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Provincial Farmers' Association: Focus on implementing key tasks, contributing to building a new countryside

16/07/2024 - Tỉnh Trà Vinh

On the afternoon of July 15, the Provincial Farmers' Association held the 4th conference, the IX Executive Committee of the Provincial Farmers' Association, term 2023 - 2028, preliminarily reviewing the work of the Association and the farmer movement in the first 6 months of the year; implementing tasks in the last 6 months of 2024.

 

View of the conference.

Comrades Quang Thanh Tu, Pham Quoc Viet, Thach Thi Ngoc Mai, Vice Chairman of the Provincial Farmers' Association co-chaired the conference.

Attending the conference were leaders of provincial departments and branches; Farmers' Associations of districts, towns and cities; members of the Executive Committee of the Provincial Farmers' Association; representatives of a number of cooperatives.

In the first 6 months of 2024, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Farmers' Association implemented the targets and tasks of the association and the farmer movement with great effectiveness. The Association at all levels organized propaganda and mobilization of members, implemented the guidelines and guidelines of the Party, policies and laws of the State and political tasks of the Association to cadres and members of farmers for 7,980 sessions, with 215,471 participants.

Mr. Nguyen Van Thuong, Chairman of the Farmers' Association of Duyen Hai town, commented on the decrease in shrimp prices, affecting farmers' profits.

 

Consolidating and establishing 09 professional farmers' associations, with 160 members, reaching 180% of the year's resolution; 82 professional farmers' associations, reaching 157.7%; there are currently 813 branches with operating funds, reaching 110.9%; admitted 803 members, reaching 80.3%, bringing up to now 130,263 members, reaching 93.8% of the total number of agricultural households; consolidating 43,477 core members, reaching 103.7%.

At the same time, the Association organized 10 professional training courses on the Association's work for 1,006 Association officials. 2,993 expenditures and associations were organized, with 69,867 turns of officials and members attending; coordinating to propagate members and farmers to register the title of "New Cultural - Rural Family" with 119,417 households registered; there are currently 114,135 households participating in health insurance and 2,140 households participating in voluntary social insurance; propagating and launching households to register for the title of excellent farmers in production and business 3,351 events, with 139,000 participants, 87,946 households registered, reaching 106% of the plan and 127,419 households registering for food safety and hygiene production, reaching 100% of the target.

Comrade Trinh Minh Hung, Deputy Director of the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs commented on the positive movement among farmers: working abroad for a limited time, stable income.

In the field of production and business, the Association has implemented 04 models of using microbial organic fertilizers, with an area of 3.6 hectares, 16 households participating. Established 103 new cooperative groups, so far there are 1,114 cooperative groups, with 15,467 members; coordinated to establish 06 new cooperatives, with 121 members, so far there are 153 cooperatives, with 8,983 members. Organizing vocational training through models and projects has 40 classes, with 1,168 trainees; organized 785 scientific and technical transfer trainings, with 29,123 participants. Supporting farmers to start 70 projects, lending to 828 households, the amount of 34 billion VND. The total capital of the Farmer Credit Fund in the province is 52,296 billion VND, currently lending to 187 projects and 1,765 households.

Notably, in the first 6 months of 2024, the Provincial Farmers' Association coordinated with Thanh Chi Agricultural Cooperative and The Fruit Republic Can Tho Company to implement a model of linking seedless lemons for export in 06 districts, with an area of over 150 hectares. In which, Cau Ngang district 06ha, Chau Thanh 25ha, Tra Cu 06ha, Tieu Can 09ha, Cau Ke 02ha and Canh Long 102ha, produced according to European standards, GlobalGAP, linked products with stable output (exported to European and Middle Eastern markets), expected to give an average income of 300-400 million VND/ha. This is a sustainable linkage model, contributing to the transformation of garden land, inefficient rice cultivation, job creation, and the formation of value chain links.

Mr. Nguyen Van Khoa, Chairman of the Farmers' Association of Canh Long district, expressed concern about the situation of pests and diseases on summer-autumn rice in some communes, affecting the production of farmers.

 

At the conference, delegates focused on discussing the targets of the resolution in 2024. In particular, many delegates are worried about the price of agricultural products, affecting the income of farmers. In particular, the opinions discussed and focused on implementing solutions to complete the targets of the resolution in 2024 according to the resolution of the congress of the Farmers' Associations at all levels. This is an important condition to work with the province to complete the task of industrial construction before 2025.

With the achieved results, Comrade Quang Thanh Tu, on behalf of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Farmers' Association, highly appreciated the efforts of the Grassroots Farmers' Association and the positive contribution of farmer members in the province.

Mr. Quang Thanh Tu, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial Farmers' Association delivered a speech at the conclusion of the conference.

Comrade Quang Thanh Tu emphasized that from now until the end of 2024, it is necessary to focus on 06 key tasks. In particular, continue to thoroughly grasp and fully implement the Party's Resolution, the State's policies and laws to farmer members; thoroughly grasp and implement Resolution No. 46-NQ/TW, dated December 20, 2023 of the Politburo "on renewing and improving the quality of activities of the Vietnam Peasants' Association to meet the requirements of revolutionary tasks in the new period". In particular, coordinating to mobilize members to respond to the emulation movement "Tra Vinh completes the task of commercial construction before 2025".

Mr. Quang Thanh Tu (right), Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial Farmers' Association and Mr. Nguyen Van Toan Co (left), General Director of Felix Technology Solutions Joint Stock Company performed the signing ceremony.

At the conference, leaders of the Provincial Farmers' Association signed a memorandum of understanding to implement the Coordination Program between the Farmers Association of Tra Vinh Province and Felix Technology Solutions Joint Stock Company on supporting members, business households, cooperatives, and enterprises of farmers to the B2B Agricultural Products E-Commerce (Felix.store) floor. connecting trade, domestic consumption and export.

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