Honoring outstanding Vietnamese farmers

In his opening speech, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers' Union Luong Quoc Doan emphasized: Outstanding Vietnamese farmers and typical cooperatives have made important contributions to the results of restructuring the agricultural sector towards quality and efficiency, forming multi-value production chains, contributing to promoting economic growth, building new rural areas and sustainable poverty reduction.

According to the Organizing Committee, among the outstanding Vietnamese farmers honored at the event, there were individuals with high revenue such as: farmer Nguyen Thi Bien (Thanh Hoa) 150 billion VND; farmer Nguyen Duc Menh ( Hai Duong ) 95 billion VND.

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man speaks at the honoring ceremony.

Farmers with large production linkage areas include: farmer Nguyen Thanh Tuan (Kien Giang) with 500 hectares; the farmer with the highest profit is Nguyen Minh Nhu (Ben Tre) with 20.5 billion VND thanks to the shrimp farming model.

In addition, the Organizing Committee said that 30 farmers out of 144 nominations had profits of 5 billion VND/year or more; the remaining candidates had profits from 500 million VND to 4.5 billion VND/year.

Along with the ceremony to honor outstanding farmers, 2024 is the second year that the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers' Union has honored 63 outstanding cooperatives nationwide that were promoted, mobilized, and guided to be established by the Vietnam Farmers' Union. Of which, the two cooperatives with the largest charter capital are Tan Thanh Agricultural Cooperative - Bac Kan (12 billion VND) and Minh Truong Wood Cooperative - Bac Ninh (12.5 billion VND).

Some cooperatives with the largest number of members: Xuan Phuoc Agricultural Production and Service Cooperative (Phu Yen) with 2,000 members; Thuy Tan Agricultural Cooperative (Thua Thien - Hue) with 668 members; Cho Vam Agricultural Cooperative (An Giang) with 316 members.

Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers' Union Luong Quoc Doan spoke at the ceremony.

Some cooperatives with large revenues include: Long Thanh Phat Agricultural Cooperative (Dong Nai) with a revenue of more than 212 billion VND/year; 118 billion VND Agricultural Cooperative (Cao Bang), revenue from selling silkworm cocoons reached 100.7 billion VND; Chau Pha Agricultural Service Production Cooperative (Ba Ria - Vung Tau) with a revenue of 52 billion VND; OCOP Biological Fruit Cooperative (Hau Giang) with a revenue of 65 billion VND; Bau Don Fruit Tree Cooperative (Tay Ninh) with a revenue of 132 billion VND...

Speaking at the Commendation Ceremony, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man commended, acknowledged and highly appreciated the efforts and achievements of the Vietnam Farmers' Union, each cadre, farmer member, and agricultural cooperative nationwide, especially the individuals and collectives honored and commended at today's ceremony.

“The advanced models honored today are the most outstanding representatives among millions of farmers nationwide, real people, real deeds, achieving outstanding achievements in production, business, in the movement to build new rural areas, sustainable poverty reduction, the movement of the whole people to protect national security; having initiatives and inventions that have been applied and brought high efficiency in practice,” National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man stated.

According to National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man, our country is facing many opportunities and advantages but also has to face many difficulties and challenges that must be overcome. Therefore, the National Assembly Chairman hopes that Farmers' Associations at all levels need to continue to promote information, propaganda, and widespread dissemination of the Party's policies and laws on agriculture, farmers, and rural areas. There must be new thinking, new ways of doing things, new determination, encouragement, support, and creating conditions for more good production and business households, successful agricultural cooperatives, to act as the core to participate in socio-economic development in rural areas throughout the country, especially in difficult mountainous areas and areas with large ethnic minorities.

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man and Central Committee Chairman of the Vietnam Farmers' Union Luong Quoc Doan awarded Certificates of Recognition and Cups of Honor to two groups: "Outstanding Farmers in Protecting National Security, Outstanding Forestry and Fishery Production" and "Billionaire Farmers and Digital Transformation".

In addition, Farmers' Associations at all levels need to focus on guiding members and farmers to apply digital technology, build models of ecological agricultural production, green agriculture; organic, circular, smart agriculture; agriculture combined with industry, agriculture combined with services, creating many safe, high-quality agricultural products to be competitive in domestic and world markets; build, develop and preserve product brands and consumer markets.

For the outstanding individuals and collectives honored today, the National Assembly Chairman emphasized that they need to continue to take the lead in cooperation and production and business linkage; continue to contribute their efforts and intelligence, impart experiences, support and help many others so that more farmers can become rich legitimately, more agricultural cooperatives can succeed and develop, and together with the community, achieve the goal of sustainable poverty reduction and new rural construction.

On this occasion, the National Assembly Chairman requested Party committees at all levels, authorities, the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations at all levels to continue to pay more attention and have practical and effective solutions for agricultural development, building new rural areas, advanced new rural areas and model new rural areas; create more favorable conditions for the Vietnam Farmers' Union at all levels to operate effectively with the motto "people know, people discuss, people do, people check, people supervise, people benefit".

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