Resolution on land consolidation and plot exchange brings into practice in Nghi Loc

(Baonghean.vn) - One of the successful breakthroughs of Nghi Loc district is the completion of land consolidation, overcoming fragmentation, creating large plots to develop agricultural production in the direction of goods. Thanks to that, the lives of people here have gradually improved.

Nghi Lam is the leading commune in Nghi Loc district in implementing land consolidation. By the end of 2013, each household in the commune only had 1.4 rice plots; the commune built 150 hectares of large-scale model fields with high-quality commercial rice varieties such as RVT, Thien Uu 8, T10, Bac Thom, bringing in an income of over 70 million VND/ha/year.

Mr. Dang Tho Tien's Australian fattening cattle farm in hamlet 2, Nghi Lam commune earns a profit of 500 million VND/year.

Mr. Tran Van Binh - Vice Chairman of Nghi Lam Commune People's Committee said: "To do a good job of land consolidation and plot exchange, officials at all levels in the commune directly dialogue with the people so that they can see the benefits of land consolidation and plot exchange; discuss with the people how to divide to ensure fairness and objectivity; continue to dialogue and propose solutions to resolve any remaining issues or disagreements."

In Nghi Kieu, with the characteristics of a mountainous commune, there is a lot of hillside land area to develop farm and family economy. During the land conversion process, the Party Committee, the commune and hamlet authorities mobilize households in need to convert agricultural land to ineffective farming land areas to build farms at a rate of 10 times.

Farm of nearly 1,000 lemon trees of Mr. Tran Dinh Tuan - Hamlet 1A, Nghi Kieu commune

Thanks to that, by the end of 2015, Nghi Kieu commune had 7 more large-scale farms built on newly converted land areas. Bringing the total number of farms in the area to 17. A typical example is the 2-hectare farm of Mr. Tran Dinh Tuan in hamlet 1A with nearly 1,000 lemon trees and nearly 100 wild pigs. The average annual income is nearly 200 million VND.

Mr. Cao Van Hoang's farm raising super lean sows in hamlet 1, Nghi Van commune earns a profit of 2.1 billion VND/year.

Mr. Vo Van Son - Specialist of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Nghi Loc district said: "The Standing Committee of Nghi Loc District Party Committee has issued Resolution 09/NQ/HU on continuing to mobilize farmers to "consolidate land plots" to improve efficiency in agricultural production". The District People's Committee has also supported nearly 16 thousand tons of cement for rural traffic construction associated with land consolidation. In 2 years alone (2014 and 2015), the district supported 1.3 billion VND for communes that registered to complete the project".

After nearly 4 years of actively implementing the resolution on land conversion, up to now, communes in Nghi Loc district have allocated land to people with an average of 1 to 3 plots per household; creating conditions for people to apply mechanization in production, contributing to increasing productivity and crop output; many large-scale, concentrated livestock farms have appeared.

Hong Vinh

Nghi Loc Station