Nghe An: Proposal to reward OCOP products according to stars

On the afternoon of October 23, the Provincial People's Committee continued its regular October meeting. Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and comrades: Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Hoang Nghia Hieu - Member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Le Ngoc Hoa - Member of the Provincial Party Committee Executive Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Bui Dinh Long - Member of the Provincial Party Committee Executive Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee co-chaired the meeting.

Overview of the working session of the Provincial People's Committee on the afternoon of October 23. Photo: Thanh Duy

At the meeting, the Provincial People's Committee listened, commented and approved the draft outline of the Resolution on Regulations on a number of policies to support the implementation ofOne Commune One Product Program(OCOP) in Nghe An province, period 2021-2025.

Accordingly, the functional sector proposed to support 50% of the total cost of purchasing machinery, equipment, technology transfer, and scientific and technical advances in the production of OCOP products, but not exceeding 500 million VND/facility; support 50% of the total cost of design, packaging, and product labels for OCOP products that have achieved stars, but not exceeding 50 million VND/product.

In addition, the draft outline also proposes to support 50% of the total cost of construction, repair, purchase of equipment for preservation, decoration of OCOP product introduction and sales points, but not more than 300 million VND/OCOP product introduction and sales point.

Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Van De presented the draft outline of the resolutions. Photo: Thanh Duy

In addition, the reward content is also included in the policy with reward levels for OCOP products achieving 5 stars, 4 stars, 3 stars. Specifically, 5-star products will be rewarded 80 million VND/product; 4-star products will be rewarded 40 million VND/product; 3-star products will be rewarded 30 million VND/product.

According to calculations, the cost of implementing this policy is about 5.25 billion VND/year and is guaranteed by the provincial budget.

Regarding this content, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Hong Vinh agreed with the promulgation policy, but suggested that it is necessary to unify the viewpoints between the subjects and conditions, principles of support; regulations on documents and procedures to receive support also need to be simplified.

Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Hong Vinh spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Concluding this content, Chairman of the People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung requested the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development - the presiding agency to receive and complete the draft outline on the following contents: reviewing the regulations on support conditions, procedures, and documents to ensure reasonableness on the principle of strictness, but also creating convenience for the supported subjects.

The Provincial People's Committee also listened to, commented on and approved the draft outline of the Resolution on a number of support policies in building new rural areas in Nghe An province for the period 2021 - 2025.

Accordingly, in the period of 2021 - 2025, the functional sector proposed levels of cement support for new rural construction at the district, commune, village and hamlet levels, along with bonuses for new rural construction. The budget to implement this policy is expected to average about 95.94 billion VND per year, and 479.7 billion VND for the whole period of 2021 - 2025.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung delivered a concluding speech. Photo: Thanh Duy

For the above two policies, after the Provincial People's Committee approves the outline, it will submit it to the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council for approval to issue a Resolution. On that basis, the competent authority will complete the draft resolution.

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(Baonghean.vn) - The above information was announced by the People's Committee of Nghe An province on the morning of October 23 at the regular October meeting chaired by Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung and Vice Chairmen of the Provincial People's Committee: Hoang Nghia Hieu - Member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Le Ngoc Hoa - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Bui Dinh Long - Member of the Provincial Party Committee.