The rural building efforts will go in tandem with digital transformation. (Source: VNA) According to the provincial Department ofAgriculture and Rural Development, from now to 2025, Bac Giang will priortisethe building of advanced and model new-style rural communes, and modelnew-style villages to vastly improve the look of its living areas.
The rural building efforts will go in tandem with digitaltransformation, towards the formation of smart village and commune models, andwith tourism development, aiming to raise income of local residents, thedepartment said.
At the same time, the province will step upagricultural restructuring to develop a sector of sustainability, with greaterattention to be paid to product quality.
Bac Giang will continue effectively implementing the“One Commune One Product” (OCOP) programme by utilising its major products andpotential, and work to improve the performance of cooperatives.
To accelerate the shift of labour structure, theprovince will push other sectors like industry, services and trade, andimplement the three breakthroughs of rural security and order, waste collectionand treatment, narrowing the gap in new rural area building between localities.
As of the end of 2022, six out of 10 districts inBac Giang were recognised as new rural areas that completed their task of building towards that goal. Some 145 out of 182 communes won the status, with 42 satisfying the criteria setfor an advanced new rural commune. Quang Minh in Viet Yen district was the first model new-style rural commune in the province. The province counted atotal of 239 model new-style villages.
Illustrative image (Source: VNA) It has issued various mechanisms and policies tomobilise resources for the programme.
Apart from capital provided by central andprovincial agencies, localities in Bac Giang have also used part of their budgetto conduct work to complete the programme, and integrated it into their projects plan.
The new rural area building movement has received a warm response from rural residents who donated more than 35.4 hectares of land,33,000 working days and more than 38 billion VND to build public facilities.
Since 2021, Bac Giang has upgraded more than 967kmof motorways and maintained and upgraded 1,300 irrigation facilities.
All of the 182 communes in the province now havecultural houses, and 86.5% of them have cultural and sport establishments atvillage and commune levels.
Health facilities have been enhanced, and the qualityof primary health care for the rural population has been improved. The numberof hospital beds per 10,000 is approaching 31.8, higher than the national average.
Bac Giang will promote the transfer and applicationof scientific and technological advances in agricultural production, forestryand fisheries, according to the provincial People’s Committee.
The province attaches importance to the applicationof national and international good agricultural standards such as VietGAP andGlobalGAP, clean technology, biological technology, and organic farming. Bac Giang also attaches importance to food hygiene and safety and environmental protection.
Bac Giang authorities will encourage the building ofenvironmentally-friendly agricultural production models in the direction oforganic farming or circular agriculture.
Investment will be focused on key products of theprovince, with the aim of raising the production value of Bac Giang’s seven keyproducts by an average 5% a year. Production in concentrated farming areas willfollow food safety standards; forests will be protected and developed incombination with protecting water resources. The forestry economy will be developedin the direction of both protecting the forest and increasing incomes forlocals.
Bac Giang plans to mechanise not only production butalso harvesting, post-harvest preserving and processing in order to enhanceproductivity, and the quality and competitiveness of agricultural products. Attentionwill be paid to mechanization and automation of all links in the productionprocess of products under the One Commune One Product (OCOP) programme./.
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