Farmers’ unions in Luong Son district support local farmers

4/1/2021 - 5:40:35 PM

(HBO) – The farmers’ unions at all levels in Luong Son district have carried out various activities to help local farmers improve agricultural production’s output and escape poverty.

The activities were made various forms, such as developing various kinds of economic models, providing support to access preferential loans, organisng training courses, transferring science-technology, and supplying plant and animal varieties, among others.

Le Duc Minh’s household in Lam Son hamlet, Lam Son district earns good income from an effective cultivating model.

Le Duc Minh’s family in Lam Son hamlet, Lam Son district began growing fruit trees over 15 years ago. A lack of knowledge about cultivating techniques and capital made his orchard a failure.

But things began to improve when in 2011, he received support from the communal farmers’ union. Minh had the opportunities to attend science-technology transfer classes, while farming promotion experts came to guide the family in how to take care of the trees. Besides visiting plantation models in different places, he was able to access preferential loans to buy saplings and renovate his orchard.

Thanks to the assistance, Minh’s family gradually overcame difficulties. At present, the family earned nearly 100 million VND (4,300 USD) a year from the cultivation of lemongrass and pomelo. In 2019, his orchard was recognised as a model orchard in the district.

Minh is not the only one in the locality to rise out of poverty thanks to help from the farmers’ union. From 2020, the district farmers’ association has provided support for 80 members, contributing to reduce poverty rate in the locality to 2.3 percent.

According to Nguyen Phung Chinh, Chairman of the district’s Farmers’ Union, farmer assistance activities have received wide support and become an important part of the association’s programmes. The union and its local chapters have made efforts to learn about farmers’ needs and wishes and the specific situation of each poor household so as to provide them with suitable support.

The association has also organized various vocational training courses and courses offering farming knowledge and advanced techniques. Since the beginning of 2020, the association and its local chapters have held a total of 10 training courses in bee keeping, bamboo and rattan weaving, industrial sewing, and free-range chicken farming, with the participation of nearly 400 people. Fifty-seven courses have also been organized in pest and disease prevention for over 2,850 people.

Its chapters have been entrusted by the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies, the Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank) and LienViet Post Bank to provide their farmer members with soft loans. Thanks to this, a total of 308 billion VND worth of soft loans have been lent by the three banks to more than 5,300 households.

Nearly 4 billion VND has also been disbursed from the budget funded by the central and provincial farmers’ associations for 14 projects of 114 households.

These efforts have helped increase the number of successful business models in Luong Son, which generate about 800 million – 1.2 billion VND in revenue annually and employ dozens of workers each.

There were more than 4,570 farmer households winning titles by the farmers’ union at different levels in the province last year./.

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