Nghe An farmers must clearly demonstrate their role as the main subject in building new rural areas.

Morning of July 22,Provincial Farmers' AssociationOrganize an online conference to review the mid-term implementation of the Resolution of the 9th Congress of Nghe An Provincial Farmers' Association, term 2018 - 2023.

Attending the conference were comrades: Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Ngoc Kim Nam, Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Commission; Hoang Nghia Hieu, Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and representatives of a number of provincial departments and branches.

Overview of the conference. Photo: Thanh Phuc

Create loan capital to help members develop the economy

At the conference, comrade Nguyen Quang Tung - Chairman of the Provincial Farmers' Association approved the report.mid-term reviewimplementing the Resolution of the Congress of Delegates of the Farmers' Association of Nghe An province for the 2018-2023 term. According to the report, after nearly 3 years of implementing the Resolution of the Congress, the Association at all levels has had many practical programs and activities with high efficiency.

Regarding the work of building the association organization, as of June 2021, the whole province has admitted 26,584 members. The total number of members to date is 501,153, the ratio of members to farming households is 78.47%. As of June 30, 2021, the whole province has established 19 professional farmer associations and 355 professional farmer association groups.

Comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee acknowledged and commended the results that the Farmers' Association at all levels had achieved in the past half term. Photo: Thanh Phuc

In order to support members with capital for economic development, the Association has taken out entrusted loans from banking channels and investment sources. Up to now, the total outstanding loan balance managed by the Nghe An Farmers' Association has reached 2,798 billion VND with nearly 70,000 households borrowing capital; the total capital source to support farmers is nearly 76 billion VND, an increase of 43.5% compared to the beginning of the term. All loan models have developed well, increasing stable income, creating jobs for rural workers, giving the average income of each regular worker from 5-7 million VND/month.

In addition, during the past half term, farmers' associations at all levels directly and jointly opened 682 short-term vocational training classes for 22,512 rural workers; over 78% of students after vocational training created jobs for themselves or found new jobs; 1,036 effective economic development models were built.

In particular, every year, the association at all levels has propagated and mobilized 60% of farmer member households to register to become households.good farmers and businessmen, in which the number of farming households meeting the criteria of good farming and business households at all levels reached 50%.

From the emulation movement of good production and business, hundreds of effective economic models have emerged, contributing to changing the face of the countryside. Every year, good production and business farmers at all levels have guided and disseminated knowledge and experience to help over 150,155 workers find jobs; effectively helping 88,089 households with difficulties in capital, technical materials, and production and business experience.

Comments from Cua Lo bridgehead. Screenshot: Thanh Phuc

Implementing the National Target Program on New Rural Construction, from 2019 to now, all levels of the association in the province have mobilized farmers to contribute 1,641,832 million VND; built and repaired 1,364.75 km of rural roads, 1,176.9 km of canals of all kinds, and upgraded hundreds of irrigation works such as embankments, culverts, and pumping stations for irrigation.

At the conference, many opinions were discussed enthusiastically from the following locations: Ky Son, Thanh Chuong, Do Luong, Cua Lo, Nghia Dan... The opinions focused on improving the quality of the Association's activities; Sharing experiences and good practices in linking production, business, and product consumption; How to raise association funds by organizing associations to receive fields for cultivation; Experience in promoting funds to support farmers in economic development...

Promoting the role of the subject in implementing the National Program on New Rural Construction

In the coming time, the association at all levels will clearly define its tasks and roles as mobilizing farmers to develop agriculture and rural economy associated withbuilding new rural areas, civilized urban areas and sustainable poverty reduction.

Delegates attending the conference. Photo: Thanh Phuc

Accordingly, the Association at all levels focuses on promoting the movement "Farmers compete in production and business, unite to help each other get rich and reduce poverty sustainably". In particular, focusing on propaganda and mobilizing farmers to consolidate land plots, apply scientific and technological advances, invest resources to mechanize production and business, thereby strongly changing the awareness of members and farmers from small-scale, spontaneous production and business to joint ventures and cooperation, from agricultural production thinking to sustainable agricultural economics.

Promote service activities to support farmers in terms of capital, agricultural materials, vocational training, science and technology transfer training... to create a favorable environment to support farmers in developing production and business.

In the process of building the new rural areas, Farmers' Associations at all levels clearly demonstrate their role as the main subject, building many good production and business models. Photo: PV

At the same time, actively deploy activitiesproduct consumption connectionfor members and farmers. Organize consulting activities, guide members and farmers to connect, consume products, sales knowledge, especially online sales so that farmers can bring agricultural products to the market, expand agricultural product consumption channels, ensure stable output, limit the situation of "good harvest, low price, good price, bad harvest".

In particular, in the process of implementing the criteria on collective economy in building new rural areas, the Association continues to effectively implement the "Project on Farmers' Association participating in developing cooperative groups in the period of 2019-2023" linking the construction of collective economic models with the construction of branches and professional associations. In particular, focusing on the construction of star-rated OCOP products with farmer members as the main subjects....

In many places, farmers have done a good job of land consolidation and mechanization in production. Photo: Thanh Phuc

Speaking at the conference, comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee acknowledged and commended the results that the Farmers' Associations at all levels have achieved in the past half term. Regarding solutions and tasks in the coming time, comrade Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee directed that Farmers' Associations at all levels need to focus on the following specific issues:

The first, need to pay attention to propaganda and mobilize members to change production thinking, forming commodity market thinking in agricultural production;

Monday, building links in production, business and consumption of agricultural products through cooperative models, cooperative groups and professional associations;

Tuesday,Carry out vocational training well in line with practical needs for members, teach the professions that members need and society needs, and teach professions in conjunction with job creation;

Wednesday, promoting the role of farmers as the main subject in building new rural areas associated with projects on environment, agricultural product consumption, farmers' cooperatives...