To that end, the province will make full use of its experiences and achievements in the recent years. Dak Lak will assess the current situation and find out reasons behind the state of poverty in each locality to develop concrete measures for improving people’s living conditions.

In recent years, social programs have proved very effective in assisting poor farmers in the province. Credit provision was focused on poverty reduction, safe water supply and environmental sanitation. In 2006 alone, loans were granted to 18,586 ethnic minority households.

Over the past five years, the number of poor households in Dak Lak has been reduced from 70,450 to 29,634, an average decrease of 3.3 percent per year. Ea Sup village in particular now has only 40 poor households compared to 231 five years ago. All village children of school age have access to education.

Dak Lak is boosting socio-economic development in disadvantaged communes and creating more opportunities for the local poor to access social welfare services. The focus will be on training them in trade and production skills.

All districts in the province have recorded a poor household ratio of less than 20 percent. 14 of them have boasted less than two percent.