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Many a profound change for Dong Nai’s farmers in the construction of the new countryside

Up to now, Dong Nai has always maintained its leading position in terms of the achievements in the construction of the new countryside and has been the first province to have 100% of its communes and districts meeting requirements for the standard new countryside. Particularly, Xuan Loc is one of the four districts in the country to be selected for piloting the new countryside construction model. In addition, Dong Nai does not chase after achievements but always aims to construct a new countryside in depth and the final goal is to promote the development of agricultural production and improve the life of farmers in the countryside and the evidence for this is the achievements of agriculture and sustainable rural development in the period of 2008-2018 of Dong Nai province.

Specifically, in the period of 2008-2018 the province poured a total investment capital worth VND330 trillion into agriculture – farmers - countryside.

In particular, the State budget accounts for nearly 12% and the rest is from credit capital sources, businesses and people. Dong Nai’s prominent point is its comprehensive, efficient and sustainable economic development. As a result, the income of the rural people in localities shows a 3 – 4 fold increase compared to that 10 years ago. Many poor districts have made a breakthrough, increasing the average income of people in rural areas to impressive levels such as Trang Bom district reaching over VND61.2 million/person/year and Vinh Cuu district reaching over VND56 million/person/year.

Dong Nai is not only the leading province in the country with 100% of communes and districts reaching new rural standards and with 26 communes reaching new advanced rural standards but also a pioneer in the post-construction period of the new countryside. Accordingly, Xuan Loc district in Dong Nai province was chosen to pilot the new model rural district in the country. For the evaluation of the new post-countryside in Dong Nai, 6 out of 14 communes have met new rural standards; Xuan Loc is likely to meet the requirements for a standard new rural district in the country. The highlight of Dong Nai is its comprehensive, efficient and sustainable economic development. According to a report by the Coordination Office for the New Countryside Program, the province’s agricultural production has seen many models of hi-tech production and clean agriculture.

Specifically, the model of growing Viet GAP grapefruits gives an income of VND1.2-2 billion/ha; high-tech shrimp farming earns from VND2.5-3 billion/ha; and so on. Thanks to the development of agriculture towards modernity and sustainability, the income of rural people in localities has shown a 3-4 fold increase compared to that 10 years ago. Many poor districts have made a breakthrough to increase the average income of rural people to impressive levels such as Trang Bom district reaching over VND61.2 million/person/year and Vinh Cuu district reaching over VND56 million/person/year.

In the coming time, according to the general orientation Dong Nai will continue to focus on improving the quality of new rural areas, and take measures to increase sustainable income for rural people.

According to the general orientation, Dong Nai will continue to focus on improving the quality of new rural areas, and take measures to increase rural people’s income in a sustainable way. Accordingly, localities will make specific plans and put forward solutions for seeking for a roadmap to improve the construction of new rural communes and districts and the next step is a standard new countryside.

Dong Nai has just implemented the program of “One commune, one product”, which contributes to the national goal of building a new countryside with a focus on developing agricultural, non-agricultural products and beneficial services in each locality based on the value chain, which is implemented by both private and collective economic sectors. Recently, Xuan Loc district has been selected to pilot a new rural district model in the country towards “Developing a sustainable agricultural goods production” in the period of 2018-2025. Accordingly, Xuan Loc will take production development as a focus, set specific goals of people’s income and production value, strive to bring all agricultural products into a chain with leading companies, and develop cooperatives to gather farmers’ investment capital in production. Particularly, the total capital needed to implement the project is about VND28,300 billion with phase 1 in 2018-2020 period, focusing on comprehensive quality improvement of new rural criteria and model fields and striving to have 8 out of 14 communes meeting the newly-improved rural standards by 2020 and 3 communes meeting new rural standards

In the second phase, 3 more communes will be recognized as the improve new countryside and 3 others will reach the standard new rural model towards a sustainable agricultural goods production.

Duy Minh (Dieu Linh)