The Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang supported 11,200 households to escape from poverty in 2017 (Illustrative image. Source VNA)Soc Trang (VNA) – The Mekong Deltaprovince of Soc Trang supported 11,200 households to escape from poverty in2017.
The number of poor households dropped to 38,300,making up 11.85 percent of the total households in the province, down 3.4percent compared to 2016.
More than 5,000 Khmer families were supported toget out of poverty, reducing the ratio of poor Khmer households to 17.95percent.
Head of the provincial department for ethnicaffairs Ly Binh Cang attributed the outcomes to the Party and State’s support policiesin building infrastructure, funding, transferring technology, and providingknow-know in cultivation, animal husbandry, and family economic development.
He noted that the local socio-economicdevelopment has been recovered after serious losses caused by saltwaterintrusion in 2016.
In 2017, the province recorded growth in aquaticoutputs, production values, and exports. Local authorities paid much attentionto reducing poverty, building new rural areas, and implementing ethnic affairspolicies.
The Government’s Programme 135, which waslaunched in 1999 with the aim of improving living conditions for ruralresidents with a particular focus on ethnic minority communes, provided nearly60 billion VND (2.6 million USD) to build infrastructure such as roads,irrigations and community houses in disadvantaged areas.
In addition, the province made effective use offunds worth over 100 billion VND (4.4 million USD) to support tens of thousandsof households, mainly from the Khmer ethnic group, with accommodation andcultivation land, job change, electricity, and water.-VNA
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