 |
A corner of the resettlement area for Gia Rai ethic minority people in Chu Se District in the Central Highland province of Gia Lai. Ethnic minority people still find it difficult to give up their moving around to find cultivation land because there are not many better alternatives. — VNA/VNS Photo Sy Huynh |
This conclusion was presented in a report prepared by the ministries of Finance; Agriculture and Rural Development; and Planning and Investment in co-operation with the National Assembly's Nationalities Council.
The report follows a two-month supervision of the assistance policy being implemented to help ethnic minority people improve their lives.
Limited capital, a shortage of land for settlement, cultivation and lack of clarity about the ethnic minorities eligible to receive the Government's support were recognised as major challenges in implementing the assistance policies, the report said.
The policy has been applied in 24 provinces that have local residents practising shifting cultivation.
A sum of VND572 billion (US$29 million) was allocated to assist an estimated 9,000 households. However, the number of households needing assistance was later revised to 30,000.
"We should define clearly who really need assistance as well as who are wandering cultivation farmers," said Ksor Phuoc, head of the council.
According to the report, the construction of resettlement areas is very slow with only 42 per cent or 126 out of 297 projects completed so far. By the end of last year, only four provinces had partly finished their work after two years of implementing the policy.
It was hard to find flat land in mountainous provinces to build resettlement areas and the State budget was not able to provide the planned capital for these projects, the report said.
"There are so many difficulties, especially in finding agricultural and resettlement land, along with shortage of capital for infrastructure construction and production," said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Minh Quang.
He said that if local authorities were not able to prepare good resettlement areas and land for cultivation, ethnic minorities would continue to practise shifting cultivation.
"We should focus on each detail of a project to resettle local residents and capital should be provided from the beginning of the year," said Ha Hung, deputy head of the nationalities council. — VNS
No comments:
Post a Comment