Honoring thousands of farming households in Cua Lo for good production and business

(Baonghean.vn) - On November 14, the Farmers' Association of Cua Lo town organized the 7th Conference of Good Farmers and Businessmen, period 2012-2016.

Over the past 5 years, the Farmers' Association at all levels of Cua Lo town has focused on propagating to its members to build an aggressive mindset, not to accept poverty, to break through and develop the economy to enrich their families and hometowns.

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Provincial Farmers' Association visited good production and business model in Cua Lo town.

The association encourages members to promote economic transformation, reduce the proportion of agricultural production, and rapidly increase tourism services, small-scale industry, trade, and labor export. In agriculture, it is necessary to arrange crops reasonably, apply scientific and technical advances in production and animal husbandry, and create many high-quality products in the direction of goods serving tourism.

To help members proactively invest in production, the Association closely coordinates with relevant sectors to open 20-25 training courses each year to transfer scientific and technical advances to over 2,000 farmers; provide 250-300 tons of various fertilizers and dozens of tons of seeds. Credit with banks and credit institutions in the area, especially the Social Policy Bank, lends farmers over 58.4 billion VND, with over 1,767 households borrowing.

The Farmers Support Fund provided loans to 96 households totaling VND1.1 billion. In addition, the Association also mobilized good production and business households to register to help more than 200 farming households escape poverty and become rich.

Cua Lo leaders commended typical production and business households.

In the town, 13,902 farmer households have registered to compete in good production and business. In 2016 alone, 4,092 households registered; through evaluation, 3,433 households achieved the title of good production and business at all levels. Of these, 13 households achieved the title of central level, 39 households at provincial level, 230 households at town level and 3,151 households achieved the title of good production and business at grassroots level.

Minh Dan - Thanh Van