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The Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long is taking measures to promote the potentials of ethnic minority areas to develop them comprehensively and sustainably.

The southern province of Binh Phuoc plans to mobilise resources to implement a plan to help 1,000 ethnic minority households get rid of poverty in 2021.

Increasing the sericulture area is optimal for restructuring agriculture in Lam Dong province since it provides farmers with a steady income, local officials said.

Growing medicinal plants has helped tackle hunger and poverty for ethnic minority people in the central province of Quang Nam’s Tay Giang district, according to Nong Thon Ngay Nay (Countryside Today) newspaper.

In addition to the increase in quantity, credit quality has also improved, with loans given to right people and overdue debt reaching only 0.4 percent, with almost no bad debt.

Social policy credit has lifted more than 2 million ethnic minority households out of poverty as of August 31, said Director General of the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) Duong Quyet Thang at a conference in Hanoi on September 25.

The poverty rate of ethnic minority households in the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau fell by more than 3 percent each year after three years of implementation of its national target programme on sustainable poverty reduction that began in 2016.

As many as 18 disadvantaged ethnic minority households in Bui village, Ia Ka commune of Chu Pah district, the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai recently got access to electricity.

The central province of Thua Thien – Hue has invested 257 billion VND (11.05 million USD) in building infrastructure and developing production in mountainous regions and areas where ethnic minority people reside in the past 10 years.

Over 2,000 local households in 29 hamlets in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, including those in disadvantaged and ethnic minority-inhabited areas, have get access to the national grid on the threshold of Tet (Lunar New Year) festival.

The Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh is allocating over 36 billion VND (1.58 million USD) to provide residential land for 1,474 poor local households of the Khmer ethnic minority group.

More than 1,473,000 ethnic minority households across the country have been benefiting from preferential credit programmes with total loans worth up to 40 trillion VND (over 1.76 billion USD).

Thirty six needy ethnic minority households in Bu Dop district, the southern province of Binh Phuoc, have been given breeding cows, helping them improve their livelihood.

Nearly 3,000 ethnic minority households have been resettled in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai thanks to the province’s efforts to complete more than 100 resettlement projects during 2013-2016.

One hundred impoverished ethnic minority households in the southern province of Binh Phuoc were presented with water tanks following the recent prolonged drought in this year’s dry season.

Eighty one landless ethnic minority households in Bu Gia Map district in the southern province of Binh Phuoc have been presented with 81 breeding cows to help with their livelihood.

A total of 61 communes in the Central Highlands region have met new-style rural area standards, 45 communes of which have been recognised as new-style rural areas.