Yesterday I was invited to participate in the opening ceremomy of a new arable crop farmer cluster in Rach Goc B hamlet, Tan An commune. The cluster consists of 13 farmers, all of them are doing shrimp farming but they tried to look for alternatives to avoid risk from shrimp farming by additional crop cultivation. 3 years ago, due to difficulties of shrimp farming (low harvest production and price) they started garden preparation and planted some kind of crop such as vegetable, fruits, sugar-cane, cassava and fresh water aquaculture.
We visited the garden of Mr&Mrs Muoi, the most successful farmer in arable crop model in Rach Goc B hamlet. With the area of 5000 m2, he cultivated some fruits such as mango, guava, papaya and banana; sugercane and some vegetable. He also keeps some water surface for fresh water aquaculture and watering for the garden. Now he has started harvesting things and can sell in the market, which is about 20 minutes by motobike from his home.
All these 13 households in Rach Goc B hamlet joint together and established a cluster named "Quyet Thang arable crop cluster" with the supports from the Communal people's committee and its implementation will be followed the regulations of the Vietnam Farmer Association. They hope after becoming a cluster the products can be easily sell in the local market with comparative price and attractive middle man come to collect the products instead of carrying by themselves.
There was a very interesting part of selecting the name of the cluster. Everyone gave the name, especially one farmer said that: Why don't we use the name "Ha Tan", because today Mrs. Ha from Ha Noi come to Tan An and participate in this meeting. So "Ha Tan" means "Ha Noi- Tan An" :-). At last they decided to use the name of previous agriculture cooperative "Quyet Thang"
....A big party and I really got drank .... :-)
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