however approximately of current paddy land meets the wetpaddy land definition using an average agricultural household income of vnd million usd per month and assuming the household farms ha of wetpaddy land the payment represents almost of annual income a further objective of the programme was to create employment for million people and increase incomes of people in forest areas as a contribution to poverty alleviation hunger eradication and the development of rural mountainous areas a number of policy measures were implemented under this programme including loans to large soes involved in forestry and direct support to households to establish forest plantations