THANH HOA Mrs. Sanh spent more than 30 years transforming barren hills into fertile fruit gardens, each year bringing in billions of dong in revenue.
THANH HOA Mrs. Sanh spent more than 30 years transforming barren hills into fertile fruit gardens, each year bringing in billions of dong in revenue.
The land in Quarter 12, Bac Son Ward (Bim Son Town, Thanh Hoa) has a system of rocky mountains interspersed with hills that are connected to each other, creating small valleys. Here, many households are making a living thanks to the development of hill gardens and integrated farms.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Sanh (67 years old, living in Quarter 12, Bac Son Ward) has been working in this land for more than 30 years. Initially, on several hectares of accumulated land, Ms. Sanh planted tea, sugarcane, gac fruit, cassava, and tea. However, these crops did not bring the expected economic efficiency, while the labor and costs were quite high.
By persistently improving the barren hilly land, Ms. Sanh now has a 17-hectare fruit tree area, generating billions of dong in income each year. Photo: Quoc Toan.
People have land to cultivate but why are they still poor? That question kept haunting Mrs. Sanh's mind. Therefore, in addition to her daily work, she spent a lot of time visiting and learning about fruit tree growing models in and outside the province, and at the same time participating in technical training courses organized by Bim Son town and the Town Gardening Association to accumulate knowledge and production experience.
“Through training courses, I was instructed on fruit tree growing techniques from seed selection, planting methods, pruning, and fertilization techniques at each growth stage, which I then applied directly to my family's fruit garden, helping the trees to be healthy, grow well, and be durable, yielding good fruit quality,” Ms. Sanh shared.
In 2015, Ms. Sanh continued to borrow 1.5 billion VND to invest in land improvement, irrigation system, and fruit tree seedlings. At first, everyone said that the couple was taking a risk by throwing billions of VND into barren land. However, after decades of improvement, Ms. Sanh now owns a lush fruit growing area of 17 hectares.
After more than 30 years of land improvement, Ms. Sanh has the fertile fruit growing area she has today. Photo: Quoc Toan.
It is worth mentioning that in the hill area, Ms. Sanh has invested in a semi-automatic irrigation system covering tens of thousands of fruit trees. That is also the only way for the late-ripening orange, tangerine, and grapefruit trees here to grow green all year round, no less than other fertile lands. According to Ms. Sanh, investing in the irrigation system alone costs billions of dong because this is a fairly high hill area, requiring a high-capacity pump to push water through pipes to the top of the hill.
Currently, on an area of 17 hectares, Ms. Sanh grows 5,000 mandarin oranges, 1,000 longan trees, 600 Dien grapefruit trees and green-skin grapefruit trees. In addition, she also grows nearly 10 hectares of pineapples in the growing stage... Ms. Sanh's fruit growing area is estimated to generate an income of 5 - 6 billion VND/year, after deducting expenses, the garden owner earns about 1 billion VND.
Ms. Sanh said that her fruit garden is popular with traders because the products are safe and the production process is environmentally friendly. Instead of using chemicals and fertilizers, Ms. Sanh uses composted manure and biological pesticides to care for the trees.
Ms. Sanh's fruit growing area focuses on organic farming, saying "no" to herbicides and chemical fertilizers. Photo: Quoc Toan.
Ms. Sanh said she is raising hybrid pigs and goats in a semi-wild manner near the foot of Thung Con mountain to increase income.
“The fertilizers used for the orchard are all organic, completely without the use of herbicides or chemical fertilizers to avoid affecting soil health, human health and environmental protection. At harvest time, the products will be quality checked by the contracting enterprise, then packaged and sold,” said Ms. Sanh.
In addition to fertilizing seasonally, Ms. Sanh places hundreds of bags of compost under each tree to provide nutrients for the trees all year round. By choosing an organic and sustainable agricultural production direction, the fruit products in Ms. Sanh's hill garden have never been unsold. Her fruit garden currently creates jobs for 10 local workers with an income of 8 - 10 million VND/person/month.
Source: https://nongsanviet.nongnghiep.vn/cu-ba-so-huu-vuon-cay-an-qua-17ha-thu-nhap-tien-ty-moi-nam-d407841.html
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