(VEN) – Huynh Van Quang said, “The inefficient assignment of the land created difficulties. We still have a lot of difficulties regarding investment attraction into the local IZs and ICs as most of the land still lacks basic infrastructure.
Life in many regions in Tay Ninh Province seems to have revived after the farmers were returned their previous land
Together with Long An Province and Ho Chi Minh City, the southern province of Tay Ninh has changed the lives of local farmers when it decided to abolish more than 1,200 ha of agricultural land earmarked for pending projects at local Industrial Zones (IZs) and Industrial Clusters (ICs) for over the past ten years.
Before October, 2012, Tay Ninh Province had nearly 7,000 ha of planned agricultural land in seven districts and towns to build nine IZs and 23 ICs, but half of the area still awaited planning. The land was left fallow and affected the lives of the local farmers as compensation for site clearances had not been fully implemented.
The problem was resolved by Tay Ninh Province People’s Committee in late 2012 (extending to the first half of 2013) when it decided to cancel 122 pending IZs and 10 pending ICs over a total area of more than 1,200 ha. The land was then returned to farmers for cultivation. Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Huynh Van Quang said the decision to recover the land was made after hundreds of phone calls were received from the local farmers complaining their land was lost.
Farmers in Gia Binh Commune (Trang Bang District) were delighted by the decision. Tran Van Hung from Binh Nguyen 2 Hamlet said, “I was so glad to get back the land. We can only live on it and enrich ourselves”. After that his family grew the autumn-summer rice crop on three ha and another ha for growing Cassaba melon. It is estimated that by the end of this year, Tran Van Hung’s family could earn VND100 million.
Meanwhile, over 200ha unused land was also reassigned in Go Dau District, paving the way for 170 local households to grow watermelon at the year end. Nguyen Van Nhanh, the Head of Agriculture Service Cooperative said, “Life in my commune seems to have revived after the farmers were returned their previous land.”
In early July 2013, Trang Bang District’s People’s Committee decided to spend VND100 million to dredge irrigation channels to help water in rice fields, helping to raise local rice productivity./.
By Nguyen Khang
Đăng ký: VietNam News