Binh Tan Commune: Economic development, improving people's lives

In 2024, the Party Committee, government and people of Binh Tan commune (Go Cong Tay district, Tien Giang province) were honored to receive the Excellent Emulation Flag from the People's Committee of Tien Giang province. This is the result of the efforts to overcome difficulties, proactively propose many flexible solutions in the direction and management of the commune leaders, along with the joint efforts of the people. Since then, the socio-economy (SE) has continued to develop, and the material and spiritual life of the people has been constantly improved.

MANY TARGETS ACHIEVED AND EXCEEDED

According to the People's Committee of Binh Tan Commune, implementing the Party Resolution, the Resolution of the People's Council on socio-economic development as well as the emulation targets assigned by the District People's Committee, from the beginning of 2024, the People's Committee of the Commune has developed an implementation plan and focused on directing the branches and hamlets to proactively deploy key solutions for socio-economic development in the year. The Party Committee and the People's Committee of the Commune have paid attention to leading and operating closely following the targets assigned by the district, the guiding documents of the superiors, monitoring and promptly removing difficulties.

Representative of Binh Tan commune leader (9th from right) received the Excellent Emulation Flag of Tien Giang Provincial People's Committee at the conference to summarize the patriotic emulation movement in 2024.

At the same time, direct the commune's cadres and civil servants to be proactive, flexible, and uphold the sense of responsibility in performing their tasks. Thanks to promoting internal resources and taking advantage of the leadership, direction, and support of superiors, the socio-economic situation of Binh Tan commune continues to develop. In 2024, the commune will achieve and exceed 13 emulation targets assigned by the district.

Some outstanding indicators of the commune include: Total state budget revenue from the local economy is 2.16 billion VND, reaching 113.19%. The total value of the agricultural sector in the year is over 298 billion VND, reaching 106.85% of the plan; in which, rice cultivation in the year is 2,716.44 hectares; food color plants have an area of ​​320 hectares, an increase of 10 hectares over the same period, with an average yield of 23 tons/ha; total herd of cows in the commune is 2,000/320 households; total herd of pigs in the commune is 450/33 households; total herd of dykes in the commune is 2,376/267 households... At the same time, the commune has converted 4.35 hectares of ineffective rice land to grow crops such as: 1.35 hectares of flowers, 1 hectare of grass for livestock, 2 hectares of perennial plants.

During the year, the Department of Crop Production and Plant Protection issued a Certificate of 2 growing area codes in the commune, including: 1 code for vegetables of 23 ha/92 households and 1 code for rice growing area of ​​31 ha/93 households. The District People's Committee decided to approve the classification and recognition of 2 products (bok choy, sweet cabbage) of Hoa Thanh Agricultural Cooperative achieving 3-star OCOP.

In addition, poverty reduction work has also been carried out well, in the year the commune reduced 6 poor households (target of 4 households), reaching 150%; the average income per capita of the commune in 2024 reached more than 72 million VND. The work of selecting and calling young people to join the army reached 100%; the health insurance target reached 102.03%. Cultural, social, defense and security activities were ensured. Education and health care for the people are increasingly improved.

Caring for the poor, the meritorious, and social security has been implemented with many positive and synchronous solutions, contributing to job creation and income stabilization for workers. A number of key basic construction projects in the commune have received investment attention, contributing to promoting local socio-economic development.

Regarding new rural construction, Binh Tan also achieved many important results. The commune achieved new rural standards in 2020; after 4 years of continuing to maintain and strive, it completed the task of building an advanced new rural commune and launched it at the end of 2024. In addition, during the year, the commune also performed well in emulation topics, accordingly, there were 4 emulation topics achieving results from rank 1 to rank 3, contributing to making Binh Tan one of the communes with high rankings in the province.

MANY SOLUTIONS TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

According to the assessment of the leaders of Binh Tan commune, under the resolute leadership of the Party Committee, the drastic management of the People's Committee, the close supervision of the People's Council and the efforts of the sectors, hamlets and people, the socio-economic situation has improved a lot, from the appearance of the commune to the people's lives have been significantly improved.

The rural traffic system of Binh Tan commune is increasingly invested in a synchronous and spacious manner.

However, besides the achieved results, there are still some difficulties: Due to the impact of climate causing unusual weather changes, prolonged drought at the beginning of the year affects agricultural production: Winter-Spring rice crop 2023 - 2024 and Summer-Autumn crop 2024; people's domestic water is also facing difficulties.

In addition, due to the impact of market prices such as increased food prices and decreased livestock prices, people have limited the re-herding of ducks, goats, and pigs, affecting their income. In addition, the awareness of some people in classifying and treating waste at source is not high, and people's participation in environmental landscape creation activities in building new rural areas is still limited.

Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Binh Tan Commune, Le Thanh Nghi, said that from now until the commune is officially merged according to the policy of the Central and the province, the People's Committee of the commune will continue to focus on implementing the tasks and plans for 2025.

Accordingly, the commune focuses on propagating and mobilizing people to regularly visit fields, monitor sowing schedules, monitor and grasp weather information, operating schedules of irrigation works, and take good care of rice crops during the year.

Along with that, the commune focuses on preparing well for natural disaster prevention and control, proactively responding to natural disasters and storms in the last months of the year, minimizing damage to the people. The commune pays attention to supporting cooperatives and cooperative groups; members of cooperatives and cooperative groups to effectively implement collective economic models to increase people's income.

At the same time, take good care of livestock in the area: Vaccinate livestock and poultry; strengthen inspection, guidance and propaganda for people to prevent and control diseases in livestock, especially African swine fever, foot and mouth disease, lumpy skin disease... The commune also continues to promote extensive propaganda among the people, promote the role of the people as the main subject in building new rural areas, and maintain the title of advanced new rural areas.

At the same time, inspect and propagate to people, production and business establishments to properly classify and treat waste at source; mobilize people to participate in paying waste collection fees according to the set of waste collection fees.

The commune focuses on budget collection, especially the work of preventing tax losses in the land sector; implementing basic construction projects approved for implementation in 2025. At the same time, it is necessary to consolidate and improve the efficiency of the grassroots health network and primary health care for the people; continue to implement solutions to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment services.

The commune also promoted the mobilization of people to participate in universal health insurance and voluntary social insurance effectively; promoted the movement "All people protect national security" to protect security and order, prevent all kinds of crimes and social evils.

Along with that is to effectively implement the work of preventing and combating corruption; administrative reform; strengthen discipline, administrative discipline, sense of responsibility in performing public duties; promote the role and responsibility of leaders...

At the same time, seriously and effectively implement regulations and rules on public reception and dialogue with people, creating consensus among people in performing socio-economic development tasks, aiming for sustainable development in the new situation.

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Source: https://baoapbac.vn/xa-hoi/202506/xa-binh-tan-phat-trien-kinh-te-nang-cao-doi-song-nhan-dan-1044740/