(Baonghean) - To increase income per unit area, Dong Vinh ward, Vinh city(Nghe An)Convert nearly 60 hectares of ineffective rice land into livestock farms and high-value fruit trees.
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| Dong Vinh Ward (Vinh City) currently has 34 mixed livestock farms, of which 9 large-scale farms invest on ineffective rice-growing land. |
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| Mr. Nguyen Duc Luan's family's farm of 6,000 laying hens in Yen Due block (Dong Vinh ward) has a net income of 250 million VND/year. |
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| Many models of commercial livestock farming on rice fields were formed. |
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| People in Yen Giang block (Dong Vinh ward) grow nearly 2 hectares of cucumbers on rice fields, earning a net profit of 15 million VND/sao/crop. |
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| Mr. Phan Van Loc's family in Yen Giang block grows 2 sao of thorny cucumbers, with an average yield of 2 tons/sao, and a current selling price of 20,000 VND/kg. After deducting production costs, the net profit is more than 40 million VND. Mr. Loc said that growing cucumbers is many times more profitable than growing rice. |
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| People leave cucumber seeds for the season. |
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| In addition, there are many areas of rice fields where people grow papaya and fruit trees with high productivity. Papaya is sold in the field for 20 thousand VND/kg of fruit. |
Quynh Lan
