Pioneering in the new rural construction movement

(Baonghean)Flower gardens, ornamental plants waiting for Tet, safe vegetable fields, high-quality rice production belts, organic poultry farming programs, invested canals, hardened concrete roads, clean water to the villages... that is the new rural picture of Vinh city after 2 years of implementing the new rural construction program.

Coming to Nghi Kim, Nghi An, Nghi Lien in the last days of the year, in the fields, people are eagerly pouring concrete, building net houses to prepare to grow clean vegetables. Flower villages in Hung Dong, Nghi An, Dong Vinh... are lighting lamps to warm the flowers to bloom quickly. Figures of people bending diligently beside flower beds, onion beds, lettuce... The city has appeared models of raising pheasants, black mink, seahorses to get rich. The fields that were once left fallow are now green with vegetables, corn, and rice.



Nghi An farmers pour concrete to build greenhouses to grow clean vegetables.

Mr. Nguyen Van Quyen - Head of the Agricultural Department of Nghi Kim commune took us to visit the safe vegetable field produced according to VietGAP standards. Spread out is the green color of many types of vegetables that people grow to prepare for Tet. 85 households registered to grow safe vegetables, receiving support from the city, some have up to 4 sao like Ms. Nguyen Thi Thanh, 3 sao like Mr. Duong Van Toan, Duong Dinh Tuu... There are 10 families registered to build net houses with a total area of ​​8,060 m2. People are switching from protecting vegetables from pests by direct spraying to prevention, that is, treating the soil and using organic fertilizers.

In Nghi An, two clean vegetable fields, Kim Binh and Kim Tan, are also “transforming” to produce safe vegetables with the support of science, technology and city policies. Kim Chi ornamental plant village has begun to bustle, and flowers are beginning to bloom to welcome spring. Many households have properties from ornamental plants worth billions of dong.

Not only growing flowers and vegetables, Nghi An also built a kindergarten worth 5 billion VND, built a multi-functional school for a secondary school worth 1.6 billion VND, completed more than 3 km of asphalt road, with a total estimated budget of more than 5 billion VND, installed a lighting system on National Highway 46 to Nghi Trung with an amount of 3.7 billion VND. Nghi An is preparing to invest in building Kim Chi flower and ornamental plant market, Kim Chi craft village road, invested in installing a lighting system on National Highway 46 to Nghi Truong, Duc Thiet road to Nghi Truong, 1.2 km long...

Vinh City is a first-class urban area but still has 9 suburban communes, the majority of people's lives depend on agriculture. In recent years, due to urbanization, land has been abandoned or built into urban areas, but along with that comes social evils, unemployment risks, etc. Therefore, building new rural areas in Vinh City aims to help the city develop sustainably.

In addition to the criteria on infrastructure, education, security, etc., production and job creation are important criteria to see the practicality of this policy. The project on developing suburban agriculture has been built and approved by the City People's Committee; Communes are preparing projects on developing production and increasing people's income. Currently, 9/9 communes have completed the project on agricultural production and increasing people's income (intensive farming areas) in accordance with the contents set out by the city.

The city has planned a safe vegetable production area of ​​370 hectares. Of which, Hung Dong commune has 120 hectares, Nghi Kim commune has 80 hectares, Nghi An commune has 80 hectares, Nghi Lien commune has 80 hectares, Dong Vinh commune has 10 hectares. The safe vegetable production planning areas are implementing a program to expand production associated with product consumption and building the VietGAP safe vegetable brand of Vinh City. In addition, the flower and ornamental plant production area is planned to be 260 hectares, of which Hung Dong commune has 45 hectares, Nghi An commune has 100 hectares, Nghi Lien commune has 55 hectares, Nghi Kim commune has 50 hectares, Dong Vinh commune has 10 hectares. Based on the results of building industries, occupations, villages with flower and ornamental plant professions and market demand as well as production experience of the people, the city has organized vocational training classes for farmers. In particular, coordinating with the North Central Agricultural Science and Technology Institute in transferring scientific and technological advances into production such as the high-quality chrysanthemum model, preparing to build Nghi An flower and ornamental plant wholesale market.

The high-quality rice production area is planned to cover 400 hectares in Hung Hoa, Hung Chinh, Nghi Lien, Nghi Kim, expanding the application of high-quality rice varieties in production, aiming to increase income value per unit area. The city has had many mechanisms and policies to support people in implementing such as Decision 05/2012, coordinating with businesses and scientific agencies in supplying and managing varieties.

The planned aquaculture area is 245 hectares, of which Hung Hoa is 105 hectares, Hung Loc is 50 hectares, Nghi Kim is 60 hectares and Hung Chinh is 30 hectares. From successful aquaculture models in Hung Hoa, Hung Chinh..., the city continues to direct the expansion of production of specialty aquatic products such as goby, spotted catfish, sea bass... Policies to support people in investing in ponds and initial breeds create stable production areas.

The short-term industrial crop growing area is planned to be 500 hectares in Nghi An, Nghi Duc, Nghi Lien, Nghi Kim, mainly growing peanuts and sesame, applying new varieties and advanced care for a yield of over 3 tons/ha such as L144, L20, TB 25...

Livestock and poultry farming areas are concentrated and clean, with a poultry herd of 350,000 and a pig herd of 22,000 in the communes of Hung Hoa, Nghi An, Nghi Kim, Nghi Lien, and Hung Chinh. Over the past two years, the city has successfully directed the implementation of a poverty reduction program for organic chicken farming in all nine communes of the city, such as Vinh Tan, Hung Loc, Hung Dong, and Hung Yen. The city supports 50% of the feed costs, with a total cost of nearly 700 million VND.

In 2011 and 2012, Vinh City has built many important economic and social infrastructure works in the NTM program. Inter-commune traffic works, irrigation canals for agricultural production, village cultural houses, schools to meet national standards... The total number of planned works is 145, of which 73 have been and are being completed, including 31 traffic works, 22 irrigation works, 5 cultural houses, 8 schools, 1 market. The total value of completed construction and installation is 164,249.8 million VND, of which: the central and provincial budgets pay 7,843 million VND; the city budget 72,968.6 million VND, the commune budget 72,820 million VND. City residents contributed 7,618 million VND to build new rural areas, an average of 846 million VND/commune, an average of 570,000 VND/household.

As a result of 2 years of joining hands to build new rural areas, there are 2 communes that achieved from 13 to 16 criteria, namely Nghi Lien and Hung Loc; 10-12 criteria were Hung Chinh, Nghi Kim, Hung Hoa and Nghi Phu; 5-9 criteria were Nghi Duc and Nghi An.

From the economic models, the renovated infrastructure, the people's awareness in protecting public property, ensuring security and order, the implementation of programs and projects associated with the city's policies and mechanisms is quite effective, showing that the city is the leading locality in the province in terms of new rural construction indicators. This is also an advantage from the resources of the city and the people, but also the next challenges for the rural areas of Vinh City to be completely different from the rural areas of the midland and mountainous districts... and to develop sustainably.

Chau Lan