(HBO) – Over the past years, preferential loans provided by the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) have assisted farmers in Da Bac district in household economic development, thus helping to create jobs, raise income and improve living standards of rural residents.
Thanks to soft loans of the VBSP, residents in Tam hamlet of
Cao Son commune (Da Bac district, Hoa Binh province) have developed animal
husbandry.
To facilitate locals’ access to preferential
credit, the VBSP branch in the district has actively coordinated with sectors
and organisations to boost communications to help people learn about lending
programmes and loan sources.
There are 244 savings and borrowing groups with
9,509 members across Da Bac at present. On average, every commune has 12
groups, each with 40 members. At those groups’ regular meetings, the VBSP’s
credit staff inform participants about capital growth, the rates of poor,
near-poor and policy beneficiary households eligible for borrowing, as well as
lending and loan disbursement procedures.
The bank has held meetings with local
authorities, organisations, and management boards of savings and borrowing
groups. At the same time, it has also provided training to help cadres and
residents further understand the VBSP’s activities and the Party and State’s
new preferential credit policies.
At present, the VBSP Da Bac branch is
implementing 14 preferential credit programmes with total outstanding loans
topping 354 billion VND (15.2 million USD) for 9,500 households. More than 99
percent of the credit is supplied in the form of entrusted loans via four
socio-political organisations. Aside from promoting verification to disburse
loans in a timely manner, the branch has also worked closely with associations,
organisations, and savings and borrowing groups to encourage people to use the
capital for right purposes effectively.
As a result, credit quality has been improved,
and the rate of overdue debts reduced to only 0.03 percent of total outstanding
loans. Almost 5.4 billion VND has also been deposited in savings accounts via
the bank’s communal transaction offices in Da Bac.
In 2019, 3,437 clients borrowed from the VBSP.
Preferential loans helped create jobs for 110 labourers, build 918 water supply
facilities and sanitary works in rural areas, and construct 133 houses for poor
families. They also served as a source of support for local students to enroll
in universities, colleges and vocational schools, and for 1,469 disadvantaged
ethnic minority households to develop production and business activities./.
In the first quarter of 2024, the credit institutions in the province have actively deployed the legal documents of the State and the State Bank relating to currency, credit and interest rates. At the same time, they have promoted the capital mobilization, focusing on the solutions to expand the credit investment along with strengthening the credit quality management, lending to priority programs to promptly meet the capital needs for export - business and consumer demand during Tet in 2024.
Outside the key economic region of Hoa Binh, yet Lac Son district has utilised its potential and strengths regarding labour, land, and transportation connectivity to attract investment to the locality, contributing to promoting socio-economic development.
In a move to expedite the execution and disbursement of the 2024 capital plan for ODA projects, aiming for a disbursement rate of over 90% of the allocated funding, the Hoa Binh People's Committee issued Document No. 483/UBND-KTN on April 3, 2024, regarding such efforts.
Nguyen Van Thap from Kim Duc hamlet, Vinh Tien commune, Kim Boi district, has built the brand of Hoa Qua Son for local fruits. His efforts have brought about income for his family and generated job opportunities for locals, helping hundreds of households escape from poverty.
The Hoa Binh administration was entrusted by the Prime Minister with a budget of 3.43 trillion VND (142.91 million USD) for investment in 2024. The provincial People's Council approved nearly 3.76 trillion VND, which has been meticulously allocated to projects, achieving 100% of the assigned capital plan.
Hoa Binh province has mobilised all resources to propel local agricultural products to make inroads into foreign markets, towards lifting the export turnover of key agricultural products to 137.8 million USD by 2030, accounting for 3.4% of the locality’s total export value of goods.
The locality aims to export farm produce to the US, the European Union, the UK, China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea.
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