Cao Bang: Loans offered for more than 5,000 poor women to develop production

18/01/2007
Since early 2006 Cao Bang provincial Women’s Union at all levels has acted as a guarantee for more than 5,000 poor women to get loans from Social Policy Bank, Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, National Fund for Employment Creation t … with a total amount of nearly 40 billion VND.

The Provincial Women’s Union coordinated with Agricultural and Rural Development Industry and the Provincial Center for Agricultural and Forestry Extension to provide training o­n science and technology transfer o­n cultivation and husbandry; mobilized women to use need seed variety and to build new production models such as planting cross-bred corn and soya-bean, raising chicken in the garden, raising fish in cases, applying advanced forestation techniques, transplanting fruit trees, etc. All level Women’s Union also opened training classes o­n developing small and micro enterprises for the key staff at the grassroots business in province; established cooperatives o­n vocational training preserve, and developed traditional professions such as traditional pattern weaving in Hoa An district, knitting in Canh Tan and Minh Khai communes, Thach An district, joss-stick making in Phuc Sen and Quoc Dan communes, Quang Uyen District to name a few. These professions have helped the women to generate income in their leisure time. . 

Vietnam Women Newspaper
Translated by VWU Int’l Relations Dept.

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