After implementing the conversion in the spirit of Directive 08, in recent times, many localities have continued to inherit the achieved results and continue to implement land consolidation to meet new practical requirements. In Tuong Son commune (Anh Son), talking about the effectiveness and "steps" after 2 times of land consolidation according to the directives of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, the Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Tuong Son commune said that from 2021 to now, the commune has continued to carry out the "land revolution". Specifically, raising the level of land consolidation to a "new level" when successfully accumulating and rearranging 171.15 hectares of agricultural land, including 157.2 hectares of alluvial land and 13.95 hectares of fallow land. On the fallow land area, the land consolidation has been carried out from 1,441 plots to 1,042 plots; fallow land has been converted from 89 plots to 48 plots.
Also according to the Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Tuong Son commune: "Regarding the implementation method, after the People's Committee of Anh Son district issued the project "Land consolidation, plot exchange, land accumulation" for the period of 2021 - 2025 to concretize Resolution No. 02-NQ/HU dated October 12, 2020 of the Executive Committee of the District Party Committee, term XXI on the Action Program to implement the Resolution of the 21st District Party Congress, term 2020 - 2025, the Party Committee of Tuong Son commune issued the draft 3 times for people and cadres, party members to discuss and contribute ideas to the plan and action program on continuing to consolidate land. After that, the Party Committee organized dozens of meetings at the commune, village and hamlet levels to discuss and implement. As a result, up to now, 13 hectares of land, 5% of which has been converted from corn cultivation to sugarcane cultivation for high economic efficiency. Only by continuing to consolidate land for the third time can the locality focus on Centralized land managed by collectives, large land funds can be built for intensive farming, and large fields can be built"...
The leaders of Anh Son District People's Committee affirmed that after two times of land consolidation in Anh Son District, many important results have been achieved. However, the land situation after two conversions is that agricultural land of households and individuals; agricultural land funds managed by the People's Committees of communes and towns are still fragmented, scattered in many areas, and concentrated production areas associated with product consumption have not been formed, so the application of mechanization in production has encountered many difficulties, leading to low economic efficiency per unit area.
Moreover, after the second "land consolidation and plot exchange" project in Anh Son, the map was not re-measured, so the current status of agricultural land use is still incorrect compared to the cadastral map. As a result, agricultural land in 11 communes (Dinh Son, Duc Son, Hoi Son, Hoa Son, Thach Son, Long Son, Khai Son, Cao Son, Tao Son, Vinh Son, Linh Son) is not eligible to declare and issue land use right certificates to people. The cadastral map surveying was not performed correctly in some areas of 7 communes (Binh Son, Thanh Son, Tam Son, Cam Son, Hung Son, Tuong Son, Phuc Son), leading to an increase in the number of land plots. Therefore, Anh Son district has determined to continue implementing the "land revolution" by developing and promulgating the project "Land consolidation, plot exchange, land accumulation" for the period 2021 - 2025.
Determined to build a commodity-oriented agriculture towards green and sustainable production, like Anh Son district, many other localities are continuing to carry out the "land revolution", such as Do Luong district, Quynh Luu district... Mr. Tran Van Hien - Vice Chairman of Do Luong District People's Committee said that in early August 2023, the Standing Committee of Do Luong District Party Committee had a meeting, in which it was agreed to issue a directive on continuing to implement land consolidation, restructuring the agricultural sector towards promoting "4-house" production linkages, calling on businesses to invest in agricultural industrialization to improve productivity and value of agricultural products per unit area.
In Quynh Luu district, Mr. Nguyen Xuan Dinh - Vice Chairman of the District People's Committee also affirmed that the district is developing a plan to improve the efficiency of land accumulation in the direction of building truly large "footprintless fields", in addition to promoting investment in agriculture with the goal of closing the production chain from cultivation to products sold to the market.
“To do that, first of all, Quynh Luu will research and deploy digital land management. All data on measurements, areas, and boundaries of agricultural fields of the people must be integrated and managed on the machine. Only then will people boldly destroy the banks of the fields to form large fields, enough to meet the maximum requirements of mechanization; at the same time, helping farmers feel secure in leasing land, welcoming businesses to invest in the fields” – Vice Chairman of Quynh Luu District People's Committee said.
In the period of 2021-2025 with a vision to 2030, agricultural restructuring, new rural construction associated with green growth, smart and environmentally friendly agriculture continue to receive attention from the Party and State, in which the issue of land accumulation is identified as a premise for large-scale agricultural development.
The accumulation of land into large plots for enterprises to lease, invest in systematic agriculture, and apply high technology is an inevitable trend. In recent years, from the potential, advantages as well as efforts and incentive policies, land accumulation has also led to the province's agricultural investment attraction activities achieving many significant results. Notably, large enterprises with strong economic potential have appeared, investing in the construction of concentrated raw material areas, building large-scale processing factories, playing the role of "locomotive" in developing modern agriculture. With the high-tech concentrated dairy farming project with an investment scale of 1.2 billion USD, TH Group is a pioneer enterprise, investing in high-tech agricultural production in Nghe An province, changing the face of the province's agricultural production. Some localities have also made progress in attracting investment in agriculture.
Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ms. Vo Thi Nhung shared: From the province's efforts, projects with investment capital up to hundreds of millions of USD have been implemented, bringing a new look, new production thinking, contributing to the formation of modern, high-quality agriculture with large scale and high value. In addition to Vinamilk's industrial-scale dairy farming projects, TH Group produces milk, processes purified water, fruit juice, grows clean vegetables, has had many more investment projects in the fields of forestry, tea, pineapple, orange growing, medicinal herbs, livestock...
Land accumulation and attracting businesses to the agricultural sector are also ways to produce goods on a large, concentrated scale. Mr. Nguyen Van Lap - former Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, who has been involved in agricultural production and land consolidation since the early days, said that in order to have a large, concentrated scale, land accumulation is an urgent and natural thing. Depending on the specific situation, there will be appropriate methods and scales of accumulation. It is necessary to base on the scale of the project, the type of seedlings, and the capacity of the land user to choose the form, scale, and implementation time.
“To successfully accumulate and concentrate land and effectively use the land after accumulation, it is necessary to select the subject that needs land for production with capacity, and have a highly feasible project or plan. Propaganda, mobilization, and ideology for those who do not need to use land in the project area. The participation of local authorities is extremely important and can be said to decide success; Based on the provisions of the Law to guide and orient the parties to implement, avoid errors related to legal regulations, especially on land and investment. And the interests of the parties must be clearly and transparently concerned, especially the interests of the people who agree to transfer the land" - Mr. Lap emphasized.
In terms of policy mechanisms, agricultural expert Doan Tri Tue said that the biggest difficulty is the mindset of farmers, although they are not interested in agricultural production, they still do not want to transfer land to others. Therefore, the scale of land in Nghe An is still small and fragmented, to accumulate a few dozen hectares, it is necessary to work with hundreds of households. "Therefore, it is necessary to have a fund for workers when withdrawing from agricultural production to encourage them when facing difficulties; develop social insurance for farmers so that when they withdraw from agriculture, they participate in non-agricultural production. At the same time, build an electronic land management system to provide information to investors, digitize land management. These issues cannot be solved in a day or two, but need to be paid close attention to the story of land accumulation and agricultural restructuring" - Mr. Doan Tri Tue said.
To promote the effectiveness of land consolidation after completing the land consolidation in the field, localities need to continue to promote the "hardening" of the internal traffic system to quickly bring mechanization into production; consolidate welfare works directly serving agricultural production and people's lives, creating strong changes in agricultural production, rural areas and farmers; have support policies for businesses to invest in agriculture. The Provincial People's Committee continues to direct the promotion of restructuring the agricultural sector towards increasing added value and sustainable development; planning the development of large-scale production in agriculture; continuing to encourage land accumulation, building more large fields, attracting investment projects in the agricultural sector and applying scientific and technological advances in production to bring high economic efficiency per unit area.
Currently, the draft Land Law (amended) is being reviewed and commented on by the National Assembly and ministries; the drafting agency, the reviewing agency and relevant agencies will complete it and submit it to the National Assembly at the upcoming 6th Session. Accordingly, many opinions suggest that the amended Land Law should facilitate the accumulation of agricultural land, allowing enterprises, public units, agricultural and forestry companies, etc. to autonomously lease and transfer agricultural land use rights, use agricultural land for joint ventures and production; policies to encourage land accumulation, land lease, and increase profits in agricultural production, etc. The Land Law (amended) once again demonstrates the strategies and policies of the Party and State for the agricultural sector, as well as the role of industrialization and modernization of rural areas.
With the government's determination and people's consensus, it is expected that the problems arising from land accumulation will be resolved harmoniously, and the agricultural sector will gradually restructure and effectively transform...
