The story that Senior Lieutenant Colonel Pham Phu Chau, Party Secretary and Deputy Director of the Company told us began when the officers and soldiers first came to carry out projects under the Buon Zun and Buon Mui economic- defense projects... At that time, the areas of Ea Sin and Cu Dlie M'nong communes were particularly difficult; facilities, infrastructure, poor land, harsh climate and weather; a high proportion of ethnic minorities, low educational level, and many backward customs still existed...
The Chief of Military Region 5 Command visited the high-yield coffee tree model of Coffee Company 15. |
At that time, officers and soldiers of Coffee Company 15 went to the villages and hamlets to persuade people to become workers in the Company. At first, people did not believe and did not understand the concept of workers, so propaganda work encountered many difficulties. However, with the motto "slow and steady wins the race", they piloted a model of agricultural and forestry production, planting rubber, coffee, pepper, cashew trees...; guided methods of forest protection and production of bio-fertilizers, then gradually transferred technology to help people stabilize their lives, join hands to develop the economy, and get rich in their homeland... It can be said that generations of officers, soldiers, and workers of the Company through the periods have devoted themselves to conquering nature, reclaiming and restoring land to turn this place into a rich land and raw material area like today. Currently, hunger and poverty in Cu M'gar have receded. Looming among the coffee and pepper forests laden with fruit are bright red tiled roofs, bright faces of people, confident smiles...
Recently, when Senior Lieutenant General Tran Quang Phuong, Member of the Party Central Committee, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly visited the unit, he concluded with a very short but meaningful sentence: "During the process of construction and development, Coffee Company 15 has always excellently completed the task of maintaining the "3G", which is to keep the people, keep the land, keep the area...".
Talking to us about the results of the implementation of the economic-defense zone project programs, Lieutenant Colonel Le Trung Thanh, Director of the Company said: “The Company is stationed in 3 provinces: Dak Lak, Lam Dong, Gia Lai and Da Nang City. Based on the characteristics and requirements of the local government, we focus on investing in developing key projects to serve the national economy and people's livelihood. The Company determines the core value of producing and trading from coffee trees, stabilizing livelihoods and ensuring social security for the people. That means production and trading must serve the people's lives.
Lieutenant General Le Ngoc Hai, Commander of Military Region 5, visited the coffee processing exhibition area of Coffee Company 15. |
The viewpoint of the Party Committee and the Board of Directors of the Company is to proactively exploit raw materials and cooperate to develop a sustainable coffee industry with local enterprises. The important issue is to shape the values and value chain system. Then focus on exploiting the values of the deep processing chain with the aim of creating jobs and stable income for workers as well as the Company's revenue.
According to Lieutenant Colonel Phan Quoc Hung, Deputy Director of Coffee Company 15, now the communes in the Cu M'gar Economic-Defense Zone have all become bright spots of culture, and mass organizations are very active. The shock art troupe has gone to each village to propagate and mobilize people to abandon bad customs, ways to prevent and fight against bad and toxic culture and social evils... For many seasons, the forest trees have changed their leaves, and the Company's officers and soldiers have returned "3 together" with the people. People do not neglect the land, and the land does not neglect people. From the model of "Company attached to the district, commune, production team attached to the villages, hamlets of ethnic minorities and people in the adjacent area" has contributed to turning uninhabited, barren, poor forest areas, barren lands, full of war remnants into "green defense lines" with endless "forests" of industrial trees, prosperous residential areas and villages.
The "dead land" that once suffered hundreds of tons of bombs and Agent Orange/dioxin has now yielded bumper crops. This happiness is thanks to the cooperation and assistance of the officers and soldiers of Coffee Company 15. Commenting on Coffee Company 15, comrade Nguyen Thien Van, Vice Chairman of Dak Lak Provincial People's Committee, excitedly said: "Over the years, the officers, soldiers and workers of Coffee Company 15 have always shared the hardships with the people, helping the people of Cu M'gar commune escape poverty!"
On an autumn morning, the border is covered in mist, the scent of coffee flowers spreads, the villages are peaceful and prosperous. The love for the borderland has given the officers, soldiers and workers of Coffee Company 15 the will and strength to always stand side by side with the ethnic minorities in the Cu M'gar highlands, joining hands and contributing to building and firmly protecting the "fence" of the Central Highlands, a strategic economic and defense land of the Fatherland.
Article and photos: TIEN DUNG - KIM NGAN
Source: https://www.qdnd.vn/nuoi-duong-van-hoa-bo-doi-cu-ho/kien-tri-vuot-kho-gan-bo-voi-nhan-dan-847308
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