New life in the border area

(Baonghean) - In order to achieve the goal of striving to eliminate hunger and sustainably reduce poverty, gradually bringing Ky Son district out of poverty, after the Congress, Party committees at all levels in this remote border district are implementing specific solutions, creating positive changes.

Leaders of Ky Son district discuss with households of Huu Kiem commune about experiences in developing effective livestock farming.

New rural border area

Huu Kiem Commune, a commune striving to reach the new rural area goal in 2018, the entire Party Committee is making great efforts to complete each criterion. Despite many difficulties, the Party Committee of the commune is determined to sustainably build each criterion, in which the income criterion for households is given great attention.

Khe Nhinh safe vegetable area (Na Luong village) is 1 hectare wide and is directly produced by 10 local households. With support in seeds, fertilizers, irrigation systems, and enthusiastic guidance from district and commune agricultural extension officers, the households diligently take care of their vegetables, so every plot of vegetables is green and lush. When we visited, in this vegetable area, the rows of huge cabbages, kohlrabi tubers protruding from the ground, and rows of green beans taller than a person... were very eye-catching, affirming the effectiveness of the model.

Huu Kiem people take care of safe vegetables in Khe Nhinh.

In Huu Kiem, the movement to put the Party's resolution into practice not only involves building a model to increase income for the people, but the Party Committee of the commune also focuses on building and developing transport infrastructure to connect the distances between villages in the commune. The wide concrete roads in Na Luong 1, Na Luong 2; Ba village... replacing the winding stone slopes of a few years ago have created a new rural face in this highland commune.

New rural roads in Ky Son

Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the People's Committee of the commune, Nguyen Huu Luong, said: "Huu Kiem is a model commune of the new rural area of ​​Ky Son district. To achieve the goal of reaching the new rural area by 2018, we are implementing a plan based on the remaining criteria that have not been achieved to direct the implementation. Among the criteria, we focus on the income criteria for people to reduce the rate of poor households sustainably by solutions to replicate safe vegetable growing models, coordinate with the Bank for Social Policies to support capital for the development of buffalo, cow, pig, chicken farming... and promote labor export."

Ensuring national defense and security and enhancing forest protection

As the core force on permanent combat duty, the Party Committee of the District Military Command has strengthened the Party's leadership role in the work of national defense and security. In 2016, with the task of focusing on building a strong and comprehensive armed force and improving the quality of combat readiness training, the units have implemented specific tasks. The unit regularly maintains the number of troops and activities of 2 permanent militia squads, 3 newly established self-defense units, regularly consolidates and improves the quality of the militia and self-defense force and coordinates smoothly with police and border units to carry out tasks.

Checking the care of the unit's vegetable area at the Military Command of Ky Son district

Lieutenant Colonel Tran Van Son, Political Commissar of the District Military Command, said: The unit has always shown high determination to build and maintain a winning unit, leading movements in the Ky Son area. This is the highest goal that the Party Committee continues to lead and direct efforts to achieve after the congress.

As for the Party Cell of the Ky Son Protective Forest Management Board, the most important political task is to lead the implementation of the protection of 162,000 hectares of protective forest. Therefore, since the beginning of the year, during the dry season, the Board has always directed the stations to strengthen patrols and coordinate with functional forces to be highly vigilant in forest protection work.

With a small staff (40 staff) and assigned to manage and protect a large area of ​​protective forest, complex terrain is always a challenge for the staff, party members and staff here. In order to effectively implement the goal of contributing to increasing forest cover in the area from 45% to 55% of the District Party Congress, the Ky Son Forest Protection Management Board has developed a project, focusing on a number of solutions such as strengthening the work of forest protection and protection; assigning specific tasks to each department and individual in conjunction with inspection and supervision work.

Party Cell Secretary Cao Van Quynh said: To limit the widespread slash-and-burn situation of people affecting the management of protective forest areas, the Board is actively coordinating with functional agencies to speed up the handover to communes and households of over 59,000 hectares of land converted to economic forest land; at the same time, recommending the District People's Committee to plan areas for slash-and-burn rotation to limit the risk of direct impact on the safety of protective forest areas.

Good forest protection and conservation is an effective solution to increase forest coverage in Ky Son district.

Comrade Vi Hoe, Secretary of the District Party Committee, emphasized: Of the 3 programs identified by the 22nd Ky Son District Party Congress, Ky Son has concretized them into 14 projects in various fields. Up to this point, nearly half of the projects have been issued, and our motto is to create a clear change immediately after the projects are issued, on the basis of focusing most on building and replicating economic models associated with sustainable poverty reduction for the people./.

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