Seminar discusses new rural area construction

A seminar on the National Target Programme on Building New Rural Areas opened in the northern province of Tuyen Quang on September 21.

The event was jointly organised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and provincial authorities.

Addressing the event, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nguyen Dang Khoa underlined that building new rural areas is of strategic importance to national industrialisation and modernisation as over 70 percent of the Vietnamese population live in rural areas and over 50 percent of the labour force work in the agricultural sector.

In addition to challenges, Khoa said that with the support of international organisations and Vietnam’s efforts, the face of new rural areas has changed over the past year.

At the event, the delegates from six northeastern provinces focused on discussing planning for building new rural areas with the participation of locals, promoting training and information dissemination, and development of agricultural commodities agriculture based on market mechanisms as well as proposing policies for the northeastern region to speed up the programme.

Tags: Vietnam Construction, Vietnam construction sector

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