After a successful durian season that helped many families earn billions in income, farmers in Ea Toh commune, Krong Nang district, Dak Lak province are happy again with a bumper coffee crop and high prices. Ms. Tran Thi Thao in Tan Bac village, Ea Toh commune, said that it has been a long time since her family felt the worthy value of traditional coffee trees, when the selling price sometimes reached nearly 80 million VND per ton. The joy is multiplied because Ms. Thao’s family grows organic coffee and purchases the product, always priced 10 million VND/ton higher than the market price.
“I’m very excited. This year, one hectare must yield 5 tons, 1 ton higher than last year. Besides, our family makes high-quality coffee, so we can increase the price by 11 more,” said Ms. Tran Thi Thao excitedly.
After a successful durian season, many families have billions in income
Also happy in a coffee season with the best price ever, Mr. Dieu Xem in Dak Blao village, Kien Duc town, Dak Rlap district, Dak Nong province said that people have now regained their trust in the tree. coffee. Like last year, the price was over 40 million VND/ton, families with good coffee gardens still had a profit of over a hundred million VND/ha. This year, profits doubled last year.
Mr. Dieu Xem said that people in Dak Blao now believe that if high productivity and good quality are guaranteed, coffee trees will help people develop a stable economy: “Seeing this year’s output, Coffee prices are very good, people are very happy. In the village, many families and people are very interested in finding new coffee varieties to overcome and develop the economy.”
Amidst the general difficulties of the economy, agriculture in the Central Highlands has emerged as a bright spot. According to statistics, in 2023, farmers in the Central Highlands provinces collected 440,000 tons of durian, worth about 30,000 billion VND, and 90,000 tons of pepper, worth nearly 6,500 billion VND. This coffee crop, with an estimated output of 1.7 million tons, is expected to bring over 100,000 billion VND to Central Highlands farmers.
Happily, along with the success of traditional perennial industrial crops, revenue from annual crops in the Central Highlands is also very significant, when rice, sugar cane, cassava and sweet potatoes all have good harvests and prices increase. strong.
Ms. Duong Thi Loi, Ia Sol commune, Phu Thien district, Gia Lai province, said that since the construction of growing area codes for exported sweet potatoes was implemented, the output for exported sweet potatoes has been expanded, and the business has expanded. The economic situation of farmers in this difficult area has changed completely. In 2023, sweet potatoes will meet export standards, sometimes selling for 25,000 VND/kg. Sweet potatoes sold in the domestic market are also stable at around 15,000 VND/kg. This price brings income to potato farmers from 200 to 300 million VND/hectare. According to Ms. Loi, growing sweet potatoes can now make you rich, so farmers are very excited.
“Since the day people switched to growing sweet potatoes, the economy has developed stronger. This year too, many people have rented more land to grow sweet potatoes,” Ms. Loi said.
2023-2024 is a satisfying coffee crop for farmers, when prices increase continuously and reach nearly 80 million VND per ton right before the Lunar New Year of Giap Thin.
According to information from the year-end meeting of the People’s Council of the Central Highlands provinces, in 2023, many socio-economic targets in the region did not meet the set plan. The most obvious of these is the decline in state budget revenue, stagnant public investment, and low investment attraction. But thanks to the bright spot in agriculture, people’s average income still increased significantly. In Dak Lak province, the average per capita increases from 56 million VND in 2022 to nearly 62 million VND in 2023.
Mr. Vu Duc Con, Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Dak Lak province, said: To maintain the growth momentum of agricultural products, the province attaches special importance to the issuance and management of growing area codes and export agricultural product packaging facility, decentralizing this work to 15 districts, towns and cities in the province to jointly carry out. The province also clearly identified management gaps and had a synchronous action plan, especially for the rapidly growing durian industry.
“About 2 years ago, the province saw the problem. The Committee directed the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to develop a project that considers the entire production process from seed to linkage, promoting export processing, promoting the role of the association and specialized agencies, forming industry standards for more fundamental and strict management,” said Mr. Vu Duc Con.
On the momentum of victory, authorities at all levels in the Central Highlands region are still carefully assessing the great difficulties that lie ahead and have corresponding action plans. In particular, the provinces are constantly improving the quality of agricultural products, transparency of product origin, strengthening management, reorganizing the industry and market work; consider this to be the most important work to continue to improve the value and competitiveness of Central Highlands agricultural products, so that the Central Highlands can continue to have more golden harvests with high prices.
