Bright spot 'Clean from home to fields' in Anh Son
(Baonghean.vn) - Due to the risk of environmental pollution caused by waste, the Farmers' Association of Anh Son district has launched the movement "Clean from home to field" to promote the role of people in environmental protection, participating in building new rural areas and civilized urban areas.
CLEAN FIELDS, CLEAN FIELDS
Arriving at Tuong Son commune on the exact day the Commune Farmers' Association was simultaneously deploying for members in 12 branches to collect waste in the fields.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Van in village 9, Tuong Son commune shared: In the past, when walking on the fields of the commune, everyone was embarrassed when seeing pesticide containers thrown haphazardly along the canals and fields. In the past, she herself, after spraying pesticides, would just throw them away wherever convenient. For more than 2 years now, since the Commune Farmers' Association launched the movement "Clean from home to field", those bad images no longer exist. It has become a habit, at the end of the farming day, people voluntarily collectpesticide packagingput into specially designed concrete tanks located next to the internal roads, and treated according to the correct procedure. In addition, every month, the Commune Farmers' Association also mobilizes all members to collect waste simultaneously in all the fields. |
| Pesticides are put into concrete tanks placed next to the internal roads and treated according to the correct procedure. Photo: Thai Hien |
LIVEAnh Son districtTuong Son commune is a pioneer in cleaning from inside the house to the village roads and fields.
Ms. Tran Thi Huong - President of the Farmers' Association of Tuong Son Commune said: "In fact, in the past, people in Tuong Son Commune only focused on cleaning their houses and gardens. In recent years, people have changed their awareness of protecting the community environment, focusing on cleaning roads and fields.
Starting from the end of 2018, the Commune Farmers' Association coordinated with the Commune Women's Association to deploy for members to build family garbage pits. Cadres from the commune to the village grasped the situation of each household to have appropriate ways to help. If any household is in difficulty, they will be supported. Up to now, nearly 100% of households in the whole commune have garbage pits at home, especially, like people in O O Gia Hop village, 100% of Thai ethnic people, far from the center also responded very enthusiastically.
Not stopping there, implementing the campaign of each house having a small flower garden, each road section is a flower road launched by the Commune People's Committee. Up to now, the whole Tuong Son commune has planted nearly 3 km of flower roads on the commune and village roads, typically in village 2, village 3 and village 12.
With the motto “Clean house, clean alley” to “clean field”, in the fields, the Commune Farmers’ Association also mobilized funds to build tanks to collect pesticide shells. Up to now, 80 pesticide collection tanks have been installed in all the fields.
Every month, the Commune Farmers' Association organizes all branches to collect pesticide packaging in all fields, and has 100% of members sign a commitment to strictly follow the regulations on hygiene in the family, production and business places and environmental protection.
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| Currently, farmers' associations in Anh Son district are vigorously implementing the movement "Clean from home to field". Photo: Thai Hien |
HOME WASTE TREATMENT
Hoa Son is also one of the communes that has successfully implemented the "Clean from home to field" movement in Anh Son district. Currently, in terms of environmental criteria, Hoa Son commune has 95% of households using hygienic water; the number of households with toilets that meet prescribed standards, with drainage systems that ensure hygiene, do not pollute the air and water sources reaches 100%.
Mr. Tran Quoc Khanh - Vice Chairman of Hoa Son Commune People's Committee said: Determining the environmental criteria that local waste must be treated according to regulations is one of the difficult tasks to implement, Hoa Son Commune has its own direction different from the communes that have reached the NTM target in Anh Son District. That is to implement the policy that each family and residential area must build a garbage pit to collect, gather and treat. Accordingly, the commune has also built a design model of a garbage pit with a size and budget suitable for each household.
To build a garbage pit, each household only needs to spend over 500,000 VND to buy materials such as sand, gravel, cement, steel, etc. The garbage incinerator is about 1 meter high, the compartment is 1 meter wide; there is an iron frame to hold the garbage, and a roof to keep out the rain...
After burning, households use the ash to compost for agricultural production. Up to now, 12/12 villages and hamlets in the commune have implemented the policy of building garbage pits at home, with 85% of households using them, each village has 10-12 pits built as samples for people to see.
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| Not only collecting garbage in the fields, the Farmers' Association of Anh Son district advocates that each family and residential area must build a garbage pit at home to collect, gather and process. |
“Determining the environment as one of the 19 criteria of the National Target Program for New Rural Development, the district farmers' association has therefore launched a campaign for all members to join hands in protecting the environment, especially responding to the movement "Clean from home to fields". Currently, the association's bases are implementing the movement "Clean from home to fields", from this movement, the model of trash cans for collecting and treating pesticide packaging has been widely deployed in the communes of Khai Son, Hoa Son, Linh Son, Tao Son, Phuc Son, Tuong Son, Hung Son and Cam Son with over 900 units, besides, the whole district also has over 7,000 households building trash pits at home.
