Yen Khe - the first commune of Con Cuong district to reach the New Rural Area finish line

(Baonghean) - Yen Khe commune is a pilot unit implementing the National Target Program on New Rural Development (NTM) in Con Cuong. After nearly 4 years, the commune has become the first unit in the district to complete 19/19 criteria.

In 2011, Yen Khe started building a new rural area with a low starting point, the commune only achieved 4 new rural criteria. The Party Committee and the commune government focused on determining each specific criterion with the motto of doing the easy first, the difficult later.

Yen Khe's rural roads have been upgraded and completed.

Economic development and improving people's lives are considered key tasks. To do this, the commune has converted ineffective forestry areas to growing trees with high economic efficiency. The commune People's Committee has been assigned to develop and implement a project to grow commercial oranges, associated with developing community tourism.

In order to materialize the orange planting project, the commune has stepped up propaganda and mobilization, in which party members must be the pioneers. Party member Le Quang Duyet in Tan Huong village is one of the first to respond to the implementation with 400 orange trees that have been harvested so far. In addition, he also planted 200 su trees and 300 do trees, bringing in an income of up to 200 million VND. Or the model of Mr. Lo Van Ty in Tan Huong village, Yen Khe commune has converted ineffective farming land to commercial orange growing. Now, with 400 orange trees in harvest, after deducting expenses, he earns hundreds of millions of VND in profit each year.

Ban Nua Cultural House, Yen Khe commune is invested and built to meet standards.

In Yen Khe, to solve the capital source for orange planting investment, many households have cooperated with those who have the conditions to organize production. Therefore, the area of ​​orange planting is increasing. Up to now, it has been expanded to more than 100 hectares, earning 300 - 400 million VND/ha, not only supplying the market in the district but also the whole province.

Con Cuong district leaders inspect orange gardens in Yen Khe commune.

Finding the right direction has helped people's lives to continuously improve. Up to now, the average income per capita of Yen Khe has reached nearly 20 million VND/year; the rate of well-off and rich households is increasing, the rate of poor households has decreased to only 9.98%.

The Secretary of the Party Cell of Nua village, Yen Khe commune said: "Previously, the majority of people still had the mentality of waiting, relying on others, not rising up on their own, so it was difficult to do anything. Up to now, seeing the significance of the new rural construction program, Party members and people in the village have agreed to donate land and trees to build roads. Now the roads and paths are clean, everyone is excited about the Party's policy."

Learning from experience while working, after nearly 4 years of concentrating resources, Yen Khe has basically completed 19/19 criteria and will become the first commune of Con Cuong district to meet NTM standards in 2015.

Comrade Lo Van Bien, Secretary of the Commune Party Committee, Head of the Steering Committee for New Rural Development, said: “The achievements in various fields in Yen Khe commune have affirmed the core leadership role of grassroots party organizations. Yen Khe continues to firmly consolidate the belief in the power of “Party’s will meets people’s will” on the journey of construction and development.”

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