Old age still enthusiastic about working

This year, although she has turned 65, Ms. Dam Thi Choong (in village 2, Ea Pil commune) still works and takes care of her fields and gardens every day.

Ms. Choong's family came from Quang Hoa (Cao Bang) to start a business in Ea Pil commune in 1993 with nothing. At first, the couple stopped working for hire, grew rice, then corn, and planted beans on the hillsides... At night, when the moon was bright, they took advantage of the opportunity to reclaim land for production. The land did not disappoint people, after many years of "selling their faces to the land, selling their backs to the sky", Ms. Choong and her husband converted nearly 2 hectares of barren land into a cultivated area, with the main crop at that time being sugarcane.

Ms. Dam Thi Choong (left cover) introduces her family's fruit tree model to visitors.

Implementing the policy of converting the structure of crops and livestock, in 2015, Ms. Choong's family decided to convert 1.5 hectares of sugarcane area to grow U Hong lychee. U Hong lychee trees grow well on Ea Pil land. After 3 years, the trees bear fruit regularly and have high yields; the fruit has a rich, sweet, refreshing taste that is very popular, and traders come to the garden to order. From 2020 to now, Ms. Choong's family has harvested an average of 6 tons of fruit per crop, with a garden price of 20,000 - 30,000 VND/kg, after deducting expenses, she earned more than 100 million VND. In addition to growing fruit trees, her family still maintains more than 1 hectare of sugarcane, rice and buffaloes for plowing power.

Ms. Choong said that compared to before when she grew sugarcane and other crops, the process of taking care of lychee trees for business is much less difficult. She mainly focuses on steps such as weeding, hoeing; fertilizing, pest and disease control; watering with an automatic system. Her children help with shaping, pruning branches and harvesting and hire local workers.

Similarly, everyone in village 2 (Krong A commune) admires the enthusiastic working spirit of Mrs. Tran Thi Tuyet (69 years old).

Ms. Tuyet's family moved to M'Drắk district to start a business after 1990 with many difficulties due to lack of land for cultivation and capital for production. After many years of reclaiming land, restoring and living off the land, in 2000 Ms. Tuyet's family had 1 hectare of rice and 3.5 hectares of sugarcane, and their economy improved from there.

Mrs. Tran Thi Tuyet takes care of the garden.

Thanks to her diligence in learning and researching knowledge about caring for plants and animals, Ms. Tuyet's family has switched from growing crops and sugarcane to growing fruit trees such as lychee, longan, and pepper on an area of ​​over 3 hectares, achieving high efficiency, earning over 400 million VND per year. Not only increasing the family's income, Ms. Tuyet's family's economic development model also creates jobs for many local workers.

Source: https://baodaklak.vn/xa-hoi/202504/tuoi-cao-van-hang-say-lao-dong-a5b1b57/