Binh Son farmers actively get rich in their homeland

Mr. Pham Van Tri (59 years old), in Tan Phuoc Dong village, Binh Minh commune, is a good producer and businessman in the locality. In addition to growing acacia and other crops, Mr. Tri also raises breeding cows. At one point, his family raised nearly 20 breeding crossbred cows. By 2022, Mr. Tri invested in implementing a model of growing gray oyster mushrooms. “After going to many places to learn, I realized the development potential of the gray oyster mushroom growing model, so I decided to invest. This model is quite new in the locality, and I am old, so I am afraid that the process of learning and grasping the techniques will be difficult, leading to failure. But I believe that if I try hard, I will reap success. First, I will do experiments, and when I have mastered the techniques, I will proceed to do it on a large scale,” Mr. Tri shared.
At first, Mr. Tri imported bags of mushroom spawn to grow. After more than a year, he researched on his own, learned from his failures and started the process of producing mushroom spawn for growing. Mr. Tri said that self-producing mushroom spawn requires investing in a lot of machinery, equipment and difficult techniques, but when successful, he will create mushroom products according to his wishes, not depending on the supplier. Currently, I produce 30-day gray oyster mushroom spawn, with high nutritional content, fragrant mushrooms, and are popular in the market.

Mr. Pham Van Tri, in Tan Phuoc Dong village, Binh Minh commune (Binh Son), harvests gray oyster mushrooms.

Mr. Tri's mushroom farm covers an area of ​​nearly 300 square meters and is equipped with an automatic irrigation system to keep the soil moist. On average, each month, Mr. Tri sells about 400 kg of mushrooms to the market at a price of about 60,000 VND/kg. "After more than 2 years of implementing the gray oyster mushroom growing model, despite many difficulties and failures, I have finally reaped sweet fruits. With the production process gradually stabilizing, in the near future, I will invest in and build more mushroom farms to expand the scale. This will be my family's main economic model in the coming time," said Mr. Tri.

With diligence and hard work, from the arid, rocky land in Thanh Tra village, Binh Khuong commune, Vo Thi Hong Van (44 years old) and her husband have renovated and built a comprehensive farm, planted a variety of fruit trees and raised many animals with high economic value. Taking advantage of the family's vast mountainous land, Van and her husband raise free-range chickens, from a few dozen to hundreds of chickens. The couple saved the profits from raising chickens to build solid barns to raise pigs. When the pig farming developed, the couple continued to build more barns, grow grass, and raise breeding cows. “Thanks to the guaranteed epidemic prevention work and livestock farming on cool hilly terrain, far from residential areas, livestock grow well and the family economy is growing. After accumulating capital, my husband and I bought more land to expand the farm. Currently, the family farm has a total area of ​​over 2 hectares, implementing an economic model of livestock farming combined with crop farming,” said Ms. Van.

Ms. Vo Thi Hong Van, in Thanh Tra village, Binh Khuong commune (Binh Son), takes care of the cows on the farm.

Promote the movement of farmers competing in good production and business

The movement of farmers competing in good production and business in Binh Son district is increasingly developing, attracting many members to participate, contributing to promoting economic and social development in localities. In addition to propaganda and mobilization work, helping cadres and farmer members raise awareness and apply science and technology to production, farmers' associations at all levels in the district also coordinate with banks to support farmers in borrowing preferential loans; at the same time, organize learning and replication of typical good production and business models. In 2024, the whole district will have nearly 13,000 farmer households achieving the title of good production and business at all levels. Of which, the commune level has nearly 11,000 households, the district level has more than 1,800 households, the provincial level has 122 households, and the central level has 25 households. From the typical examples in the movement of farmers competing in production and good business, it has contributed to promoting economic restructuring, raising people's awareness in creating and proactively building effective economic models, reducing poverty sustainably, and striving to get rich on their homeland.

On average, each year, Ms. Van and her husband sell more than 1,200 free-range chickens, 1,000 pigs, and 3-4 beef cattle. “Although we raise large numbers of animals, I limit feeding them industrial feed. Instead, I mix and process animal feed myself from natural food sources such as oil cakes, corn, and rice bran, so the quality of the animals' meat is quite good, and the price is also higher than other farms. The farm has a large area, so chickens and ducks are raised in the garden, taking advantage of available food in nature,” Ms. Van shared. In addition, Ms. Van also grows rubber and fruit trees with more than 100 dwarf coconut trees, 50 guava trees, and more than 20 jackfruit and star apple trees. Ms. Van also grows fruits on the farm using organic methods, limiting the use of synthetic chemicals, mainly using manure to nourish the plants and when the plants bear fruit, she uses bags to cover the fruit to avoid harmful insects. On average, each year, she harvests more than 10 quintals of guava, jackfruit, star apple...

Although busy with work on the farm, Ms. Van is a farmer member who actively participates in the activities and movements of the association. She is always enthusiastic in exchanging and sharing experiences in raising livestock and growing crops so that people can learn and develop their family economy. President of the Farmers' Association of Binh Son District Trinh Thi Chau Oanh said that Mr. Pham Van Tri and Ms. Vo Thi Hong Van are typical good farmers in production and business in the district. Their economic models are effective, not only increasing family income but also helping local farmers learn and replicate. In recent times, farmers' associations at all levels in the district have regularly organized exchange activities, visiting and learning about typical economic models to promote the production and business movement, contributing to increasing income and improving people's lives.

Article and photos: HIEN THU

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