PM Dung tours Bac Lieu, Soc Trang provinces
Posted by baclieu12345 on December 26, 2008
He made the suggestion at working sessions on July 27 with leaders of the two localities, which are part of his Mekong delta tour that aimed to enquire into socio-economic performance in the area the first half of the year and its plans to fulfill the tasks of the second half.
The PM asked Soc Trang provincial authorities to ensure that local people, especially the poor and Khmer people, who account for 30 percent of the province’s population, benefit from social welfare policy.
He said as poor households still make up 18 percent of the province’s population, the provincial authorities should mobilise different sources to make life better for those poor people and closely supervise the implementation of policies in support of the poor and ethnic minority people.
The PM asked Soc Trang authorities to focus on removing difficulties in raw materials, labour and loans for businesses, especially for those involved in seafood processing, to raise production in the second half of the year, while increasing agricultural promotion activities, the application of new scientific advances and new varieties of plants and animals, and the safe use of fertilisers to maximise farming productivity.
He also requested close inspection of the disbursement of the Government’s preferential loans for processors to buy ‘tra’ and ‘basa’ catfish stockpile from farmers. At the same time, the province must speed up the construction of Government-funded projects and continue with measures to curb inflation, he said.
