Nearly 5 hectares of off-season longan of Mr. Luong Van Muoi's family in Huoi Bo village, Chieng Khoong commune are full of fruit. We met Mr. Muoi when he was on the hill, sharing his experience of growing off-season longan with some people in neighboring communes...

Mr. Muoi said: These areas of land were previously planted with corn, but corn grown on sloping land had low economic efficiency and the soil was eroded. In terms of economic efficiency, corn is much less efficient than longan. From the province's policy of planting fruit trees on sloping land, now the sloping areas where people used to only grow corn are now covered with fruit trees, bringing high economic efficiency.

Mr. Muoi is a Thai ethnic, born and raised in Chieng Khoong, so he understands the hardships of the people here. Life was difficult, Mr. Muoi's parents had to struggle to find a way out of poverty with all kinds of crops; Mr. Muoi himself had to drop out of school in grade 9 to help his family develop the economy...

By 2017, after visiting and studying typical economic development models and receiving guidance and capital support from the Farmers' Association, Mr. Muoi's family boldly converted 1.3 hectares of corn land to grow late-ripening longan from Khoai Chau (Hung Yen province). During the process of growing longan, they learned and accumulated more experience, and after harvesting, seeing that the economic efficiency was higher than corn, Mr. Muoi's family decided to grow longan on the entire area of ​​nearly 5 hectares.

Mr. Luong Van Muoi said: "At the end of 2020, after being introduced to the Anh Vang longan variety by a professional officer, I converted 2 hectares of Mien Thiet longan that was in the fruit-harvesting period to graft this longan variety. In the first crop, I harvested more than 10 tons of fruit per hectare and sold it at a good price. In the 2024 longan crop alone, my family harvested more than 50 tons and sold it for more than 1.5 billion VND. Combined with nearly 1.2 billion VND from additional business in agricultural supplies services, my family escaped poverty."

According to Mr. Muoi, to produce quality off-season longan products, the most important factor is to provide enough water for the plants. His family dug a hole in the middle of the garden, lined it with waterproof tarpaulin, then pumped water from the stream to store it there and used Israeli irrigation technology. To achieve high economic value, Mr. Muoi's family spread out the longan harvest by using the early-ripening T6 longan variety combined with potassiumchlorate to treat 10% of the longan trees that flower and bear fruit early. Therefore, from April every year, his family has had longan on the market with stable prices.

Not only developing a fruit tree growing model on sloping land with an income of billions, Mr. Muoi also mobilized eight households in the village to contribute capital and land to establish the Hoa Muoi Agricultural Service Cooperative to grow fruit trees according to VietGAP process, with Mr. Muoi as director.

Up to now, the cooperative has 14 members participating in the production of nearly 50 hectares of land for growing longan and mango; coordinating with units to organize training and transfer techniques for caring for fruit trees according to VietGAP standards to people; mobilizing cooperative members and people in the area to invest in irrigation systems, use organic fertilizers and biological pesticides in production.

Currently, Mr. Muoi and the cooperative members are also expanding production links, participating in safe consumption chains, organizing agricultural product consumption for farmers in the region, searching, connecting investments and signing production and consumption contracts with businesses, supermarket chains, etc.; thereby, building longan growing area codes for export, creating safe products with high economic value.

Source: https://nhandan.vn/trong-nhan-thoat-ngheo-o-vung-bien-post864505.html