Nghi Loc: Promoting the new rural construction movement

(Baonghean) - With the dynamism of the district leaders and the participation of the entire political system, the new rural construction program in Nghi Loc district has initially achieved clear results; the rural appearance is increasingly improving, up to now the whole district has 2 communes meeting new rural standards, 7 communes meeting 15 criteria or more...

Provincial leaders awarded the Certificate of recognition of Nghi Xuan commune meeting new rural standards. Photo: D.C.

Identifying the construction of new rural areas as a large, comprehensive, and comprehensive program to improve the material and spiritual life of the people, during the implementation process, Nghi Loc has correctly assessed the rural situation of each commune, found potential advantages, selected solutions that are highly effective and suitable to the characteristics and situation of each locality to build a suitable roadmap. The Standing Committee of the District Party Committee and the Steering Committee for New Rural Areas of the district have directly worked to listen to and give opinions on the construction of new rural areas in key communes. Thereby, orienting the plan, removing difficulties for localities in the implementation process. Focusing on urging and inspecting periodically every month and every quarter for leadership and direction.

In order to create consensus and competitive spirit among localities, Nghi Loc has done a good job of mobilizing, propagating, and mobilizing organizations to join in, building a column "Improving the construction of new rural areas" to propagate through the radio system of communes with a minimum duration of 15 minutes/week, with many articles praising typical movements and examples in building new rural areas in communes; there are news bulletins, propaganda articles about new rural areas on the radio system and many articles and reports on building new rural areas published in Nghe An Newspaper and the provincial Radio and Television Station. The Fatherland Front Committee, the District Mass Mobilization Committee have focused on directing the grassroots to do a good job of propagating the implementation of grassroots democracy regulations, building cultural life in residential areas, mobilizing resources, directing and supervising the community to build rural infrastructure. Mass organizations are responsible for mobilizing members to be exemplary in shifting the structure of crops and livestock; Building economic models, applying scientific and technical advances to production to achieve high quality productivity, aiming at commodity production. Implementing village road sanitation programs, hunger eradication and poverty reduction, managing and protecting self-managed association roads well... Through advocacy and propaganda work, there has been a change in awareness of all levels, sectors and people about the content and significance of the program, the role of rural people as the main subject in building new rural areas. Many new rural construction movements have spread to communes such as: Land donation movement for road construction, land conversion movement according to Directive 08/CT.TU... Many communes in previous years had difficulties in creating mass movements for new rural construction, but in 2014 there were many advances such as: Nghi Cong Nam, Nghi Tien, Nghi Hung, Nghi Phong,... Grassroots democracy was promoted, the contents of the new rural construction program in Nghi Loc were assigned to the people for discussion and decision based on the state's orientation. Therefore, the land donation and road construction movements were really effective. Investment procedures were gradually simplified, capital sources were integrated so that farmers could proactively implement them.

In 2014 alone, people in the district continued to donate 6,000m2 of garden land to build rural roads, dismantled more than 6,500m of embankments, and mobilized more than 65,000 working days to build new rural areas. Communes that launched good movements include: Nghi Van, Nghi Lam, Nghi Long, Nghi Phong, Nghi Hoa, Nghi Kieu, Nghi Dong, Nghi My, Nghi Thach, Nghi Thai,... People in the whole district donated 51 hectares of rice fields, mobilized more than 1,000 machine shifts and 45,000 working days to build internal traffic and irrigation, serving the work of land consolidation, digging and filling tens of thousands of cubic meters of soil to level the fields, building embankments and irrigation canals. Many communes have done well in land consolidation such as: Nghi My, Nghi Van. Up to now, the communes of Nghi Lam, Nghi Trung, Nghi Kieu, Nghi Hoa, Nghi Van, Nghi Quang,... have basically completed the land conversion; Implemented asphalting and hardening of 40 km of rural roads; actively integrated projects and mobilized people to contribute to solidifying 8 km of canals, upgrading 4 dams, basically meeting design capacity and requirements to serve people's lives. The total capital mobilized to implement the New Rural Development Program in 2014 is estimated at 1,544.1 billion VND.

In 2014, Nghi Loc also focused on directing the promotion of the transformation of crop and livestock structures. Step by step applying scientific and technological advances after the transformation, such as: Expanding the area of ​​high-quality pure rice, gradually reducing the area of ​​hybrid rice, associated with the construction of large-scale fields in the direction of sustainable concentrated commodity production. Building 4 large-scale field models for rice production in Nghi Kieu, Nghi Lam, Nghi Van and Nghi Dien, 3 models of restoring L14 peanut varieties to serve high-purity varieties for peanut production in the following years. With that result, the district has increased the total annual food output to over 94,000 tons, reaching 109.79% of the plan.

Processing food at an Australian cattle farm in Nghi Lam commune (Nghi Loc). Photo: Cong Sang

In addition, to increase income for local people and exploit idle labor, Nghi Loc also focuses on developing traditional craft villages: shipbuilding, bamboo and rattan weaving... Typically, in Nghi Thai commune, 10/11 bamboo and rattan weaving villages have been recognized as craft villages and the district is focusing on directing the successful construction of craft communes in 2015.

With the consensus of the people, the drastic direction of the district leaders, the participation of political organizations and unions in the whole district, up to now, Nghi Loc has had 2 communes Nghi Thai and Nghi Xuan completing 19/19 criteria and received the certificate of new rural standards, 7 communes achieved 15 criteria or more including: Phuc Tho (17 criteria), Nghi Long (17 criteria), Nghi Trung (17 criteria), Nghi Lam (16 criteria), Nghi Hoa (16 criteria), Nghi Thinh (15 criteria) and Nghi Hop (15 criteria)...

Promoting the achievements, in 2015, Nghi Loc continued to innovate the direction, management, planning methods, strengthen the inspection and supervision work of the district and sectors towards the grassroots on the task of building new rural areas; promote propaganda to raise awareness for Party committees, authorities and all people about the purpose and significance of the new rural construction program; focus resources, integrate investment programs, projects, support policies issued to build technical infrastructure, especially for localities striving to achieve new rural communes in 2015. Direct the effective implementation of resolutions, programs, projects, and plans issued in conjunction with the task of building new rural areas. Strengthen and improve the responsibility and quality of direction and management of Party committees, authorities, and responsibilities of organizations in implementing the new rural program. Determined to successfully complete the target set by the Resolution of the XXVII District Party Congress, at least 20% of communes will achieve NTM status in 2015. Specifically, strive for the following communes in 2015 to achieve new rural status (in which Nghi Lam, Phuc Tho, Nghi Trung must reach the finish line before June 2015). The remaining communes must each complete 2-3 more criteria, while continuing to improve the quality of the criteria they have achieved.

Le Van Khang

Deputy Secretary of District Party Committee, Chairman of Nghi Loc District People's Committee