Tasks and powers of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam on regarding rural development

Tasks and powers of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam on regarding rural development are as follows:

1. To direct and deploy the implementation of the national target program on building a new countryside; and the program of action for no hunger in Vietnam as assigned by the Government;

2. To synthesize and submit to the Prime Minister for approval integrated rural development programs; and strategies for development of rural trades and craft villages with the participation of households and cooperatives in communes;

3. To organize and examine the implementation of master plans, programs, mechanisms and policies on development of agricultural electromechanics; rural trades and craft village with the participation of households and cooperatives after they are approved by competent authorities;

4. To assume the prime responsibility for, guide and examine the population distribution and resettlement of inhabitants for the construction of irrigation and hydropower works; population distribution and resettlement of inhabitants in natural disaster-prone, extremely disadvantaged, border and island areas, and areas affected by sea level rise due to climate change, areas with free migrants, and important and very important areas of protection forests and special-use forests; to direct, guide and examine the sedentary farming and population distribution in rural areas and ethnic minority and mountainous areas according to national socio-economic development master plans;

5. To direct, guide and examine the organization of agricultural vocational training for rural labor in accordance with law;

6. To direct, guide and examine programs and projects on construction of rural infrastructure works in accordance with specialized laws.

View details at Decree No. 15/2017/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from February 17, 2017.

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