Nghe An: 4 innovations in new rural construction

On the morning of March 19, the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department held a regular reporter conference in March 2019 to inform and orient some key propaganda contents. Comrade Kha Van Tam - Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department chaired the conference. Photo: Mai Hoa

4 creative models of NTM

At the conference, comrade Nguyen Van Lap - Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) informed about the results of building new rural areas of the province, the period 2015 - 2019 and some difficulties as well as orientations in the coming time.

The leader of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Nghe An affirmed: the movement to build new rural areas in the province in recent times has mobilized the entire political system, from the Party Committee, branches, and organizations from the province to villages and hamlets; the people's strength has been strongly mobilized.

Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Van Lap reported on the results of new rural construction in the province. Photo: Mai Hoa

In particular, the implementation process from the grassroots has had many good practices and creative models, creating a basis for the province to direct and direct 4 movements: building villages and hamlets that meet the NTM standards for communes in difficult areas; building model NTM communes for communes after reaching the NTM standard; organizing the contest "Beautiful NTM communes and beautiful NTM villages and hamlets"; NTM standard gardens.

Especially from Nghe An's innovation 3 years ago, the Government launched a movement to build new rural villages and hamlets nationwide and has oriented to build advanced new rural communes for communes after reaching the finish line.

However, the Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development also said that the results of building new rural areas are still different between regions. The rate of communes achieving new rural areas in 9 delta units is 67.5% and 11 mountainous districts is only 31.5%, although the resources focused on mountainous areas are 4 times higher than in delta areas.

Thanh My Commune, Thanh Chuong District is focusing on completing the criteria to reach the NTM finish line in 2019. Photo: Mai Hoa

Some localities only focus on building infrastructure, not on developing production, innovating production organization, and increasing people's income. Some districts are not resolute, although they have the conditions or registered to reach the finish line in 2020, the rate of communes reaching the NTM finish line has not reached 70%.

Mr. Nguyen Van Lap emphasized: To achieve the goal by 2020, the whole province will have 61.5% of communes achieving NTM status, equivalent to 265 communes (currently 218 communes), requiring continued promotion of propaganda and emulation to build NTM in localities; in which emphasizing the two key pillars of doing a good job of environmental protection and increasing people's income; at the same time, not mobilizing people too much.

Propaganda on prevention and control of African swine fever

Checkpoint to control the entry into the African swine fever outbreak area in Quynh My commune, Quynh Luu district. Photo courtesy

Also at the conference, information on response to African swine fever, the Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development said that as of March 16, this disease had appeared in 18 provinces and cities across the country, including Nghe An with an outbreak detected at a livestock household in Quynh My commune, Quynh Luu district.

African swine fever is formed from a virus strain in pigs, cannot spread to other animals and cannot spread to humans; however, the most dangerous thing about this disease is that infected pigs die, threatening the livestock industry.

Therefore, the requirement for propaganda work on African swine fever needs to achieve both goals: people should not be negligent or subjective about the disease; at the same time, they should not turn their backs on pork products that are not infected with the disease.

Comrade Kha Van Tam - Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department disseminated some key propaganda contents in March 2019. Photo: Mai Hoa

Speaking about the propaganda orientation in the coming time, Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department Kha Van Tam emphasized a number of focused contents, including the prevention and control of African swine fever and a number of diseases in livestock.

In addition, the Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department also asked the reporters to focus on propagating the 44th anniversary of the liberation of the South and national reunification; the results of the implementation of the socio-economic development plan in the first quarter of 2019;

Party committees at all levels need to propagate the contents of Directive No. 32-CT/TW of the Politburo, dated February 18, 2019 on strengthening and improving the effectiveness of the Party's foreign relations in the new situation and Regulation No. 179-QD/TW, dated February 25, 2019 of the Party Central Committee on the regime of inspection and supervision of cadre work; propagate the situation in the East Sea and the current work of protecting sea and island sovereignty and the international situation...