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Central Highlands: 100 communes recognised as new-style rural areas

The Central Highlands provinces have more than 100 communes and one district recognised as new-style rural areas, according to the Steering Committee for the Central Highlands Region.
Central Highlands: 100 communes recognised as new-style rural areas ảnh 1Illustrative image (Source: VNA)

Dak Lak (VNA) - The Central Highlandsprovinces have more than 100 communes and one district recognised as new-style rural areas, according to the SteeringCommittee for the Central Highlands Region.

Of these communes, 50 are in Gia Lai provinceand 45 are in Lam Dong, which is also the first province in the region having adistrict recognised.

Since 2011, the Central Highlands provinces havemobilised over 90 trillion VND (3.96 billion USD) to implement the new stylerural area building programme, including 2.23 trillion VND (98.12 million USD) fromthe State budget and the remaining from organisations and individuals.

The money has been allocated rationally forcommunes, helping poor communes narrow the infrastructure gap with others.

Ethnic minority people have voluntarily donated landand working hours to the new style rural area building.

More than 1,000 effective production modelsusing high technologies in farming and aquaculture have been developed and multipliedin many localities.

For example, Lam Dong has over 43,000 hectaresof hi-tech cultivation land, accounting for 15.9 percent of its agriculturalland. As a result, agricultural production value and farmers’ income haveincreased by up to 30 percent.

The national programme on building new-stylerural areas, initiated by the Government in 2010, includes 19 criteria onsocio-economic development, politics and defence, aiming to boost rural areas ofVietnam.

The criteria cover infrastructure development, production capacity improvement,environmental protection and cultural value promotion.-VNA
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