Indigenous locals in the Central Highlands Province of Kon Tum are getting rich from nothing to millions by growing, buying and selling medicinal plants.
A series of training courses are being organised for 1,200 ethnic minority people who are part of ecotourism chains in the central provinces of Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Thua Thien-Hue and Quang Nam.
Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Council Nguyen Van Dung encouraged the promotion of good solutions and models for sustainable poverty reduction to make them become a common model in the southern metropolis.
The history of nomadic lifestyle along with many other factors like war, conflicts and custom have made several ethnic minorities emigrate into the forests for living, thereby establishing groups of small villages on jungle-clad mountains.
Minister-Chairman of the Government’s Committee for Ethnic Affairs Do Van Chien has pointed out that ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas have suffered most difficulties, with a high rate of poor households.