Farms on D war zone

Return D war zone for planting

Mr.Tran Van Nhieu, who had been a soldier on D war zone in 1960, left Sai Gon to return the former base for gardening. With the area of 10 hectares and 50 million loan of former division, he decided to plant Hoa Loc sweet mangoes which have not been planted before. At the first time, he has not got income from mangoes, so he planted bravely soybeans, turmeric, and maniocs that is considered short-term plan for supporting longer-term plan. After 10 years of living in Hieu Liem Commune, Mr. Nhieu has set up a closed mode of gardens, ponds and pigsties significantly with amount of billions and got hundreds of millions of income each year. He said rely on this mode, he had amount of money for raising fishes after the first mango crop.  Due to knowing market’s requirements and getting quickly technological achievements, his mango gardens are not only fruitful, sweet, and desirous of weight but also fruitful all year to get a higher price. With technological and methodical care by organic fertilizer, his mango gardens are not only fruitful but also green all year.

Getting abundant mango crops, Mr. Nhieu thinks for long-term plan, he built pigsties to get dung for raising fishes, then bought more 10 hectares of land for raising chickens, which are also processed of CP Company. To this mode, he has got dung for raising fishes and fertilizing mangoes all year. To take use of grass in the mango gardens, he decided to buy a ten of cows and twenty of goats for enhancing his income. When asked of future plans, Mr. Nhieu said he keeps investing on cold farms of chicken to save a fresh environment and satisfy market’s requirements of fresh meat.

According to Mr. Nguyen Van Binh- deputy chairman of people’s committee of Hieu Liem Commune, although there are so many animal farms in Hieu Liem, with modes of perennial planting such as: orange, tangerine, grape fruit, cash nut… help many households to get over hundred millions every year. Among households, Mr. Nguyen Van Mot and Mr Tran Van Mien are typical ones. Besides, many households of raising deer also escape from poverty and get properly rich

Getting rich on a poor area

Been lived in village 2 Ma Da Commune in 1989, Mr. Tran Van Huong did may works for rising his children’s studying. But at any jobs, income from raising chickens is the highest. Been an eight-year senior in processing chickens for Stork bran Company and CP company, he knows clearly skills of raising chicken. With 2 farms of 12000 chickens and about 45 days for selling, every year after accounting, Mr. Huong gains over 150 million of profit. Moreover, to get more profit, he usually increases cash nut production. However, cash nut gardens become to be stunted recently, so he is cultivating rubber seedlings for replacing cash nut crops. Had a talk to us, Mr. Huong said the most difficult thing of Ma Da people is, have not got family record book, so they can’t ask for loan, many people without money don’t dare to do business because being afraid of withdrawing land. Until now, there are just a few of farming economic households

 Overcome a lot of difficulties, Mr. Dong Van Mua, a Cambodian-local person also get rich from gravel and remote village 4 Ma Da Commune. Bought an area close to Trị An Lake, he bought bravely 400 alligators for reproduction. In addition, he has also dug fishing ponds for getting higher income and feeding alligators. On the other hand, he has planted Hoa Loc mangoes and Senegal mahogany. Now after balancing of expenses, he has got hundreds of million of profit.

Mr. Nguyen Huu Doan, chairman of Ma Da Farmers’ Union said , this area is very poor before, the locals don’t know how to earn their living except woodcutting and getting of bamboo sprout. But at the present time, most of locals know how to enrich their family by raising and planting method or trading. Furthermore, on this area many other locals also come here to buy land for farming with slightly big scale.

(Translated by THKC)