Need to solve the "problem" for cashew trees
Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Tuan's family in Dak Con village has 3 hectares of cashew land for more than 20 years, but in the past 3 years, the crop has continuously failed. According to Mr. Tuan, in previous years, on average, 1 hectare yielded more than 2 tons, but in the past 3 years, the crop has always been poor, with a yield of only 7-8 quintals/ha. The reason is due to climate change, unseasonal rain, and frost causing the cotton to fall. In particular, recently, mosquito bugs have attacked, causing the cotton branches that form fruit to have black spots and poor quality seeds.
Not far away, Ms. Luong Thi Nhi's 3-hectare cashew garden is in a similar situation. Having been faithful to cashew trees for nearly 20 years, Ms. Nhi does not know why in recent years the cashews have been seriously infected with diseases and are at risk of a major crop failure. "Previously, the cashew garden always had a good harvest, but for the past 3 consecutive years, it has been in a state of crop failure due to black seeds and burnt flowers, for unknown reasons. Based on that situation, I asked the commune agricultural extension officer about the cause, and went to the agency to buy medicine to spray. However, only a few were saved, the rest suffered heavy losses. I hope that the superiors will send technicians to train in care methods to save the cashew garden," Ms. Nhi suggested.
This is a common situation in many cashew gardens in Bu Gia Map commune. In addition to climate change, unseasonal rains causing dry cotton to fall, recently stink bugs have attacked the gardens but no solution has been found, so people are very worried about this year's cashew crop.
With decades of experience in taking care of cashew gardens, Head of the Dak Con Village Front Committee Dinh Van Chuong said: Currently, climate change, unseasonal rains have affected the process of cashew flowering and fruiting. In particular, in the 2025 cashew season, a very dangerous mosquito bug epidemic appeared, so we encouraged people to actively spray pesticides, but it still spread strongly and could not be saved. “This is a very sensitive type of stink bug, just hearing the sound of the spray nozzle, it flies out of the garden, goes to another area to live, and when the pesticide runs out, it returns. Therefore, the best solution is to spray all at the same time and must spray on the stink bug's body to kill it. However, this is also difficult to do, because everyone does it their own way, today this house sprays, 3-4 days later another house sprays, then the stink bugs continue to return" - Mr. Chuong said.
More than 90% of Bu Gia Map people are engaged in agriculture with an area of 3,988 hectares of various crops, including 2,373 hectares of cashew, accounting for 60%. Cashew has long been considered a poverty-reducing crop in the locality, but with unstable prices, especially in recent years when the cashew crop has continuously failed, increasing the income of people in this remote commune is a difficult problem.
Determined to get involved
Secretary of the Bu Gia Map Commune Party Committee Pham Sy Hoan said that the most difficult thing now is the income criterion, the commune has only reached 28.5 million VND/person/year, while the set criterion is 48 million VND/person/year. The reason is that in recent years, prices from agricultural production have been unstable, drought has been prolonged, and diseases have often led to cashew crop failures. Although the locality has abundant raw materials, there are no industrial parks, production and business establishments to create jobs and increase income for people, so it is difficult to meet the set criteria. This is a difficult problem for this particularly difficult commune. To increase income, the locality is focusing on directing socio-economic development to each household, associated with tourism and service development to increase income for people.
Currently, the whole commune has 97 poor households, accounting for 5.5%, a decrease of 30 households compared to the beginning of 2024, meeting the set criteria. In 2025, the commune will continue to mobilize resources to strive to reduce 54 more poor households. Through review, the commune still has 61 dilapidated houses, temporary houses for poor households, near-poor households, and policy families being invested in construction, of which 52 are newly built and 9 are being repaired. For other households with housing difficulties, it is being reviewed and proposed to build and repair houses in the coming time.
The entire Bu Gia Map commune has more than 100km of roads of all kinds, of which 28km of provincial and district roads have been 100% asphalted, spacious and well-maintained, creating favorable and smooth connections not only with communes in the district but also throughout the province. In addition, the main roads of the commune and village and hamlet roads have been asphalted, concreted and hardened, reaching more than 85%. Vice Chairman of the Bu Gia Map Commune People's Committee Nguyen Minh Phuc said that despite receiving attention from many sources of investment in traffic, the current difficulty is that some production roads, alleys and hamlets are stuck with forest land that has not been handed over to the locality for management and there is no general planning map, so investment in hardening cannot be made. Therefore, to complete the traffic criteria, it is very necessary to receive attention and legal support.
To increase income, the Party Committee and the government of Bu Gia Map commune are looking for solutions to overcome and increase cashew productivity, improving people's lives. At the same time, they are strengthening dialogue to grasp their thoughts and aspirations as well as mobilizing people to contribute their efforts and money to implement the NTM criteria. It is expected that with synchronous infrastructure, convenient and smooth traffic connections, the local government and people will have a drastic direction to solve the income problem, bringing the commune to the NTM finish line according to the set roadmap.
The New Rural Development Program is a major policy of the provincial and district Party Committees. Therefore, the Commune Party Committee has issued a specialized resolution and directed the Commune People's Committee to strive to reach the target by 2025 according to the set roadmap. By mid-March 2025, through self-assessment, the commune has achieved 16/19 New Rural Development criteria and will launch a campaign throughout the Party Committee, government and people to respond and complete the remaining criteria. Secretary of the Party Committee of Bu Gia Map Commune PHAM SY HOAN |
Source: https://baobinhphuoc.com.vn/news/81/171060/go-kho-de-ve-dich-nong-thon-moi
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