Vietnam Farmers' Union at Central level organizes press conference on the 6th National Conference of Praising Good Farmers in Production and Business and the 7th National Farmers’ Forum
Speaking at the opening of the press conference VNFU Vice - Chairwoman Bui Thi Thom affirmed that: The 6th National Conference of Praising Good Farmers in Production and Business, and the 7th National Farmers’ Forum in 2022, which will be organized by VNFU at Central level on September 12th and 13th in Hanoi is one of the activities to celebrate the 92nd Anniversary of the Establishment of the Vietnam Farmers' Union (October 14th, 1930 - October 14th, 2022). These two important events will be attended and directed by representatives of the Party and Government leaders.
The 6th National Conference of Praising Good Farmers in Production and Business, the period of 2017 – 2022, will be held on September 13th, 2022 at the Viet Xo Friendship Labor Cultural Palace, 91 Tran Hung Dao Street, Hanoi, with the participation of leaders of the Party and State; the Government; the National Assembly; the Vietnam Fatherland Front; the related ministries, agencies and socio-political organizations at the central level; the representatives of VNFU in the provinces and cities; enterprises; scientists and experts in agriculture field; and more than 300 typical good business farmers within the country.
Organizing the 6th National Conference of Praising Good Farmers in Production and Business aims at evaluating the Farmers’ Movement on emulating in production and business, helping each other to get rich and sustainably reduce poverty in the period of 2017-2022 at the some time praising the typical outstanding farmers, who are determined not to endure poverty but enterprising, dynamic, creative, self-reliant and ambitious to get rich legitimately.
The conference will set out practical goals, tasks, and solutions to promote the core movements of VNFU more effectively in the coming period and contribute to the successful implementation of the 13th National Party Congress Resolution, the Resolution No.19 - NQ/TW, dated June 16th, 2022 of the 13th Party Central Committee on agriculture, farmers, and rural areas until 2030, with a vision to the year 2046; and the 7th VNFU Congress Resolution.
According to the assessment of the VNFU at the Central level, in the past 5 years, thanks to the attention and leadership of the Party and the State, and many solutions on stabilizing the macro-economy and policies that encourage and support investment in agricultural production and new rural construction, ‘the Farmers’ Movement on emulating in production and business, helping each other to get rich and sustainably reduce poverty’ has continued to achieve many results, spread widely and create motivation to encourage farmers to emulating enthusiastically in production.
The quality and effectiveness of the movement have improved significantly, and there have been many households with large production scale and business capital of hundreds of VND billions, which attract hundreds of employees with annual income of VND hundreds to tens of billions.
Compared to the period 2012 - 2017, the number of households with an income of over 500 million VND/year has increased by 3 times, and the number of households with an income of over 1 billion VND/year has continued to increase by 2 times.
Among the 300 delegates attending the 6th National Conference of Praising Good Farmers in Production and Business, there are 235 male delegates (78%) and 65 female delegates (22%); 44 ethnic delegates (15%); and there are 132 delegates working on agricultural models (44%), on non-agriculture with 49 models (16%) and on general production and business with 199 models (40%)...
There are 64 specialized plantation models; 49 livestock models; 26 crop and livestock farming models; 60 non-agricultural models; 102 general production and business models; 38 high-tech models; 93 digital transformation models; 25 organic agriculture models; and 19 circular models. They have contributed more than 10,000 billion VND and 3 million working days to the new rural area construction such as repairing and concreting over 36,000 km of rural roads; solidifying and repairing over 27,000 km of in-field canals; creating on-the-spot jobs for more than 5 million employees, of which over 1.5 million employees have full time jobs and more than 3 million workers having seasonal part time jobs; helping more than 200,000 farming households overcome poverty.
The 7th National Farmers’ Forum is chaired by the VNFU at the central level, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and is organized by the Today Countryside Newspaper/Dan Viet in collaboration with Binh Dien Fertilizer Joint Stock Company and Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development.
The 7th National Farmers’ Forum with the theme: "Professional Farmers", will be held on the morning of September 12 at the International Convention Center, 11 Le Hong Phong Street (Hanoi City), with the participation of about 500 delegates. Attending the forum will be representative leaders of the Party and State; representatives of ministries, departments, agencies, and mass- organizations; leaders of VNFU at the central and provincial level; representatives of enterprises; experts; and 300 typical outstanding farmers of the Movement of Good Farmers emulating Production and Business in the period of 2017 - 2022.
According to the VNFU Vice Chairwoman, Ms. Bui Thi Thom, the 7th National Farmers’ Forum is an opportunity to gather opinions of good farmers at all levels on issues in agricultural production and rural development, especially the content of building ecological agriculture and modern rural areas, building professional farmers in the spirit proposed by the 13th National Party Congress Resolution; and on the problems facing agriculture, farmers and rural areas today. In addition, the forum developes linkages between farmers and businesses, between farmers and farmers, between businesses and businesses in order to promote agricultural and rural development in the spirit given in Resolution of the 5th Party Central Committee Conference of the 13th Tenure.
The forum also contributes to clarifying what a professional farmer is and what a farmer needs to do to become professional one. There are several problems facing farmers in the new period such as: restructuring agricultural production; solving problems and limitations in capital, policies to promote the application of science and technology, vocational training for farmers, changing the production procedures to ensure the markets of agricultural products; proposing policies to support farmers, agriculture and rural areas to build professional farmers and develop ecological agriculture, civilized farmers and modern rural areas.