Hanoi, Jan. 21 -- In the nation's new development era, the Vietnam Farmers' Union (VFU) is stepping up efforts to empower farmers and tap their creativity, contributing to the goal of building a strong, prosperous, civilised and happy country in line with orientations set by the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).

In an interview on the sidelines of the Congress, Luong Quoc Doan, a member of the Party Central Committee and President of the VFU Central Committee, highlighted the vital contributions of Vietnam's peasantry throughout the country's process of nation-building, development and renewal. Farmers, he said, have increasingly affirmed their role as a key driving force and central pillar in agricultural d...