'Cooperatives - Building a Better World'

The operating methods of some cooperatives in the province have been innovated, such as linking the chain of production and product consumption organization with high efficiency

On April 11th, 1946, Uncle Ho wrote a letter to Vietnamese landlords and farmers calling for their participation in establishing agricultural cooperatives. After 19 years, also on April 11th, Uncle Ho sent a letter to the Congress of Cooperatives and the advanced agricultural production teams in the mountainous and midland areas, praising the typical advanced cooperatives and requesting that all levels and sectors pay attention to directing the development of agricultural cooperatives.

With the meaning of April 11th marking two important events for the Cooperatives movement in Vietnam, the Executive Committee of the Vietnam Cooperatives Alliance, term 4, 2010-2015, unanimously submitted and was approved by the Prime Minister to take April 11 every year as Vietnam Cooperatives Day.

2025 is the second year that the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance organizes the Action Month for Cooperatives with a series of activities taking place throughout the year, culminating in April 2025.

With the theme "Cooperatives - Building a better world", the Action Month is organized to promote, motivate and encourage to create new motivation and new spirit for cadres and workers in the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance system, managers, members and workers in cooperatives, affiliated members nationwide and the whole society to promote the spirit of responsibility, proactiveness, innovation and creativity, contributing to promoting the collective economy.

At the same time, promote digital transformation in all aspects of Cooperative activities and the activities of the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance system, connection between Cooperatives and domestic enterprises, expand international markets; perform well the function of protecting the legitimate rights and interests of member Cooperatives; play a core role and promote collective economic development, contributing to the cause of socio-economic development of the country. Thereby, creating trust and attention from the Party, State, local Party committees and authorities, the political system and the whole society in developing the collective economy and building an increasingly strong Vietnam Cooperative Alliance system.

On June 19th, 2024, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution A/RES/78/175 on Cooperatives for Social Development and proclaimed 2025 as the International Year of Cooperatives. This is the second time in history that the United Nations has dedicated an international year to cooperatives. According to the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs - Li Junhua, the second International Year of Cooperatives will be an opportunity to call on all stakeholders to support and replicate the cooperative model everywhere, thereby promoting their contribution to a better world.

In recent times, with the attention and direction of Long An Provincial Party Committee, the People's Council, the Provincial People's Committee, and the efforts of the Provincial Cooperative Union, the collective economic sector has had remarkable changes. Vice Chairman in charge of the Provincial Cooperative Union - Tran Hoai Bao said: "Cooperatives have transformed their organizational models in accordance with the Law on Cooperatives. The operating methods of some cooperatives have been innovated such as "Linking the chain of production and product consumption" with high efficiency and the model is being replicated throughout the province".

Promoting the achieved results, in 2025, the Provincial Cooperative Union will continue to innovate and improve the operational efficiency of cooperatives in organizing value chain-linked production; implement the project "Sustainable development of 1 million hectares of high-quality and low-emission rice cultivation associated with green growth in the Mekong Delta by 2030" in the province; enhance the application of science and technology; improve the management level of cooperatives. Propaganda work and focus on training young human resources will also be promoted. Thereby, creating a foundation to promote stronger collective economic development in the future./.

By Huỳnh Hương –Translated by Liên Thanh

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