A farmer feeds his goats in Tra Vinh province’s Duyen Hai district. (Photo: VNA)Tra Vinh (VNA) – The Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh will spend nearly48 billion VND (over 2 million USD) from the central budget to implementProgramme 135 this year, the provincial Board for Ethnic Minority Affairs hassaid.
More than 36.5 billion VND (1.6 million USD)will be used to build infrastructure, 9.5 billion VND (405,000 USD) to createmodels for developing production, diversifying livelihoods and reducing povertyand the rest to improve the capacity of communities and officials to implementthe programme.
Launched by the Government in 1998, theprogramme aims to lift extremely disadvantaged communes in remote andmountainous regions out of poverty and underdevelopment.
Tra Vinh has 23 communes and 10 hamlets ineight communes classified as extremely disadvantaged, and they benefit from it.
The province plans to build or upgrade 71infrastructure works in those places related to irrigation, roads, water andpower supply and cultural houses this year.
It will also implement 42 models for breedingcows, chicken, ducks, and other livestock and growing crops to developproduction, diversify livelihoods and reduce poverty.
Kien Banh, deputy head of the board, saidlast year the province spent more than 52.5 billion VND (2.23 million USD) tobuild and upgrade 105 infrastructure projects and support 700 poor families andethnic Khmer households under the programme.
Besides Programme 135, Khmer households alsobenefit from other support programmes that provide them with housing land, softloans and assistance with legal and other issues, he said.
They have helped to reduce the province’spoverty rate from 5.9 percent in 2018 to 3.22 percent last year, according tothe board.
The province plans to reduce its poverty rateby at least 1.5 percentage point this year, and the poverty rate among theKhmer from 5.22 percent last year to 2-3 percent.
Some 32 percent of the province’s populationof more than 1 million are Khmer, the second highest number in the delta afteronly Soc Trang province./.
More than 36.5 billion VND (1.6 million USD)will be used to build infrastructure, 9.5 billion VND (405,000 USD) to createmodels for developing production, diversifying livelihoods and reducing povertyand the rest to improve the capacity of communities and officials to implementthe programme.
Launched by the Government in 1998, theprogramme aims to lift extremely disadvantaged communes in remote andmountainous regions out of poverty and underdevelopment.
Tra Vinh has 23 communes and 10 hamlets ineight communes classified as extremely disadvantaged, and they benefit from it.
The province plans to build or upgrade 71infrastructure works in those places related to irrigation, roads, water andpower supply and cultural houses this year.
It will also implement 42 models for breedingcows, chicken, ducks, and other livestock and growing crops to developproduction, diversify livelihoods and reduce poverty.
Kien Banh, deputy head of the board, saidlast year the province spent more than 52.5 billion VND (2.23 million USD) tobuild and upgrade 105 infrastructure projects and support 700 poor families andethnic Khmer households under the programme.
Besides Programme 135, Khmer households alsobenefit from other support programmes that provide them with housing land, softloans and assistance with legal and other issues, he said.
They have helped to reduce the province’spoverty rate from 5.9 percent in 2018 to 3.22 percent last year, according tothe board.
The province plans to reduce its poverty rateby at least 1.5 percentage point this year, and the poverty rate among theKhmer from 5.22 percent last year to 2-3 percent.
Some 32 percent of the province’s populationof more than 1 million are Khmer, the second highest number in the delta afteronly Soc Trang province./.
VNA
