(Baonghean) - In Nghia Son commune, most of the agricultural land is assigned to local projects, many farmers rent land in other districts and provinces for intensive farming...
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| Nghia Son is an agricultural commune but the agricultural land area in Nghia Son is the least in Nghia Dan district because the land has been handed over to projects.In the whole Nghia Son commune, there are 900 households, of which about 100 households rent production land in other districts and provinces to develop production with a total rented land area of 125 hectares. |
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| Due to the handover of land to local projects, Nghia Son commune (Nghia Dan) currently has only 12 hectares of agricultural land. To maintain their land for production, farmers here have spent tens of millions of dong each year to rent land in communes in the district and Thanh Hoa to grow watermelon. In the photo:Mr. Nguyen Van Dung in Son Doai hamlet, Nghia Son rents land in Son Ha hamlet, Nghia Yen commune to grow watermelon. - Photo: Dinh Thuy |
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| This is the area where Mr. Tran Duc Tuan in Son Thuong hamlet, Nghia Son commune rented land from a household in Nghia Yen commune (Nghia Dan). His family rented nearly 1 hectare of hilly land to grow fruit trees.Mr. Tuan said: currently, his family has 2.5 hectares of land under his name and is growing fruit trees. |
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Or Mr. Tran Van Dung in Son Ha hamlet is a long-time melon grower. In 2014, thanks to good care and good prices, after deducting expenses, his family had an income of nearly 200 million VND. In 2015 and this year, his family continued to rent land in Bai Chanh (Thanh Hoa) to grow melons. |
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| This 3.5 hectare land is rented by Mr. Ngo Xuan Khoa's family from a household in Xuan Binh commune, Nhu Xuan district, Thanh Hoa.With 3.5 hectares of watermelon growing area, Mr. Khoa hires 6 workers to work and take care of the watermelons. Each month, he pays each worker 5 million VND/month. In the photo: Workers are watering the watermelons with nitrogen. |
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| Mr. Khoa said: In 2010, after handing over the land to TH Truemilk Joint Stock Company, he rented 2 hectares of land in this area to grow watermelon. Realizing that the fertile land was very suitable for growing watermelon, he rented an additional 1.5 hectares of land to expand the watermelon crop. 1 hectare of land rented for 14-15 million VND/year. |
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| Currently, not only Mr. Khoa but all households renting land grow watermelon. Watermelon has a short growing period, yielding 25-30 tons/ha.From growing watermelons with a yield of 25-30 tons/ha, Mr. Khoa's family earns about 300 million VND in profit each year in just 3 months. |
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| Mr. Tran Quoc Hong, Chairman of the Nghia Son Farmers' Association, said: Nghia Son farmers have a lot of experience in farming and raising livestock, which is the reason why they boldly rented land and stuck with watermelon and the amount of watermelon grown on rented land is the largest in the district.Therefore, if in 2010 the poverty rate of Nghia Son was 6%, now it has decreased to over 2%. Striving for the average production value per capita to reach over 47 million VND by 2020.In the photo: Peoplehire machinery to go up the hill to drill wells to have water to irrigate the fruit trees. |
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