Recently, agricultural tourism and eco-tourism have become a new trend attracting many people to visit and experience. This type of tourism in Binh Thuan has a lot of potential because it is associated with typical crops such as grapes, apples, dragon fruit, vegetables, and durian. Therefore, many farmers have begun to exploit this advantage, taking advantage of their family's orchards to do agricultural tourism, contributing to increasing the value of agricultural products and raising farmers' income.
Clean production
During a business trip to the La Da highlands, one of the four communes that are concentrated durian growing areas in Ham Thuan Bac district, we visited the durian garden of Mr. Nguyen Van Trung's family - village 3. The garden is over 2 hectares wide with 450 trees that are over 7 years old and 2 hectares of trees that are 4 years old, covering the entire garden and are in the tree care stage. Mr. Trung's garden is one of the few organic gardens in the locality with an automatic drip irrigation system, which is quite well equipped.
His garden harvested the first crop in July - August 2024, but at that time the yield was not as expected due to the hot weather in the first months of the year, lack of irrigation water, causing widespread drought, which significantly affected the yield. Therefore, to prepare for the next harvest next year, Mr. Trung took good care of the garden. Although he grew durian after other households in the locality, Mr. Trung always oriented himself to clean production, prioritizing the use of biological products to care for durian to ensure quality and limit pests and diseases. Mr. Trung said: "In order for durian to develop sustainably, to be purchased by units at stable prices, and to maintain prestige, growers must focus on improving quality, complying with care processes, which is the long-term goal of my family in particular and local farmers in general, including durian for export or domestic consumption".
However, in reality, some people still abuse chemical pesticides, pay little attention to using organic fertilizers and biological drugs, leading to the appearance and quality of durian not meeting export requirements. Therefore, it is mainly sold to small traders for domestic consumption (accounting for 70%) and exported through unofficial channels to the Chinese market (about 30%).
Will do ecotourism
Also visiting Mr. Trung's durian garden were representatives of the Provincial Agricultural Extension Center, a number of businesses, cooperatives, and related professional departments, to provide technical training, share experiences, and demonstrate drones on the durian garden. The garden is in the tree-nourishing stage, so Mr. Trung, businesses, and experts have shared their secrets and experiences with the people in the area so that the durian can achieve good yields in the next crop season.
“Each stage of durian growth has different care and fertilization methods. In particular, it is necessary to understand the growth physiology of the tree, know how to keep the fruit on the branch when it suddenly rains heavily or is too hot, have a timely treatment method when the tree is “heat shocked”, as well as proactively provide food for the tree to keep the fruit round and beautiful. With an average durian price of 50,000 - 55,000 VND/kg, 1 hectare of durian harvests about 20 - 25 tons, farmers have made a profit”, Mr. Trung added. The fact that businesses come to each garden, join hands with farmers to learn about the model of growing and caring for durian in an organic direction is a positive signal for agricultural production in the direction of clean and sustainable agricultural products.
It is known that the Provincial Agricultural Extension Center has applied the model of "Intensive cultivation of durian meeting VietGAP standards according to chain linkage" with a scale of 40 hectares at Da Mi Agricultural Production and Service Cooperative; with organic and biological production processes, using electronic production logs to trace the origin of products. Thereby, the center wants to transfer technical advances according to VietGAP standards towards safety according to chain linkage to other growing areas of Ham Thuan Bac district, in order to help farmers increase economic efficiency compared to conventional production by 15 - 20%. From there, replicate the model of intensive cultivation of durian according to VietGAP standards annually in key areas of the province.
That is also Mr. Trung's wish, to gradually bring his durian garden to produce according to VietGAP standards for sustainable output. At the same time, in the near future, Mr. Trung plans to combine eco-tourism when the durian garden enters the harvest season. Tourists can visit the durian garden, drink coffee, enjoy durian on the spot, fish and other entertainment services. Mr. Trung is currently in the process of renovating the garden, making it ready to welcome guests next summer.
Agricultural production combined with ecotourism not only contributes to enriching the types of tourism, but farmers also have the opportunity to promote the local durian brand. From there, contributing to completing the goal that the agricultural sector is aiming for, which is to transform from agricultural production thinking to agricultural economics.
Source: https://baobinhthuan.com.vn/la-da-trong-sau-rieng-huu-co-ket-hop-du-lich-sinh-thai-126231.html
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