Great potential

Tan Uyen is a locality with harmony of industrial, agricultural, trade-services elements, so there is abundance of collective economy models.

The whole district now has 25 cooperatives in agricultural production, services, transportation…with 550 members, 480 laborers and total chartered capital amounting to more than VND71bln; 13 cooperative groups and 13 farmers’ clubs with 435 members. There are also 117 farmsteads with 1,800 hectares in total, including 83 cultivation farmsteads, 33 animal husbandry farmsteads and 1 fishery farmstead. Most of them have so far reached stable development. Noticeably, there are fruit-growing farmsteads with economic value of over VND500mln/year. 

Production activities at the cooperative group on pomelo growing in Tan Uyen district’s Tan Uyen district brings high economic efficiency

Tan Uyen-based farmsteads are trending towards mutual coherence for development. This is also one of the district’s advantages to promote farm economic models in the coming time. However, the development of farm economy in Tan Uyen district has faced some shortcomings regarding human resources, loans, production technologies…for change.

Advocating new rural construction

Tan Uyen district’s farm economic activities have so far reached good growth. Cooperatives herein have contributed to generating stable jobs to the local laborers. They have also actively got involved in social charity activities via many movements of building unity houses, eradicating hunger and reducing poverty…, greatly contributing to the local new rural construction.

Nguyen Van Le, Deputy Head of Tan Uyen district’s Division of Economics said that some localities under new rural construction have built up many effective cooperative groups. The cooperative group on pomelo growing in Bach Dang commune is a typical example for this. It has actively helped members in growing, tending and consuming pomeloes, contributing to increasing members’ income. In the coming time, the district’s Division of Economics will promote the establishment of cooperative groups in communes under new rural construction and then turn them into cooperatives.

Whilst, Tran Van Lu, Chairman of provincial Alliance of Cooperatives said that Tan Uyen district’s farm economy made much progress over the past time. Building up effective models on collective economy is one of important criteria in the national target program on new rural construction. In the coming time, Tan Uyen district needs to further focus on the development of collective economic models in communes under new rural construction, contributing to promoting the national target program on new rural construction.

Reported by Da Binh-Translated by K.T