Nghe An Farmers' Forum shares experiences in building new rural areas
On the morning of November 21, the Standing Committee of the Farmers' Association of Nghe An province organized the Forum "Promoting the role of farmers' associations in building advanced new rural areas and model new rural areas".
At the Forum, delegates shared valuable experiences and good practices in promoting the role of farmers in building new rural areas.
Attending the forum were comrades of the Provincial Farmers' Association Standing Committee, representatives of relevant departments and branches, leaders of Do Luong district and a large number of officials and farmer members at all levels. Comrade Le Van Luong - Head of the Department of Economic Cooperation and Rural Development of Nghe An and comrade Vo Van Phong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial Farmers' Association chaired the conference.
According to the report of the agricultural sector, after more than 13 years of implementation, the national target program on new rural construction has truly become a strong and widespread movement throughout the province, with the participation of the entire political system and the enthusiastic response and active participation of the majority of people, achieving many outstanding results.
Up to now, the whole province has 320/411 communes meeting the new rural standards (accounting for 77.86%), reaching 96.97% of the plan; 101 communes meeting the advanced new rural standards (accounting for 31.56% of new rural communes), reaching 76.5% of the plan; 16 communes meeting the model new rural standards (accounting for 5% of new rural communes), reaching 69.56% of the plan; 10 district-level units have completed their tasks/met the new rural standards; 1 district (Nam Dan) has been assessed by the provincial Appraisal Council as an advanced new rural district and is completing its dossier to submit to the Central Government for appraisal; The average criteria for the whole province is 17.2 criteria/commune.
According to the Central Government's report, up to now, the results achieved by Nghe An province are basically equal to and higher than the average results of the whole country.
Contributing to these achievements, it is necessary to mention the role of farmer members and the association at all levels. Accordingly, in recent times, farmers' associations at all levels in the province have regularly promoted propaganda and mobilized members to actively respond and participate in building advanced new rural areas and model new rural areas through practical actions, such as: Propagating and disseminating the Party's policies and the State's policies to raise awareness for members and farmers in participating in building advanced new rural areas and model new rural areas; propagating and mobilizing to guide farmers in applying scientific and technological advances in production and business.
Support the construction of effective and sustainable rural economic development models; participate in the construction and improvement of OCOP product quality; organize activities to contribute to improving the quality of rural labor resources; launch and effectively implement the Movement "Farmers compete in production, good business, unite to help each other get rich and reduce poverty sustainably"; the movement of farmers to protect the rural environment;...
At the forum, delegates focused on discussing the advantages and difficulties in the process of participating in the construction of advanced new rural areas and model new rural areas of farmers' associations at all levels in the province in recent times; Sharing experiences, good practices, and creativity of farmers' associations at all levels in participating in the construction of advanced new rural areas and model new rural areas in localities.
At the same time, orient tasks and solutions to promote the role of farmers' associations in building advanced new rural areas and model new rural areas in the coming time.
Speaking at the forum, comrade Vo Van Phong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial Farmers' Association emphasized: "I request that comrades, with their practical leadership experience, provide information, share experiences, and propose tasks so that the forum can find many useful solutions to promote the role of farmers' associations at all levels in building advanced new rural areas and model new rural areas in the coming time; contributing to socio-economic development and new rural construction of the province to achieve high results".