The Boeing Company on Monday celebrated the completion of two schools in the Mekong delta province of An Giang and will hold handover ceremonies for two other rural primary schools in the central provinces of Phu Yen and Binh Dinh on October 27.
The Viet Nam Farmers’ Association (VFA) had contributed to rural environmental protection by building waste-treatment models, improving access to clean water and educating farmers about environmentally-safe farming, said Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan on Wednesday in a meeting with the association.
There are plans to upgrade skills for 50,000 women labourers each year
Rural female labourers need greater access to education and vocational training so they can get stable jobs and reduce poverty in their households, experts say.
Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem said on September 25 that Vietnam gives top priority to poverty reduction and is taking strong measures to achieve eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
The Danish government will provide 30.6 million USD for a programme to support Viet Nam ’s agricultural and rural development which kicked off on February 21.
The Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry’s Plant Protection Department has proposed a programme intended to strengthen large-scale chemical-free tea production.
Agreements for a French loan and grant totalling 41 million euros (US$61.5 million) for rural development in central Viet Nam were signed in Ha Noi yesterday.
The international community has asserted the need for Viet Nam to revise the strategy for developing the agricultural sector as a senior official admitted that the sector is nowhere near to achieving a sound pattern of sustainable growth.
