Provided by Khanh VU and Francesco Guarasacio
Hung Yen, August 11 (Reuters) -Vietnam farmer Nguyen Thi Huong sleep poorly as the authorities told her to dismiss her farm for a short family -backed golf resort, offering just $ 3,200 and rice attitudes.
The golf resort, which is planned to start construction next month, offers thousands of villagers with such compensation packages to leave the land that has given a livelihood for many years or decades, says six people with direct knowledge and documents that Reuters see.
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The project is the first business partnership between US President Donald Trump’s family in Vietnam, which quickly confirmed confirmation as it negotiated a major trade agreement with Washington.
The developers now reduce compensation forecasts from the initial estimate of $ 500 million, said one person who has become familiar with plans who refused to find out for reasons for reduction.
Currently, the 990 -hectare site for the Golf course supports fruit farms that grow bananas, longan and other plants. While some see the possibility, many farmers are elderly and fear that they will try to find an alternative livelihood in Vietnam’s viable economy with the most young demographic demographic indicators.
“The whole village is worried about this project because it will take our land and leave us unemployed,” said the 50-year-old Huong, who was told to leave his 200 square meter (2152.78 square feet) plot in Hung Yen province near Capital Hanojus for less than one year in Vietnam.
Vietnamese real estate company Kinhbac City and its partners will create a luxury golf club, paying $ 5 million to the Trump organization. USD for brand licensing rights on the basis of regulatory application and source familiar with the transaction.
The Trump family business will manage the club as soon as it finishes, but will not participate in investment and compensation for farmers.
Trump stated that his property in business is considered a confidence owned by his children, but in June. The disclosure showed that the president eventually accumulates income from those sources.
The Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture, Hung Yen government, Trump organization and Kinhbac City did not answer questions about compensation.
The authorities will set the final compensation rates, taking into account the amount and location of the land, and the next month is expected to be approved. Five farmers who encountered dislocations said the authorities noted salaries worth $ 12 to $ 30 per square meter of cultivated land.
They also offered additional payments for the torn factories and rice provisions for several months, approximately the one document seen by Reuters.
The person who was familiar with the compensation plan stated that the range was accurate, no matter that he was named because the information was not public.
The local officer refused to talk about compensation, but it has been mentioned that the agricultural land rates in the area usually did not exceed $ 14 per square meter. They are often larger in other provinces.
In the land cultivated by the Communist -controlled Vietnam, the state is governed by the state. Farmers are given small plots for long -term use, but have little to say when the authorities decide to grab the land back. Protests are common but usually fruitless.
Compensation is paid by the state, but the developers pay for the account.
Four farmers contacted by Reuters were not satisfied with the rates offered because their small plots would give a low payment.
According to the second local authorities seen by Reuters, it would affect thousands of villagers, which said the final payments were expected next month.
Huong is renting a larger plot of other villagers, but may require land compensation only to the small plants it grows. “What someone can do as I do after that?”
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Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said the farmers would be returned correctly when he spoke in May during an innovative golf project to the audience for which Trump’s son Eric, the Senior Vice President of the Trump organization.
“We have no right to negotiate. It’s a shame,” said Do Dinhas Huong, another farmer who was told that his plot would be reimbursed for $ 12 per square meter.
He said he would have agreed to what he thought was low if the land was used to build roads or other public infrastructure.
“But this is a business project. I don’t know how it would contribute to people’s lives.”
Based on one of the documents seen by Reuters, the authorities also offered rice as compensation, which ranges from two to twelve months.
The 54 -year -old farmer Nguyen Thi Chuc, who is growing bananas that will become a short golf club, said the authorities said she could get around $ 30 per square meter for her 200 square meter plot.
“I am getting older and I can’t do anything else except the farm work,” she said.
On the contrary, provincial lawyers and investors said the golf club would create better jobs and enrich the villagers.
Le van you, a 65 -year -old local who will be reimbursed for his small plot and will have a canteen in a village where the Golf Club will be overwhelmed, said he would upgrade his restaurant to the restaurant to satisfy the wealthier customers.
Land prices in the village rose five times since the project was announced in October, he said. He was also happy that he would no longer be in a nearby pig farm: “He would no longer be breathing.”
(Francesco Guarascio and Khanh VU Reports; Edited by Saad Sayeed)
