(HBO) - Many households in the remote commune of An Binh in Lac Thuy district have planted lemongrass in the alluvial land, and even exhausted fields, and they have ensured stable supply of materials for businesses.
Lemongrass rattan products are on display at the 25th Party
Congress of Lac Thuy district’s party committee.
According to Quach Thi Luyen in Tien Lu village, she harvests lemongrass every 40-60
days, and earns some 900,000 VND (38.71 USD) per 360 square metres, which means
she pockets tens of millions of VND from lemongrass growing.
Several local residents gain more as they engage in lemongrass essential oil
production.
An Binh is currently the only place that produce lemongrass rattan products in
the nation. Local products have been favoured by customers nationwide.
Director of the An Lac Hoa Eco-tourism joint Stock Company Ta Thi My Phuong
said her firm’s products have been sold like hot cake in Ho Chi Minh City,
Hanoi, and Thai Nguyen, Bac Can and Cao Bang provinces, adding many products
are customised while many others have been sent to the UK and France as gifts.
The lemongrass rattan craft has been developed in the locality since 2018.
Earlier, the communal People’s Committee joined hands with local enterprises to
organise training courses for 100 rural labourers. Currently, nearly 30 workers
are engaging in the rattan craft, with average income of more than 4 million
VND per month per worker. Additionally, over 20 households in Tien Lu and Dong
Van villages get money from their lemongrass cultivation model with an area of
10 hectares.
By 2020, the commune’s income per capita topped 53 million VND, while poverty
rate slid to 4.37 percent.
According to the Vice Chairman of the communal People’s Committee, the
lemongrass rattan craft has made significant contributions to promoting local
economy and sustainable poverty alleviation in recent three years.
The commune has built the lemongrass rattan products to make them meet the
standards of the One Commune-One Product programme, he said, adding the move
aims to stimulating the economy and increasing value of the local products./.
Hoa Binh province scored 43.5493 points in the 2023 Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI), ranking 20th out of the 63 provinces and cities nationwide, up 23 places compared to the 2022 list.
Export turnover in March of Hoa Binh province is estimated at 160.596 million USD, up 0.65% compared to the previous month; accumulated in the first quarter of 2024 reached 477,568 million USD, an increase of 36.39% over the same period, reaching 23.88% of the yearly plan.
More than 1.3 trillion VND (52.26 million USD) had been collected to the state budget in January, accounting for 153% of the amount recorded in the same time last year, statistics from the provincial People’s Committee showed.
With a rise in number and improvement in production and business efficiency, companies, cooperatives, and business households in Lac Son commune have made important contributions to the transformation of economic structure and economic growth of the locality, creating jobs, joining hands in dealing with social issues, and helping increase State budget collection of the district.
Kim Boi district of Hoa Binh province has identified the movement to encourage farmers to emulate in production and business, unite to help each other get rich and reduce poverty sustainably as one of the three key emulation movements, according to Chairman of the district Farmers' Association Nguyen Manh Hung.
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