Story in Ma Dao village

The joy of Ma Dao villagers in a spacious level 4 house. Photo: HOANG HA THE

Ma Dao village currently has 69 households with 352 people, of which Cham ethnic people account for 98%. The appearance of Ma Dao village has gradually improved thanks to the attention of the Party and State along with the solidarity and efforts in labor and production of the people.

The hard times are over.

Confiding in the village elder Kpa Phat, he said: “Ma Dao is the last village in the west of Ca Lui commune, bordering Dat Bang commune, Krong Pa district, Gia Lai province by Chu Prong mountain. Ma Dao village has existed since ancient times, at that time there were only over 10 households. Ma Dao is the name of the first person to reclaim this land”.

According to village elder Kpa Phat, by 1980, the village had about 30 households, all of whom were poor, with houses made of bamboo or reed and thatched roofs. The people's lives were mainly based on forest exploitation, cassava cultivation and upland rice cultivation, which depended on the weather and were therefore unstable...

As a remote village, in a particularly difficult area, Ma Dao is gradually developing today. In the village, there is the KBông (Ka Bung) field with 14/50ha of two-crop wet rice ready for harvest and areas growing high-yield sugarcane, lush green short-term industrial crop gardens... Village elder Kpa Phat shared: "In the past, mobilizing villagers to grow wet rice, grow cassava, sugarcane, raise crossbred cows... was not easy. Because people were used to growing and raising livestock in the old way. Now people have understood and know how to apply science and technology to growing and raising livestock. Before 2000, traveling for Ma Dao people faced many difficulties due to the lack of solid roads. Now, thanks to the support of many national target programs, inter-village and inter-commune roads have been upgraded and expanded, helping to connect Ma Dao with the center of Ca Lui commune and neighboring areas".

Ma Dao village is very peaceful and orderly. People always implement the Party's policies and the State's laws, eliminate backward customs, live in solidarity, thrift, and civilization...
Deputy Head of Ma Dao Y Tu Village

Coming to Ma Dao village today, there are flat concrete roads, spacious level 4 houses built in the style of stilt houses interspersed with stilt houses with corrugated iron and bright red tile roofs. Civil works such as electricity, roads, schools, cultural houses, etc. invested by the State have contributed to changing the appearance of Ma Dao village. According to Mr. Nay Y Thich, Party Cell Secretary and Head of Ma Dao village, now Ma Dao is no longer poor. The works invested by the State have been very effective, people have boldly invested in farming and raising livestock to increase income and develop the household economy .

Improve quality of life

Receiving us at his family's spacious house, Ro Cham Y Tu, Deputy Head of Ma Dao Village, excitedly said: In the past, Ma Dao people did not have televisions, telephones, or motorbikes, but now they have everything. Daily meals are no longer mixed rice or cassava leaf soup, but are replaced by nutritious meals like those in the plains. The whole village currently has 32 hectares of sugarcane, rice, and cassava; the total herd of livestock and poultry is more than 1,000, including 250 cows (55 crossbred cows).

Through discussion with Y Tu, it is known that Ma Dao village has wet rice fields thanks to the State's investment in building an electric pumping station (December 2006) to take water from Ca Lui River to serve Ma Dao people in farming. Son Hoa District People's Committee sent agricultural officers to guide techniques for land preparation, seed incubation, sowing and caring for wet rice... In the 2007 crop, Ma Dao villagers had a bumper crop. And since then, people have continued to cultivate Ma Dao village's wet rice fields at the foot of Chu Prong Mountain with an area of over 14 hectares.

Now, Muop in Ma Dao village grows 2.6 sao of wet rice in the KBong field and expressed his joy: "Water is pumped right to the foot of the field, allowing for the expansion of rice growing areas. People here are very grateful for the State's investment." Meanwhile, Mr. Ma Khuy (Oi Mi) confided: "In the 2025 sugarcane crop, people growing sugarcane here are all excited because of the good price. My family grows 4 hectares of sugarcane, and after deducting expenses, we still earn 50 million VND/hectare."

Deputy Head of Ma Dao Village Y Tu also boasted that Ma Dao Village is very peaceful and orderly. People always implement the Party's policies and the State's laws, eliminate backward customs, live in solidarity, thrift, and civilization... And Mr. Ra Lan Thu, Chairman of the People's Committee of Ca Lui Commune shared: "The life of Ma Dao people is like today thanks to the care of the Party and the State".

Source: https://baophuyen.vn/xa-hoi/202506/chuyen-o-thon-ma-dao-1273593/