Boldly change crop structure
Born in a rural area with many difficulties, in the past, Ms. Ly Thi Binh's family, Truong Son village, Son Ha commune, Huu Lung district, mainly relied on a few fields of rice and small-scale livestock farming, with unstable income.
Always concerned with the desire to change the family and local economy, in 2012, realizing the great potential for afforestation in the area, Ms. Binh decided to invest in developing a forestry nursery at home.
Ms. Binh confided: At first, the work encountered many difficulties due to the lack of techniques for growing and preserving seedlings. So even though she only grew a small number of about 30,000 acacia and eucalyptus trees, more than half of the trees were still damaged. Not discouraged, Ms. Binh went to other localities to learn from newspapers, books, and actively participated in training courses and transferred seedling growing techniques of the province and district.
"I always believe that learning while doing, working while gaining experience, there is no success without going through challenges. Perhaps thanks to that perseverance, now my family's tree nursery model has expanded in both scale and number of trees," Ms. Binh shared.
Before she could finish her story, Mrs. Binh’s phone started ringing. The calls came from traders from several neighboring districts and provinces, as well as businesses in the same nursery business. People asked her to order seedlings for the forest planting season, to ask for her experience on how to effectively grow seedlings…
For the local people, Mrs. Binh’s nursery has become a reliable address. She always updates the people on new policies and guidelines on developing the forest economy, as well as being willing to share her experiences, skills, and instructions on how to produce forestry seedlings for the people in the commune to learn and replicate.
Saying goodbye to Mrs. Binh, we continued to Nam Lan 2 village, Y Tich commune - a mountainous commune nearly 20km from the center of Chi Lang district, with a terrain of many rugged limestone mountains, interspersed with valleys with a surface layer of about 30cm thick, suitable for growing short-term industrial crops, food crops and fruit trees.
Welcoming us right at his family's garden, Mr. Luong Van Dung (Tay ethnic group), Nam Lan 2 village, Y Tich commune shared: Realizing the advantages of natural conditions, soil, and climate in his area are very suitable for custard apple trees, Mr. Dung's family boldly invested in planting 1,400 custard apple trees, 250 grapefruit trees, and 0.5 hectares of tobacco. Over time, the effectiveness and suitability of custard apple trees for this land have been shown.
In addition to developing the economy to generate income for the family, Mr. Dung's family's economic model also contributes to creating jobs for 5 seasonal workers in the locality. Not only that, his family always complies with the Party's policies, the State's policies and laws, and participates in campaigns and emulation movements at the grassroots level. In 2020, his family also voluntarily donated 120 square meters of land to build roads and contribute funds to build new rural areas.
Get rich with farmers
In Tan Hoa commune - a particularly difficult commune of Binh Gia district, there is a Dao ethnic woman named Dang Thi Tan who is hard-working, creative, dynamic, daring to think and dare to do.
Born into a poor farming family, in 2015, Ms. Tan got married and settled in Yen Bai province. Here, she and her husband began experimenting with developing a nursery. Realizing the economic efficiency of this profession, in 2016, she discussed with her husband and decided to return to her hometown of Tan Hoa to open a nursery.
In the early days of starting a business, to have capital to carry out the project, she borrowed money from relatives and friends, combined with the small amount of money she had saved up, 150 million VND, she and her husband opened a cinnamon nursery with an area of 5 sao, a scale of 400,000 seedlings/crop.
At the end of 2016, she sold the first batch of 400,000 seedlings to customers in the district, neighboring districts, and Thai Nguyen and Yen Bai provinces. Seeing the economic efficiency, from 2018 until now, she has rented land from villagers to expand the nursery to 12 sao. Each year, she grows nearly 1 million seedlings, bringing in an income of more than 300 million VND.
From their own experience, Tan and her husband also enthusiastically support seedlings and instruct dozens of households in the commune on techniques for planting and caring for cinnamon trees, aiming to achieve quality organic products.
Mrs. Binh, Mr. Dung, Ms. Tan… and many other honest and simple farmers in Lang Son province – are typical, positive and enthusiastic examples in the movement to develop family and local economy.
According to the Farmers' Association of Lang Son province, they represent the spirit of hard work, dynamism, creativity, daring to think, daring to do, knowing how to apply science and technology to production, and are the image of farmers in the new period: Patriotic - Exemplary - Dynamic - Creative - Solidarity - Affectionate.
Not only do they enrich their families' economy, these farmers are also a "bridge" in the propaganda work of the Party and State's policies on economic and social development, the movement to build new rural areas, and build cultural life in residential areas.
From their will to strive and determination to get rich from their homeland, farmers like that have spread and inspired many members of Lang Son Farmers' Association to compete in developing fields and professions, actively transforming the structure of crops and livestock, contributing to helping farmers in difficult circumstances, especially ethnic minorities, to develop the economy and stabilize their lives.
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