VIETNAMESE farmers forced to vacate their land to make way for a Trump family-backed golf resort are being offered just $3,200 (£2,374) and rice provisions in compensation.

The 990-hectare site in Hung Yen province, near Hanoi, is set to become the first Trump Organisation-branded golf club in Vietnam, with construction due to start next month. 

Thousands of villagers who have farmed bananas, longan and other crops for decades are being told to leave, the Reuters news agency has reported.

Developers, led by Vietnamese property firm Kinhbac City (KBC.HM), will pay the Trump Organisation $5 million (£3.7m) for brand licensing rights. 

The Trump family business will run the club, but it is not funding the project or paying compensation. 

Approvals for the venture were fast-tracked as Vietnam negotiated a major trade deal with Washington.

Authorities will set final payouts based on plot size and location, with current offers ranging from $12 (£8.90) to $30 (£22) per square metre, plus payments for uprooted plants and two to 12 months’ worth of rice. 

Farmers say the sums are far below Vietnam’s average annual wage.

“The whole village is worried about this project because it will take our land and leave us jobless,” said Nguyen Thi Huong, 50, who must give up her 200-square-metre plot.

Under Vietnamese law, farmland is state-owned and agriculturalists are assigned small plots for long-term use.

“We have no right to negotiate. That’s a shame,” said farmer Do Dinh Huong.

He said he would have accepted a low rate if the land were to be used to build roads or other public infrastructure, “but this is a business project. I don’t know how that would contribute to people’s life.”

Nguyen Thi Chuc, a 54-year-old who grows bananas, said: “I’m getting old and can’t do anything else other than working on the farm.”