Criteria of incomes of new rural areas adjusted
25/03/2013 - 11 Lượt xem
The Economic Cooperation and
Rural Development Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development (MARD) reported that from the real implementation of the
national target program on new rural area construction, all communes in
new rural areas had actively strived for high incomes. Therefore, it
would be very difficult to achieve the income target issued by Decision
491/QD-TTg, not to mention several other criteria. Faced by these real
difficulties, MARD has submitted a proposal to the Prime Minister to
adjust five criteria for new rural areas, including income, labor force
structure, education and health care and rural markets.
As for the income, Tang Minh
Loc, the Director of the Economic Cooperation and Rural Development
Department said MARD has suggested two solutions, the first one is to
retain the name of the income criterion and make it clear that the
average per capita income per year of a commune of new rural areas must
be 1.2 times compared with the average per capita income of other rural
areas in that province (not the general average income of the whole
province). The second one is to draw up a fixed level of average per
capita income of VND22million per year.
Loc said with the first
solution, each province has a different average per capita income,
resulting in different standard average incomes for new rural areas in
the country. Therefore, it would be difficult to assess and compare the
incomes of standard communes in one region and across the country. The
second solution is calculated based on the Resolution 26-NQ/TW of the
7th meeting of the Central Committee Session 10 on agriculture, farmers
and rural areas, which is by 2020 the average income of rural households
is 2.5 times higher than the 2008 income per capita per year level of
VND9.1 million, or equal to VND22million per year.
This fixed income also differs
in different regions: the Red River Delta and the southeast regions
average VND24million per year; the Mekong Delta, northern and southern
coastal central regions at VND22million per year and northern
mountainous/midland regions and the Central Highlands region at
VND20million per year. According to many localities, the latter solution
is a suitable approach and easy to apply.
Loc added that to improve
incomes for communes in new rural areas, the most important thing is to
reform production structures. Each commune and hamlet at least has to
construct a suitable commodity-oriented agricultural production model.
In 2013, some tasks of the national target program on new rural area
construction will also be carried out, such as preserving and developing
craft villages in the 2010-2020 period and the national target program
on poverty reduction, helping households expand production models of
traditional handicraft products.
Loc also said at present, the
large-scale rice field model has not only created opportunities to
exploit advantages in each locality, large production scales and high
quality agricultural products but also created an environment to improve
production skills and a sense of discipline for farmers, especially
helping them raise incomes and improve living conditions on their own
fields.
However, to further improve the
efficiency of the large-scale rice field model, Loc mentioned better
coordination among farmers, enterprises and scientists,
especially between farmers and organizations of farmers (like
co-operatives or collaborative groups) with processing and consuming
enterprises. As for the State, Loc suggested the State should adopt
policies to support participants in this model like training households,
encouraging scientists to conduct research and transfer advanced
technologies to production, processing and consumption of agricultural
products.
The Prime Minister issued
Decision 342/QD-TTg dated on February 20, 2013 on amendments to the five
criteria in the set of national criteria for new rural development,
including rural markets, income, labor force structure, education and
health care, in which the income criteria was amended. Based on the
standard the average income per capita in rural areas for the whole
country in 2012 was VND18 million per person; in 2015 it would reach
VND26 million per person and in 2020 it would stand at VND44 million per
person. The average income for regions is calculated based on the
specific features of each region, and standard communes must
have communal per capita average income growth not lower than the
minimum per capita average income growth of rural areas in that
region./.
Source: VEN.
Source: VEN.
