Prosperity through crop conversion

The lush green garden, fruit trees... are the result of the diligent care of the garden of Ms. Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong (Truong Xuan A hamlet, Thanh Binh commune, Cho Gao district, Tien Giang province). Since then, her family's income from the garden economy has become increasingly stable. With the virtue of diligence, hard work, daring to think, daring to do, in 2010, realizing that red-fleshed dragon fruit trees were highly economically efficient and suitable for the local soil, she discussed with her husband to borrow capital to convert 3.5 hectares of rice-growing land to dragon fruit growing.

Báo Tiền Giang•26/03/2025

Ms. Phuong takes care of the dragon fruit garden and the coconut garden.

At first, converting rice fields to fruit trees encountered many difficulties. At first, Ms. Phuong did not have a firm grasp of dragon fruit cultivation techniques, so the yield was not high. Not being defeated by difficulties, Ms. Phuong actively participated in science and technology transfer training courses organized by the locality, learned a lot of information from newspapers and radio, learned from good models to apply to her family's dragon fruit garden. Since then, her dragon fruit garden has always been green and productive.

Ms. Phuong shared: “To have the results like today, my family and I had to carefully select seedlings, prepare the soil, prepare concrete pillars, and fertilizers. During the care process, my family proactively prevented and controlled pests and applied new science and technology.

Ms. Phuong takes care of the dragon fruit garden and the coconut garden.

At first, when implementing the model, I also encountered many difficulties. However, thanks to actively learning from the experience of effective red-fleshed dragon fruit growing models in other communes and through the mass media, I have somewhat grasped how to care for red-fleshed dragon fruit trees.

Since then, the productivity of dragon fruit in the garden has increased significantly. Red-fleshed dragon fruit is harvested continuously, on average each harvest, I earn about 50 million VND from selling dragon fruit. In total, I earn about 250 million VND per year."

After many years of saving, Ms. Phuong's family bought nearly 3 hectares of land. With the motto of using short-term to support long-term, in addition to the area for growing dragon fruit, the remaining land around the house and the additional land area, Ms. Phuong planted coconut and guava. Ms. Phuong said that growing red-fleshed dragon fruit, coconut and guava has brought her family a very stable source of income. The family has built a spacious house and taken care of the children so they can go to school.

Not only taking care of enriching her family, Ms. Phuong also actively mobilizes other women to build effective economic models, contributing to poverty reduction and legitimate enrichment right on her homeland.

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Source: https://baoapbac.vn/kinh-te/202503/kham-kha-nho-chuyen-doi-cay-trong-1038051/