Post, photo: DUY TAN
With an area of more than 1ha growing ornamental lotus flowers and selling cotton, Huynh Luong Nhan (28 years old, living in Long Hung ward, O Mon district, Can Tho city) has risen to become rich on his own land with an income of more than 1 million copper per day.
The field is more than 1ha wide and planted with 3 kinds of white, pink and Juwaba lotuses.
Take us to visit the vast lotus fields nestled between the four sides of fruit gardens and rice fields. Nhan proudly boasted that his desire to convert to a new farming model prompted him to convince his parents to completely convert 1 hectare of rice land to grow ornamental lotuses and sell cotton.
Nhan said, he graduated in Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Can Tho University since 2017. He applied for a job in the right field. Thanks to traveling to many places, knowing many new models, realizing the effect of growing lotus and selling cotton, he cherished the idea of starting a business. The source of lotus seed was purchased by him from a gardener in Sa Dec City (Dong Thap) and brought to trial on 3 fields of land. After understanding the growth process and planting techniques, he successfully propagated and expanded the lotus growing area to more than 1ha.
“When the lotus was brought back to be planted in a land where everyone had grown rice and fruit trees in the past. The family also suffers from many voices, because many people think that doing "crap" things is difficult to succeed. But then, when the lotus tree took root and flowers bloomed for effective income, everyone was amazed," Nhan said.
According to Mr. Nhan, the varieties of lotus chosen by him are white Quan Am lotus, pink Quan Am lotus and Juwaba lotus. These are the types of lotus with large, beautiful, many-petaled flowers, attractive and long-lasting fragrance, and are classified as great lotuses. When fully bloomed, this lotus has a diameter of up to 30cm, showing off hundreds of beautiful small petals inside the outer layers of large petals, also known as a hundred-petal lotus, which cannot be mixed with any other lotus species. The Juwaba lotus has a double petal pink color, the petals spread in layers, covering the yellow pistil, creating an elegant and gentle beauty.
Lotus planted about 2 months, then harvested cotton. “Growing lotus for flowers is different from planting traditional lotus for looking, because after 3 months of harvesting, the old variety must be completely removed, improved soil, re-seeded, if planted again without treatment, the tree will die. absolutely,” Nhan shared.
Lotus is relatively easy to grow, easy to care for. The care, prevention and control of pests and diseases so that the plants flower at the right time, are beautiful, durable and give standard colors, must follow the strict planting process, fertilize, spray fully to grow beautiful flowers.
In addition to selling cotton, Mr. Nhan also makes use of all parts of the plant to earn extra income, such as the white lotus he uses as medicine, tea, straws and lotus leaves, which he sells to wholesale markets for packaging. sticky rice…
Every day, Mr. Nhan's family harvests more than 300 flowers, the wholesale price ranges from 5.000-6.000 VND. As a result, it brings in an income of over 1 million VND/day. In addition, Mr. Nhan also propagated, planted in pots selling ornamental lotus for 35.000 VND/pot.
The products are sold by him to wholesale flower markets in Ho Chi Minh City and throughout the provinces and cities across the country. In order to have enough materials to supply, he also cooperated with 6 farmer households to grow lotus on an area of 5ha in Can Tho City, An Giang, Dong Thap, Soc Trang ...
Mr. Tu Hung (50 years old, living in Long Hung ward), said: "I also cultivated rice before, but the economic efficiency was too low, seeing that Nhan's family planted lotus effectively, earning quite high, so I also asked for support. techniques, seed sources and planting on an area of 3,5 public land. After planting, I find that my income is 2-3 times higher than that of growing rice, it takes less effort to sell cotton to make money every day.
