Thanh Hoa farmers unite to help each other get rich and sustainably reduce poverty

In recent years, the movement "Farmers compete in good production and business, unite to help each other get rich and sustainably reduce poverty" has been focused on and directed by the Farmers' Associations (FAs) at all levels of Thanh Hoa province, associated with political - economic - cultural - social activities, with production and life of cadres, members and farmers.

Provincial Farmers' Association visits good production models of farmer members.

Every year, the Provincial Farmers' Association has developed plans, organized and launched and guided the registration for emulation to achieve the title of excellent farmer households; coordinated and agreed with the authorities at the same level to organize seminars, competitions, and display products to create a vibrant competitive atmosphere to promote the movement, advise the Party Committee and authorities at the same level to organize the summary assessment, inspection, supervision, and commendation of excellent farmer households. The Association has conducted investigations and surveys on the vocational training needs of farmer members, and at the same time done a good job of vocational counseling and training, creating conditions for farmers to access loans to develop production through credit and trust programs with banks, transferring scientific and technical advances along with indigenous knowledge of growing specialty plants and animals for high economic value.

In the first 6 months of 2024, the provincial Farmers' Associations at all levels have guaranteed and entrusted banks to lend capital to farmers to develop production and business with a total outstanding loan of nearly 17 trillion VND, to over 5,500 lending groups, with over 175,000 members and effectively implemented the Farmers' Support Fund reaching over 37 billion VND with 77 projects for nearly 600 households. Every year, the provincial Farmers' Associations at all levels coordinate with departments, branches, units, and enterprises to organize nearly 3,000 training courses on science and technology transfer for more than 350,000 officials, members, and farmers to participate; guide the construction of hundreds of agricultural production models applying high technology and following high technology, associated with building value chains; provide job consultation, propaganda, and mobilize more than 1,700 workers to work abroad. In addition, it has supported training and guidance on good agricultural practices, traceability stamps, and labels for 26 products and directly mobilized and guided the development of 89 OCOP products.

From the movement, many advanced models, outstanding examples, representing the spirit of hard work, creativity, self-reliance and self-improvement of the peasant class have emerged. On average, each year, the movement has attracted nearly 300,000 farming households to register for the competition and more than 200,000 households have achieved the title of excellent farming households at all levels, of which, in 2023, the number of excellent farming households with income from 1 billion VND to 5 billion VND is more than 756 households, and the income from 5 billion VND to 10 billion VND is 279 households.

The movement "Farmers compete in good production and business, unite to help each other get rich and sustainably reduce poverty" has encouraged and motivated members and farmers to promote the tradition of solidarity, mutual love, and help poor households escape poverty in many forms: providing capital, seeds, labor days, agricultural materials, technical guidance, and ways of doing business; sharing the difficulties and losses of people in areas affected by natural disasters such as floods, droughts, and epidemics.

Comrade Tran Binh Quan, Provincial Party Committee member, Chairman of the Provincial Farmers' Association, said: In order for the movement "Farmers compete in good production and business, unite to help each other get rich and sustainably reduce poverty" to have a new step of development in quality, spreading widely among the people and society, Farmers' Associations at all levels in the province will focus on enhancing their responsibility in supporting good production and business farmers to continue to maintain, promote and develop more strongly through consulting and support activities. Consulting, legal aid; support in capital, vocational training, science and technology transfer, connection, brand building and consumption of agricultural products; training, fostering, improving capacity, skills, applying scientific and technological advances to production... to help farmers be more confident in the development process, so that they become the core leading the process of realizing the goal of intellectualizing farmers. The HND organization will become a bridge, building trust between farmers, good SDKD farming households with businesses, cooperatives, and scientists to create a sustainable link in the process of agricultural development and new rural construction.

Article and photos: Hoang Lan

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