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Local authorities and Huong Phung Border Post help locals expand the high-yield wet rice cultivating areas. |
Huong Phung commune is situated far from central Huong Hoa district with the Van Kieu ethnic minority people accounting for 55% of the population, and local people mainly depend on agricultural production. In recent years, together with guidelines and policies on supporting border localities, the implementation of the national target program for socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the 2021-2025 has facilitated the locality’s socio-economic development, contributing to raising locals’ living standards. Thanks to the capital from the program, the locality’s infrastructure has been improved. Various effective economic development models have been applied to raise local people’s income, thus enhancing their living standards.
According to Chairman of the People’s Committee of Huong Phung commune Phan Ngoc Long, the capital from the program has been effectively allocated to communes to improve infrastructure, rural roads, and social welfare projects. Localities have provided capital for locals to build or expand their economic development models.
Those positive changes in the border commune have partly come from the efforts of Huong Phung Border Post of the Quang Tri provincial Border Guard Command. Over the past time, together with local authorities’ efforts, the border post has actively fostered information dissemination to mobilize local people to change crops and livestock, apply technological advances to production, use high-yielding plant and animal varieties, and expand production models.
Notably, Huong Phung Border Post has collaborated with Chan May Collective and Thai Binh Seed Corporation to pilot putting sticky maize variety TBM18 into production. The unit has advised the People’s Committee of Huong Phung commune to provide capital for locals to expand TBM18 planting areas to 3 hectares, and the model has proved its effectiveness. In addition, troops of the border post have assisted the family of Ho Van Yen in Viet But hamlet in planting one hectare of coffee trees.
Thanks to the capital from the national target program for socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas and support of the border guards, the border commune now has 115.5 hectares of wet rice, 152 hectares of cassava, 2,000 hectares of coffee, 7 hectares of rubber trees, 15 hectares of pepper, and 115 hectares of fruit trees. Huong Phung also has a total of 377 buffaloes, 1,162 cows, 1,305 goats, 952 pigs, and more than 16,000 poultry of different species.
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The border post’s troops assist locals in harvesting rice. |
The locality has also focused on developing handicrafts and agricultural product processing models. At present, business households and cooperatives in the commune have operated effectively to meet local people’s demand.
Thanks to changing to suitable plants and animals, the locals’ living standards have been significantly improved. Now the average income has increased to 23 million VND/person/year.
Translated by Tran Hoai