Owning to working hard, Nguyen Van Dien, living in Cam Thanh Nam Commune, Cam Ranh City, Khanh Hoa Province, won Luong Dinh Cua award granted by the Central Youth Union.
Owning to working hard, Nguyen Van Dien, living in Cam Thanh Nam Commune, Cam Ranh City, Khanh Hoa Province, won Luong Dinh Cua award granted by the Central Youth Union. Recently, his projects on growing jujubees in a net house has overcome 280 projects to win the third award a creation contest organized by the provincial Youth Union.
Dien said that jujubee productivity in Cam Thanh Nam Commune has been influenced by diseases, especially yellow flies. Some growers throw nets on their garden to limit yellow flies, but it’s not an effective way.
Therefore, he has made a detail project on making net house for jujubee garden. With a 3000 sq.m. jujubee garden, he plans to borrow VND60 million from a bank with 10%/year in interest to invest in nets, zinc, piers and other materials. The initial benefit is decreasing labor cost for spraying pesticides from VND3.6 million to VND9 million and cost for pesticides from VND12 million to VND4.5 million. Thanks to the net house, yellow flies will be able to attract jujubees, and their yield will rise. Specifically, first grade jujubees will increase from 12.6 tons/crop to 20 tons/crop while second grade ones will decrease from 5.4 tons/crop to 4 tons/crop.
Dien also confirms that making net houses will bring long benefits for growers as it costs only VND80 in the first year. In the following years, cost will be low and profit will be far higher. With favorable weather, profit may reach VND224 million/3,000 sq.m/year from the second year. Beside bringing higher profit for growers and contributing into the local agriculture, the model may partly raise value as well as trademark for jujubees of Cam Thanh Nam Commune, and especially decrease pesticides. “I’m sure that the model will increase planting productivity for jujubees soon”, Dien confirmed.
The start-up supporting fund of the provincial Young Business Association will lend Dien VND50 million to carry out his project. Nguyen Khac Duy, deputy director of Youth Supporting Center (under the provincial Youth Union), said that the project on growing jujubees in net house is a practical and outstanding model of the youth in agriculture.
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Translated by T.T
