Ethnic minorities get rich legitimately

Ethnic minority communities earn high incomes from bumper coffee harvests with good prices.

After the merger, Ward 2 Bao Loc has about 2,200 households, with 6,059 ethnic minority people (accounting for 12% of the population), including the following ethnic groups: Ma, Tay, Nung, K'ho, Thai, Muong, Hoa, Mong, Dao... Currently, people are living mainly in 4 residential groups of the old Loc Tan commune.

One of the main crops of the ethnic minorities here is coffee, currently the area has about 2,800 hectares. Coffee is in season, good price, many families have high income from this crop.

The family of the Party Secretary of Residential Group 38 K'Bet cultivates 2 hectares of coffee, earning nearly 1 billion VND each year. Mr. K'Bet said: The Residential Group currently has 184 households, mainly Ma and K'ho people. People's lives change every day, thanks to cultivating the main crop of coffee, many families have food and property. Typically: the families of Mr. K'Mang, K'Tu, K'Ngon... all cultivate over 4 hectares of coffee; each crop earns an average of over 1.5 billion VND.

Along with coffee, tea is also one of the main crops that helps people here increase their income. Through projects to convert crop varieties and high-tech agricultural programs, every year, local authorities have developed plans to convert old tea varieties with low productivity and quality to new tea varieties with high productivity and quality according to the chain linking production, processing and consumption such as tea varieties: TB14, Oolong, Tu Quy, Kim Tuyen, Ngoc Thuy... Some farmers currently maintain the area of high-quality tea such as: Thai Xuan Bach; Bui Van Quynh, Quang Ba Ny... for income from 300 million VND - 1 billion VND/year.

The traditional brocade weaving craft of the Ma ethnic group has been revived.

Along with coffee and tea, growing mulberry and raising silkworms are also jobs that bring significant income to the people of Ward 2, Bao Loc in general and ethnic minorities in particular. Mr. K'Blin in Residential Group 43 confided: Most ethnic minorities here have additional income thanks to the job of "eating standing up", growing mulberry and raising silkworms has become their profession. The work is also quite simple, so family members can take advantage of their time and labor. On average, each ethnic minority household growing mulberry and raising silkworms can earn an additional 5 - 10 million VND/month.

Along with focusing on economic development and promoting agricultural production, ethnic minorities in Ward 2, Bao Loc have also boldly established a brocade weaving group. Currently, the brocade weaving group of the Ma people has more than 20 members, the brocade weaving work of the sisters mainly takes advantage of the time when farming is idle. In recent times, the brocade weaving profession has helped women have more income for their families and promote the cultural traditions of ethnic minorities in the locality. The gong teams of the people also regularly practice and participate in performances in villages and many big festivals.

Mr. Nghiem Van Viet - Vice Chairman of Ward 2 People's Committee of Bao Loc said: In general, the living conditions of ethnic minorities in the area are stable, people are actively working and producing; strictly complying with the Party's guidelines and policies; policies and laws of the State. The locality continues to pay attention to implementing many support policies to help people develop production, sustainably reduce poverty, and change the structure of crops and livestock. One of the directions to help people in the coming time is to focus on eco- tourism combined with gongs, brocade and local products such as tea, coffee, silk, etc.

Source: https://baolamdong.vn/dong-bao-dan-toc-thieu-so-lam-giau-chinh-dang-409239.html