(HBO) - In seven months of 2019, the Women’s Union of Mai Chau district carried out a series of activities to assist its members in starting their businesses.
The Women’s Union of Mai Chau
district transfers a charity house to its poor member in Pa Co commune’s Pa Co
Con hamlet.
Understanding the group’s demand for exchanging and learning
from business experiences, the union has organised consultations on the
subject, advising its members on market expansion and encouraging them to join
startup training courses. Regarding female farmers who wish to start their own
businesses, the union guided them to switch from small and ineffective
production models to cooperatives and value chain-based economic models.
Staff of the union focused on helping its members make
business plans and get access to credit via its collaboration with the Vietnam
Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) and the Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural
Development (Agribank).
Currently, different chapters of the union are managing over
64 billion VND (2.7 million USD) of outstanding loans from the VBSP for 1,891
local households, and more than 49.5 billion VND from the Agribank for 838
households.
Apart from promoting startup activities, the union in
collaboration with local authorities has worked to eradicate poverty in
building new-style rural areas. In the first seven months of 2019, it chapters
across the district donated more than 295 million VND, 4,425 working days, and
8,847 kg of rice for disadvantaged members./.
After several unsuccessful attempts to raise pigs, buffaloes and cows, Nguyen Hong Minh who resides in Mui hamlet, Hoa Binh city’s Doc Lap commune decided to try breeding bamboo rat.
Chairman of the Hoa Binh People’s Committee Bui Van Khanh on February 2 held a Lunar New Year meeting with businesses, investors and cooperation in the locality. The event drew Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Council Bui Duc Hinh; Vice President of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hoang Quang Phong; representatives from the Vietnam Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Vietnam Association of Young Entrepreneurs; as well as leaders of local departments, sectors and localities and 200 local businesses, cooperatives and investors in the locality.
Following the successes achieved in 2023, the local agricultural and rural development sector, localities and cooperatives are gearing up for first orders of the year, as part of their efforts to boost agricultural exports.
Most workers at enterprises in the northern province of Hoa Binh have turned to work just one week after the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday.
The Hoa Binh Power Corporation (PC Hoa Binh) has directed its units to build plans as well as arrange resources to ensure stable electricity for local winter-spring crop production.
On February 28, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Hoa Binh province coordinated with Minh Trung Vietnam Group joint Stock Company, Hoa Binh branch in Luong Son industrial park, Luong Son district organized a ceremony to export Bat Bao lotus porridge to the Japanese.