The blue pea flower street in Tra Vinh is so beautiful, people can take pictures freely, and people have more money for the market.

In order to implement environmental criteria in new rural construction, the Women's Union of Cau Ngang district (Tra Vinh province) launched "each woman - one tree", "each Union facility - one green tree project".

The program was launched with support from the Women's Union of Tra Vinh province to build a model route to protect the green - clean - beautiful environment in Vinh Kim and Long Son communes.

In addition, the Association's bases in Cau Ngang district carried out 15 projects to build flower roads, new rural flower roads, bright - green - clean - beautiful roads, and planted 10,000 flowers of all kinds, over 13km long with a total cost of 761 million VND.

Women's flower route contributes to building new countryside

The flower road model is one of the practical and effective activities contributing to cleaning and beautifying the environmental landscape implemented by the Women's Union at all levels of Vinh Kim commune, contributing to raising awareness, spirit and responsibility of the people to join hands in building the new countryside.

According to Ms. Tran Le Nga, President of the Women's Union of Vinh Kim commune, the flower route model contributes to effectively implementing the campaign to build a family of 5 nos and 3 cleans associated with building new rural areas.

Building flower routes and flower roads helps cadres, members and women to be aware of protecting the green, clean and beautiful environment.

Flower road, new rural flower road in Giong Lon hamlet, Vinh Kim commune, Cau Ngang district, Tra Vinh province.

Up to now, there are 5 flower streets in the commune. In recent years, the implementation of the campaign to build a family of "5 no 3 clean" in the area has become routine and has been effectively implemented by women's union members.

Up to now, in the commune, 1,611/1,650 member households have met the 8 criteria of "5 no, 3 clean" families, accounting for 97.6%. In 2022, the Association will develop a plan and direct branches to help 28 households that have not met the 8 criteria of "5 no, 3 clean" families.

The Association maintains the model of "5 no, 3 clean branches" associated with new rural construction, up to now 10/10 branches have the number of member households meeting 8 criteria of "5 no, 3 clean" families, accounting for over 85.6% of the total number of members.

Ms. Cao Thi Ngoi, Head of the Women's Association of Giong Lon Hamlet, Vinh Kim Commune, said: Since the flower routes were formed, the awareness of environmental landscape protection of women's members and people in the hamlet has been raised.

On the new rural flower road, littering has been limited. People also regularly clear grass and clean the front alley and yard.

To maintain the flower route, every week, cadres, women's union members and people clear bushes, plant more flowers, clean and take care of the flowers, create a clean, beautiful and airy landscape on the route, and create a new rural appearance in the area.

Blue pea flower route, beautiful hamlets, people have more income

In Hiep My Dong commune, Cau Ngang district (Tra Vinh province), flower roads with all kinds of banana flowers, yellow trumpet flowers, portulaca flowers, etc. compete to show off their colors.

People in the commune voluntarily plant additional flowers and take care of them regularly to create a clean and beautiful natural landscape for their homeland.

Among them, the blue pea flower road of women in Khuc Ngay hamlet, Hiep My Dong commune is considered a beautiful natural flower road, contributing to creating more income for idle women in the hamlet.

Women's Union members of Khuc Ngay hamlet, Hiep My Dong commune, Cau Ngang district (Tra Vinh province) harvest blue pea flowers along the new rural flower road.

In order to join hands in building an advanced new rural commune, in 2021, the Women's Union of Hiep My Dong commune will grow blue pea flower seeds on a pilot basis along both sides of the asphalt road in Khuc Ngay hamlet.

The butterfly pea flower road was assigned to 2 women's association members to take care of in order to create an environmental landscape and increase income with the first harvest price of 300,000 VND/dried butterfly pea flower.

Since then, many women in Khuc Ngay hamlet have not only focused on growing blue pea flowers along both sides of the asphalt road in front of their houses, but have also expanded their intercropping on the grass growing area to raise cows to increase their family income.

Since the Women's Union of the commune launched and supported the planting of butterfly pea flower seedlings along the rural road in front of her house, Ms. Pham Thi Lanh, a member of the Women's Union of Khuc Ngay hamlet, has actively responded to planting and caring for the butterfly pea plants. Up to now, the flowers have been harvested.

Ms. Pham Thi Lanh said: With 20 butterfly pea flower pillars, we can harvest about 10kg of fresh flowers every week. After drying, we can leave 1kg of dried flowers to sell for 170,000 VND/kg.

Because it was newly planted, the yield of butterfly pea flowers was low. Butterfly pea flowers are not only easy to grow and care for, but also do not require investment costs. After the plant flowers and bears fruit, she takes the old fruits to get seeds and plants them in other areas around the house.

Ms. Le Thi Tri, President of the Women's Union of Hiep My Dong commune, said: growing blue pea flowers not only increases family income but also contributes to building a green, clean, and beautiful environment.

By September 2022, the Commune Women's Union mobilized women to participate in developing the No. 01 butterfly pea flower growing cooperative in Khuc Ngay hamlet, operating under Decree No. 77/2019/ND-CP, dated October 10, 2019 of the Government regulating cooperatives with 30 members.

Currently, the cooperative has 16 women harvesting daily and supplying dried flowers weekly to the purchasing unit with a monthly income of 1 - 1.5 million VND/month, on average 10kg of fresh butterfly pea flowers produce 1kg of dried flowers.

The cycle of the butterfly pea flower from planting to flowering is about 02 months. On average, each woman plants from 20 - 50 pillars along the road in front of her house, so the product is currently in short supply, on average the cooperative supplies from 13 - 14 kg of dried flowers/week.

In the coming time, the Association will invest in dryers to help women reduce labor and aim to develop butterfly pea flower tea products towards OCOP products.

Ms. Le Thi Deo (right), Head of the Butterfly Pea Flower Cooperative 1, My Hiep Dong Commune, Cau Ngang District, Tra Vinh Province, harvests butterfly pea flowers to dry.

Ms. Le Thi Deo, Head of the Butterfly Pea Flower Cooperative 1, said: Currently, the cooperative's butterfly pea flower products have been linked with the Commune Women's Union to solve product output.

When she first planted it, her husband did not support this crop because of its low productivity and income. Later, the supply could not meet the demand, so her husband helped harvest fresh flowers every day.

Every week, she harvests about 15kg of fresh butterfly pea flowers, earning 250,000 - 300,000 VND/week. Thanks to this source of income, she is able to buy voluntary social insurance.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Phuong, a member of the butterfly pea flower growing cooperative group 1, said that although growing butterfly pea flowers requires little care and almost no investment costs, it requires effort to harvest and dry the flowers.

The disadvantage of the butterfly pea flower is that in the rainy season it cannot be dried, and the flowers will get moldy, resulting in crop failure and loss of labor.

Therefore, I hope the Commune Women's Union will cooperate with purchasing facilities to invest in dryers, solve the problem of selling fresh flowers, help women reduce labor and have regular income.

According to Ms. Tran Thi Thu Thao, Chairwoman of the Women's Union of Cau Ngang district (Tra Vinh province), in 2022, the Women's Union at all levels in the district will mobilize the establishment of 2 economic cooperative models (growing vegetables and blue pea flowers) with 40 members.

Up to now, the whole district has 24 economic models with 57 groups and teams with about 788 members. The economic model of the cooperative group growing blue pea flowers 1 is one of the effective economic development models of the Women's Union of Hiep My Dong commune to create an environmental landscape in the implementation of advanced new rural construction; also bringing high economic efficiency, opening up a direction to solve idle jobs for rural workers, especially women.

Source: https://danviet.vn/duong-hoa-dau-biec-o-tra-vinh-dep-me-ly-luon-thien-ha-tha-ho-chup-hinh-dan-co-them-tien-cho-20240822110656468.htm