Vietnam Works out Anti-Poverty Plan

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Vietnam Works out Anti-Poverty Plan

The Vietnamese government has worked out a plan to reduce the number of the families living in poverty to 300,000 this year, bringing the proportion of the impoverished families down to 14 percent.

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The Vietnamese government has worked out a plan to reduce the number of the families living in poverty to 300,000 this year, bringing the proportion of the impoverished families down to 14 percent.

As a part of the 2001-2005 anti-poverty program, the plan will target 115,500 families in the north and 90,000 families in central of the country, according to a report of the local daily Vietnam News on Wednesday.

The remaining families are in the Central Highlands, the south-eastern provinces, and the Mekong Delta of the country.

Improving farm production and livestock breeding will be the plan's main objectives, with various strategies to be employed.

Other strategies include expanding land reclamation for crop cultivation, proving new crop and animal varieties, developing marine product raising in coastal areas, diversifying farm crops, and building floating houses in the Mekong Delta.

Last year, Ho Chi Minh City authorities invested 26.6 billion Vietnamese dong (1.8 million U.S. dollars) in building houses, schools, dispensaries, roads and bridges for 20 poor communes in the city.

The rate of the impoverished families in some suburban communeshas dropped from 23 percent to about 18.5 percent in the past six months.

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