Durian billionaire in remote areas

Don't follow the market, try to take care of the plants on your land to achieve the highest productivity and quality, that is just the experience of a farmer who is applying it on his family's land. That experience has helped him become a billionaire, a famous good farmer in the remote area of ​​Ro Men.

Mr. Nguyen Duc Ha

• INTERCROPPING FOR BILLIONS

Mr. Nguyen Duc Ha, a farmer in Village 4, Ro Men Commune, Dam Rong District, is preparing to harvest durian. At the same time, he does not forget to carefully care for thousands of coffee trees that are in fruiting season. With 8 hectares of cultivated land on a sloping hill, Mr. Nguyen Duc Ha specializes in growing coffee trees. For the past 5 years, he has intercropped with 400 durian trees of the Thai Mon Thont variety. This is the second year the durian has been harvested.

Mr. Nguyen Duc Ha shared: “Growing durian on sloping land has many benefits such as airy, dry soil, ensuring healthy roots and few diseases. In return, farmers must have more careful planting and care techniques, water and fertilizer must follow a good care regimen so that the tree does not lack water and nutrients”. In 2024, Mr. Ha harvested 30 tons of durian fruit. In the 2025 durian crop, Mr. Ha also plans to leave 30 tons. According to him, when durian is still young, it is not advisable to exploit too much, so that the tree can regain its strength, its roots and leaves are strong, ready for the following crops.

Mr. Ha is also the one who chooses the natural farming method, so that durians are pollinated according to the growth cycle as well as the local weather. According to him, if durians are pollinated naturally, they will not flower and bear fruit as planned, and the crop will last longer. However, with the characteristics of the Ro Men land, durians will naturally flower late, leading to late harvest, not coinciding with the main crop, and the price for farmers will be more stable. At the same time, leaving it natural will not cost the cost of processing simultaneous flowering, reducing investment pressure for gardeners. This is also the reason why he can cultivate at low cost on a large area. In the 2025 durian crop, Mr. Ha's family let the flowers bloom very late. When other gardeners already had young fruit, by the end of April 2025, his durians had not yet bloomed.

• FARMERS SHOULD NOT FOLLOW THE MARKET

An experience that Mr. Nguyen Duc Ha is very fond of and is willing to share with the community is that farmers should carefully calculate their crops and should not follow the market. “Previously, in this garden, I grew only coffee. When I saw the high price of durian, many farmers switched to growing durian, but I chose to intercrop in moderate amounts, still keeping the main area of ​​coffee. In my opinion, farmers should be alert, not follow the market and cut down or plant the same type of trees as everyone else. Try to take care of the existing crops to achieve high productivity and quality, instead of cutting down and replanting,” Mr. Nguyen Duc Ha shared.

Also because of his loyalty to coffee trees, he has harvested sweet fruits. Each year, the coffee area provides his family with 20 tons of green beans. He said that because the coffee garden is old, he chose to graft and improve it to a dwarf green variety with large beans and high productivity. “Whether growing coffee or durian, I always follow a model close to the natural habitat of the plants. Like durian, I choose to let the trees flower naturally, pollinate and bear fruit without using supporting chemicals. As for coffee, I choose the style of planting shoots, greatly reducing labor but having to increase the amount of fertilizer so that the trees have enough strength to grow shoots and fruit. Planting trees according to the natural growth cycle, the advantage is that the trees are strong, have few diseases, and require little care. However, it requires farmers to invest heavily in fertilizer, especially organic fertilizer so that the plants have enough nutrition,” said good farmer Nguyen Duc Ha, sharing his experience.

“Mr. Nguyen Duc Ha is a good farmer in our area. At the same time, he is also an enthusiastic member of the farmers' movement, ready to support the people around him with techniques,” said Mr. Pang Tin Y Krang - Chairman of the Farmers' Association of Ro Men commune. Mr. Ha's garden is also a place where farmers in the area can come to learn techniques for growing durian and coffee on sloping land, techniques for digging holes on the top, installing automatic irrigation systems to drain water to the roots of trees, reducing irrigation costs for farmers. It is known that each year, Mr. Nguyen Duc Ha earns 3 - 4 billion VND, a typical example of a farmer in the deep land of Ro Men. Mr. Nguyen Duc Ha's production experience also gives other farmers a new perspective on investing in production, reducing costs as well as not following the market.

Source: https://baolamdong.vn/kinh-te/202506/ty-phu-sau-rieng-o-vung-sau-ee42c5f/