Help poor households with ways to do business in Que Phong

(Baonghean) - In addition to helping poor households with material support, directly guiding and directing business methods based on the reality of each family - that is the effective way in recent times of agencies and units of Que Phong district when assigned the task of helping poor households escape poverty.

Meeting with an officer of the Justice Department of Que Phong district, handing over a pair of breeding pigs to a poor family in Tang village, Tien Phong commune, we were told: The departments, agencies and units in the district mainly support poor households by encouraging and advising on how to do business, considering it the most important thing, because most of the people lack production knowledge, and the material support is only a pair of breeding pigs, or chickens and ducks, from which they are instructed to raise and produce, have jobs and increase income. All the livestock supported for the families are contributed by officials and civil servants from their monthly salaries.

We went to the family of Ms. Vi Thi Huong in Tang village. The house roofed with cement corrugated iron of Ms. Huong's family is located in the center of the village, bustling with the laughter of neighbors who came to share the joy. Together with the homeowner, releasing a pair of breeding pigs into the pen, Ms. Lan Phuong Thao, Head of the District Justice Department, said: "Each pig weighs 15 kg, bought for more than 1 million VND/pig, because 3 officers in the department saved their salaries to give to Ms. Huong's family to raise". Ms. Huong confided that her family has 2 husband, wife and 2 small children, farming 1.5 sao of rice fields and raising buffalo and pigs, but still often hungry, because they raise pigs without knowing how to prevent epidemics, so the animals die. Now, with the help of district officers, she has 2 pigs, and is instructed on how to raise and prevent epidemics, and will try to raise them safely. She plans to raise them until they reach a weight of about 70 kg, then sell them, and set aside some money to buy another pair of breeding pigs, so that there will always be pigs in the pen to raise...

The family of Ms. Vi Thi Huong in Tang village (Tien Phong commune) received breeding pigs supported by the Justice Department of Que Phong district.

We also went with the officers of the District Party Committee Office to Huu Van village, Chau Kim commune, a locality assigned by the district to the District Party Committee Office to receive support for 6 households to escape poverty in the period of 2012 - 2015. They took us to the family of Mr. Lo Kim Giang and his wife Lang Thi Nhi, Secretary of the Lo Van Chung Party Cell, excitedly: In 2012, the village was coordinated by the District Party Committee Office to select 6 poor households to support to escape poverty. These households are all young couples, with the conditions to escape poverty sustainably. After 4 years of implementation, the officers of the District Party Committee Office have actively followed each household, showed and guided how to do business, combined with support for breeding pigs, so all households have escaped poverty. Ms. Lang Thi Nhi said that in early 2014, the family was supported by the District Party Committee Office with 2 sows, now the pigs have given birth to the second litter, and have sold them to buy household items. At the end of 2014, the family was removed from the list of poor households in the village. That was thanks to the cadres who came to their homes to guide and assist them in their business methods, and she arranged her working hours reasonably every day. Mr. Sam Van Duyet, Chief of the Office of the Que Phong District Party Committee, said: The Office received support from 6 households in difficult circumstances in Huu Van village. After conducting a field survey, the office mobilized cadres and specialists to support them with their personal salaries to buy breeding pigs for poor households to have capital for production. To help households with business methods, the Office sent cadres directly to each family to encourage all family members to work and produce. On major holidays of the year, or Lunar New Year, the Office sent gifts in kind to encourage their spirit.

Mr. Le Van Giap, Chairman of Que Phong District People's Committee, said: The work of hunger eradication and poverty reduction has been highly valued by local authorities and sectors in recent years, so the poverty rate of the district has decreased significantly every year: 50.53% in 2011, 38.27% by the end of 2014, and the goal is to reduce it to 33.80% by the end of 2015. The district has many policies for poor households, partly due to the direction and guidance of district-level agencies, units, and schools, which have sponsored poverty reduction. Agencies and units have identified this as a key task and an emulation movement, so they have focused on helping poor households with specific measures, assigning staff to take turns to directly instruct households, support with plant and animal varieties, and more importantly, provide guidance and advice on economic activities to increase income from many sources and move towards escaping poverty. Typical units include: District Party Committee Office, District People's Committee, Finance - Planning Department, Industry and Trade Department, Culture - Information Department, District Youth Union, District Fatherland Front Committee, Veterans Association... In the coming time, departments, organizations, and units will continue to pay attention to closely following the grassroots, providing knowledge, guiding science and technology, and ways of doing business for poor households, selecting and replicating effective economic models suitable for each locality, especially in particularly difficult areas. The District People's Committee has identified a number of livestock and crops with strengths in Que Phong land to replicate widely, in order to create jobs on the spot, increase income for farmers such as passion fruit, fragrant rice... and medicinal plants: Bo bo, yellow flower tea, ginseng. Currently, a number of crops are being modeled in localities.

Xuan Hoang