Fortunately, local authorities and businesses have joined in, helping people gradually settle down.
The fruit-laden passion fruit gardens are grown instead of dead pepper gardens, bringing great hope to farmers of Chu Puh.
In the face of the development of pepper plants, the People's Committee of Chu Puh district has worked with relevant branches of the district, communes and towns and led the Doveco Fruit and Vegetable Processing Center (Dong Giao Export Food Joint Stock Company) to develop raw material areas for fruit and vegetable processing factories and link production and consumption of products.
The alternative crop targeted by the government and farmers here is passion fruit. Currently, over 150 households in 7 communes and towns of the district have registered to participate in crop restructuring, signed with Doveco Processing Center with a total area of over 107ha to grow passion fruit.
The converted areas are mainly dead pepper plantations, farmers take advantage of the posts to make trusses and a part of inefficient crop land.
In order to implement the project effectively, 11 cooperative groups have been established, to represent farmers participating in technical training, signing contracts with the Company on associating production and product consumption … Knowing that in the immediate future, the company pledges to lend farmers seeds to grow, at the same time to cover all products for people at a minimum price of 6,000 VND / kg of lime, with lemon type 1 purchased at market prices . “We are now registered to try it out, if this model is effective, we will expand the area,” said Huynh Van Anh, Deputy Director of Ia H'rú Agriculture and Forestry Cooperative.
Ia Rong commune established two new cooperative groups, aiming to gather farmers to associate with the Company in passion fruit production. Ms. Huynh Thi Thu Ha, Head of Cooperative Group of Khoi Roa Village (Ia Rong Commune), said: “Pepper died, people did not dare to replant it because they were afraid that the garden would continue to suffer from pests and want to replant pepper. There is no money to invest, so the land is empty. Now planting passion fruit, using the posts to make rigs, my family also registered to test more than 4 acres of passion fruit because I do not have experience. Hopefully, having a stable output will help people have a stable income ”.
Deputy Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Chu Pud District, Mr. Nguyen Long Khanh said: “Income from fruit trees in the district recently shows higher than that of pepper. With the existing coffee and pepper gardens, the district encourages intercropping with fruit trees such as durian, avocado …
Mr. Khanh added: “At present, there is no specialized fruit-growing area in the area, mainly intercropping in household gardens. Through the evaluation, we found that fruit trees develop very well due to suitable conditions. conditions of land and soil of the locality. Seeing this, people actively changed the structure of crops, breaking the monoculture of pepper, in order to bring higher and more stable incomes. “
Also according to Mr. Khanh, for fruit trees, people mainly grow spontaneously, then harvest and sell to local traders, difficult to control the price. Therefore, the district has actively invited Dong Giao Food Export Joint Stock Company to transfer the association program with farmers to plant some fruit trees such as passion fruit, banana, pineapple, and Bat Do bamboo shoots in the form of associate production and product consumption …
Brother Huynh Van Anh, Deputy Director of Agriculture and Forestry Cooperative Ia Hrú (Ia Hrú commune) said: “Recently my people planted pepper but died and wanted to change crops but we did not know what to plant now. Dong Giao export products have invested in local material areas, so cooperative members have registered and signed with the Company to produce passion fruit.
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