Tan Ky district officials share experiences in mass mobilization

(Baonghean) -Tan Ky District Party Committee identified innovation in mass mobilization work as one of the urgent and long-term tasks for Party committees and authorities at all levels and sectors in the area.

Roll up your sleeves and get down to work with the farmers

We followed Mr. Vu Quoc Dung - Deputy Secretary of the Party Cell of Tan Ky District Plant Protection Station to visit the rice fields in Thanh Phuc hamlet, Tan An commune.

This is a model of improved rice intensification (SRI). Compared to the control rice field, this model has good growth and development of rice plants, strong plants, with 12 to 25 flowers per clump. Planting according to the new improved method reduces the amount of seeds, fertilizers, and labor.

Starting from only 0.1 ha of rice under the new model in the first crop, by the second crop it had increased to 4.3 ha, and up to now, the rice production area under the SRI model has been expanded to 130 ha in Tan An and Nghia Thai communes. Ms. Tran Thi Nga, Thanh Phuc hamlet, is one of the first participating households, excitedly sharing: "At first, when we introduced the new rice variety, we were still very hesitant, but the results were surprising. The rice plants were full of grains. In the coming time, we will expand this rice variety into mass planting, increasing the economic value for the family".

Staff of Tan Ky Plant Protection Station check for pests on rice. Photo: My Nga

To get to where we are today is a long process of perseverance, skillful mobilization, and persuasion of people to gradually abandon traditional farming practices and believe in the application of science and technology, bringing higher productivity and rice output of cadres, party members, and staff of the district Plant Protection Station because in the early days, when building this new model, people did not agree much because they were afraid of risks and losing their crops.

Therefore, in order for households in the hamlet to participate in the model, each cadre and party member of the District Plant Protection Station always determines the motto of focusing on the grassroots, regularly "going to every alley, knocking on every door", "holding hands and showing how to do things" to help people change their agricultural production habits. Besides, the fastest "solution" to the problem of mobilization is to coordinate with reputable people, do a good job of contacting, listening, and dialogue with people, thereby grasping "quickly, accurately, and sufficiently" the thoughts and aspirations of the people.

“In the spring of 2017, the weather was complicated, with many cold spells, but we still rolled up our sleeves and went to the fields with the people to take care of the rice, so the rice grew well and tillered well. If we want people to support us, the officials must talk and do, make people understand and make them believe,” Mr. Dung shared.

Associated with people's interests

The two hamlets of Van Xuan and Van Long, Giai Xuan commune, have an area of ​​117.58 hectares of 329 production households, but there are up to 1,016 plots, on average each household has 3 plots, even some households have 7 plots of many fields, so people cultivate fragmentedly, encounter many difficulties in planting and caring, and there are almost no internal roads. Faced with that situation, the Party Committee of Giai Xuan commune issued a specialized Resolution "Building a specialized area for growing concentrated sugarcane, connected to the region, connected to the plots" to "consolidate land, exchange plots", accumulate land to develop large-scale production in agriculture, which was highly approved by the cadres, party members and people of the two hamlets.

However, when implementing, there were many obstacles, as comrade Nguyen Duy Viet - Secretary of the Van Long hamlet Party Cell frankly admitted: "For the people, land is an invaluable asset. When carrying out land consolidation, many people compared bad land, good land, nearby fields, far fields, so they were not satisfied." Therefore, cadres and party members from the commune down to the hamlet joined the campaign synchronously and skillfully with the motto "slow and steady wins the race". All tasks such as redistributing plots and numbering on land maps were made public and transparent, each hamlet had 4 people directly participating in monitoring and measuring.

Tan Ky district officials inspect the concentrated sugarcane growing model applying science and technology in Giai Xuan commune. Photo courtesy

After a year of persistent implementation, the land consolidation in Van Long hamlet, Van Xuan has now been completed, resulting in only 329 plots remaining, from 12 fields now reduced to 4 areas. Moreover, through land consolidation, 16 internal traffic routes have been arranged, renovated and renewed to serve production. Secretary of Van Long hamlet Party cell Nguyen Duy Viet shared. "In the area, 70% of households have completely abandoned the manual method of growing sugarcane, instead growing industrial sugarcane, increasing productivity."

In the 2017-2018 pressing season, Giai Xuan has a concentrated sugarcane growing model, promising a bumper crop with a yield of 85 tons/ha. Standing Deputy Secretary of the Giai Xuan Commune Party Committee Dang Ngoc Thinh affirmed: "Mass mobilization work in the DDDT is an important step, not only in leading and implementing political tasks, but also contributing to changing the face of rural agriculture, helping people have a more fulfilling life".

In the coming time, Tan Ky district has determined the goal of continuing to promote the construction of models associated with comprehensive strategic breakthroughs such as: land consolidation and plot exchange; mobilizing resources in new rural construction; building a comprehensive strong political system...

Deputy Secretary of the District Party Committee, Head of the Steering Committee for the emulation movement "Skilled mass mobilization" of Tan Ky district, Dam Huu Hong, affirmed: "Through the construction of models, we have mobilized the combined strength of the entire political system, improved the leadership capacity and fighting strength of grassroots party organizations, and the management and administration work of the government; at the same time, promoted the right to mastery, positivity, proactiveness and creativity of the people."

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