Quy Chinh vermicelli and cake village: efforts to overcome environmental pollution

(Baonghean) -The Quy Chinh vermicelli and cake making profession has long been considered a traditional profession, deeply attached to the parishioners of the entire Quy Chinh village, Van Dien commune, Nam Dan district, Nghe An.

Previously, only a few dozen households were working manually and spontaneously, but now 180/250 households in Quy Chinh village have become deeply attached to the profession. The villagers' rice noodles products are available everywhere, meeting the needs of restaurants and markets in Nam Dan, Hung Nguyen, and Thanh Chuong. Quy Chinh villagers consider rice noodles making as their main source of income. The whole village has formed 4 industrial clusters with 4 machine groups (each group has 4 rice noodle machines, 4 cake machines), each attracting 6 to 10 workers.

According to the owners of the complex, each machine earns a net profit of 1.5 million VND per day. Workers can take advantage of their time to make noodles, a 3 to 5 hour session is paid 50 thousand VND.

However, Quy Chinh craft village still has environmental pollution. The main cause is that wastewater from households making handmade cakes and vermicelli dumped into the ditch without treatment and without a lid. Every day, each household producing vermicelli and cakes discharges at least 3 cubic meters of foul-smelling wastewater, especially from sour rice. In 1990, Priest Nguyen Quang Nam supported the villagers in buying raw materials and building the entire drainage ditch around the craft village, the ditch is nearly 2,480 m long, about 40 cm wide, and about 50 cm deep. However, due to the strong development of vermicelli making, more and more wastewater is produced, the degraded ditch has not been reinforced, so it cannot meet the production needs.

The drainage ditch of Quy Chinh craft village has just been newly invested.

To overcome the environmental pollution, recently, the Quy Chinh Craft Village Committee and the Van Dien Commune Church Committee mobilized people to contribute nearly 130 million VND, Nam Dan district allocated 50 million VND from the budget. This fund of nearly 180 million VND was used to reinforce the drainage ditch, the people contributed their own labor. Currently, the ditch system has been reinforced, low areas have been raised, and everything is covered. The project has returned a clean environment, and people making Quy Chinh rice noodles have been somewhat more assured to continue production.

Luong Mai