(VOVWORLD) - Despite its overpopulation and underdeveloped infrastructure, Binh Chanh, one of the suburban districts of Ho Chi Minh City, has over the past decade completed the national target program on creating new-style rural areas. This work has significantly changed the face of rural areas, transformed the economic structure with many effective models, and improved people’s living standards.
(VOVWORLD) - Gia Lai province has 18,000 hectares of pepper growing land, the largest area in the Central Highlands. Local farmers are currently in the main pepper harvest season. Sustainable planting methods have helped growers earn a profit.
(VOVWORLD) - In recent years, farmers in Tien Giang province have changed from growing rice to growing lemon grass, also known as the anti-mosquito plant. As a result many farmers on Tan Phu Dong Island, whose soil is suitable for this type of plant, have escaped poverty.
(VOVWORLD) - Nobody in Son La province remembers exactly when Ngoc Chien mountain commune’s bamboo and rattan weaving craft took shape. All they know is the techniques have been handed down from generation to generation. Ngoc Chien’s n bamboo and rattan products have become popular with tourists.
(VOVWORLD) - More and more household economic models and cooperatives in Bac Kan province are led by ethnic women, who are using new technologies to introduce their farm produce to consumers nationwide.
(VOVWORLD) - Weaving baskets from water hyacinth, an aquatic plant common in Vietnam's rural areas, is popular among the people of Nga Nam town in Soc Trang province. The craft produces extra income for farmers between harvests without polluting the environment.
(VOVWORLD) - The Cham ethnic minority in Ninh Thuan province have become familiar with community-based tourism. Visitors are invited to stay in a traditional Cham house and participate in the daily activities of a Cham family.
(VOVWORLD) - Playgrounds with colorful excercise equipment have become a familiar sight in the school yards of many of Dak Lak’s remote hamlets. The children are more excited about going to school because of the new playgrounds, which improve their physical fitness and stimulate their creativity while they’re having fun.
(VOVWORLD) - Hanoi leads Vietnam’s localities in new-style rural building with a focus on advanced village models.
(VOVWORLD) - An Hien in Hoang Dieu commune in Hanoi’s outlying Chuong My district is a small hamlet located on the Day River, 15 kilometers from the center of Hanoi. The villagers are determined to make the hamlet a center of social activities.
