Prosperous village shop, “ one village one product ” characteristic. Recently, the company called &ldquo in the Lao capital Vientiane; Saoban” shop, Finland tourist Kay and her husband for a variety of scarves, shawls, dresses, handbags, and other traditional handicrafts of Laos put it down. Kay is Finland handicrafts courses in a school teacher, she is going to purchase 1 for each item, back to Finland presented to students.
“ Saoban” in Laos and Italy as “ country ”. Shopkeeper told reporters Bandi, village shops sell fabric mostly from the remote village of Taap match in Vientiane province. 13 women form a textile cooperative in the village, these products are they made of cotton or silk in Laos, from knitting to dyeing, all hand-finished.
Lao has a wealth of traditional handicraft, textile, dyeing, embroidery, wood carving, bamboo weaving, pottery, paper, silver, and other traditional production is longstanding. But for a long time, many villages in Laos itself closed, self-sufficient, slash and burn, in a State of natural economy, half the subsistence economy, some traditional handicrafts in danger of being lost. For poverty, Laos at the national level to implement “ one village one product &rdquo motion. In the past 5 years, the Government merged some small villages, several villages formed a cooperative, full use of local resources, the development of farming and breeding, development and characteristics of traditional handicrafts and agricultural products. Birth of a village shop, thanks to “ one village one product &rdquo motion.
Bandi said that customers buy any product from the store, are support for Lao village development. A cooperative purchase price of about 100,000 kip (US $ 1 about 8,000 kip) of silk scarves, retail price of 120,000 kip, that is, increases when 20% of retail stores, wholesale increases when around 10%. Bandi told reporters that shop customers have 20 to 30 a day now, sales revenue at around $ 300. In November of each year to next February's tourist season, sell better. Through the promotion of village shops, Lao traditional handicrafts not only favored by tourists, but also exported to United States, and Japan.
in addition to direct these handicrafts, rural shop back to the cooperatives small start-up capital, technical guidance, help the weavers were improving technology, development and design new products. For example, the help of the village shop, Weaver developed a local soil is called “ silver black ” natural dye, dyeing of silk fabrics are sold in this raw material.
village shop along with the John Paul Stapp game village women have jobs and a stable income. Last year, the cooperative had savings of 20 million Kip, 13 women decided to buy a loom, expand production. Today, their families out of poverty, living a life of dignity guaranteed. On the rural shop photos were posted on the wall, cooperative leader Ridge red and her sisters laugh very brilliant. Bandi said, it is John Paul Stapp game village the most beautiful smile.
the next 5 years is the Lao the key to accelerating poverty eradication period, the commodity production, promoting the family is the Lao Government to solve poverty, particularly rural poverty is an important way of thinking. In the recent ninth National Congress of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, one from Khoueng Saravan farmers was adopted special arrangements to the General Assembly about his experience in commercial agricultural production out of poverty.
According to the socio-economic development plan established by the General Assembly, Laos next 5 years the average annual growth in gross domestic product required 8%, to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by 2015, strive to 2020 before take off your hat of poor countries.
