Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the event (Photo: VNA)

Mr. Phuc said: “It’s important to exploit potential and advantages of cooperatives to make big changes in agricultural production and rural life. Cooperative development movement should be driven by 4 words: encouragement, support, study, and communications, which means to create a favorable environment, resolve obstacles, and promote self-reliance, entrepreneurship, innovation, and startup spirit of cooperatives. Successful models should be replicated.”

He suggested learning from international experience to fully tap the power of new-style cooperatives and collective economic models. Mechanisms to develop cooperatives and working groups must be fine-tuned, and coordination with other economic sectors, especially businesses, strengthened, towards opening up more new markets for farmers, the leader said. He also asked for facilitating labour training, land and finance-credit policies, science-technology, and infrastructure upgrade, requiring tapping advantages and potential of cooperative models to make profound and basic changes in agricultural production and rural lives.