Women good at developing the family economy

In recent years, the movement of women overcoming difficulties to become rich has spread widely among women's union members of Cam Nghia ward (Cam Ranh city). Not only developing the family economy, they have also created jobs for many female workers in the district.

Previously, Le Thi Kim Hong's family (Nghia Quy residential group) grew sugarcane, rice... but their income was unstable. After researching and realizing that the climate and land conditions were suitable for jujube trees, she and her husband boldly invested in planting 100 apple trees on an area of ​​1,800m2. To grow clean jujubes, achieve high productivity as well as limit fruit flies and fruit borers, her family applied the method of growing jujubes in a greenhouse. She invested 30 million VND in a net and learned how to plant, care for, and fertilize the jujube orchard to grow well. With a selling price of 10,000 to 15,000 VND/kg, she earns 60 to 100 million VND from the jujube orchard each year. After deducting expenses, she makes a profit of 30 to 50 million VND/year.

Hong harvests jujubes.

In addition, Hong has also rotated her cultivation of shallots and melons on an area of ​​8,000 m2; grown 4,000 m2 of peanuts; raised 8 cows to increase income and get fertilizer for her plants. Thanks to her diligence, hard work, and the combination of farming and raising livestock, her family's economy has grown more and more. "I invest in planting and caring for any tree or animal that has a good price and brings in a good income. Every year, my family earns 200 million VND from various sources, which allows me to pay for my 2 children's education and buy machinery for farming," Hong shared. Not only does she develop her family's economy, Hong has also created regular jobs for 3 workers picking jujubes, cutting branches, and tying branches with a salary of 240,000 VND/day; from 30 to 40 female workers picking shallots each crop... Although her farming work is busy, she is always enthusiastic in participating in association work and women's movements. As the head of the Women's Association of Nghia Quy residential group, she always completes her assigned tasks excellently. In addition to promoting, mobilizing, and supporting members in difficult circumstances, she also helps women to develop their family economy.

Tran Thi Lam (Hoa Phuoc residential group) chose to develop her economy by buying and selling lobster feed. Lam's family was classified as poor in 2012, and near-poor in 2015. To earn money to raise 3 children and take care of her bedridden mother and elderly father-in-law, Lam and her husband did all kinds of jobs, from catching snails at sea, making brooms to growing rice, picking traditional medicine, and collecting scrap... The couple went out early and came home late, enduring hardships doing many jobs to make a living, but their economy did not improve much. After a period of catching snails to sell to lobster farmers, in 2018, she decided to switch to buying and selling shrimp feed. At first, to have customers, she brought the snails she bought to the market to sell. In 2019, she moved her business to her home. Thanks to her hard work, her business has gotten better and better. Every day, she sold from 3 to 6 tons of snails as lobster feed, earning a profit of 200 to 600 VND/kg. Since then, the economy has gradually stabilized and her family escaped poverty in 2019.

Lam creates jobs for some other women.

NGUYEN THI THANH THAO - President of the Women's Union of Cam Nghia ward: Hong and Lam are hard-working, dynamic women who have risen to become rich legitimately and support and create jobs for many female workers in the locality. With their diligence, hard work, and daring to think and do, they are role models for members and women in the ward to learn from. In the coming time, the association will continue to support loans; mobilize resources to donate means of livelihood... to help members and women develop the economy and increase family income.

Chau Tuong

Translated by T.T