Former Minister Le Huy Ngo passed away

According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment , the visitation ceremony will be held from 9:00 to 11:00 on September 18, and the memorial service will be from 11:00 to 11:30 on the same day at the National Funeral Home, No. 5 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi.

Mr. Le Huy Ngo, former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (now the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment). Photo: Agriculture and Environment NewspaperMr. Le Huy Ngo, former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (now the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment). Photo: Agriculture and Environment Newspaper

Mr. Le Huy Ngo was born in 1938 in Tinh Hai commune, Tinh Gia district (old), now Hai Binh ward, Thanh Hoa province. He was an alternate member of the 6th Central Executive Committee, a member of the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th Central Committee; and a National Assembly delegate for the 9th and 10th terms.

Since 1956, he studied at the Central College of Agriculture and Forestry, then worked at the Phu Tho Department of Agriculture. After graduating from Hanoi University of Agriculture, he held many positions in Vinh Phuc such as Head of the Planning Department of the Department of Agriculture, Member of the Provincial Administrative Committee, Vice Chairman of the Agricultural Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, then Chairman of the People's Committee and Secretary of the Vinh Phu Provincial Party Committee.

Since 1988, he was appointed as Secretary of Thanh Hoa Provincial Party Committee, then held the position of Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Party Central Committee's Organization Committee. In 1997, he was assigned as Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Head of the Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention. After retiring in 2008, he continued to advise the Central and Government's New Rural Development Program.

During his tenure as Minister, Vietnam emerged as an agricultural export powerhouse. He initiated the “50 million/ha field” movement, promoted the canal consolidation program, expanded irrigation to hundreds of thousands of hectares, and directed the project to plant 5 million hectares of new forests, raising the forest coverage rate from 33% in the late 1990s to nearly 40% in the late 2000s.

The wood processing and forestry industry under his tenure surpassed the $1 billion export turnover mark for the first time in 2004, paving the way for Vietnam to become the leading wooden furniture exporter in the region.

Dr. To Van Truong, former Director of the Southern Institute of Irrigation Planning, shared that Mr. Ngo was called by many people as the “minister of floods and storms”. The reason was not only because of the times he rolled around in the rain and floods, directly directing the rescue of people, rice, and villages, but also because “his whole life was like a journey through storms, keeping his heart for farmers and the countryside”.

According to Mr. Truong, since becoming Secretary of Vinh Phu Provincial Party Committee, Mr. Le Huy Ngo has initiated household and forest contracts, contributing to liberating production capacity. When holding the position of Minister, he was the pioneer in laying the foundation for the New Rural Program with the aspiration to change the face of Vietnamese villages and raise the position of Vietnamese agricultural products in the international arena.

Former Minister Le Huy Ngo was awarded the 60-year Party membership badge; the Second-class Independence Medal; many First, Second, and Third-class Labor and Resistance Medals; the Labor Medal for the Vietnam-Laos cooperation cause; the Golden Lion Medal of Senegal; along with certificates of merit from the Prime Minister, the United Nations, and many other medals, orders, and commemorative medals.

Source vnexpress.net

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