As those living in the countryside doing agricultural work, we really want the Party and State to have plan for economic development to boost the country’s industrialisation and modernisation, narrowing the gap between the rural and the urban areas.

In my hometown, in recent years, thanks to the advocacy of economic shift in agricultural structure, land is reserved for industrial zones. In general, life has seen big changes. Thai Binh town has become a city with new roads. Bridges such as Tan De, Trieu Duong and Nghin have linked Thai Binh with neighboring provinces. The locals’ transportation has been easier, thus promoting to the locality economic development.

We pay special attention to a content of the report “boosting the process of agricultural and rural economic structure shift in the direction of big production linked with processing industry and market”. This has long been an issue of people’s concern. This is the relations between the inputs and the outputs for agricultural production. In recent years, agricultural material prices have soared sharply, while the prices of agricultural outputs have been risen slowly, causing more hardship to farmers.

We are so interested in the advocacy of “shifting the labour structure in countryside in the direction of sharp reduction of agricultural labour rate and rise in industrial and service labour”. In fact, in the past years, many farmers have given their land to build industrial zones. However, few local youths are prepared to accept work in factories and enterprises. Most of the labourers did not meet the requirements for working in industrial zones and faced difficulties in looking for new jobs. Therefore, they have encountered difficulties.

However, farmers share the view in the the report that the Party and State pay attention to “developing socio-economic infrastructure structure in countryside such as irrigation system, transport, electricity, clean water...”

The State should have policies to encourage farmers to open farms to product high quality products and find markets for their products. At the same time, high tech factories and enterprises should be moved to the countryside and train farmers’ children so that they can work for these factories and enterprises.  This will help stop a phenomenon “leaving field but not village”, thus bringing the country out of under-developement.

By TRAN VAN MINH