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54. Currently, many rural workers have to leave their hometowns to work
elsewhere. What are the directions in the Strategy to create jobs on the spot,
thereby reducing the situation of “leaving agriculture, leaving hometown”?

to encourage industrial and service
enterprises to invest in the countryside,
especially the industries using many
workers, to gradually reduce labour
migration from rural to urban areas
with the motto “leaving agriculture but
not leaving from homeland”. Accelerate
the process of urbanization in regional
centres to reduce the load on two main
cities, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city.

• Adjust the strategy of industrial and
service investment to support agriculture
and rural development in advantageous
and main specialized farming areas.
Develop the industries serving agriculture
(production of input materials, equipment
and machinery; agricultural product
processing industry, etc.); agricultural
services (warehouses, specialized
transport, trade, logistics, etc.). Special
incentives for developing sectors that
provide inputs and consume outputs
are decisive in creating added value
for strategic agricultural value chains,
ensuring that agriculture does not fall into
the trap of “outsourcing production”.

• Reform mechanisms, simplify procedures,
create favourable conditions for

It is true that, at present, many rural labourers attracting international aid and foreign
work in industrial zones and big cities. Among and domestic investment in agriculture
them, a large percentage is employed in and rural areas, especially in remote,
the informal sector with high risks and an disadvantaged and mountainous
unsecured labour regime. The Strategy has regions, particularly the living areas of
introduced several solutions to increase income ethnic minorities.
for rural residents and create jobs on the spot. The Strategy also has other solutions to
Specifically: promote investment in rural areas, such as
• Invest in the development of industrial improving rural infrastructure and training rural
and service zones and clusters in rural workers to meet labour requirements in new
areas, adopt policies to attract investment fields.

98 Guidelines for the Strategy for sustainable agriculture and rural development
in the period 2021-2030, and vision to 2050