Hundreds of hectares of pepper gardens of people in Dak O commune continue to be infected and then die with a wilt.
Mr. Dieu Pré’s family, village 2, was helplessly watched as dying.
Noted that in Dak O border commune is a major pepper cultivation area in Bu Gia Map district (Binh Phuoc), many farmers said that they do not harvest crops, do not know how to “spend” to take care of this Tet.
We were led by Ms. Nguyen Thi Nga, Vice Chairman of Dak O Commune Farmers’ Association to the pepper garden of Mrs. Nguyen Thi Ly’s household living in village 9. Stepping into the back garden, before our eyes was the immense pepper garden. Only the base of the dry wood pillar and the living tree pillar remains inert. The dried pepper ropes are still firmly attached to the stalks, the pillars of the pepper lines still have leaves, but the leaves are turning yellow withered.
When contacting the owner of the garden, Mrs. Ly choked out that the pepper garden became infected and died very quickly. Every time I look at the pepper garden, I can’t help but feel impatient, in the last few months of the year, thousands of pillars are dead. Sitting under the peppercorns, Mrs. Ly rubbed her red eyes and said: “I have all died from my illness. My family only has 1.2 hectares of land, all invested in planting pepper, now the pepper is dead, I don’t know what to do. My son is forced to work as a hired laborer to earn a living for 6 meals. Now I just hope the bank will freeze the debt for my family to do business and pay off the debt gradually. But now my family’s debt collection bank doesn’t know what to do ”.
Sadly, stunned, that is what when we witnessed the entire 2,000-pillar pepper garden of Mrs. Ly perished and left alone. It can’t be pity that all the family’s capital has been invested in pepper. Hundreds of millions of dong have been invested in pepper, almost completely dead, now at risk of being empty-handed. In which, the amount of 1.8 billion dong of bank loan is due to pay. Having no main source of income, forcing her son to work as a hired laborer to earn a living, next to the house, there is a sign to sell the land.
Like the household of Mrs. Nguyen Thi Ly, the household of Dieu Pré, the S’tieng ethnic minority in Bu Bung village, is also in a state of half-crying and half-laughter when the household is slowly dying and dying. Mr. Dieu Pré and his wife are working hard to pick the unripe peppercorns, but the tree is withering yellow, the seeds are dry, falling due to infection.
All the black and white pepper clusters, Mr. Pré said, in 2017, his pepper garden only died sporadically a few dozen columns, yet this year, the number of dead posts was more than 2,000 out of 4,200. His family as well as other gardeners still take care of, fully fertilize, even focus all their capital to cure. However, the number of dead dead pillars has yet to show signs of stopping, while the investment capital having to borrow more than 1 billion dong from the bank is about to pay off, making the family feel a headache.
According to statistics, the pepper garden of Mr. Pré’s family got sick and died nearly 50% of the garden area. Currently, the infected pepper garden is still dead, so now the family just wants the authorities to have a way to support the family to rebuild the garden, plant coffee or something to pay the debt gradually. .
“In the past, because the purchase price of pepper was still high, in 2014-2015, the family decided to invest more than 700 million VND in planting new ones. Last year, spending a little dead, I thought I would not die as much as this year, so I continued to invest more than 100 million VND to buy fertilizer and medicine. But now the pepper continues to be infected and die quickly ”, Mr. Pré added.
As for the family of Ms. Lam Thi Huong and Mr. Nguyen Van Son in village 10, she is also in a fidgety position because she currently owes 2.5 billion dong to the due date. In 2010, when black pepper was very expensive, her family planted 300 pillars on a trial basis, seeing that pepper was developing well, her family continued to expand the area.
In 2013-2014, she invested nearly one billion dong to plant 3,000 new pillars. Not stopping there, the area and the number continue to increase to 6,000 pillars. Unfortunately for the family of Mr. Son and Mrs. Huong, in 2017 more than 1,000 pillars were infected and died. Then in 2018, nearly 5,000 remaining pillars of her family continued to die quickly, with slow death stealing nearly all of them. I do not know how to calculate more when the whole pepper garden is estimated that if not dead, it could bring in billions of VND per year and have died almost cleanly.
Currently, most of the dead pepper area of Mrs. Huong’s family has been sawing, collecting and burning to grow other crops such as durian, avocado. Ms. Lam Thi Huong said: “Our pepper has died too much, now I don’t know what to do. Despite using many methods of treatment, but still die continuously and in series. As for the bank’s loan, it is not available to pay on time, my family really hopes all levels of authorities and departments to have solutions to support the dead families to re-invest, and then slowly pay back to the bank ” .
Mass death caused people to suffer.
Present at the “hot spot” of the dead pepper area – Vice Chairman of Dak O Commune Farmers Association Nguyen Thi Nga said: “Seeing the dead pepper gardens makes me feel sorry. On the side of the Commune Farmers Association, we also regularly come to people’s homes to visit and recommend ways to prevent diseases. This year, infection and death have increased rapidly ”.
Not only households of Mrs. Ly, Mrs. Huong, Mr. Pré fell into the situation of nearly losing “both lead and fishing” investment capital, but also many households in the commune fell in the same situation. According to statistics of Dak O commune, at present, there are about 958 households in the commune having infected and dead areas. And the number of households that are “stuck in debt” in the bank that is about to come due and cannot afford to pay has not yet detailed statistics.
Chairman of the People’s Committee of Dak O commune Tran Van Linh said that in the past 2 years, mass death has occurred in the commune. At present, the commune has instructed the villages to sum up the entire damaged area to report to the leaders of Bu Gia Map district, the district agriculture department, the plant protection station to continue to guide the people how to prevent the damage. minus. In addition, the commune also proposed to the district, the Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development to relax debts for the people to pay, mainly people borrowed to grow pepper. The commune has mobilized the mass organizations to focus on clearing and killing, suitable areas to convert crops.
The harvest season has arrived, but the epidemic has been raging, robbing the people of Dak O’s hope of changing their lives from pepper trees. The “bitter” pepper taste makes efforts, sweat continue to dissipate, in addition to that many small debts will miss a bank appointment. Some households have to sell their land to pay debts. Now, the hope that people who grow pepper will be damaged by the epidemic just hope that the local authorities and banks will relax their debts so that they can have time to stabilize their lives and production.
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According to the Newspaper Tintuc.vn
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