Traditional craft in Khanh Hoa Province has met great challenges due to the lack of materials...
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| Vinh Phuoc Handicraft Collective (Ninh Hoa) is one of successful traditional product manufacturers. |
Traditional craft in Khanh Hoa Province has met great challenges due to the lack of materials, capital and consumers. Solutions to the problems are badly required.
Over the past years, small scale industries in rural areas have thrived again in Khanh Hoa. Many traditional industries have been promoted and developed such as handicraft, shipbuilding, embroidery, textile, etc. Some products have contributed greatly to rural development and the local modernization and industrialization. Many jobs have been created.
More than 40 traditional handicraft sectors have created jobs for 30% of the rural labor. However, increasing difficulties have been seen due to the lack of materials, capital and consumers. Some have faced risk of oblivion.
Unplanned exploitation of materials without restoration has led to the exhaustion of materials. Besides, nearly 80% of the craft establishments are in need of capital for production expansion and development.
Dinh Cong Thuan, Economics Cooperation Bureau, Khanh Hoa Branch for Rural Development says enterprises operating in the rural industry have contributed greatly to the socio-economic development as they have offered many jobs to rural people. However, many of the enterprises are facing difficulties and in need of support for survival and development.
Most craft production establishments are operating on a small scale. Local authority have not provided effective support to market search and production development.
Few poor households have had access to loans. The industrial promotion fund is mostly for vocational training, not for technology improvement and transfer. That is among reasons why no craft village in Khanh Hoa Province has been recognized.
According to Le Ngoc, Deputy Director of Khanh Hoa Provincial Center for Industry & Trade Promotion, traditional craft villages need to restructure their management to improve its technology in production, improve product design and quality and expand markets. The craft production development must be closely connected with the local culture, tourism, tradition and materials available in each region.
Rural handicraft establishments are struggling to survive. Strategic investment and appropriate policies are required to make good use of great potentials of traditional craft villages.
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