Lung Ca village is located in the middle of a valley, surrounded by Bo Bun and Co Dong mountains, covered with white clouds all year round. This place used to be one of the local “depressions” in terms of socio -economic development.
I still remember in early 2015, we had a volunteer trip to Lung Ca Village. At that time, the village had 33 households, including 21 Mong households, life was extremely difficult due to lack of electricity and water. Up to 50% of the households in the village were poor. In particular, the traffic of the villagers encountered many obstacles due to high and slippery passes in the rainy season and dusty roads in the sunny season. For those unfamiliar with the terrain here, it was difficult to travel on this route. The winter night in the mountains fell in the blink of an eye. At around 6 pm, darkness fell, and in each house there was only the yellow light of a flickering oil lamp.
Now back to Lung Ca, still the same old road, passing through Lung Luong Heaven Gate, but Lung Ca feels much more beautiful. Because what we see are the spacious stilt houses, the concrete roads, paved with gravel for easy travel, the vegetable fields, corn fields in harvest time with the golden corn kernels sprouting…
On the way to the village, we met a woman in the corn field, we asked for directions to the house of the village chief Lung Ca Ma Hanh Du. She enthusiastically showed us the way. Through the conversation, she introduced herself as Nong Thi Thong. Today she was cleaning the field to prepare for the new crop. She also boasted that she had harvested more than 100 bags of corn from the last corn crop. The new corn variety meant that each grain was plump and shiny yellow. She used part of this corn to raise 4 cows, and sold the rest to traders. Now the price of corn is 7-8 thousand VND/kg, so she has earned a decent amount.
We walked and breathed in the clear air of the valley, and soon arrived at the village chief's house. Because we had made an appointment, village chief Ma Hanh Du knew about our visit, so he got to the point very quickly. He said, you guys have been here before, so you know. Because it is located between high mountains, transportation is very difficult, on rainy days, water rushes down from the top of the slope, no one can travel, the whole village is almost isolated from the outside. At that time, the whole village was almost all poor and near-poor households.
The change only came when the State invested in a concrete road from the main road of Thuong Nung commune through Lung Luong hamlet and then to Lung Ca. After that, the village continued to invest in electricity, centralized clean water works... With solid roads, production and trade are also much more convenient. The best thing is that the agricultural products of the people are easily purchased by traders, no longer being forced to lower prices like before.
In particular, to help people earn a living and escape poverty sustainably, many households are supported by the State with cows for fattening or breeding, and with grass seeds. Some other households are supported with fertilizers, corn and rice seeds for planting for higher productivity and quality. At the same time, with local officials "holding hands and guiding" them on knowledge of animal husbandry, veterinary medicine, and applying science and technology to production, the number of poor households in the village rising up with effective economic models and having enough to eat and save is also increasing day by day.
Back to Lung Ca, still the same old road, passing through Lung Luong Heaven Gate, but Lung Ca felt much more beautiful. Because what we saw were spacious stilt houses, concrete roads, paved with gravel for easy travel...
Mr. Truong Van Pao, a household that has just escaped poverty, said: “In the past, the old rice variety only yielded 3 bags of rice per sao, the new rice variety yielded 4.5-5 bags/sao. The new hybrid corn variety NK4300 also has double the yield, 15 bags of corn/1kg of seed, instead of 6-7 bags like before. Thanks to the guidance from the officials, the family has learned to rotate crops, fertilize to nourish the soil instead of following nature as before, thanks to that the economy has gradually improved”…
According to Ma Hanh Du, although people's lives are still difficult, the most exciting thing is that people have changed their thinking and way of doing things. Instead of just doing business around the village like before, many people have now boldly registered to work for companies and have a good income. Thanks to that, the number of poor households has decreased every year. Lung Ca village with 270 people, previously all poor households, has now reduced to 22 poor households. The lives of poor and near-poor households are also better than before, there are no more hungry households. The whole village has 115 cows, 45 buffaloes, more than 100 pigs, and each household has 10-30 chickens. Many households have also bought televisions, refrigerators and other essential household appliances.
In the past, many households did not want to escape poverty, but in recent years, people have become more aware, and many households have registered to strive to escape poverty... This is an important premise for Lung Ca village to develop and rise.
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