Three hours of Prime Minister dialogue with farmers

At 8 a.m., Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh entered the hall full of people at the Convention Center of Son La province. He waved goodbye, which was met with applause from more than 500 delegates.

In his 30-minute opening speech, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh conveyed the Government’s sharing and deep sympathies with farmers in particular and the people of the country in general over the past two years, who have struggled against Covid-19. -19. The head of the Government wants a dialogue based on democracy, frankness, sincerity, trust and responsibility to handle issues.

“Through the previous three dialogues, we see what has been done well, what has not been done well, we need to learn from the experience. The dialogue must bring something new and practical,” the Prime Minister shared.

In eight messages of his speech, the Prime Minister repeatedly emphasized the need to build an autonomous economy, and at the same time asked ministries and branches to work closely and effectively to jointly solve problems with agriculture and farmers. existing difficulties; must innovate technology, take industrial science as the driving force for development; diversify supply chains, independent of one market, not dependent on a product type.

Subsidy for essential materials

As the first to ask the question, farmer Nguyen Van Thanh, Ung Hoa district (Hanoi) said that, after the Covid-19 epidemic, the price of livestock materials increased sharply compared to before, causing many loss-making farmers to “hang up their ponds”. , hanging barn”, what policies does the Government have to support?

Appointed by the Prime Minister to answer, Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien, said that this is a global problem, not just any country. Over the past time, the Government and ministries have made efforts to share with farmers such as limiting the export of strategic materials, studying policies to adjust taxes and fees. According to Mr. Dien, the price of materials has increased because input materials for fertilizer production have increased by 130-170%. “If prices still escalate, they will propose to subsidize farmers with some essential supplies,” said Minister Dien.

Meanwhile, according to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan, in order to reduce the cost of materials, people can take advantage of by-products in agricultural production or need to gradually become self-sufficient in some raw materials in the agricultural production. production of animal feed and aquatic products.

To further clarify, the Prime Minister said that the Government has also issued many policies to support people and businesses such as tax exemption and reduction, fees, charges, electricity, water…, investment in infrastructure development with a series of expressways to reduce logistics costs.

Reduce loan procedures and interest to avoid black credit

Farmer Tran Thi Thanh Thoan, Duy Tien district (Ha Nam) said that in the past time, banks have had many programs to lend money to people, but many people still have difficulty accessing capital with preferential interest rates, causing credit problems. Black is still alive. “What solutions does the government have to prevent and repel black credit in rural areas?”, asked Ms. Thoan.

The representative answering questions, Mr. Dao Minh Tu, Deputy Governor of the State Bank, admitted that during field trips, he had seen many heartbreaking stories about black credit. From that situation, the State Bank has issued many policies to limit black credit, including perfecting the legal framework on lending activities, reducing interest rates, and simplifying lending procedures. “Compared to 2017, black credit, according to preliminary assessment, has decreased by more than half, heartbreaking events are also limited,” said Mr. Tu and said the results of loans for living needs, consumer loans. with outstanding loans by the end of April 2022 reaching over VND 2.26 million billion, accounting for over 20% of the economy’s outstanding loans.

Lieutenant General Le Quoc Hung, Deputy Minister of Public Security, affirmed that he had opened many final peaks in dismantling black credit drives, arresting and handling many subjects. To strengthen over 50,000 officers to work as commune police in order to coordinate with the authorities to detect black credit early. In this regard, the Prime Minister said that in order to prevent black credit, it was necessary to intervene at all levels, and asked the Ministry of Public Security to coordinate with banks in using national population data to support application appraisal. loans to help people borrow easily to limit black credit.

7 solutions to prevent people from leaving their fields to trade land

Connecting online from the Bac Giang bridge point, farmer Hoang Dinh Que, Yen Dung district, shared that the price of land in many places has grown rapidly over time, leading to the phenomenon of many farmers also participating in land trading. . The increase in land prices, according to Mr. Que, leads to many negative consequences for agricultural production, security and order in many localities. “What solutions do the Prime Minister and Government have to control land prices?” Que asked.

Assigned to answer, Lieutenant General Le Quoc Hung said that in recent years, crimes of violation in land use management are very common, especially emerging in the situation of subdividing plots and selling plots with agricultural land, planning land, etc. perennial crops. The most commonly used trick is that the investor puts up for sale without a specific plan, or with the planned land, he arbitrarily builds infrastructure and illegally divides plots to sell the ground. “For example, the case related to real estate Alibaba. This company painted 42 projects with 620 hectares that are not real, appropriating 2,500 billion VND”, Mr. Hung shared.

Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Quy Kien proposed 7 solutions, including strengthening the strict management of real estate projects, especially real estate formed in the future; publicize information on land use planning and plans; strictly comply with regulations on registration of land use right transfer and land use purpose change; have a plan to regulate the land fund to the market through the creation of a clean land fund for auction of land use rights; promote propaganda of the law on land; unifying awareness in land valuation; improve the capacity of local land fund development organizations.

Undoing China’s export bottlenecks

Also at the dialogue, questions related to the export of agricultural products to China were also of great interest to many farmers. Farmer Tran Nhu Kien, Yen Chau district (Son La), shared that from 2020 Covid-19 control policies make exporting to this market difficult, so the Government must have radical solutions. muscle.

Sharing with Mr. Kien and many other farmers, the Prime Minister said that he had had many interactions with high-ranking Chinese leaders, the Chinese ambassador to Vietnam. Set up a working group led by leaders of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. However, it still does not meet our requirements and expectations. The head of the Government said that the Chinese market is no longer as easy as before. “We need immediate and long-term solutions. It takes time to promote official production,” the Prime Minister said.

Implement “shallow cup without divorce”

Many farmers also ask questions related to livelihoods, abandonment of the countryside to the streets, climate change… Farmers Thi Yen Wok, Bat Xat district (Lao Cai) sad to see many workers in the mountains leave farming to work as hired labor in industrial zones. In addition, young people tend to do paid jobs instead of agricultural production, there are also young people who leave the city to return to their hometown but few.

With the same concern, farmer Vo Viet Minh Chau, Huong Khe district (Ha Tinh) said that seeing each group of people leaving his hometown made him sad. When they return home, they do not have a job or income. Anh Chau wants the Government to have a solution to convert labor so that people do not have to leave their homeland. Meanwhile, farmer Ly Van Bon in Can Tho asked how to support people in the Mekong Delta against the impacts of climate change.

In turn, answering questions, Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung said that the whole country has about 7 million migrant workers. The government has spent 89,000 billion VND to support 55 million people, coming here will continue to pour 6,600 billion VND to support housing for farmers and workers. “Try to realize the countryside without leaving the countryside, building a new countryside goes hand in hand with urbanization. Developing an auxiliary industrial network to help farmers work as workers, eat at home, stay at home, not have to leave. away from home,” said Mr. Dung.

Next, Minister and Chairman of the Ethnic Minority Committee Hau A Lenh said that ethnic minorities account for three-quarters of the country. This is a place with great potential for agriculture and tourism. Here, the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs will focus on supporting science and technology for young ethnic people.

Regarding the development of the Mekong Delta, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that the Party’s policy is very clear, and recently, the Politburo has also issued Resolution 13 on the direction of socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security in the Mekong Delta to 2030, with a vision to 2045. The Government is developing an action plan to implement Resolution 13 of the Politburo. In particular, the development of infrastructure in the Mekong Delta is the highest priority this term.

During more than 3 hours of dialogue, 14 questions were raised by farmers to the Prime Minister, and 10 industry commanders participated in answering.

This is the fourth time that the dialogue between the Prime Minister and farmers has taken place and the first conference in the new Government term. Among the more than 500 participants, there were 300 typical farmers representing more than 10.2 million farmer members nationwide.

Summarizing the dialogue, the Prime Minister found that there are 10 outstanding issues including consumption of agricultural products; state association, scientists, entrepreneurs, farmers; digital conversion; improve the competitive ability; the issue of small quota export; production according to market signals; contribute shares with land use rights; startup movement, innovation; mastering inputs of seeds and agricultural materials; employment in the agricultural sector.

The Prime Minister stated that the Party and State have always been consistent in their views throughout and have issued many important undertakings and policies and strategies, affirming the role and position of agriculture, rural areas and farmers in the process. country development.

After 15 years of implementing the Resolution of the 7th Plenum of the Party Central Committee, term X on agriculture, farmers and rural areas, and implementing dialogues between the Prime Minister and farmers, many achievements have been achieved. Agriculture was restructured towards modernity; to develop in terms of scale, production level and growth quality; consumption market expanded, export turnover increased sharply; contribute to stabilizing the macro-economy, ensuring major balances.

In 2021, despite many difficulties, agriculture still grew by 2.98%, total export turnover reached 48.6 billion USD. Right in the first 4 months of this year, exports of the whole industry reached nearly 17.9 billion USD, up 15.6% over the same period.

Pham Chieu