Nghe An: More than 211 thousand poor people in difficult areas receive life support

Implementing Decision No. 3339/QD-UBND dated August 2, 2018 of the Provincial People's Committee on approving the budget estimate and organizing the implementation of the policy of direct support for people belonging to poor households in difficult areas in 2018 according to Decision 102/2009 of the Prime Minister, the Provincial Ethnic Committee has just distributed money and goods to 211,274 people belonging to poor households in communes in area II, coastal areas and communes in area III in the province.

The total amount granted in 2018 is nearly 20.3 billion VND.

Poor people in Nghia Hoan commune, Tan Ky district receive iodized salt under the support policy of Government Decision 102. Photo courtesy

Of which, 42,789 people in communes in region II and coastal areas are supported with 80,000 VND/person; 168,485 people in communes in region III are supported with 100,000 VND/person.

Poor people who are elderly, single, have no place to live, and have no land for production are supported with cash with a total amount of nearly 778 million VND; poor people who have conditions to develop production are supported in kind: iodized salt, seasoning powder, animal breeds, plants... with a total amount of more than 19.4 billion VND.

To avoid people not using up all the seasoning powder and iodized salt, this year only half of the standard is supported compared to last year.

Decision No. 102 of the Government has been implemented since 2009, by directly supporting the poor in difficult areas, with the goal of improving productivity and quality of agricultural products and gradually approaching commodity production, through support for high-quality plant and animal varieties./.