Regulations on public service units for agricultural extension at provincial and commune levels

Warming Promotion Center — The Provincial Agricultural Extension Center is responsible for proposing the development of legal documents, policy mechanisms, and technical and economic norms on agricultural extension.

The Provincial Agricultural Extension Center is a public service unit serving state management under the Department of Agriculture and Environment, with the function of organizing and implementing agricultural extension activities at the provincial level and guiding, coordinating, urging, inspecting, and supporting communes to carry out agricultural extension work according to the provisions of law.

The Center has legal status, its own seal, and is allowed to open an account according to regulations. Operating expenses are according to the law.

The Center is responsible for proposing the development of legal documents, policy mechanisms, technical and economic norms on agricultural extension; developing programs, projects, plans, and tasks for local agricultural extension and organizing their implementation after approval; guiding, coordinating, urging, and supporting the work of commune agricultural extension, agricultural extension collaborators, and community agricultural extension.

Develop programs, documents and organize training, coaching, fostering, information and propaganda, forums, seminars, conferences, workshops, competitions, fairs, exhibitions, tours and study tours to improve the capacity of commune-level agricultural extension staff, agricultural extension collaborators, community agricultural extension workers, farmers and producers.

Build demonstration models applying technical and technological advances in agricultural production suitable to each locality and the development orientation of the industry; transfer technical and technological advances from models and typical production examples to a large scale; guide and support the construction and development of standard raw material areas.

Organize the implementation and provision of public career products and services using the state budget for agricultural extension in accordance with the law. Provide consultancy, services, international cooperation, and public-private partnership in agricultural extension activities in accordance with the law. Coordinate the implementation of management, inspection, interim and final reviews, and evaluation of the effectiveness of agricultural extension activities in the whole province.

Participate in scientific research, technology, innovation and digital transformation, prevention and overcoming consequences of natural disasters and epidemics, and implementing programs and projects on agricultural and rural development and environmental protection in the locality.

Perform other tasks as prescribed by law and assigned by the Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment.

The Provincial Agricultural Extension Center includes specialized and professional departments and equivalent specialized technical organizations serving agricultural extension work.

Commune-level agricultural extension is a public service unit that carries out agricultural extension work at the commune level, provides basic and essential public services under the People's Committee of communes, wards and special zones, and performs agricultural extension tasks at the commune level for communes, wards and special zones with agricultural production.

Commune-level agricultural extension has the task of developing programs, plans, and tasks to support farmers in developing agricultural production, building new rural areas, developing communities, rural tourism, and OCOP products to improve and enhance the material and spiritual life of the people, and protect the local environment to submit to the People's Committee at the commune level for approval and implementation according to regulations.

Orientation of community agricultural extension activities, agricultural extension collaborators, enterprise agricultural extension and agricultural extension activities of organizations and individuals in the commune.

Organize and manage the activities of agricultural extension collaborators and community agricultural extension teams to support local people in developing agricultural production, protecting the environment, building new rural areas and serving local political tasks.

Information and propaganda on the Party's guidelines, policies and the State's laws, scientific and technological advances, market needs, models and advanced examples in agricultural production.

Organize training, coaching, vocational training for farmers; promote the formation of groups of start-up farmers, professional farmers, and innovation in agricultural production and business; replicate and spread models of good farmers, good economic farmers, and farmers teaching farmers.

Building demonstration models, transferring technology and providing consulting and services on production, preservation, processing, market promotion, product consumption, and forming concentrated production material areas that meet standards.

Monitor the development of natural disasters and epidemics on crops and livestock, participate in tasks of preventing, combating and overcoming consequences of natural disasters and epidemics, and protecting the local environment.

Perform other tasks as prescribed by law and assigned by the People's Committee at the commune level.

Based on the production scale, specific conditions of each locality and the staffing quota assigned by the provincial-level local government, the People's Council at the commune level decides the number of commune-level agricultural extension officers appropriate to the task requirements.

Recruitment, use and management of commune-level agricultural extension officers according to job positions and legal regulations.

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