Survey on the role of Farmers' Association in participating in new rural construction in Yen Thanh

The delegation of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers' Union was led by Comrade Bui Thi Thom - Vice President of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers' Union, Head of the Steering Committee for summarizing 10 years of implementing the national target program on new rural construction (NTM) of the Central Committee of the Union. Photo: Thanh Phuc

Working with the delegation, there was comrade Nguyen Quang Tung - Member of the Central Executive Committee of the Association, Chairman of the Provincial Farmers' Association; leaders of Yen Thanh district, leaders of Quang Thanh commune.

Clearly defining the functions and tasks of the Farmers' Association in participating in the construction of the new rural areas, in recent times, the Farmers' Association of Quang Thanh commune has propagated and mobilized cadres, members and people to clearly understand the purpose, meaning as well as their responsibilities and obligations in the program of building the new rural areas; mobilized members to promote the application of advanced science and technology in agricultural production, transforming the structure of crops and livestock, developing household economy...

The Bac Son hamlet cultural house (Quang Thanh commune, Yen Thanh) was invested in and built to meet standards with contributions from the people. Photo: Thanh Phuc

Thereby, contributing greatly to the completion of the criteria: production organization form, average income per capita/year, poverty rate...

By the end of 2018, farmer members had donated 1,770m²land, 1,560 working days and mobilized 6.4 billion VND to implement the new rural construction program. Up to now, the commune has completed 19/19 criteria.

Currently, in the commune, there is a cooperative raising chickens according to VietGAP standards with 25 members, a scale of nearly 60,000 chickens/year, an output of 166 tons of meat with a profit of 4 billion 316 million VND/year. Currently, Quang Thanh Livestock Cooperative is being established.

At the meeting, local representatives and members of the cooperative exchanged and shared experiences in developing livestock production linkage models and collective economy. At the same time, they made some recommendations and proposals on capital support; connecting supply and demand in production and product consumption; training to improve the capacity of cooperative staff, etc.

Visiting the model of good farmers and businessmen in Quang Thanh commune. Photo: Thanh Phuc

Concluding the meeting, Comrade Bui Thi Thom - Vice President of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers' Union acknowledged the role and contributions of the Quang Thanh Commune Farmers' Union in participating in building new rural areas and developing the collective economy.

At the same time, it is required that in the coming time, the Quang Thanh Commune Farmers' Association continue to mobilize members and people to actively participate in the work of building new rural areas, together with local Party committees and authorities, strive to bring the commune to meet new rural standards according to plan; Pay attention to promoting propaganda work on collective economy, cooperation links; guide the establishment of models.

On the same day, the delegation visited some typical economic models in Quang Thanh commune.