Spring colors in Cang village
(Baonghean) -After crossing 20km of forest road, we arrived at Cang village - a cultural highlight of the border commune of Mon Son (Con Cuong district, Nghe An) on the days before Tet. Along the way, apricot flowers bloomed white on the forest edge. At the foot of the mountain, people were urgently planting spring rice. On the fields, heavy corn cobs were carried home by people... The life of Cang villagers this spring was prosperous...
Ban Cang has 139 households with 581 people, of which 96% are Thai people. Previously, the life of the people in Ban Cang mainly depended on slash-and-burn farming, production methods were backward, so productivity was low, economic efficiency was low, leading to poverty. Now, with the attention of the Party Committee and local authorities, especially the quickness of each villager in converting the structure of crops and livestock, applying science and technology to production, the life of the Thai people in Ban Cang is increasingly prosperous.
In places with stable irrigation water sources, people have expanded the rice acreage and introduced hybrid rice varieties into production, so the crop yield has been increasingly bountiful. Highland areas lacking water have switched to growing three crops a year, and hillside land has been fully utilized by people to grow corn, soybeans, green beans, etc., with crop yields rising from 30 quintals/ha (in 2005) to 57 quintals/ha (in 2010). In addition, the Thai people in Cang village have also developed livestock farming in the direction of commodities.
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Spring colors in Cang village |
The people of Cang village have learned to build barns, raise cattle, and vaccinate them against diseases. Up to now, the whole village has 327 buffaloes, 150 cows, and a herd of more than 500 pigs. No longer burning forests for farming, the people of Cang village have taken on forest protection and protection; planted acacia trees to cover bare hills, both improving forest land, protecting forest capital and increasing income. Thanks to that, the economic life of the people of Cang village has been increasingly improved. The poverty rate in the whole village has decreased to 58.8% (according to the new standard), and the average income per capita has increased to 5 million VND/person/year.
The economy is stable, people voluntarily contribute to building infrastructure. The village cultural house is solidly built with full sound amplifiers and speakers; the village roads are paved with gravel and have a complete drainage system. The education of the children in the village is taken care of: 100% of school-age children go to school; many are studying at universities, colleges and vocational schools. The Party cell of Cang village has been ranked as exemplary clean and strong for 5 consecutive years; mass organizations such as the Women's Union, Youth Union, Veterans Association... have received many certificates of merit from superiors.
The movement "All people unite to build a cultural life in residential areas" has been actively responded to by the Thai people in Cang village. Up to now, the whole village has 110/141 families achieving the title of Cultural Family (78%); 100% of households have access to the national grid and 80% of households use hygienic wells; 90% of households have audio-visual equipment...
In order to preserve the folk songs and music of their ethnic group, the village has established the "Cang Village Thai Folk Song and Musical Instrument Club" with the participation of 14 members. The club teaches the children in the village ancient Thai folk songs, teaches them how to use the zither, how to practice mourning; how to play gongs, how to blow the pi... On the occasion of celebrating the new rice crop, celebrating the new house, especially the coming of Tet and Spring, Cang village is bustling with the sound of gongs, bustling with the sound of carving furrows, and passionate Thai folk songs...
Saying goodbye to Cang village in the bustling atmosphere of welcoming the new year. Somewhere peach blossoms are budding in a light pink, the sound of brocade weaving looms is clattering, excitement and happiness appear on the faces of every Cang villager. Spring is present in this remote border village....
Thanh Phuc
