Nghe An: 840 Cooperatives create jobs for nearly 61,000 workers
(Baonghean.vn) - Cooperatives, Cooperative Unions, production and business cooperatives linked to product value chains achieve higher efficiency, adapt to new situations, proactively invest, apply information technology, diversify products to serve local consumers and supply products to markets outside the province...
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| Panorama of the expanded Executive Committee meeting of Nghe An Cooperative Alliance. Photo: Thanh Phuc |
Morning of July 28,Nghe An Cooperative AllianceOrganize the 4th extended Executive Committee meeting, 6th term, 2020 - 2025 term.
By the end of June 2022, the whole province had 840 cooperatives; the regular labor force in cooperatives was 60,936 people. Through assessment, many cooperatives have proactively innovated production and business plans, improved the quality and scale of goods production, applied information technology, digital transformation, and exploited social networking sites to develop production and business effectively. Thereby, contributing significantly to job creation and increasing income for workers and members of cooperatives. Labor income reached an average of 4.56 million VND/month, with the aquaculture sector alone earning 8-10 million VND/person/month.
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| Many agricultural cooperative models have actively innovated and have effective production and business activities. Photo: Thanh Phuc |
The conference also frankly pointed out the limitations in the collective economic sector: The management apparatus of many cooperatives still has many shortcomings, is weak in governance and lacks dynamism; Many cooperatives have not yet benefited from preferential loans; Many cooperative models have appeared linking value chains in commodity production, but their scale is small, the application of science in production and market access is still limited, the value of goods is not high, and competitiveness in the market is weak...
The goal for the last 6 months of the year is to promote and establish 28-33 new cooperatives; mobilize the development of 10 or more member units; disburse 6 new cooperative models; build 2 more agricultural product store chains and organize 4 trade promotion activities.
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| Mr. Phan Kim Tien - Director of Sen Que Bac Cooperative gave his opinion on the policy to support the development of cooperatives. Photo: Thanh Phuc |
Implement the coordination program betweenCooperative Alliancewith departments, districts and cities, in the past 5 years, many remarkable results have been achieved. Specifically, the awareness of Party committees and local authorities on the role of collective economy in the market economy has been raised; Many effective cooperative models have been coordinated to build, contributing positively to the national target program on new rural construction and economic development in localities; advising the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial People's Committee to issue many programs and mechanisms to support collective economic development...
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Through trade promotion programs to promote products and connect goods consumption for cooperatives. Photo: Thanh Phuc |
The conference also approved the program "Strengthening trade promotion, connecting supply and demand of products and cooperatives in Nghe An province in the period of 2022-2025 and the following years"; Approving the program "Improving the effectiveness of policy consulting work for cooperatives in the new situation".
Accordingly, regarding policy consulting work for cooperatives in the new situationperiod 2022-2030and in the following time, the conference discussed and agreed to set specific goals: 100% of policies related to collective economy and cooperatives are fully and promptly informed to cooperatives and member units; Over 80% of cooperatives have access to policies on collective economy and cooperatives; Annually provide policy advice and support to 8-10 cooperatives to build models; over 75% of cooperatives when requesting advice and support are consulted and supported promptly and effectively.
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Signing ceremony of the cooperation program between the Provincial Cooperative Union and provincial departments, branches and organizations. Photo: Thanh Phuc |
At the conference, a signing ceremony of the coordination program between the Provincial Cooperative Union and provincial departments, branches, unions and People's Committees of districts and cities for the period 2022-2025 and the following years also took place./.
