(HBO) – The project "Strengthen the self-help capacities of ethnic communities,” funded by Bread for the World (BfdW), has been implemented in the four selected communes of Nuong Dam, Vinh Tien, Binh Son, and Cuoi Ha in Kim Boi district, Hoa Binh.
The
13-billion-VND project supports these communes in shifting economic structure, improving income from
the same area of farming land, creating jobs and building new-style rural
areas.
The project
comprises of a number of sub-projects, including using Participatory Guarantee
Systems (PGS) in organic agriculture.
Members of an organic vegetable production group
in Dam Trong village, Nuong Dam commune, Kim Boi packs vegetables before
labeling origin stamps.
The GPS Kim
Boi coordinating board was
founded with nine members, said Nguyen Thi Minh Anh, Vice President of the
Women’s Union of Kim Boi district and head of the committee.
With the help
from the faculty of crop production, the North Vietnam College of Agriculture
and Rural Development – a member of the coordinating board, the GPS Kim Boi coordinating board has piloted applying PGS in eight
agricultural cooperatives in three communes – Vinh Tien, Cuoi Ha and Nuong Dam
– including four organic vegetable, two safe chicken farming and two bee
farming cooperatives.
These
cooperatives have a total of 45 members who have been assisted to take a
PGS-standard test of soil and water quality. The coordinating board has opened three training courses on
organic vegetable farming and PGS monitoring, inspection and approach.
The committee
now has its own logo and origin traceability stamps while four organic
cooperatives from the villages of Lung, Dam Rung, Lam Trong and My Tay from the
four selected communes have been granted with PGS certificates after being
cross-checked by other cooperatives./.
In the first quarter of 2024, the credit institutions in the province have actively deployed the legal documents of the State and the State Bank relating to currency, credit and interest rates. At the same time, they have promoted the capital mobilization, focusing on the solutions to expand the credit investment along with strengthening the credit quality management, lending to priority programs to promptly meet the capital needs for export - business and consumer demand during Tet in 2024.
Outside the key economic region of Hoa Binh, yet Lac Son district has utilised its potential and strengths regarding labour, land, and transportation connectivity to attract investment to the locality, contributing to promoting socio-economic development.
In a move to expedite the execution and disbursement of the 2024 capital plan for ODA projects, aiming for a disbursement rate of over 90% of the allocated funding, the Hoa Binh People's Committee issued Document No. 483/UBND-KTN on April 3, 2024, regarding such efforts.
Nguyen Van Thap from Kim Duc hamlet, Vinh Tien commune, Kim Boi district, has built the brand of Hoa Qua Son for local fruits. His efforts have brought about income for his family and generated job opportunities for locals, helping hundreds of households escape from poverty.
The Hoa Binh administration was entrusted by the Prime Minister with a budget of 3.43 trillion VND (142.91 million USD) for investment in 2024. The provincial People's Council approved nearly 3.76 trillion VND, which has been meticulously allocated to projects, achieving 100% of the assigned capital plan.
Hoa Binh province has mobilised all resources to propel local agricultural products to make inroads into foreign markets, towards lifting the export turnover of key agricultural products to 137.8 million USD by 2030, accounting for 3.4% of the locality’s total export value of goods.
The locality aims to export farm produce to the US, the European Union, the UK, China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea.