Province-based units participating in the price stabilization program for products in the new academic year have so far fulfilled their preparatory work and begun starting the program. This move will help parents and their children to early get access to products for the new academi year with prices that are lower than market prices.

Many livestock breeders in Vietnam have suffered great losses due to price fluctuations and ineffective market forecasting.

Exploring new land

The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has set a goal to become an industrial hub in the region by 2015, with industry accounting for 46.9 percent of its local economy.

Marks from industrial parks

Liem briefed the delegation on local growth and development over years. With about 1.7mil residents, 800,000 of whom are immigrants, burden of healthcare, education, accommodation and environment with a huge investment capital is out of local budget. Finland government offered ODA loans for the province to implement the first phase of Compost project. Through the Tauno Kaaria, Binh Duong hopes to enjoy capital assistance for the second phase’s development to perfect the project and protect environment.

Authorities in communes under new rural construction in the province are focusing on promoting the development of hi-tech agricultural production models among farmers, aiming to increase their income. Accordingly, many localities have effectively built hi-tech and urban agricultural production models.

In case of normal operation of power system, adequate supply of electricity will be ensured for socio-economic development and people’s livelihood demand without interruption.

Thanks to the efforts by relevant agencies in calling for all people to make power saving by concrete actions, the province as of late March saved 29,075.618 kWh of power.

Provincial People’s Committee has jus promulgated Circular No.931/UBND-KTN on tightening control of transport of poultry and poultry products.

On the evening of April 13 and 14, hundreds of people from three communes under Ben Cat district’s “Iron triangle” heroic land, including Phu An, An Dien and An Tay, gathered at Phu An junior high school to attend a “joyful” market-day, which is part of the province’s 2013 program of “Bringing Vietnamese goods to rural areas”…

The province’s market control force and inter-sectoral inspection delegations in Q1 2013 strengthened activities against smuggling, counterfeit goods and trade fraud. Particularly, they made inspection of 1,858 cases, 660 of which were found wrongness and penalized. 

To promote efficiency of these models, Vu Hai Ly, chairman of the communal People’s Committee said that in the coming time the communal People’s Committee would continue cooperating with functional agencies to hold training classes for local farmers as well as facilitating their production development.

The total implementation expense is VND27 billion, to be drawn from the agriculture and rural areas development programme. Of this, nearly VND115 million is spent for training courses for farmers, VND2.5 billion is used to improve and build infrastructure, and more than VND13 billion is for intensive farming breeding models.