"The diligent person" in Phay village
Visiting the remote Xieng My commune (Tuong Duong district), asking about the Party Secretary of Phay Kha Thi Bich village, the people said: "That is the diligent person of our village!". The Party Committee leader of the commune also confirmed that she is the exemplary "locomotive" of the village, not only good at doing business but also responsible and devoted to the Party and people's work.
Khanh Ly• 05/31/2024 20:10
Visiting the remote Xieng My commune (Tuong Duong district), asking about the Party Secretary of Phay Kha Thi Bich village, the people said: "That is the diligent person of our village!". The Party Committee leader of the commune also confirmed that she is the exemplary "locomotive" of the village, not only good at doing business but also responsible and devoted to the Party and people's work.
Ban Phay is located in the central area of Xieng My commune - a place with beautiful terrain like a green valley surrounded by many mountains, with Chon stream with clear, cool water and many aquatic resources, especially fresh fish. The female Secretary of the Thai ethnic Party Cell Kha Thi Bich (born in 1986) welcomed us and led us on a straight concrete road, with shady rows of trees on both sides, through the gate with a blue sign with the words "Ban Phay Cultural Village" and suddenly heard the sound of laughter. "People are harvesting wild jackfruit to process into "white jade" to import to Vinh city and the surrounding areas, journalist", said the Secretary of the Ban Phay Party Cell, then quickly stopped by a household on the side of the road.
At this time, the family of Ms. Vi Thi Tham and Mr. Luong Van My had just returned from picking jackfruit in the forest and were working with their son to process and separate the seeds to sell.
Ms. Tham happily said: “Dac is a type of tree that grows naturally in the forest. In the past, the fruit fell all over the place and no one picked it up. However, in recent years, thanks to Party Secretary Kha Thi Bich and some households in the village learning online, then instructing people on how to process it; then buying the finished product and selling it on social networks, Xieng My people have learned how to harvest and process the seeds to serve the beverage market that many people love.
The advantage of the palm tree is that the fruit can stay on the tree for 2-3 years without falling off, so it can be exploited for a long time. The palm tree harvest has helped many households in Xieng My commune (Tuong Duong) have more jobs, as well as an average daily income of 400 - 600 thousand VND, so everyone is very excited. The products are purchased directly at the household, without having to go far.
The price of jackfruit imported wholesale by people ranges from
18-20 thousand VND/kg. After purchasing from people, through social networks, there are
If you order, I will import wholesale or retail to you in Thach Giam town.
(Tuong Duong), neighboring districts and Vinh city with prices from 25-30 thousand
VND/kg. On average, my family buys and imports about 50kg of jackfruit per day.Ms. Kha Thi Bich - Secretary of Phay village Party cell
Not only wild jackfruit, but also through posting information on sales groups on social networks and personal Facebook and Zalo, Ms. Kha Thi Bich also promotes and purchases many agricultural products imported by people in Xieng My and Nga My communes such as dried banana seeds, wild honey, black chicken, black pig, cool fish, duck... for those in need.
When the number of orders increased, she and another household in the village went to neighboring areas such as Tam Hop commune (Tuong Duong) to purchase clean agricultural products and local plants and animals such as ginger, bamboo shoots, turmeric, chicken, pork, etc. to import to the lowlands. At the same time, she imported goods from the lowlands such as fish, squid, shrimp, soft drinks, etc. to serve the people in the highlands.
According to Village Chief Phay Tinh Van Hong: In the past, due to the remote location, it was quite difficult for people to consume agricultural products. In recent years, thanks to convenient transportation and pioneers in using social networks to promote and sell local specialties such as Party Secretary Kha Thi Bich, people's goods have been consumed more strongly. Some households in the village have followed suit and directly sold the products they produced and raised through social networks."
Commenting further on Party Cell Secretary Kha Thi Bich, Village Chief Phay Tinh Van Hong said: People call her “the hard worker of the village” because of her spirit of always working hard. When she is not busy with village work, she goes to the fields or goes to buy agricultural products, pack goods, and import goods to the lowlands. Her family also invested in a pickup truck to serve the purpose of buying and transporting goods.
Talking about the pioneering spirit in developing household economy, Party Cell Secretary Kha Thi Bich modestly expressed: I just think simply that I want to promote the work of hunger eradication and poverty reduction. Cadres and Party members, especially village and hamlet leaders, cannot follow behind, because if the leaders are not exemplary, cannot "say and do", then when propagating and mobilizing, people will not believe and will not be convinced. Moreover, when the economy is stable, I will also be assured and confident in completing the work of the people and the Party well."
With such thoughts, combined with her hard-working nature, in addition to purchasing agricultural products and local specialties to import to the lowlands, the family of Party Secretary Kha Thi Bich also raises black pigs, plants more than 3 hectares of forest, grows grass, and raises 5 buffaloes and cows.
It is known that Kha Thi Bich’s husband is also a party member, currently holding the position of Chairman of the Farmers’ Association of Xieng My commune, so he also has a pioneering mindset of innovation, always supporting and helping his wife in village and household economic development. With harmony between husband and wife, the family of the “leader” of Phay Kha Thi Bich village has gradually become a shining example for people in the area to learn and follow.
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Phay Village, Xieng My Commune was established in 1949. From only 7 households when it was first established, Phay Village now has 101 households with 406 people, 100% of whom are Thai ethnic people. The family of Party Cell Secretary Kha Thi Bich came here from Lang Khe Commune, Con Cuong District to start a business and has become attached to this land. Kha Thi Bich's husband is the President of the Farmers' Association of Xieng My Commune, and she herself previously worked at the Commune Party Committee Office.
After being elected as Secretary of the Phay village Party Cell, Ms. Kha Thi Bich, together with the Party Cell Committee and the Village Management Board, promoted propaganda work, mobilized people to build new rural areas and effectively organized campaigns and patriotic emulation movements at the grassroots level.
Regarding the poverty reduction movement, the Party cell requires Party members, heads and deputy heads of mass organizations to be exemplary in encouraging family members to promote self-reliance, self-improvement, and strive to escape poverty sustainably and become rich legitimately. Better-off households should help poor and near-poor households in various forms such as providing experience, knowledge, plant varieties, livestock, etc. to encourage and motivate people to rise up and build a new life.
As the head of a village with a total natural land area of 904.95 hectares and production land of 620.50 hectares... the question of what animals to raise and what plants to plant to increase income for the people is always on the mind of Party Cell Secretary Kha Thi Bich.
After the Party cell meetings to discuss ways to escape poverty, determining that animal husbandry is still a strength, Party cell Secretary Kha Thi Bich, together with the Party cell committee and the Phay village management board actively propagated and mobilized people to develop a herd of 450 buffaloes and cows, a herd of 124 pigs, 1,330 poultry, and a herd of 32 goats... The village also issued animal husbandry regulations, included them in the conventions and village covenants, and required people to strictly comply.
Accordingly, households with livestock must ensure that their barns are hygienic and do not affect the environment. Regarding cultivation, the focus is on improving the quality of upland rice, double-crop rice, corn, peanuts, cassava, vegetables and grass for livestock. The village also focuses on planting forests with an area of 90 hectares (acacia, mahogany) to ensure a long-term source of livelihood.
In addition, aquaculture has been developed with a system of 78 fish ponds. Many households have made efforts to develop their economy and have a more prosperous life, such as Mr. Lo Van Luong's family with a model of raising buffaloes and cows of over 20 heads, and Mr. Luong Van Tien and Mr. Luong Van Tinh's households with a VAC model of raising livestock combined with fish ponds.
According to the Secretary of the Party Cell Kha Thi Bich: The investment programs, tree and animal models are allocated, the village gives priority to households with the will to escape poverty, determined to develop the household economy. For example, through the cow breeding program supported by Nghe An Newspaper, some households in the village have had economic improvement.
A typical example is Mr. Lo Van Son's family, who was given a female calf by Nghe An Newspaper in 2012. Since then, his family has developed a herd of 9 cows. After selling 4 cows, each for 15 - 18 million VND, Mr. Son's family had money to build a solid house and escape poverty. Or from the fruit tree seed support program, eliminating mixed gardens of the Party Newspaper for Xieng My commune. In Phay village, there are 2 households that have converted mixed gardens into large-scale fruit gardens: Mr. Vi Thanh Luan and Mr. Lo Van La, planting 150 - 200 mango and jackfruit trees.
After more than 2 years, the trees have taken root, grown well and started to bear fruit, promising a bumper crop. In addition, the fund from the “1,000 VND ATM” model, the village also prioritizes lending to poor households without interest to buy seedlings.
Talking to us, Comrade Loc Thi Van - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Xieng My Commune Party Committee said: Thanks to the exemplary pioneering of the leader, the solidarity and consensus of the people, Phay village is currently the unit with the lowest poverty rate in the whole commune (the whole village has only 8 poor households). This is also the first unit of Xieng My commune to reach the new rural finish line and is the village chosen by the District Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Committee as a model to build the "Drug-free village" of Xieng My commune.
Not satisfied with the results achieved, in 2023, Party Cell Secretary Kha Thi Bich, together with the Party Committee, Party Cell and Village Executive Committee, continued to mobilize people to concretize more than 500m of internal village roads, in which the State provided cement, people contributed sand and gravel and working days to implement according to each self-managed group.
At the same time, mobilize some households to overcome the mentality of waiting and relying, proactively invest in roads to production areas to facilitate the transportation and consumption of agricultural products and livestock.
Environmental sanitation work to create a green - clean - beautiful landscape, building a civilized lifestyle in weddings and funerals is also of interest to the "locomotive" Ms. Kha Thi Bich, the Party cell and the Executive Committee of Phay village. The whole village has 35 incinerators located in central areas and along main roads; 100% of households have access to clean water; 100% of households have garbage pits to treat household waste, in addition, the environmental self-management model undertaken by the Women's Union is also effectively maintained.
Late afternoon, passing by the Chon stream area, pointing to a red sign with yellow letters stating “Strictly prohibiting fishing in any form from the area of Nhan Noc Dong to Nhan Ta Ma” erected right on the side of the road, Party Secretary Kha Thi Bich smiled and explained: That is a model for protecting aquatic resources of our village. The main purpose is to preserve the cool fish - considered a precious product in the highlands. Cool fish in Thai is “Pa Khinh”, this type of fish only lives in clean water, eating algae. For generations, people have believed that the fish in the stream are a gift from nature, so they have exploited it without permission, causing the precious fish resource to gradually become depleted. To preserve this fish species, the people unanimously agreed with the policy of organizing the installation of signs prohibiting fishing and adding this content to the village's covenants and regulations.
Accordingly, anyone who violates the law, using nets, nets or electric shock to catch fish in the prohibited area will be punished by the village management board. Every year, the village organizes collective fishing on the occasion of Tet and holidays such as National Day September 2, National Solidarity Day November 18... to serve collective activities and supplement the village fund to build public works. Each fishing occasion becomes a joyful fishing festival, uniting the whole community.
Saying goodbye to the Phay villagers, looking at the confident smile and radiant face of the female Party Secretary Kha Thi Bich, we believe that with the spirit of "practice goes hand in hand with words" of pioneering and exemplary village "locomotives" like her, the lives of ethnic minorities in the remote Xieng My commune will be increasingly renewed.
