Con Cuong: Support 10 billion VND to help farmers develop production

(Baonghean.vn) - From the province's production support policy, in 2017, Con Cuong invested nearly 10 billion VND to help farmers in the district develop production.

Through capital, the district has supported households to reclaim land according to Decision 56 with 143.5 hectares, with a support amount of VND 1,625,000,000; supported 109 poor households to build livestock barns with an amount of over VND 174,000,000.

The district supported 50% of the value of male buffaloes for 20 households (1 buffalo per household) with a total amount of 570 million VND. Supported level 2 fish fry for households in the district with a budget of 150,000,000 VND. 13 households benefited from the loan policy to buy agricultural machinery with an amount of 500,000,000 VND.

Support 23 households to build small-scale irrigation works for dry crops on an irrigation area of ​​30 hectares, with a total amount of 250,000,000 VND.

In 2017, Con Cuong district invested over 1 billion VND to build a high-tech melon growing model. Photo: Minh Hanh

In addition, implementing Decree 35 on rice land support, Con Cuong has built a large-scale field model with an area of ​​34 hectares, with an amount of 333,000,000 VND; supported the repair of infrastructure works serving digital agriculture with an amount of 1,890,000,000 VND.

To ensure the effectiveness of support policies, Con Cuong has focused on directing communes and towns to propagate and mobilize people to properly use support resources from programs and projects, especially to support the development of agricultural production.

From the policy of supporting production development, Con Cuong people have gradually changed their traditional farming practices, focusing more on intensive investment to develop production and livestock raising to bring high economic value, sustainable poverty reduction.

The communes have assigned each village to organize meetings with the people, disseminate information, publicly announce support policies, support beneficiaries, and select households with conditions to invest in applying science and technology to production...

Minh Hanh