Good income from mixed garden renovation model

After returning to his hometown from the army, Mr. Nguyen Duc Tri (born in 1959), in Tan Kien village, Trieu Ai commune, Trieu Phong district, Quang Tri province, quickly started to develop his family's economy. Thanks to knowing how to choose crops suitable for the local climate and soil, his family gradually became rich.

Mr. Tri takes care of his family's flower garden - Photo: TP

“Promoting the qualities of Uncle Ho’s soldiers, Mr. Tri has overcome difficulties to develop the family economy and raise his children to become useful citizens for society. Besides, he always actively participates in local and association movements and activities. He is one of the typical examples of good economic performance, rising out of poverty and becoming rich legitimately for other war veterans to learn and follow,” commented Chairman of the War Veterans Association of Trieu Ai Commune, Phan Van Hoi, when taking us to visit the economic model of his members.

Appearing before our eyes is a spacious, solid house with a lush, fruitful garden. This is the result of many years of hard work by Mr. Tri and his wife. Coming from a poor farming family and trained through the military, he always had the will and determination to rise up to make life less difficult. In 1982, after returning from demobilization with empty hands, he started a business with his family's traditional profession of growing wet rice.

However, after a few years of not achieving the expected economic efficiency, Mr. Tri sought to switch to other crops. “After researching, I realized that pepper is a suitable plant to grow in hilly areas. With the little capital I had, I cut down trees to plant pillars and invested in planting about 3 sao of pepper. Thanks to the income from pepper, my wife and I later had more funds to expand the cultivation in our garden,” Mr. Tri confided.

To achieve high efficiency in production, he actively learned from the mass media and some households in and outside the commune continued to convert crops. Spending a lot of sweat and effort, up to now, his family has 2 hectares of cajuput forest, in the garden area, in addition to pepper, he also grows a variety of trees such as: 100 dragon fruit trees; 4.5 sao of wild sim; 70 lemon trees; pineapple mixed with vegetables, short-term crops according to the motto "take short to support long" to increase income.

According to Mr. Tri, farming today requires science, understanding of the soil and characteristics of each type of crop. Therefore, from the beginning, he classified the crops into separate areas, with wide paths in the middle for convenient care, fertilization, and harvesting. Thanks to good care and proper technical procedures, his family's garden has achieved high yields, delicious product quality, and is favored by local people.

Introducing us to his family's 4.5 sao of wild sim, he shared: wild sim is a shrub, loves light, can withstand harsh weather conditions, and can grow even on barren land. After planting, his family mainly focuses on weeding and fertilizing so the tree grows quickly and bears fruit. Sim flowers around April - May and ripens around July, the harvest period lasts for 3 months.

Mr. Tri said: “In the last sim crop, my family sold about 40,000 VND/finished sim on the market. Wild sim does not require much care and produces a lot of fruit. Sim fruit can be used to make a variety of products such as sim wine, sim jam, sim syrup, sim soft drinks, so the economic efficiency is relatively high.”

In addition to farming, the couple previously raised a large number of chickens, geese, buffaloes, and cows. Thanks to that, Mr. Tri had more conditions to take care of his children's education. In recent years, his health has not been as good as before, so the couple has focused on developing their garden. On average, this economic model brings Mr. Tri's family an income of about 220 million VND per year.

Not only is he good at economics, he is also a sociable and approachable person, always ready to help with capital and share production experiences with people, especially the disadvantaged members of the Veterans Association in the area. With his dynamism in economic development and enrichment, and his enthusiasm in social movements, Mr. Tri has been recognized and rewarded many times by the locality and the Veterans Association at all levels.

“When I was young, I devoted my mind and strength to fighting off the enemy; developing the family economy, and raising my children. Now that I am older, I enjoy farming and tending to my garden. I wish for nothing more than good health, because as long as I am healthy, I can contribute to building my homeland,” said Mr. Tri.

Truc Phuong

Source: https://baoquangtri.vn/thu-nhap-kha-tu-mo-hinh-cai-tao-vuon-tap-190164.htm