Central Farmers' Association held a meeting on the work of Emulation Cluster No. 2 in Nghe An

On the morning of December 14, in Vinh city, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers' Union held a conference to review the union's work and farmers' movement in 2020, Emulation Cluster No. 2.

Attending the conference were comrade Dinh Khac Dinh - Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee.Farmers' AssociationVietnam. On the side of Nghe An province, there was comrade Hoang Nghia Hieu - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee. Photo: Thanh Le

Complete the competition targets

The report at the conference assessed that in 2020, in the context of many difficulties, Farmers' Associations at all levels in provinces and cities in Cluster 2 (11 provinces: Hanoi, Hung Yen, Ha Nam, Thai Binh, Ninh Binh, Nam Dinh, Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri) focused on directing the implementation of the Association's work and farmers' movements with a focus, close to reality and achieved many positive results.

Basically, 11 provinces and cities have completed and achieved the emulation targets compared to the 2020 plan.

Comrade Dinh Khac Dinh - Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Vietnam Farmers' Union delivered the opening speech at the conference. Photo: Thanh Le

The Association at all levels has focused on guiding and mobilizing farmer members to build collective economic models, branches and professional association groups. There have been many examples of farmers competing in good production and business, uniting to help each other get rich and sustainably reduce poverty, continuing to develop in both breadth and depth, with a spreading effect among farmer members.

At the same time, the association at all levels has promoted service activities, consulting, support, vocational training, effectively coordinated with banks to support capital for farmer members to borrow to develop production, eliminate hunger and reduce poverty; actively implemented the program of building new rural areas, civilized urban areas and protecting the environment.

Through the Association's work and the farmers' movement, it has gathered and attracted members to participate in Association organizations.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Hoang Nghia Hieu spoke at the conference. Photo: Thanh Le

Care and support for farmers

Discussing at the conference, the Farmers' Associations of the provinces shared new models, good practices, models of organizing branches, professional associations, managing the quality of members, improving the quality of staff in the new situation; affirming the role of farmers in building new rural areas.

Delegates recommended that the Central Committee create conditions to supplement the fund to support farmers and develop livelihood plans for farmers in flood-affected areas.

Pay attention to creating favorable conditions to help and support Farmers' Associations at all levels to carry out assigned political tasks, especially in terms of knowledge and funding to build value chains in agricultural production, build OCOP products; connect farmers to produce according to collective economic models, value chains associated with continuing to promote and improve the effectiveness of the movement "Farmers compete in good production and business, unite to help each other get rich and sustainably reduce poverty" and build new rural areas,...

Comrade Mai Bac My - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the International Committee of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers' Union reported on the results of the Union's work and the farmers' movement in 2020, Emulation Cluster No. 2. Photo: Thanh Le

Speaking at the conference, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Hoang Nghia Hieu reported on the socio-economic development results of Nghe An province in recent times.

Currently, Nghe An has more than 83% of the rural population. Agriculture and rural development are considered one of the pillars of the economy, contributing significantly to the socio-economic development and ensuring national security and defense of the province.

Model of growing squash in greenhouses of farmers in Nghi Loc district. Photo: Thanh Le

Regarding the results achieved in all fields, Nghe An province has acknowledged and highly appreciated the contributions and roles of the Farmers' Association at all levels and the farmers' movement in the whole province. The movement of farmers competing in good production and business, uniting to help each other get rich, sustainably reduce poverty and build new rural areas continues to be promoted and achieves many positive results, with more and more examples of good production and business, and many highly effective agricultural models appearing.

Chairman of Nghe An Farmers' Association Nguyen Quang Tung speaks at the conference. Photo: Thanh Le

Farmers' Associations at all levels have played a good role as a bridge to support farmers in terms of scientific and technical knowledge, production skills, business linkages, product processing and consumption, etc., actively implementing the One Commune One Product Project.

The Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized: The Resolution of the 19th Nghe An Provincial Party Congress for the 2020-2025 term continues to affirm that the agricultural sector is still the pillar of the economy and continues to implement many stages and breakthroughs such as: restructuring; developing agriculture in depth and multi-function; smart agriculture; high-tech agriculture,... Therefore, the role of the Farmers' Association in the coming period is extremely important.

On this occasion, on December 13 and 14, the Farmers' Association of 12 Northern and North Central provinces under Emulation Cluster No. 2 visited the livestock farm; Nui Tien Pure Water, Herbs, Fruits Factory and TH Group's Milk Processing Factory.

Farmers' Associations from various provinces visited the TH dairy farm in Nghia Dan. Photo: Minh Thai