National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue and Chairman of the Vietnam Farmers’ Union Luong Quoc Doan present an award to Pham Ngoc Than, a farmer from Dak Lak province. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Sixty-three individuals were honoured with the title “Outstanding Vietnamese Farmer 2021” at a ceremony held in Hanoi on December 2.
The winners include nine males and nine ethnic minority people.
Addressing the ceremony, Chairman of the Vietnam Farmers’ Union (VNFU) Luong Quoc Doan said in the past two years, Vietnamese farmers have continued to overcome difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and stay united to help each other reduce poverty, contributing to the development of the homeland and the country as well as join hands to build a rich and beautiful new-style countryside and civilised urban areas.
National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue and Chairman of the Vietnam Farmers’ Union (VNFU) Luong Quoc Doan present awards to outstanding farmers in the field of digital transformation, new rural areas and national security. (Photo: VNA)Honouring excellent Vietnamese farmers is to recognise their efforts, ethics and creativity to agricultural production, new-style rural building and national defence, he said, adding that it is expected to help spread the model of new-generation farmers in the national industrialisation and modernisation period.
This was the ninth time the ceremony had been held by the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers' Union to honour Vietnamese farmers.
At the ceremony, on behalf of leaders of the Party and the State, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue presented the certificates of merit to the honoured farmers./.
