Kon Tum boosts socio-economic development among ethnic minorities

Monday, 16/10/2017 16:15
The Central Highlands province of Kon Tum will give support to over 21,000 families in ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous regions, implementing a project boosting socio-economic development through 2020, using a capital of over VND270 billion.

Loans from the Bank for Social Polices help a poor family in Doan Ket commune, Ko Tum city, to expand cow breeding. (Photo: VNA)
Accordingly, ethnic minority people in villages and communes belonging to ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous regions; poor families in extremely disadvantaged villages; families living on agricultural and forestry production; families that do not have or lack residential and production land or safe water; families that have not enjoyed State policies on residential land, production and land safe water policies, will receive residential land, production land, water and preferential credit loan assistance.

The project aims to address the difficulties of poor families life and production, assisting them in improving their living conditions, stabilizing their production, speeding up poverty reduction among ethnic minorities and mountainous people, thus reducing the poverty rate among ethnic minority and mountainous people by 3-4% per year and the poverty rate among poor ethnic minority people by 3.6-4.5% per year.

Under the project, 80% of poor ethnic minority families and poor families in extremely disadvantaged regions will receive adequate production land, job transition assistance, and preferential loans for production./.

 

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