(HBO) - In seven months of 2019, the Women’s Union of Mai Chau district carried out a series of activities to assist its members in starting their businesses.
The Women’s Union of Mai Chau
district transfers a charity house to its poor member in Pa Co commune’s Pa Co
Con hamlet.
Understanding the group’s demand for exchanging and learning
from business experiences, the union has organised consultations on the
subject, advising its members on market expansion and encouraging them to join
startup training courses. Regarding female farmers who wish to start their own
businesses, the union guided them to switch from small and ineffective
production models to cooperatives and value chain-based economic models.
Staff of the union focused on helping its members make
business plans and get access to credit via its collaboration with the Vietnam
Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) and the Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural
Development (Agribank).
Currently, different chapters of the union are managing over
64 billion VND (2.7 million USD) of outstanding loans from the VBSP for 1,891
local households, and more than 49.5 billion VND from the Agribank for 838
households.
Apart from promoting startup activities, the union in
collaboration with local authorities has worked to eradicate poverty in
building new-style rural areas. In the first seven months of 2019, it chapters
across the district donated more than 295 million VND, 4,425 working days, and
8,847 kg of rice for disadvantaged members./.
(HBO) - According to a report of the provincial People’s Committee on developing enterprises, a total of 400 new enterprises were set up in Hoa Binh in 2019, with total registered capital of 4,500 billion VND. In comparison with last year, the number of new enterprises dropped by 4.8 percent but the amount of capital picked up 39.7 percent.
(HBO) - In 2019, Hoa Binh province has continued to intensify investment promotion activities, enhance coordination in handling administrative procedures and implement measures to improve the business environment and remove difficulties for enterprises and investors.
(HBO) – The one commune-one product (OCOP) programme, which has been underway in Hoa Binh, has created a motivation for the growth of agriculture, rural areas and farmers. Strengthening the implementation of the programme is an effective measure to develop products at communal and district levels, while enhancing the efficiency of the new-style rural area building programme, helping transform the economic structure of the locality as well as income and living conditions of locals.
(HBO) – The People’s Committee of Da Bac district in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh held an investment promotion conference on November 27 to popularise local tourism and agricultural development potential.
(HBO) - Dong Suong Organic Agricultural Cooperative in Thanh Lap commune, Luong Son district, Hoa Binh province was established in 2017. The 33-member cooperates to form a specialized farming area to produce goods in chains, providing markets safe agricultural products.
(HBO) – A delegation of Hoa Binh province on November 21 made a working trip to Luong Son district to assess the district’s performance in implementing criteria for new-style rural area in 2019.
