1. I asked Mr. Pham Quang Trung if he knew Colonel and poet Nguyen Huu Quy. The Chairman of the War Veterans Association of Cam Lo commune nodded: "Poet Nguyen Huu Quy is attached to Cam Lo. It seems that Mr. Quy's wife is from Cua".
The reason I touched the land of Cua, I remembered the poet Nguyen Huu Quy because he was originally from Bo Trach district, Quang Binh province (old); because he was a Truong Son soldier, full of fate with his comrades and comrades from the Truong Son period; because he had a wife from Cua. The military poet went to court a wife from Cua, bringing the rain and mud of his wife's homeland into his poetry... extremely simple and... very poetic: "When you go to Cua, remember to avoid it when it rains/Because when it rains, the land loves people very much/Do you still remember the time you told me that/So today I come to Cua again/What is the sadness of the white pass covered in rain/The person in wet clothes winding around the steep pass/Looking back at your homeland, forgetting the fatigue/After the pass, I meet the foot of the green rice field...".
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| Cua Market - Photo: T.Long |
Past Cua Pass, a peaceful and prosperous green spread out before us. My colleagues kept praising the village roads, alleys, inter-village and inter-commune roads in Cua area, which were brilliant with flowers. Then, we saw vast rubber trees and vast medicinal plants. The sight was so pleasing to the eye that I didn’t want to leave.
"Compared to 10 years ago, Cua region has changed a lot. Now Cua people can proudly say to each other: "Our house is just a little far from town, but we don't have to worry about money." On average, each household has 5-7 hectares of forest; 1-3 hectares of rubber, pepper, medicinal plants and livestock models... the economy is getting stronger every day. When Air Blade motorbikes were popular, people in Cua region rented a large truck to Dong Ha city (old) to buy all the motorbikes of this brand in the dealership. The willingness of Cua people to spend money makes the owners of the motorbike dealerships wide-eyed," Mr. Pham Quang Trung joked.
2. We visited Mr. Le Van Thanh's family in Quat Xa Thuong village, Cam Thanh commune (old). In the story of a white-clouded morning in Cua land, Mr. Thanh said he was a veteran, a former soldier of Division 312, enlisted in 1981, discharged in 1985. Living on a fertile red basalt land, with a favorable climate like the Central Highlands, if we do not know how to exploit the potential and strengths, if we do not "make the land turn over", helping people get rich, we are guilty of the land, of nature, and of our homeland.
Owning an area of up to 15 hectares of land, Mr. Thanh and his wife and children, after a process of "restoration", formed a quite effective combined economic model with 7 hectares of acacia, 3 hectares of rubber, the rest is fish pond area, pepper and fruit trees, with an average income of 100 million VND/year.
The special thing I felt from Mr. Le Van Thanh was the courage of Uncle Ho's soldier "dare to think, dare to do". Mr. Thanh was the one who brought orange and grapefruit varieties to Cua for pilot planting. With 300 orange trees and 200 grapefruit trees, after 5 years of investment, the first sweet fruit season was born, harvesting about 5 tons of fruit, with a profit of over 70 million VND.
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| The orange garden gives the first sweet fruit season to Mr. Le Van Thanh's family - Photo: T.Long |
Cua Market is located right next to the main road. Visiting a new land, wanting to know how the local people live, please visit the market. While traditional markets, big or small, in Quang Tri province are gradually shrinking due to competition from supermarket systems and online businesses, Cua Market is still bustling with buyers and sellers every day. Goods at Cua Market are countless, from the lowlands up, from the highlands along National Highway 9 and full of Cua products: Cua Chicken, pepper, ginger, turmeric, galangal, green tea... Cua branded OCOP products such as: Vang tea extract, Gynostemma pentaphyllum extract, Passionflower - Polyscias fruticosa extract, Solanum procumbens extract...
Coming to Cua, asking about Mr. Nguyen Van Canh, Director of Canh Loc Export Garment Company Ltd., everyone knows him. They know him not from his title as director but they understand that he is a soldier of Uncle Ho who started his career with nothing, with his love for Cua.
Meeting Mr. Nguyen Van Canh, talking about getting rich, he said sincerely: “In 1984, I joined the army. My hometown Cua region had fertile land and a mild climate, but at that time everyone was poor. Not willing to accept poverty, I decided to reclaim land to grow pepper and raise sows. At one point, my family raised up to 150 sows, harvesting 1.5 tons of peppercorns. When my hometown renewed, realizing that raising livestock affected the environment, I switched to opening a cassava starch processing factory. After a while, seeing that I could not compete with large production facilities, in 2020, I pooled all my capital, about 6 billion VND, to establish Canh Loc Export Garment Company Limited."
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| Mr. Nguyen Van Canh and garment products of Canh Loc Export Garment Company Limited - Photo: T.Long |
Mr. Nguyen Van Canh's garment company started operating right when the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, overcoming all difficulties to have the most stable revenue reaching about 500 million VND. While "doing well", creating jobs for more than 100 workers in Cua with an income of 7-8 million VND/month, recently, due to the impact of the trade war between the US and China (while the products of Canh Loc Garment Export Company Limited are mainly exported to the US market - PV)... the "difficulty" came again.
"After the worst comes the best! I will continue to try and devote myself to my homeland Cua region," said Mr. Nguyen Van Canh optimistically.
3. Saying goodbye to Cua land, I carry with me the affection of the people who are "working together" every day to help Cua land develop. I hear many premonitions deep in my heart, like the old days when the soldier poet Nguyen Huu Quy crossed Cua pass to the beloved Cua land "Looking back at my hometown, I forget my fatigue/After the pass, I see the foot of the green rice field...".
Ngo Thanh Long
Source: https://baoquangtri.vn/xa-hoi/202512/thenh-thang-dao-buoc-xu-cua-ef6035c/
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