‘Hot’ about land fever, production loans

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized the need to continue to innovate technology; supply chain diversification, independent of a certain market; closely and effectively combine industry with agriculture, industrialization of agriculture; connecting value chains, developing circular economy, digital economy, adapting to climate change, reducing metal emissions in agriculture…

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the conference

The Prime Minister proposed holding a dialogue with the spirit of democracy, frankness, innovation, sincerity, trust and responsibility to handle issues and ensure efficiency. Issues under the authority of any level must be handled and resolved by that level, each person in their position, authority and responsibility must do their best, not raise problems and leave them there.

Illegally dividing plots and selling agricultural land

Following the direction of the Prime Minister, the conference continuously received “hot” questions, going to the heart of the issues of concern and problems of farmers in the past time.

At the bridgehead of Bac Giang, farmer Hoang Dinh Que asked the Prime Minister a question

Farmer Hoang Dinh Que (Yen Dung district, Bac Giang province) raised the issue: Recently, the price of land in many places has increased hot, leading to the phenomenon that farmers also participate in land trading. The increase in land prices leads to many negative consequences for agricultural production, security and order in many localities.

Faced with this situation, Mr. Que asked: “What solutions does the Prime Minister and Government have to control land prices, supervise the sale and transfer of land in accordance with the provisions of the law?”.

Dialogue with farmers, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said: With the problem of land, there must be solutions to handle the situational problems, and there must be a long-term solution. Land is a huge resource for socio-economic development and people’s livelihoods and lives. We are continuing to perfect institutions, mechanisms and policies to make the best use of this resource, limiting Minimize wrongdoing, negativity, corruption…

Mr. Le Quoc Hung, Deputy Minister of Public Security (left) answers farmers

Mr. Le Quoc Hung, Deputy Minister of Public Security, admitted that over the past time, there has been a situation of subdivision and sale of plots for agricultural land, planning land, planting perennial crops, concentrated in provinces with urban speed. fast turn. This situation causes many risks for investors, land buyers, hinders investors, affects security and social order.

Mr. Hung pointed out: “The investor has put it up for sale without a specific plan. Or, for the planned land, it is illegal to build infrastructure and then divide the plot to sell the ground illegally, especially buying and selling on illegal trading floors, causing serious consequences.

Regarding the solution to this problem, Mr. Hung said, the Ministry of Public Security has advised the Government to directly direct all levels and sectors to regularly update the tricks of “gangster” groups, the gangsters associated with the each other, drawing up “ghost” projects to scam people; direct the local police to advise the authorities at all levels to settle from the beginning, early, from afar, to limit the concentration of people to complain about land.

The policy is clear, it is still difficult for farmers to get loans

Recently, the banking industry has had many programs for people to borrow capital to develop production. However, farmer Tran Thi Thanh Thoan (Duy Tien district, Ha Nam province) said that it is still difficult for people to access credit with preferential interest rates, making “black credit” still have land to survive. Ms. Thoan asked: “What stronger solution will the government have to prevent and repel ‘black credit’ in the countryside?”.

Farmer Tran Thi Thanh Thoan questions credit capital, repels “black credit”

In response to a question, Mr. Dao Minh Tu, Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV), said that in 2017, the SBV went to a field survey and saw many heartbreaking stories about black credit. Since then, the banking industry has also realized its responsibility in this regard, if the capital supply is well done, it will limit black credit. Also from that year (2017), the State Bank of Vietnam has many policies to limit black credit such as.

Results of loans for living needs, consumer loans with outstanding loans by the end of April 2022 reached over VND 2.26 million billion, accounting for over 20% of the economy’s outstanding loans, up 8.93% compared to the previous year. end of 2021.

Compared to 2017, “black credit” according to the preliminary assessment between the State Bank and the Ministry of Public Security has decreased by more than half, heartbreaking events are also limited.

In the coming time, Mr. Tu said, the State Bank will continue to expand more formal credit. “In 2019, we and the Ministry of Public Security went to survey in Hoa Binh, remote areas, and realized two problems. To limit “black credit” and strengthen official credit, people must understand that getting official bank loans is not as difficult as many people say, and they are afraid to go to banks. In addition, it is necessary to coordinate with the local government to manage the people, understand the identity, as well as the legitimate purpose of borrowing capital, not borrowing money for gambling,” Mr. Tu pointed out.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that for the recovery and development program, the support policy is clear, but in the implementation organization, access to unsecured capital is still difficult.

Clarifying more issues raised by farmer Tran Thi Thanh Thoan, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh suggested the bank study more on this issue; local authorities coordinate with banks in appraising unsecured loan documents; Farmers must also have projects that are clear, feasible and effective, the bank will share more.

The Prime Minister said that the fight against “black credit” must involve the involvement of all levels of government, people and functional agencies. The Ministry of Public Security cooperates with the State Bank of Vietnam to study the use of the national population database to assist in the appraisal of loan applications, assess the borrower’s basic information, and help people get loans from banks. goods more convenient, limit black credit.

This is the fourth time the Prime Minister’s conference with Vietnamese farmers has been held, and the first conference in the new term. The theme of this dialogue conference is: “Strengthening and supporting farmers, recovering and developing sustainable agriculture and rural areas”.

According to Viet Linh