Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha pointed out that localities identified as key rice growing areas still face difficulties in socio-economic development. Agricultural economy still depends on weather, climate, and market and has not really brought about efficiency and benefits as quickly as other sectors and fields.
Therefore, the Land Law and the Decree on rice land must have mechanisms and policies so that localities that are key rice growing areas can carry out their political tasks and develop their socio-economy. Farmers are given concentrated support, creating conditions to apply science and technology, improve productivity, aim for large-scale production, ensure income and stable life.
The Deputy Prime Minister emphasized the spirit of "closely following the law and practice to institutionalize and bring the policies on rice land in the Land Law into life, implementing synchronously and uniformly throughout the country".
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha said that support policies need to help organizations, businesses and rice growers cope with all risks - Photo: VGP/MK
Add scientific and clear criteria
The draft decree consists of 4 chapters and 18 articles regulating the management and use of rice-growing land; policies to support the protection and development of rice-growing land.
After the meeting on June 18 chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha with ministries, branches, 63 provinces and centrally-run cities, a number of experts, scientists, and associations, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development accepted and supplemented regulations on criteria for determining rice growing areas with high productivity and quality that need to be protected and limited from conversion.
Based on the rice land quota allocated to localities, opinions suggest that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development must provide specific, quantitative criteria such as scale, soil conditions, infrastructure, etc. in each region to determine the scope of rice land that needs to be protected and conversion restricted; rice land that can be converted but still maintains conditions for rice cultivation again.
Chairman of Dong Thap Provincial People's Committee Pham Thien Nghia requested the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to clarify what is high productivity and quality; what is low risk of salinity and acidity; and consider land for construction of works serving agricultural production, land converted to grow perennial crops as agricultural land, not rice land.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Hoang Trung spoke at the Conference.
The Deputy Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to revise and supplement quantitative scientific criteria as a basis for localities to determine rice-growing areas with high productivity and quality within the total rice-growing land and specialized rice-growing land allocated by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
In addition, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development coordinates with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to identify large rice growing areas such as the Mekong Delta, the Red River Delta, and the Central Coast, then delimit areas of rice land with high productivity and quality suitable to the characteristics of each region. From there, regulations and management policies suitable to reality are issued.
The Deputy Prime Minister also requested the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to clarify the procedures and scientific basis for converting the structure of crops and livestock on rice land to perennial crops and aquaculture.
Priority given to large-scale production areas
Regarding the policy of protecting and developing rice land, especially rice land with high productivity and quality, the leaders of the People's Committees of Long An and Vinh Long provinces said that localities always need support in terms of irrigation infrastructure, transportation, science and technology, post-harvest preservation, agricultural materials... with a focus and key points for each region instead of leveling; clearly identifying investment capital sources, investment support; the ratio of area converted from rice land to aquaculture combined with rice cultivation...
From local reality, leaders of Nghe An, Thanh Hoa, Thai Binh provinces, representatives of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front said that if regulations are not clear and strict on the management of construction works that directly serve agricultural production activities, avoid the situation of taking advantage of them for business services, for housing; study the plan of shared use, not to let "every field have a construction"...
Overview of the Conference.
Mr. Nguyen Quang Hung, Vice Chairman of Thai Binh Provincial People's Committee, said that it is necessary to clarify the "address" to receive support capital for strictly protected rice land areas with limited conversion, whether it is for localities or organizations, businesses, and individuals growing rice; and to orientate the protection and improvement of coastal rice land areas at risk of salinity and acid sulfate contamination.
Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Do Thanh Trung and Deputy Minister of Finance Vo Thanh Hung suggested that it is necessary to clearly define rice land, specialized rice growing areas and rice land with high productivity and quality to have corresponding policies, avoiding duplication and overlap.
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha requested the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to compile a policy framework to support the development of rice-growing areas in general, specialized rice-growing areas, and rice-growing areas with high productivity and quality, with layers of policies and mechanisms: Public investment, regular expenditure, socialization...
According to the Deputy Prime Minister, in addition to existing policies that have been effective in practice, the Decree needs to include new regulations and mechanisms to help organizations, businesses, and rice growers respond to climate change risks, support fertilizers, agricultural supplies, agricultural equipment; access to markets, etc. The goal is to ensure stable income and improve the lives of rice growers in all situations.
Policies to support infrastructure, science and technology, trade, services, construction of works serving agricultural production activities in a multi-purpose direction... need to prioritize large-scale production areas for enterprises, cooperatives, and linkage models between households.
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha requested the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to review the scope of the Decree's adjustment to ensure it is in line with the requirements of the Land Law; ensuring consistency and unification of terms and concepts with relevant documents and laws.
"The Decree institutionalizes support policies, issues criteria and decentralizes implementation to localities, ensuring feasibility, consistency, and regulations for supervision, inspection and examination," said the Deputy Prime Minister.
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