Overview of seventh Congress of the Vietnam Farmers’ Union (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam Farmers’ Union (VFU) convened itsseventh Congress in Hanoi on December 11, drawing 999 delegates representingmore than 10 million farmers across the nation.
In his openingremarks, Chairman of the VFU Central Committee Thao Xuan Sung said that theassociation is entering a new stage of development in the context ofindustrialisation and modernisation and international integration.
The Fourth IndustrialRevolution and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans PacificPartnership (CPTPP) are creating both opportunities and challenges forVietnam’s agriculture, farmers and rural areas, Sung said.
Those opportunitiesand challenges require the VFU to continue reforming its operation methodstowards combining dissemination work with intensifying the provision ofconsultancy, support and vocational training for farmers.
The association willparticipate in social criticism and supervision over the implementation of theParty and State’s policies, while carrying out socio-economic and culturaldevelopment projects and programmes in rural areas effectively, he added.
On the first workingday, the congress elected a 25-strong Presidium and a five-strong Secretariat,discussed and approved its working agenda and statutes, and adopted electionregulations.
The three-day seventhcongress is expected set forth 14 criteria on farmers’ emulation movementduring 2018-2023. The popularisation of the Party and State’s policies andregulations, as well as the VFU’s resolution for all farmers, is the importanttarget. The VFU also hopes to have at least 60 percent of its members withInternet access, 100 percent of the union’s officers receiving training in agriculturalcultivation techniques, and all of the VFU’s chapters organising consultingactivities and vocational training for local farmers.
During 2013-2018, theunion admitted nearly 2.2 million members, raising the total membership to 10.2million people. Some 130,000 training courses and conferences were organised,and over 14,000 production models which applied advanced technologies weresuccessfully transferred to the farming community.–VNA
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