Provincial People's Council supervises thematic issues on mountainous development policy in Tuong Duong

Overview of the working session. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Implementing policies on agricultural and forestry production development and planning, arrangement, resettlement and stabilization of population in ethnic minority and mountainous areas of Tuong Duong district in the period of 2020 - 2022, the District Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee, Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee and mass organizations regularly pay attention to leading and directing the implementation of policies on agricultural and forestry production development and planning, arrangement, resettlement and stabilization of population in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.

Comrade Luong Tuan Dung - Chairman of Nga My Commune People's Committee reported to the monitoring team. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Regarding the implementation of the policy of supporting forest protection contracts for the State forest area assigned to the Management Board of special-use forests and protective forests, in the period of 2020 - 2022, Tuong Duong has a total area supported with funding for forest protection contracts of 678,495.62 hectares, with a total cost of more than 100 billion VND.

In 2022, Tuong Duong district spent 25,793 billion VND to support forest protection for planned forests as protection forests and production forests as natural forests assigned to communities and households.

Comrade Hoang Thi Thu Trang - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Director of the Department of Justice expressed her opinion at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Implementing the National Target Program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, in 2022, Tuong Duong district will support 2 communes to build 2 medicinal herb models in Nhon Mai and Nga My communes, with a budget of 621,000,000 VND.

In 2022, with the support of the United Nations Development Program, the Global Environment Facility (UNDP - GEF) will implement the project to support communities in buffer zone communes to develop 18 hectares of medicinal plants under the forest canopy; build 02 nurseries of medicinal plant species;...

Comrade Nguyen Thi Quynh Hoa - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, President of the Women's Union of Nghe An province spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Currently, the district is entering the stage of building models and projects to develop medicinal plants; only training steps on technical processes for incubating and planting some medicinal plants have been carried out; there are not many products yet, so steps have not been taken to promote, promote trade, build product brands, purchase equipment, invest in infrastructure for medicinal plant areas, and carry out scientific research projects, etc.

In the period of 2020-2022, in Tuong Duong district, there are 4 projects to build resettlement areas to arrange residents who are at risk of landslides. Households that migrate to new places will be allocated residential land according to the planning, while production land will remain the same as the old place.

Comrade Nguyen Van Hai - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of Tuong Duong District Party Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Tuong Duong district has promptly mobilized and integrated programs and projects to promptly and effectively implement them in the district, contributing to hunger eradication and poverty reduction, stabilizing life, and the socio-economic conditions of particularly difficult communes have had significant developments, and the lives of people in the beneficiary areas have been improved, contributing to hunger eradication and poverty reduction in the district.

For completed projects on population arrangement, relocation and stabilization, households after moving to new resettlement areas are all happy and secure; reasonable population arrangement in accordance with production planning and new rural planning contributes to hunger eradication and poverty reduction.

The area of ​​forest plantation, forest protection and forest quality is increasingly increased; forest development programs and projects are well implemented in the area to create jobs and increase stable income for people to develop the local economy.

Comrade Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council concluded the supervision session. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Based on the report of Tuong Duong district, at the meeting, the delegation members raised some concerns such as the status of residential land and production land allocated in the National Target Program; the effectiveness of models for distributing animal and plant varieties; the feasibility of the Taiwanese mango growing model being implemented in the area;...

The delegation visited a number of projects being implemented in Tuong Duong district. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Concluding the supervision session, Mr. Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council acknowledged and highly appreciated the efforts of Tuong Duong district in implementing policies on developing agricultural and forestry production and planning, arranging, relocating and stabilizing the population of ethnic minorities and mountainous areas in the area. The Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council also requested the leaders of the commune and district to closely follow the policies of the central and local governments; take care of forest protection, stabilize the lives and political security in the area.

The Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council hopes that the locality will focus on fully studying current policies, implementing them correctly, fully, promptly, closely following the grassroots, supporting and helping people develop the economy; developing economic models associated with native plants and animals.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Nhu Khoi and the delegation visited the model of crop conversion and economic development in Nga My commune. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Besides, localities need to promote the role of leaders, cadres and party members to go first, and implement models for people to follow.

During the working program, the Provincial People's Council's Supervisory Delegation conducted a field survey at the resettlement project and some production models in Luong Minh and Nga My communes.