Nghia Phu (Nghia Dan): Success from effectively mobilizing people's strength

(Baonghean) - Nghia Phu Commune is located in the Northeast of Nghia Dan District; originally separated from the 22/12 Farm. Implementing the new rural construction, after surveying, determining the current situation, comparing with the criteria and support policies of the province and district, on the one hand, Nghia Phu proposed a roadmap to implement each criterion every year; on the other hand, when conditions allow, it takes advantage of the opportunity to reach the finish line early.

A corner of the new countryside in Phu Tien hamlet, Nghia Phu commune (Nghia Dan).

Comrade Truong Quang Thang - Chairman of Nghia Phu Commune People's Committee shared: Initially, when implementing the new rural construction, with many difficulties in investment resources, people and officials also had certain concerns and worries. Therefore, the commune set the goal of reaching the finish line by 2018. However, the implementation process, from good propaganda and consensus of the people; together with the support mechanism of the province and district, has motivated the people to complete the goal of reaching the new rural finish line in 2016.

Along with propaganda and mobilization of the people, the commune has issued guiding documents and organized implementation. One of the solutions identified by Nghia Phu is that instead of launching simultaneously, when implementing the criteria, the commune chooses a point to serve as a model (in the field of launching new rural traffic, Phu Hoa hamlet is chosen); then the hamlets come to visit, learn, and meet to discuss how to organize and mobilize the people, in order to promote the general movement.

With that approach, although the population is not large (Nghia Phu commune has 3,000 people/715 households), within 5 years, since 2010, Nghia Phu has mobilized 48.447 billion VND from people for investment and contribution, accounting for 38% of the total investment resources for building new rural areas. The largest investment is in the field of transportation - irrigation, the commune mobilized nearly 27 billion VND for renovation, of which people contributed 10.43 billion VND to harden 27.24 km out of a total of 34.6 km of concrete roads and upgrade a series of dams, irrigation canals.

Taiwanese guava model for high income of Mr. Pham Van Ngai in Phu Loc hamlet.

In addition to upgrading essential infrastructure for production and travel, one of the criteria that the commune pays special attention to is investment in the fields of education, health and culture. In fact, when entering the construction of the new rural area, 3/3 of schools and health care facilities have not met standards; no hamlet has achieved the title of Cultural Village, and most of the hamlet and commune cultural and sports facilities have degraded. These are difficult criteria when reaching the new rural area finish line, so the commune is determined and has a specific investment roadmap. Along with mobilizing resources from socialization and people's strength, the commune applies and integrates resources for investment.

In 5 years, the commune mobilized nearly 15 billion VND to implement the criteria, of which the largest was education with 7.824 billion VND. Thanks to that, up to now, 3/3 schools and medical stations have met national standards, 6/6 hamlets have met Cultural Village standards and most cultural institutions have met standards.

Along with upgrading infrastructure and conditions to improve the quality of education, health care or culture and sports, through research we found that the group of criteria that Nghia Phu commune does very well and is not inferior to other communes is developing economic models and reducing poverty.

As a locality with farm land accounting for nearly 1/3 of the production land area, in addition to participating in the farm production chain, Nghia Phu has also built its own seedling models. Within 5 years, through projects and plans, Nghia Phu mobilized 63.1 billion VND to invest in production development, increase income, create jobs, and reduce poverty for the people. In addition to the area of ​​sugarcane, rubber, oranges, and tangerines that people received land to grow for the farm, recently the commune has developed seedlings with high economic efficiency. Typical models are citrus trees (oranges, tangerines) in Phu Thang hamlet, Taiwanese guava in Phu Loc hamlet, and dairy cow farming in Phu Tien hamlet...

Farmers' Association officials discuss with the owner of a 5-hectare citrus model in Phu Thang hamlet, Nghia Phu commune (Nghia Dan).

Currently, Nghia Phu is one of the pioneer communes in cooperating with TH Milk Company to produce a model of 15 hectares of high-yield sugarcane varieties and will soon expand it; the commune also established a cooperative group to grow high-yield, high-quality sugarcane with 20 members, with an average income of 40 million VND/ha/household; dozens of guava, orange and livestock models bring in income from tens to hundreds of millions of VND per year.

Thanks to the above diverse models, the average income per capita increased from 13 million VND and the poor household rate of 4.8% in 2011 to 24 million VND and the poor household rate decreased to 2.38% in 2016. Not only that, from the severe pressure due to unemployment or land repossession or farm conversion, up to now 95.77% of workers have regular jobs and stable income.

From a commune starting with only 9 criteria, after more than 5 years, Nghia Phu has completed 19/19 NTM criteria and is a typical example of Nghia Dan district in exploiting land advantages and developing new seedlings. Coming to Nghia Phu today, the residential areas which used to be old farming teams and teams have now been renovated and are full of new vitality with many concrete roads meeting standards. From home gardens to hill gardens, everywhere you can see guava, orange, and tangerine models laden with fruit; from new sugarcane varieties to green pastures, promising a new future and value.

Nghia Phu Kindergarten.

Comrade Truong Quang Thang - Chairman of Nghia Phu Commune People's Committee excitedly added: The commune announced and received the Certificate of recognition of meeting the new rural standards right on the occasion of the commune's 20th anniversary, so the joy was multiplied. The greatest joy, along with upgrading the infrastructure, serving production, the commune has ensured the conditions for people to settle down in their new homeland by upgrading and expanding more roads, electricity systems - schools - medical stations, cultural houses...

We believe that with the joint efforts and consensus of the people, Nghia Phu commune will not only maintain the achieved criteria but also continue to develop, meeting the criteria and requirements in the new period.

Nguyen Hai