Farmers in Quynh Luu (Nghe An) are proactive in getting rich.
(Baonghean.vn) - Dynamic and entrepreneurial, farmers in Quynh Luu district (Nghe An) have created many products with high economic value, accepted by the market. In the district, there are 72 farm economic models, 200 livestock and crop farms, bringing high income to families.
Dynamic Quynh Luu farmers
Quynh Luong commune is the largest vegetable growing area in the coastal area of Quynh Luu district. Farmers here have a lot of experience in intensive farming.vegetables, annually supplying the market with a large amount of vegetables, tubers, and fruits. Mr. Pham Dinh Hai in Hamlet 5, Quynh Luong Commune said: With a tradition of intensive vegetable cultivation experience, the locality has products to sell on the market all year round. For my family, on an area of 14 meters of land, each year the family rotates 3-4 vegetable crops, earning a profit of about 40 million VND.
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| Scallion growers in the coastal area of Quynh Luu harvest scallions. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
Chairman of the Commune Farmers' AssociationQuynh LuongMr. Le Van Thanh said: The locality has 185 hectares of fertile land, specializing in intensive cultivation of vegetables, tubers, and fruits of all kinds, of which 20 hectares have been recognized as VietGAP production areas. Each season has its own produce, all year round the vegetable production area has products to supply the market inside and outside the province, the farmers' lives are increasingly stable.
In the commune, there is a team of traders who specialize in purchasing vegetables for people to transport to consume all over the country, so people can rest assured in production. Farmers now, in addition to researching and introducing new crops into production, also invest in installing automatic irrigation systems, reducing investment costs and bringing higher economic efficiency.
The movement of “Farmers competing in production, good business, uniting to help each other get rich and sustainably reduce poverty” is increasingly developing in scale and effectiveness in Quynh Luu district. Many farmers, with their dynamism and entrepreneurial spirit, have created products of high economic value, accepted by the market. Typically, the productherbal eggsof farmer Le Van Duong in Quynh Bang commune.
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| Herbal chicken farming model of farmer Le Van Duong, Quynh Bang commune, Quynh Luu district. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
Mr. Duong said: With the attention of Farmers' Associations at all levels, through multi-dimensional information research, I realized that raising chickens to lay eggs from herbs has high nutritional value and brings higher economic efficiency than regular chickens, so in 2018, I invested nearly 4 billion VND, switching to raising chickens to lay eggs from herbs. With a scale of 7,000 laying hens, Egyptian breed, I supply the market with 60,000 eggs per month. The quality of the chicken eggs from herbs is good and trusted by consumers. In the future, I will expand the scale of raising chickens, striving to supply the market with 130,000 chicken eggs from herbs each month.
It is known that currently, the Farmers' Association at all levels in Quynh Luu district has built 72 farm economic models, 200 livestock and crop farms, bringing high income to families. In addition, farmers in the district have also expanded the area of industrial shrimp farming, white-leg shrimp farming with over 400 hectares, bringing high economic efficiency. Thanks to that, more and more member families are emerging with good production and business skills, becoming typical examples of economic development in the locality.
Raising awareness for farmers
Looking back over the past 5 years, in order to help members and farmers produce effectively, the Farmers' Association of Quynh Luu district has innovated the content and form of propaganda, mobilization, knowledge exchange, and production experience, while grasping the thoughts, aspirations, and understanding the causes leading to poverty and difficulties of farmers.
The Association also cooperates with units and enterprises to support farmers in terms of knowledge, techniques, seeds and agricultural materials, and organizes visits to model sites for members to help farmers develop production effectively. It organizes vocational training classes and effectively implements models for members and farmers to learn and replicate...
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| Officials of the Farmers' Association of Quynh Luu district visited the VietGAP vegetable production model in Quynh Luong commune. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
“The key issue that the Association has identified is to pay special attention to knowledge for members. When members have knowledge, everything is easier to succeed, especially in economic development. Next is to do a good job of the movement, because when the movement of the Association at all levels is aroused, it will create excitement for each member to participate.”
New in the past 5 years, the Association has guided the establishment of 2 professional farmer associations, 16 professional farmer associations, 4 cooperatives, 3 agricultural service cooperatives. Since then, it has created conditions for farmers to help each other with breeding techniques, planting, skills, farming experience, buying machinery to bring mechanization into production. Practice has proven that professional farmer associations are midwives, bridges for farmers to access and develop household economy, commodity economy is increasingly diverse and rich.
The associations at all levels in the district have also actively participated in "Building new rural areas and civilized urban areas" by contributing and donating tens of thousands of square meters of land, architectural objects, and labor to expand, upgrade, and maintain thousands of meters of rural roads, and dredging intra-field canals. Cadres and members also participate in criteria that they are the subject of in building new rural areas such as: Health insurance, building cultural families, etc., contributing to Quynh Luu district achieving many results in implementing the National Target Program on building new rural areas.
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| Many member families are good at production and business and have become typical examples of economic development in the locality. Photo: Xuan Hoang |