--- title: How Does the Rural Construction Program Help People url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/how-rural-construction-helps-darlac-1966/ description: A landscape photo sheet (code SP-1171) asks 'How has the Rural Construction Programme helped the compatriots?' and answers with a report on the Darlac section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. How Does the Rural Construction Program Help People [![How Does the Rural Construction Program Help People, 1966 US poster: A landscape photo sheet (code SP-1171) asks 'How has](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/how-rural-construction-helps-darlac-1966.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/how-rural-construction-helps-darlac-1966.jpg) # How Does the Rural Construction Program Help People A landscape photo sheet (code SP-1171) asks 'How has the Rural Construction Programme helped the compatriots?' and answers with a report on the Darlac provincial agriculture service's work in May 1966: 100 farmers trained, seed handed out and 120 Montagnard farmers given two courses. Three photographs show officials demonstrating vegetable planting, handing over seed to villagers and instructing farmers. The headline question is followed by a catalogue of figures and pictures of recipients. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` CHƯƠNG TRÌNH XÂY DỰNG NÔNG THÔN ĐÃ GIÚP ĐỠ ĐỒNG BÀO NHƯ THẾ NÀO? [Rhade/Ede text, not transcribed] Công tác nông nghiệp mà Ty Nông-Vụ Tỉnh Darlac đã hoàn tất trong tháng 5-1966 gồm 3 mục chính : KHUYẾN NÔNG : Ty Nông-Vụ đã huấn luyện cho 100 nông dân về canh tác và Ty đã thực hiện được 40 điểm trong 80 điểm trình diễn về phương pháp kiểu mẫu. NÔNG-VỤ : Ty đã cấp phát hạt giống cho nông dân hầu mở mang nông nghiệp trong tháng 5 : 3500 ký lúa giống; 2400 ký đậu phụng; 300 ký bắp và rau cải giống. CANH-MỤC-THƯỢNG : 120 nông dân Thượng đã được Ty huấn luyện 2 khóa trong tháng 4 và 5 năm 1966 về phương pháp canh tác và chăn nuôi. [Rhade/Ede text, not transcribed] Ông Trưởng Ty Nông Vụ Tỉnh Darlac đang chỉ dẫn cho nông dân phương pháp trồng rau cải. [Rhade/Ede text, not transcribed] Nông dân đang nhận các hạt giống tốt của Ty Nông Vụ cấp phát. [Rhade/Ede text, not transcribed] Nông dân đang được hướng dẫn trồng tỉa với những hạt giống tốt do Ty Nông Vụ cung cấp. [Rhade/Ede text, not transcribed] SP-1171 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` HOW HAS THE RURAL CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMME HELPED THE COMPATRIOTS? [Rhade/Ede text, not transcribed] The agricultural work that the Darlac Provincial Agriculture Service completed in May 1966 comprises 3 main items: AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION: The Agriculture Service trained 100 farmers in cultivation and carried out 40 of 80 planned demonstrations of model methods. AGRICULTURAL SERVICE: The Service issued seed to farmers in order to expand agriculture in May: 3,500 kilos of rice seed; 2,400 kilos of peanuts; 300 kilos of maize and vegetable seed. MONTAGNARD FARMING AND LIVESTOCK: 120 Montagnard farmers were trained by the Service in 2 courses in April and May 1966 in methods of cultivation and animal husbandry. [Rhade/Ede text, not transcribed] The Head of the Darlac Provincial Agriculture Service is showing farmers the method of planting vegetables. [Rhade/Ede text, not transcribed] Farmers are receiving good seed issued by the Agriculture Service. [Rhade/Ede text, not transcribed] Farmers are being shown how to plant with the good seed supplied by the Agriculture Service. [Rhade/Ede text, not transcribed] SP-1171 ``` Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering from the poster's Vietnamese text; not verified by a fluent reader. Diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution. The section label 'CANH-MỤC-THƯỢNG' is rendered 'Montagnard farming and livestock' ('Thượng' being the Vietnamese term for highland peoples, here as printed). 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Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). 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