Mong Hoa commune upholds livelihood diversification

12/26/2021 - 12:32:46 PM

(HBO) - National Road No.6 and Hoa Lac-Hoa Binh City Highway run through Mong Hoa Communue (Hoa Binh City), facilitating trade and transport. The commune is also home to an industrial zone (IZ) well planned on an area of 200 hectars with numerous businesses in operation. Meanwhile, the local labour force is resourceful with a majority of young workers available to the IZ, its enterprises and production facilities.

Forest products processing factory, Son Thuy joint-stock Company, Mong Hoa commune (Hoa Binh City), provides employment for 150 local labourers.

On top of that, the commune possesses huge tracts of agricultural land. Production practices and mindsets of the local farmers are transforming through innovations, in tune with new developments in market trends, thus improving productivity and local incomes. According to Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Chairman of Communal People’s Committee, the success lies in the updated resolution promulgated each year with tailor-made socio-economic plans, which focus on crop plants and domestic animals restructuring, developing farm economy, applying scientific advances in production, developing industries, small scale craft production and services.

Local party and administrative authorities exert leadership guidelines in boosting growth towards diversification of livelihoods in accordance with local competitive edges. The commune strives to maximize credits and loans for production development, particular local resources for expanding livelihoods. Standing out among successful stories was a honey beekeeping project involving 20 households with annual harvest of 4.000 litres worth about 600 million VND. In 2021 this model is forecasted to grow to 50 household with estimated ouput of 9.000 litres of honey worth more than 1 billion VND. Meanwhile, investments in small scale craft production, services, transport, construction materials are beginning to pay off with over 50 enterprises around Mong Hoa IZ, providing employment for thousands of local workers with stable average incomes between 5 and 9 million VND per person a month.

In 2021, with local GDP per capita set to reach 52 million VND and poverty ratio falling to 1,5% (27/1.801 households), Mong Hoa is fast toward qualifying for the title of "Upgraded New Rural Commune”.

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