 "Diversifying livelihoods, developing poverty reduction models" under the National Target Program on sustainable poverty reduction are gradually dying, even in some places the number of pigs has almost all died but the cause is still unknown. The summary news of the Ethnic and Development Newspaper, on November 11, has the following notable information: Cultural and Tourism Week associated with the Ok Om Bok Festival in 2024 in Tra Vinh. Cultural adaptation in the land of Agarwood. Disabled woman “turns” clay into flowers. Along with other news in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. Implementing the Resolution of the 3rd Congress of Ethnic Minorities in Phu Tho Province in 2019, over the past 5 years, Phu Tho province has effectively implemented ethnic programs, projects and policies. Thereby, promoting the comprehensive development of ethnic minority and mountainous areas; contributing to improving the material and spiritual life of the people. Through many timely policies, creating a breakthrough in the field of vocational training and job creation, thereby helping many people in rural areas, especially ethnic minority areas in Hoa Binh province, gradually escape poverty, contributing to sustainable development. On behalf of the Central Party Secretariat, on October 30, 2024, Standing member of the Secretariat Tran Cam Tu signed and issued Directive No. 39-CT/TW on improving the effectiveness of social policy credit in the new period. At the question and answer session on information and communications at the 8th Session of the 15th National Assembly, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung answered questions from National Assembly deputies related to the development of digital infrastructure in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. In particular, Minister Nguyen Manh Hung said that he requested that all areas with low signal coverage must be covered by June 2025. Solutions to improve the quality of press activities in the current period of social media explosion, especially the role of revolutionary press in promoting socio-economic development, are important issues that National Assembly deputies are interested in, at the question and answer session on the field of information and communication, in the 8th Session of the 15th National Assembly.
According to the report of Khanh Vinh District People's Committee to the National Assembly's Ethnic Council Working Group, during the recent survey of the implementation of policies and laws on land allocation, forest allocation, forest protection and development associated with creating stable livelihoods, improving the lives of communities and households in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the period of 2019 - 2023, the number of ethnic minority households registered to participate in forest protection contracts in the area is 81 households with an area of more than 2,244 hectares of natural forest. Currently, the district is continuing to review and complete the dossier of additional contract protection of nearly 106.4 hectares of natural forest in Khanh Phu commune to hand over to ethnic minority households in the period of 2024 - 2025.
Over the years, the implementation of this policy has contributed to increasing the local forest coverage rate, creating jobs for people living near the forest, improving living needs; the area of natural forests has been managed, protected and developed sustainably, limiting deforestation and illegal encroachment. However, the implementation of the above policy has encountered certain difficulties and obstacles, causing land and forest allocation to not achieve the expected results.
Specifically, poor households perform forest protection services very limitedly, not ensuring basic contents according to the contract such as: Protecting forests, not losing forests and forest land. The reason is that forest fires, deforestation, encroachment on forest land, cutting down forest trees... still occur. The implementation of the contract requires the person assigned the forest to have a very high responsibility, so when implementing, most poor households do not have enough capacity, do not dare to accept the contract to protect the forest.
In addition, the forests assigned to households for protection are often far from residential areas and have difficult terrain, so forest management and protection are not very effective. In addition, the allocation of land to poor households lacking production land has been assigned by forest owners to localities, but the efficiency of land use is not high.
The situation of land transfer is happening continuously without going through local authorities. Therefore, the lack of production land, as well as the situation of people destroying forests and encroaching on production land in the district continues to be unresolved...
Mr. Do Anh Thy, Deputy Director of Khanh Hoa Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said: Currently, the budget to support forest management and protection is 400,000 VND/ha/year according to the provisions of Circular No. 12/2022 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development guiding a number of forestry activities to implement the Sustainable Forestry Development Program and the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas for the period 2021 - 2030, phase 1 from 2021 to 2025.
This funding level is still low, not attracting people to voluntarily participate. In addition, according to regulations, the time to pay forest protection fees to ethnic minority households is at the end of the year. However, most ethnic minority households are poor and have difficult lives, so paying people at the end of the year is unreasonable.
After conducting a survey on the implementation of policies and laws on land allocation, forest allocation, forest protection and development associated with creating stable livelihoods, improving the lives of communities and households in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the period of 2019 - 2023 in Khanh Vinh district, Mr. Nguyen Lam Thanh, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly's Ethnic Council shared: This is also a common problem of many localities, not only in Khanh Vinh district, so it needs to be focused on solving in the coming time.
According to Mr. Nguyen Lam Thanh, in the work of land allocation, forest allocation, and forest development, Khanh Vinh district needs to identify that people are the most important subjects in protecting forests. Therefore, the locality needs to strengthen propaganda and raise awareness so that people do not encroach on forests, and detect violations and impacts on forests and report them to the locality and competent authorities for timely handling.
“In the coming time, the district needs to continue to pay attention to implementing well the policies and laws on land allocation, forest allocation, forest protection and development associated with creating stable livelihoods, improving the lives of communities and households in ethnic minority and mountainous areas; strengthening state management of land, paying attention to the measurement and issuance of land use right certificates to identify legally qualified entities; reviewing the area of forest land excavated in the area to have plans and models to support ethnic minority households in economic development, thoroughly resolving the situation of forest land disputes...”, Mr. Thanh proposed.
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