Promoting professional groups
According to the leader of the Farmers’ Association in Cam Phu ward, in the last term, the association has established 3 professional associations, 3 cooperative groups and 1 professional branch, creating favorable conditions for 33 member households to borrow capital from the Farmer Supporting Fund of 1.2 billion VND to raise lobsters in cages and weave three-membrane nets, helping households to gradually stabilize production and get rich. For example, Phan Van Quy’s household in Phu Hai residential group, Le Xuan Quang in Phu Loc for many years has been a good farmer at the provincial level with the income from cage lobster farming of hundreds of millions of VND/ year. Not only emulating good production, farmers also unite and help each other out of poverty. Through building models to help each other reduce poverty sustainably among farmers in the period of 2019-2023, good farmer households have created favorable conditions for employment, capital support, seedlings, production experience to help households poor farmers gradually stabilize their economy and rise out of poverty. For example, Dang Luu Thuy’s household in Phu Thinh escaped poverty from the off-season hybrid maize model; Dang Ngoc Sam in Phu Hai has stablized life thanks to raising 30 cages of lobsters hanging from ropes.
According to Duong Nu Duy Hien – Chairman of Cam Ranh City People’s Committee, up to now, in the city, there are 44 production and business cooperation groups established by the association with 293 members, an increase of 16 groups compared to 2018. Of which, there are 29 agricultural cooperative groups; 10 handicraft groups, 5 cooperative groups operating in the field of trade and service. The association has also coordinated with functional sectors to mobilize members and farmers to establish 6 new cooperatives to produce apples, rice, lobsters, goats and provide most of the services to members. Collective and cooperative economic models have helped members step by step transform their ways of doing business, develop production scale, and contribute to gathering and uniting farmers to help each other reduce poverty, get rich and transform agricultural economic structure in the direction of concentration, production of goods according to value chains and safe agricultural products.
Support farmers to increase the value of agricultural products
Cam Ranh City has an annual planting area of ​​less than 4,800ha and 415ha for aquaculture. Therefore, the implementation of solutions to support farmers to increase the added value of agricultural products is always focused on implementation by farmers’associations. They have consulted and introduced new plant varieties and livestock with high economic value; organized training on transfer of technical advances and new technologies; organized vocational training, visits, seminars and conferences on the shore; credited for farmers to borrow capital; guided the development of collective economic forms… contributing to changing the way of thinking and doing in the development of production and economy of farmers; then, gradually forming high-quality specialized production areas like apples, mangoes and tubers of Cam Thanh Nam; clean vegetables and fruits in Cam Phuoc Dong; lobsters in Cam Thinh Dong, Cam Lap…
On average, Cam Ranh has over 8,100 good farming households at all levels every year. In which, many models have large production scale, giving income from 700 million VND to over 1 billion VND/year. Typically, Phan Van Thua in Cam Loi ward raises caged lobsters and Ho Tan Cuong grows clean apples in Cam Thanh Nam commune. Both of them won the title of Excellent Vietnamese Farmers. Good farmers have also supported capital, plants, seeds and production experience for 136 farmers to get out of poverty in the past 5 years.
In the period of 2023-2028, farmers’ assocition in Cam Ranh will continue to accompany and support members and farmers in the area to focus on applying science and technology, production associated with the market and joint ventures, cooperate, improve the quality and diversify agricultural products. At the same time, they will focus on building and developing effective economic models and mobilizing, guiding and supporting farmers to participate in the development of collective economic forms in agriculture.
Hong Dang
Translated by T.T – Khanh Hoa News – baokhanhhoa.vn
