Nghe An: When farmers are the main subjects in building new rural areas
(Baonghean) - Over the past 10 years, in the picture of building new rural areas in Nghe An, Farmers' Associations at all levels have left good impressions, recognized and highly appreciated by the people and the government...
Dedicated to the new countryside
Now, looking at the clean, green, spacious village roads and alleys with bright lights, fresh flowers, and neat rows of trees, Ms. Truong Thi Hoa, Head of the Farmers' Association of Soi Duoi Hamlet (Tho Hop Commune, Quy Hop) still remembers the days and nights of persistently "going from alley to alley, knocking on each door" to mobilize and persuade people to donate land, contribute labor and money to build roads and projects such as football fields, hamlet cultural houses; mobilizing members to participate in movements of good production and business, renovating mixed gardens, clean villages and good fields... Thanks to that, the hamlet soon completed the criteria for building new rural areas.
"Tho Hop achieved the new rural standard thanks to the active contribution of the Farmers' Association members. In addition to donating land for road construction and contributing funds according to regulations, members also actively and voluntarily contributed working days, took care of the flower road; maintained environmental sanitation; embellished the green - clean - beautiful landscape; competed in good production and business, creating a widespread competitive atmosphere. Each person understood clearly that they were the main subjects and beneficiaries in the process of building the new rural area, so they all actively contributed their efforts. Thanks to that, although it is a mountainous commune with many difficulties, the commune reached the new rural finish line in 2018."
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| The Central Farmers' Association visited the good economic model in Tan Son hamlet, Quang Thanh (Yen Thanh). Photo: Thanh Phuc |
Nghia Tho is a disadvantaged commune of Nghia Dan district, the majority of members are ethnic minorities, with limited awareness, and traditional farming practices that have been deeply ingrained in the subconscious. Entering the implementation of the national target program "Building New Rural Areas", what makes the Farmers' Association of Nghia Tho commune concerned is how to help people change their business thinking, approach new models, and good practices in production and business. The Farmers' Association of the commune discussed and advised the People's Committee of the commune, proactively contacted and coordinated with the district association, the agricultural extension station, and programs and projects to open training courses on planting and raising animals; short-term vocational training courses for local people, then went to each house to mobilize members to participate in learning, and helped them with documents and procedures.
To gain the trust of the people, the Association and its branches have pioneered in introducing new varieties into production, researching and applying techniques to develop the family economy. Then, they find ways to disseminate experiences to the people, directly "holding their hands and showing them how to do things". Currently, the whole commune has 127 households that are good at production and business at all levels, with an average income per capita of nearly 16 million VND/year; the poverty rate has decreased to 11.39%.
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| Farmers proactively apply science and technology to agricultural production. Photo: Thanh Phuc |
Ms. Dang Thuy Ha - Vice President of the Farmers' Association of Nghia Dan district shared: Promoting the role of farmers as the main subject in building new rural areas, farmer members have made positive contributions. In particular, the movement "Farmers compete in production, good business, unite to help each other get rich and sustainably reduce poverty" is one of the movements that creates a widespread effect, contributing positively to localities in completing many difficult criteria in building new rural areas such as: Increasing income, reducing poor households, changing crop structure... Not only on the economic front, farmer members also implement many meaningful cultural and social programs.
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| Farmers actively contribute working days to build the irrigation system. Photo: Thanh Phuc |
In the period 2011 - 2015, 229 association bases, 29 district-level farmer associations, 252 officials and farmer members in Nghe An were commended at all levels; in the period 2016 - 2018, 155 association bases, 8 district-level farmer associations, 154 officials and farmer members were commended for their outstanding achievements in contributing to the construction of new rural areas in the locality.
Together to build the homeland
Responding to the movement "The whole country joins hands to build new rural areas" associated with the campaign "All people unite to build new rural areas, civilized urban areas", the movement "Nghe An joins hands to build new rural areas" and emulation movements of the Association, in recent years, cadres and farmer members in the province have gradually affirmed their role in socio-economic development, carrying out many activities that have brought about practical results such as: Farmers' movement to participate in maintaining and repairing rural roads; Farmers' movement to participate in ensuring rural environmental sanitation; launching the movement "Green Sunday", building garbage pits to collect and treat organic waste in households, planting urban and rural trees, building green-clean-beautiful-civilized roads to protect the ecological environment and landscape; implementing well the movement "Clean village, good fields"; protecting the environment in production, collecting waste in rural activities; “Collecting used pesticide packaging… |
| Many movements to develop production and transfer technology to farmers have been implemented in the process of building new rural areas. Photo courtesy of PV |
At the same time, promote the movement of farmers competing in good production and business, uniting to help each other get rich and reduce poverty sustainably through practical activities suitable to the needs and aspirations of farmers such as: Coordinating with centers, vocational schools, agencies, units, and enterprises to open 2,450 short-term vocational training classes for 73,500 rural laborers, opening tens of thousands of training classes to transfer science and technology to more than 600,000 farmer members; coordinating with credit-receiving enterprises to provide deferred payment fertilizer services to farmer members, resulting in more than 150,000 tons of various types of fertilizer; receiving trust from banks to lend to farmers to develop production and business; Building, developing, managing and operating the Association's fund and the Farmers' Support Fund to build effective production and business models.
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| Bright, clean, beautiful roads managed by farmer members. Photo: Thanh Phuc |
Through the above activities, Farmers' Associations at all levels have created a vibrant emulation movement, thereby raising the sense of responsibility and obligation of cadres and members in participating in building the new rural area.
By the end of 2018, people in the province (mostly farmers) had donated over 5,960,682 m2land, contributing nearly 5 million working days; more than 5,573 billion VND to implement the new rural construction program; The movement to build new rural standard gardens launched by the Provincial Farmers' Association has received positive response from a large number of members.
Since the beginning of the year, the whole province has built 286 new-style rural gardens according to the criteria issued by the Provincial People's Committee. In 2019, 273,356 member households registered to become good farmer households in production and business, farmer member households registered to strive to become good farmer households in production and business at all levels; deployed to build 259 economic models in the fields of livestock, cultivation, and processing; directly mobilized and guided the establishment of 121 professional associations; 313 effective production and business cooperatives; opened 49 training courses on professional work of the Association for 2,800 Association officials; recruited 7,200 members.
“Determining that farmers have an important and core position in the movement to build new rural areas, both as the subject and as the beneficiaries of the program, in recent years, farmers' associations at all levels in the province have implemented many activities and movements to propagate, mobilize, and organize farmers to effectively participate in the process of building new rural areas and have achieved many remarkable results. In particular, the most prominent are the movement to donate land for road construction; compete in good production and business; build collective economy... In the current period, in the process of implementing the criteria for advanced new rural areas, farmers' associations continue to demonstrate their core role through movements such as: Building new rural standard gardens; promoting the construction of cooperative groups linking production and business; Propagating, mobilizing, guiding farmers in production, business, and consumption of safe agricultural products and food" in the period of 2019-2023.
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