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