Developing craft villages contributes to poverty reduction

Viet Tri City is a locality with many traditional craft villages that have existed since ancient times, closely associated with the production and daily life of the people. Starting from a craft village and then becoming a craft village has promoted the role of the people as the main subject in production, increasing the value of products, increasing income, contributing to sustainable poverty reduction in the locality.

Currently, in the city, there are a number of outstanding craft villages such as: Doan Ket food processing craft village; banh chung and banh giay craft village; Nha Nit peach blossom craft village; Tan Duc vegetable craft village... which have contributed significantly to the socio -economic development, changing the face of the city.

These days, peach growers in Nha Nit peach blossom village, Thanh Dinh commune are preparing to enter the busy stage of caring for and plucking leaves to nurture buds, so that the flowers will bloom in time for the traditional Tet holiday. Currently, the village has 129 households growing peaches with 40,000 peach trees, on a total area of ​​7.5 hectares, with small households having a few dozen trees, large households having up to several hundred trees.

As one of the suburban communes of the city, in recent years implementing the National Target Program on sustainable poverty reduction, the Party Committee and the commune government have created all conditions to support and help people develop the economy, escape poverty, contributing to effectively implementing the goal of sustainable poverty reduction and building new rural areas in the locality.

Peach growers in Nha Nit peach blossom village prepare for the step of picking leaves to nourish buds.

Quickly grasping customer tastes, in recent years, peach growers in the craft village have proactively invested in quality tree varieties, applied new science and technology to planting, caring for, shaping and replacing trees. Many households boldly invested in buying old peach and wild peach varieties and applying grafting techniques to produce quality products, earning an income of up to hundreds of millions of dong a year. The effective operation of the craft village has contributed to improving the material and spiritual life of the people. Up to now, the whole commune has only 5 poor households accounting for 0.18% and 10 near-poor households accounting for 0.35%.

Mr. Le Van Ly - Head of the craft village said: "Nít's peach blossom craft village was established in 2013. Over time, in order to improve the quality of peach blossom trees, bringing high economic value to the people, the commune government and the technical team of the craft village have encouraged and guided the people to boldly improve and replace some poor quality peach blossom varieties with peach blossom varieties that are popular in the market, and at the same time re-plan the peach growing area according to the correct standards to improve the quality as well as create prestige for the craft village.

With the advantage of being “near the river and near the road”, Hung Lo commune lies along the Lo river dike, and is home to two traditional craft villages: Doan Ket food processing village and Xom village’s banh chung and banh giay village. In recent years, the commune government has had orientations and priorities for craft village development, invested in infrastructure construction, and created favorable conditions for craft villages and cooperatives to develop production. Thanks to that, some advantageous products have developed quite well, increasing both in output and quality.

Hung Lo rice noodles products have affirmed their brand in the market.

To maintain and develop stably, craft villages have been operating in conjunction with the cooperative model to concentrate resources in terms of capital, human resources, knowledge and experience to develop traditional products of the craft village. A typical example is the Hung Lo rice noodle cooperative, which operates effectively on the basis of the local agricultural and food processing craft village. Up to now, the cooperative produces and consumes nearly 1 ton of noodles every day on average, which is favored by domestic and foreign markets and is regularly displayed at trade fairs, present on e-commerce trading floors, supermarket chains and large stores. Annual revenue reaches about 14 billion VND/year, creating regular jobs for 28 workers with an income of 6-8 million VND/person/month.

Along with the food processing craft village, the banh chung and banh giay craft villages continue to be maintained and developed by local people, even some families have up to 3 generations attached to the craft such as the family of Mr. Nguyen Van Ninh - Head of the craft village. Many products of the 2 craft villages have been certified with 3, 4 star OCOP, increasing the value of the products and competitiveness in the market.

To maintain and develop traditional craft villages, localities have actively promoted propaganda work on the Party and State's policies and guidelines on developing craft villages and traditional crafts, and policies to support the development of rural industries, creating motivation for people to boldly invest in production, increase output, raise income, and escape poverty.

Vy An

Source: https://baophutho.vn/phat-trien-lang-nghe-gop-phan-giam-ngheo-221882.htm