The head of the San Diu ethnic village in Thai Nguyen helps many people have a stable income from making peeled wood.

Talking to Dan Viet reporter, Mr. Hong said: Realizing that the locality has abundant raw materials from the forest, in 2014, he decided to buy land to open a ^10,000m2 peeled wood workshop in Cau Ngam hamlet, Tan Khanh commune. By 2015, due to the efficiency of the peeled wood workshop, his family bought an additional ^7,000m2 of land to expand the scale of plywood production.

Người trưởng xóm dân tộc Sán Dìu ở Thái Nguyên giúp nhiều bà con có thu nhập ổn định từ làm ván bóc- Ảnh 1. — The peeling wood workshop of Mr. Dang Van Hong's family (Cau Cong hamlet, Tan Khanh commune, Phu Binh district, Thai Nguyen province) has a scale of nearly 2 hectares. Photo: Ha Thanh

Along with that, from the 90s until now, he has been a pioneer in planting forests in the locality. Since then, his family has always maintained an area of 17 hectares of planted forest. Previously, if the wood was sold, with that forest area, every 8 years, his family would earn about 3 billion VND. However, since the construction of the factory, the entire forest area has been used to provide raw materials for his family's wood peeling factory.

Người trưởng xóm dân tộc Sán Dìu ở Thái Nguyên giúp nhiều bà con có thu nhập ổn định từ làm ván bóc- Ảnh 2. — With 17 hectares of acacia forest, Mr. Hong's family will earn about 400 million VND per year. Photo: Ha Thanh

In addition, to have enough raw materials for production, Mr. Hong also buys wood and boards from mountainous provinces such as Tuyen Quang, Bac Kan and Dong Hy district.

In 2021, Mr. Hong's family officially established a forestry processing and manufacturing enterprise. Up to this point, some of the company's plywood products are not only consumed domestically but also exported abroad.

In addition, Mr. Hong also plans to invest in more machinery and buy more land to expand production, aiming to produce high-quality products and standard industrial wood products for export to foreign countries such as Japan and Korea.

Currently, Mr. Hong's family's wood peeling workshop is creating jobs for nearly 100 local workers with a stable income of 7.5 - 12 million VND/person/month.

Người trưởng xóm dân tộc Sán Dìu ở Thái Nguyên giúp nhiều bà con có thu nhập ổn định từ làm ván bóc- Ảnh 3. — Mr. Hong's family's wood peeling workshop is creating jobs for nearly 100 local workers. Photo: Ha Thanh

In addition to effectively developing the household economy , Mr. Hong also actively participates in local social work. For 37 years, he has been the Village Chief and a People's Council Delegate of Tan Khanh Commune for many years with positive contributions.

Typically, in the new rural construction movement in the locality, Mr. Hong is one of the people who has made great contributions. Not only did he contribute human and financial resources to the locality to carry out the movement, but he also promoted and mobilized people to donate land to build roads to have wide and beautiful concrete roads leading to remote areas.

With his contributions, Mr. Hong has received many certificates of merit from relevant levels and sectors and has been elected as a prestigious person of ethnic minorities for many years. In 2021, Mr. Hong was honored to be one of the delegates representing Thai Nguyen province to attend the 2nd National Congress of Ethnic Minorities of Vietnam in Hanoi and received a certificate of merit from the Minister and Chairman of the Ethnic Committee for his outstanding achievements in ethnic work.

Người trưởng xóm dân tộc Sán Dìu ở Thái Nguyên giúp nhiều bà con có thu nhập ổn định từ làm ván bóc- Ảnh 4. — Mr. Hong received many Certificates of Merit from relevant levels and sectors for his contributions. Photo: Ha Thanh

Mr. Nguyen Anh Vo - Chairman of Tan Khanh Commune People's Committee said: Mr. Hong's family is one of the households that has had the mindset of developing forest economy very early. Realizing the economic efficiency of the forest, Mr. Hong's family invested in machinery to open a workshop to produce peeled wood and plywood.

This is one of the economic development models that brings high economic efficiency in the locality. Therefore, the locality also has a direction to propagate and support people to develop the economy in this direction in order to replicate many similar economic models.

Source: https://danviet.vn/nguoi-truong-xom-dan-toc-san-diu-o-thai-nguyen-giup-nhieu-ba-con-co-thu-nhap-on-dinh-tu-lam-van-boc-20240921110302263.htm