Quynh Luu develops carpentry village

(Baonghean) -In recent years, the impact of the general economic recession has made it difficult for craft villages to sell their products, especially rattan and bamboo products for export. In this context, craft villages producing household wooden products and fine arts in Quynh Luu have still developed steadily thanks to meeting the consumption needs of the domestic market.

Mr. Ho Van Huu's wooden products production facility in Quynh Nghia commune.

Quynh Nghia (Quynh Luu) is a commune with a long-standing traditional carpentry profession. All 11 villages in the commune have skilled carpenters, but the majority of workers are concentrated in villages 1 and 4. Phu Nghia civil and fine art carpentry village is distributed in villages 1 and 4, with an area of ​​6.7 hectares, with nearly 300 workers specializing in carpentry production. The village has 62 workshops specializing in the production of high-end civil and fine art carpentry, producing more than 3,000 high-end products and over 40,000 civil carpentry products each year to serve customers in and outside the province, bringing in an income of 14,092 million VND. The total income from the profession reached 24,738 million VND, with an average income of 64 million VND/year. This result is thanks to good product quality, diverse types of goods, rich designs and brands on the market.

Entering Phu Nghia craft village, from afar, you can clearly hear the sound of chainsaws, the sound of lathe engines mixed with the chisels and chisels of hundreds of workers, making the craft village always noisy and bustling. Visiting the carpentry production facility of Mr. Ho Van Tinh in village 1, Quynh Nghia commune, with a fairly large workshop located on Provincial Road 537B, convenient for transporting raw materials and exchanging and buying and selling goods. In the workshop, there are still a few sets of counters and some unfinished wooden cabinets. Mr. Tinh said: We mainly produce according to customer orders, 6-7 workers work all year round and never run out of work, especially at the end of the year when we cannot keep up with the orders for customers. All high-end wooden products from beds, cabinets, tables, chairs, doors, and wooden furniture are made to ensure good quality, so customers come to order more and more. Total revenue each year is 5-6 billion VND, after deducting input costs and paying workers, net profit is about 300 million VND/year.

Mr. Tinh is 43 years old this year but has been working in the profession for more than 25 years. He is a descendant of a family of carpenters. His father is a famous skilled craftsman in Quynh Nghia commune. Following his father's footsteps, all three brothers Ho Van Huu, Ho Van Tinh, and Ho Van Xinh opened traditional carpentry workshops. Each has their own strengths in producing wooden furniture. Ho Van Huu's workshop is located next to Tinh's workshop, specializing in producing high-class cabinets, beds, tables and chairs. Each year, he produces over 150 products, mainly sold to customers in the district and some neighboring localities. Thanks to his talented hands, creativity combined with his passion for producing wooden furniture, Mr. Huu has created beautiful products that attract more and more customers. His workshop has 7-8 regular workers, but production still cannot meet market demand, so Mr. Huu often has to go to the northern provinces to get more goods to sell to customers. Total revenue each year is over 2 billion VND. Since the locality has a policy of building concentrated craft villages, prioritizing land sales to production households, not only Mr. Huu's facility but also many other households have been given favorable conditions in promoting, introducing products and consuming goods. Mr. Huu's production workshop is also located along Highway 537B, the facility is quite large, next to the production workshop is a product display area, very convenient for customers to learn and shop.

Realizing the increasing market demand, wooden furniture is always favored by the market, many production households of Phu Nghia Civil and Fine Arts Carpentry Village have invested in purchasing modern production machinery, increasing capacity, and recruiting more workers to meet the increasing demand of customers.

Leaving Quynh Nghia, we went to Quynh Hung - a locality with two fine art carpentry villages, Nam Thang and Thuan Giang. Thanks to the development of these two craft villages, the number of workers has increased over the years. Up to now, there are nearly 600 households working in the craft, creating jobs for about 900 local workers. From a purely agricultural commune, knowing how to promote traditional crafts and being dynamic and creative, Quynh Hung people have promoted the strong development of their hometown's carpentry. From raw production to finishing and introducing products, everything is done in a closed, very scientific way, saving production costs, and having competitive prices. This is the outstanding advantage of Quynh Hung carpentry, which almost every household in this locality has been trying to achieve. Like the production facility of Mr. Vu Hong Van in Nam Thang Carpentry Village, in the past his family only produced wooden products at their own home. After many years of accumulating from the profession, now Mr. Van has invested capital to open another production and product display workshop located on the main road leading to the commune, very convenient for transporting raw materials as well as selling products. In addition to meeting the needs of customers in the district, his family's products are also supplied to agents in Hoang Mai Town, Dien Chau...

The advantage of Quynh Hung is the diversity of wooden products from high-end to popular, meeting all consumer needs, that is why Quynh Hung wooden brand is very popular with consumers in the province. The life of people in the craft village is quite prosperous, the value of industrial production - handicrafts currently accounts for over 40% of the total economic structure of the locality.

Although craft villages still face many difficulties in production and consumption of products, many craft villages such as bamboo and rattan weaving, sedge mats, etc. have closed, the carpentry village in Quynh Luu is still crowded with customers, affirming the stable development of these craft villages. Mr. Tran Van Huy - Head of Policy Consulting Department of Nghe An Province Cooperative Union said: To promote the development of craft villages in the following years, it is necessary to have plans and orientations for each field and each type of product to support product consumption. In the context of declining purchasing power, the products of craft villages need to improve their competitiveness with quality and reasonable prices.

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