Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)Bac Giang (VNA) – Authorities of the northernprovince of Bac Giang have concentrated on mobilising and effectively using resourcesfrom all economic sectors to develop infrastructure facilities serving agriculturalproduction and rural development.
The locality aims to expand the Gross RegionalDomestic Product (GRDP) growth of agro-forestry-aquaculture by 2 - 3%, and averageagricultural labour productivity by 8.6 - 9% per year from now to 2030.
The provincial authorities have paid attention to speeding up the restructuringof the rural economy, creating linkages between agricultural production and industrialand service development; upgrading transport, industrial and serviceinfrastructure; and forming a transport, preservation, processing, logisticsand e-commerce network in rural areas.
In the coming time, Bac Giang will focus on developing industrialclusters and craft villages in accordance with the province’s planning andspecific conditions; building diversified commercial infrastructure in ruralareas; and harmoniously combining traditional business activities and moderntrade.
Bac Giang has prioritised resources for the National Target Programme for New Rural Development, especially buildinginfrastructure towards gradually meeting urbanisation requirements in Viet Yenand Yen Dung districts, and a number of communes in Luc Ngan district.
The province has allocated annual investment capital from the State budget, andproposed a list of projects to build, upgrade and expand clean water supplyprojects in rural areas in accordance with the provincial development master plan in the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050.
Attention will be paid to mobilising all sources to support thedevelopment of farm economic models, agricultural cooperatives, OCOP products, largetimber forests, and farming under the forest canopy; and promote land accumulation, the development of rural andintra-field transport facilities, irrigation infrastructure, and deepprocessing and preservation facilities.
A number of irrigation systems and pumping stations in Son Dongand Luc Ngan districts have been upgraded and constructed in accordance withthe approved plan, contributing to better serving agricultural production andsocio-economic development in Bac Giang in recent years.
Since 2019, Bac Giang has allocated 2.55 trillion VND (over 102.7 million USD)from the State budget, official development assistance (ODA) capital, andthe province’s budget to invest in infrastructure development servingagricultural production; including over 1.56 trillion VND for constructing andupgrading irrigation infrastructure (dykes, culverts, lakes, dams, pumpingstations, and canals), accounting for 61.3% of the total public investment capital assigned to the province. These works have contributedto preventing and controlling floods and storms and adapting to climate changein the locality.
During 2019 – 2021, Bac Giang attracted over 570 billion VNDin investment, including over 100 billion VND from the State budget, and over 470billion VND of reciprocal capital of local businesses and people.
The local agricultural sectorhas proposed a number of policies to support agricultural production and assistfarmers by helping them obtain good agricultural practice certificates,providing them with financial support to make analysis of pesticide residues inlitchi, and supplying them with equipment and animal vaccines.
Training courses have been organised to guide farmers in how toapply effective methods to reduce input costs and take advantage from availableraw materials as feed in livestock.
In the first half of 2022, Bac Giang continued to developcommercial-scale agricultural production along with production and selling chains,increasing incomes for local farmers. In the last winter crop, the provinceearned 1.9 trillion VND, up 8.8% year on year.
In the spring crop this year, the provincerecorded an average rice output production of 6 tonnes per hectare and even over 7 tonnes per hectare in farms cultivating high quality rice varieties.
Meanwhile, the province also enjoyed a bumperlitchi crop with over 180,000 tonnes, meeting the requirements of many foreignmarkets.
Bac Giang has showed good control of diseases onlivestock, resulting in high productivity, especially in chicken production.
The province’s agricultural sector recorded a growth of 2.7% in theJanuary-June period, with the production scale reaching over 19.9 trillion VND,fulfilling 50.9% of its target for the whole year./.
