22:25, 19/04/2024
BHG - In order to improve the efficiency of land use, exploit the potential advantages of land and natural conditions, create jobs, increase income for rural people, contribute to sustainable poverty reduction. At the same time, form specialized production points and areas, create beautiful landscape highlights for tourists to visit and experience. Mau Due Commune (Yen Minh) is focusing on converting ineffective corn land to mango land.
Mau Due commune currently has a total annual crop area of over 1,470 hectares. The total food output in 2023 will reach over 3,300 tons, of which: 270 hectares of rice with an average yield of 59 quintals/ha; 464.5 hectares of corn with a yield of 37.47 quintals/ha. According to comrade Le Quang Diep, Secretary of the Commune Party Committee, many corn growing areas are upland, easily eroded, degraded, with low productivity, output and poor economic efficiency. The commune has piloted the conversion of many crops, but mango is the most suitable for the climate and soil conditions here. In particular, the Kim Hoang mango variety (Taiwan) has been tested in practice for high productivity, output and economic value. Therefore, the commune has determined to gradually convert ineffective corn growing land to Kim Hoang mango growing, aiming to develop into concentrated, contiguous, and contiguous production areas in some villages.
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| Khau Piai Mua Mi Sinh village Party cell secretary (right) leads the pilot planting of Kim Hoang mango. |
In Mau Due commune, there are currently over 22 hectares of mango, including: 16 hectares of Kim Hoang mango (6 hectares have started harvesting); over 6 hectares of local mango. The commune's mango output in 2023 will reach over 16 tons. The average selling price is 15,000 - 20,000 VND/kg. In particular, the Kim Hoang mango variety has high productivity, starting to harvest in the 3rd year, and in the 4th year, it can harvest 8 - 10 fruits/tree, with an average weight of 0.8 - 1.2 kg/fruit. The family of Mr. Mua Mi Sinh, Secretary of the Khau Piai village Party Cell, is one of the pioneering households in piloting Kim Hoang mango planting in Mau Due. In 2019, he boldly borrowed investment capital with a recovery from the agricultural career capital to plant 150 trees. In 2022, the mango trees will begin to yield their first harvest. In 2023, each tree yielded an average of 10-12 fruits, with a total yield of nearly 2 tons. This is a model that many people in the commune come to visit and learn from.
Visiting the family of Sung No Lua in Lao Lung village, we witnessed him diligently digging holes and planting mango trees on his family's nearly 1 hectare cornfield. Lua shared: The area where I was growing mangoes previously produced about 6 kg of corn seeds, and I only grew one crop a year and harvested about 500 kg of corn. I visited the Kim Hoang mango garden of some households that had piloted the planting 3-4 years ago and found it very effective. While in the first 3-4 years of growing mangoes, corn can still be grown to ensure food for raising livestock for the family. When the mango trees form a canopy and give harvest in the second year onwards, corn can be completely abandoned. Currently, I have planted 320 trees from the commune's support program in the form of investment with recovery.
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| Agricultural extension officers of Mau Due commune guide the family of Mr. Sung Mi Vang, Keo Hen village, on mango growing techniques. |
Not only Mr. Lua's family, in early 2024, Mr. Sung Mi Vang's family in Keo Hen village also converted ineffective corn-growing land to planting nearly 600 Kim Hoang mango trees. Mr. Vang said: Through visiting and learning from the experiences of some households that have grown Kim Hoang mango varieties; my family's entire mango acreage was instructed by agricultural extension officers on techniques for digging holes, planting, and caring. Hopefully, the trees will grow well to become a driving force to help the family have a stable income in the future.
Implementing the policy of converting corn to crops with higher economic value, Mau Due commune aims to convert 110 hectares of ineffective corn to mango cultivation concentrated in some villages such as Lao Lung, Khau Piai, Keo Hen, Na Sai, Coc Cai. From 2023 to present, the commune has supported and mobilized 26 households to convert 9.5 hectares of ineffective corn land to mango cultivation. It is expected that in 2024, an additional 7.5 hectares will be converted.
Nguyen Van Chuong, Deputy Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Yen Minh district, said: Imported mango varieties (Taiwan, Thailand) are being focused on by the district to develop into a concentrated commodity production area and are one of the trees chosen by people in communes such as Mau Due, Huu Vinh, Yen Minh town, Dong Minh to change the crop structure. The effectiveness of imported mango varieties has been verified through a provincial-level scientific project implemented in the district, including Mau Due commune. Up to now, Mau Due is one of the communes focusing on converting ineffective corn-growing land to Kim Hoang mango. Initially, the department found that this policy has received support and response from the people, thereby expecting Mau Due to be able to expand its area, aiming to focus on developing into a large-scale production area.
Article and photos: Luong Ha
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