All 45 communes in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province have been recognised as meeting new rural area standards, of which 19 have achieved new advanced rural area standards, helping the province complete the new rural area program.
Hanoi has achieved many targets regarding agricultural development and building new-style rural areas after 10 years implementing the National Target Programme on Building New-Style Rural Areas and the municipal Party Committee’s Programme 02-Ctr/TU.
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has underlined the importance of the people-centred approach to successfully building new rural areas at a conference to review the programme in the southeast and Mekong Delta regions.
Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has hailed Gia Lai province for its socio-economic performance in 2018, particularly a growth rate of 8 percent.
A meeting was held in Ho Chi Minh City on February 15 to increase mutual understanding and solidarity between armed forces in Military Region 7 and religions in the region.
The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has set the target of having three more communes meet all criteria for new-style rural areas in 2019, which means all 36 communes in the city earn the status this year.
Patriotic emulation drives have developed strongly in all fields in society under the theme “Solidarity, creativity in emulation for national construction and defence”, contributing greatly to national growth in 2018, a review conference heard on January 9.
Dong Nai should pay more attention to urbanization besides industrialization, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue told the southern province’s officials during a working session on January 8.
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has asked the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to create a set of criteria for building model rural residential areas, gardens and farm households to submit to the Government as soon as possible.
As many as 2,884 communes or 32.3 percent of communes nationwide were recognised as new-style rural areas by the end of November 2017, surpassing the target of at least 31 percent.
Can Tho will strive to have all its 36 communes qualified as new rural areas by 2020, Hoang Kim Cuong, head of the city’s Coordination Office for Building New Rural Areas, said.
Twelve more communes in central Nghe An province have been qualified as new rural areas so far this year, bringing the total communes of their kind to 117.
Another 15 communes in Ha Nam have been recognised as new-style rural areas, raising the total number of communes winning the recognition in the northern province to 33.
Dong Nai province has set the goal of completing the programme on building new-style rural areas by 2020, bringing the rate of communes meeting criteria to 80 percent from the current 68 percent.
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has recently given the green light to an addition of 414,676 USD to an UN-funded project supporting the national target programme on building new-style rural area
The National Agriculture Extension Centre plans to carry out reforms that will enable it to offer greater practical support to farmers and assist with the restructure of the agriculture sector.
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