Mr. Nguyen Van Quyet, residing in An Minh Bac commune (U Minh Thuong) takes care of Mong Linh taro farm.
Mr. Nguyen Van Quyet, residing in Minh Hung Hamlet, An Minh Bac Commune (U Minh Thuong) has just harvested more than 5 tons of ginger tubers for seeds to sell to traders, earning 45 million VND. Although the current price of ginger is lower than the same period in 2024, Mr. Quyet still makes a profit.
Mr. Nguyen Van Quyet said: “In addition to ginger, I also grow taro and bananas. With 4 hectares of land for cultivation, I earn an average profit of about 200 million VND/year. My family and children's education are also thanks to cultivation.”
20 years ago, Mr. Quyet and his wife came from Ca Mau to An Minh Bac commune to buy 4 hectares of land to start a business. The land in the buffer zone was fertile, the rows of vegetables and green bananas were harvested one after another, helping Mr. Quyet's family have a stable income. Working tirelessly, from dawn, Mr. Quyet and his wife were already in the fields, hoeing, watering, fertilizing, and weeding. Working hard and spending frugally, after a period of starting a business in a foreign land, Mr. Quyet and his wife began to have surplus.
To avoid the situation of good harvest but low price, Mr. Quyet cooperated with the Kenh 10 Agricultural Service Cooperative to produce and purchase Mong Linh taro at a guaranteed profitable price. This is a new, high-quality variety of taro, so it is purchased, processed and exported by a business in Long An. 3 years ago, Mr. Quyet built a house at a cost of 700 million VND from the profits from farming.
“Growing on the fields is hard but brings in income quickly. After the potato season, we dry the soil and switch to growing ginger for tubers to improve the soil and cut off pathogens that remain in the soil. Siamese bananas provide daily income, low investment costs, so they thrive,” said Mr. Quyet.
Mr. Danh Chung, residing in An Binh ward (Rach Gia city) next to the bitter melon garden.
As for Mr. Danh Chung's family, residing in Quarter 6, An Binh Ward (Rach Gia City), farming has helped his family overcome difficulties. Mr. Chung said that he and his wife only worked as construction workers to make a living and had no land to cultivate. In 2017, a kind acquaintance in the neighborhood who had vacant land offered to lend Mr. Chung and his wife to grow vegetables. So Mr. Chung thought about farming to improve his income. While lacking investment capital, Mr. Chung received a credit loan of 50 million VND from the Social Policy Bank from the An Binh Ward Farmers' Association.
Mr. Chung said: “With capital, I renovated 3,000 square meters of land, rotating to grow vegetables such as water spinach, cauliflower, bitter melon, and Tet flowers. Thanks to hard work, the crops help my family have a good income, without having to work hard as a construction worker like before. I am asking the An Binh Ward Farmers' Association to connect with businesses that produce safe vegetables, increasing economic efficiency.”
In Ban Thach commune (Giong Rieng), Mr. Danh Bung's family is one of the typical households producing profitable crops. Realizing that rice production was not effective, Mr. Bung converted 4,000m2 of rice fields to growing crops.
Instead of rotating different crops seasonally, Mr. Bung only grows cucumbers. He explains that the growing time for each crop of cucumbers is short, from planting to harvesting is 35 days. Many people often say that 1 hectare of land is equal to 4 hectare of rice fields, and Mr. Bung thinks that this is not wrong, but both the income and the effort must be considered.
Mr. Bung said: “Farming is almost all day in the field, including hoeing, trellis making, fertilizing, watering, and disease prevention. The hardest part is during harvest season, my wife and I have to stay up 2-3 hours to harvest in time for traders to come weigh early in the morning and take it to market. Farming is hard but we have a daily income.”
To sell cucumbers at a good price, Mr. Bung often waits for the time to plant and harvest cucumbers during holidays, Tet, flood season or drought when few places grow them. Thanks to the application of science and technology, production costs are reduced, and cucumbers are always in season. With an average cucumber price of 5,000 VND/kg, after deducting costs, Mr. Bung earns a profit of 15-18 million VND/ 1,000m2 /year.
Article and photos: DONG HUNG
Source: https://www.baokiengiang.vn/nong-nghiep/trong-ray-doi-doi-chuyen-cua-nong-dan-kien-giang-24648.html
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