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| The model of intercropping fruit trees is effective and quite profitable for gardeners. |
(VLO) With the advantages of fast fruiting, easy care and low cost, kumquat trees are intercropped by many gardeners in perennial fruit orchards for short-term farming. This model is also effective and profitable for gardeners.
Over the past time, many households have boldly changed their crop structure to improve production efficiency and improve their lives. In particular, the trend of growing short-term crops is increasingly popular.
And with the characteristics of being easy to grow, not fussy about soil, less pests, fast to harvest, and popular in the market, kumquat tree has gradually become an effective crop, bringing quite high profits to gardeners. .
For more than 5 years now, Uncle Le Van Muon's family (Hieu Thuan hamlet, Hoa Binh commune, Tra On district) has had a good income. Currently, every month he harvests nearly 3 ton of octopus, selling at prices ranging from 1-7.000 VND/kg, earning about 16.000 million VND/month.
According to Uncle Muon, it takes more than 3 years for pomelos to be harvested. During that time, take advantage of the empty space on the same garden, solve the immediate problem, plant crops for early harvest such as intercropping with early harvest to take short and grow long.
"Tacs after planting takes root, only 8 months for flowers. But in the first crop, all flowers must be harvested to maintain a strong tree, not to be damaged when wearing fruit too early.
I find that this tree is easy to adapt to the soil, requires little care, and doesn't take much fertilizer, so it makes a good profit. Especially when the price of pomelo drops, for more than a year, the tree has become the main income for the family," said Uncle Muon.
While picking tamarind to deliver to traders, Le Thi Diem My, daughter of Uncle Muon, shared: "Tacs give fruit all year round, regularly every month, can harvest 100-200 kg/day.
Compared to growing orange trees, planting kumquats is much healthier, does not spend a lot of capital, but the trees are sensitive to fruit. Besides, it also saves time on weeding the garden. Taking the work as a profit, in the family, the daily harvest should be more profitable."
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| When intercropping, it is necessary to pay attention to the distance between plants to create the best conditions for plants to grow. |
Also growing jujubes in the durian garden, Mr. Pham Van Tan (Binh Hoa Phuoc commune, Long Ho district) said: The model of intercropping durian jujube is very effective and reasonable, both saving costs in production and developing at the same time. household economic development.
While waiting for durian to bear fruit, octopus trees give income first, contributing to solving daily living expenses and investing in fertilizer, irrigation, and durian tree care.
According to Mr. Tan, the design of an automatic irrigation system helps save effort, the garden grows well, the tree will "eat" fertilizer from the durian tree, so it only needs to be fertilized and watered properly. , the tree will grow well.
Thereby, creating conditions for plants to have a synergistic relationship for mutual development, improving productivity. "It is important when planting kumquats to harvest at the right time, picking when the fruit is too small will not yield, if it is too big, the fruit will turn yellow and the price will be very cheap or unsold" - he Tan said.
According to Mr. Le Van Nui, Chairman of Hoa Binh Commune Farmers' Association (Tra On District), promoting the movement "Farmers emulate good production and business, unite to help each other get rich and reduce poverty sustainably", the association said. mobilize members and farmers to boldly change the structure of crops and livestock, well implement the project of restructuring the agricultural sector, apply scientific and technical advances to production, and improve the quality of goods. , products made to ensure clean, safe food to meet the needs of consumers, compete in domestic as well as foreign markets.
Farmers' members also focused on inefficient garden improvement; at the same time take good care of the existing orchard. Accordingly, many production models have been effective.
In particular, the intercropping models have taken advantage of the land area of the gardens to improve the economy when the main crops have not yet been harvested, which has brought benefits to gardeners.
The care of these short-term plants does not affect the planting and care of the main fruit trees, on the contrary, it also has the effect of keeping the soil, enough water, farmers reduce weeding for the garden, and also contribute to solving problems. jobs and gradually increase income for farmers," said Mr. Nui.
Many gardeners said that for effective intercropping, producers must pay attention to the soil and characteristics of each fruit tree to make the right choice.
Along with that, it is necessary to pay attention to the selection of intercropping objects suitable for each development stage of the main crop. In addition, when intercropping, it is necessary to pay attention to the distance between the plants, the suitability between the intercropped plants and the main crop, creating the best conditions for the plants to grow.
Article, photo: PHUONG THAO
