Da Don farmers improve agricultural products

Farmers in Da Don commune, Lam Ha district, always have a sense of responsibility to strive in production, business, get rich and reduce poverty sustainably... In particular, many farmer households have boldly converted crops and livestock towards high-tech agriculture to achieve economic efficiency, meet market demand; apply science, technology and water-saving and drip irrigation measures... Up to now, many member households have achieved the title of good production and business households at all levels.

Mrs. Can with the last avocados of the season in her garden

Mrs. Ta Nhu Can in Tan Tien village, Da Don commune, is 73 years old this year. Every day, she takes care of a garden of about 1 hectare of coffee mixed with 80 034 avocado trees right behind her house; raises pigs, chickens, ducks; under the avocado canopy, she prunes beans, green vegetables; at the end of the garden there is also a fish pond, rice fields... providing vegetables, eggs, meat... all year round for her children and grandchildren. She uses manure to fertilize the plants, and takes vegetables from the garden to feed livestock and poultry... When we were excited about the closed-loop agricultural model, Mrs. Can smiled and said: I have been doing this for a long time, then accumulated experience through the seasons...

In early June, Mrs. Can broke off shoots and nurtured about half of the avocado trees. She said that these were less productive avocado trees. During the main season, she did not nurture the fruit but plucked all the flowers. Now she kills fungus and stimulates flower buds to create off-season avocados. According to Mrs. Can, selling off-season avocados is very profitable. People are willing to pay double the price of the main season but they don't have it. She said that the technique of growing off-season avocados is something that the villagers and their brothers learned and then taught each other; there were problems this season and that season, but now they are used to it...

Mrs. Can's lush garden has coffee trees laden with branches; the last avocados are still hidden among the green leaves. Under the tree canopy are patches of squash, green beans, black beans bearing fruit... Besides the models of growing industrial trees and fruit trees, in Da Don there are also 2 models of Cooperative Groups for growing mulberry and raising silkworms. The model of Cooperative Group for growing mulberry and raising silkworms in ethnic minority areas in Da R'Kôh village, Da Don commune is attracting 30/203 households (from March 2024) and has helped households in the village boldly convert some garden land near their homes, old, low-yielding coffee land and ineffective rice land to growing mulberry and raising silkworms. Currently, the whole village has 50 households growing mulberry and raising silkworms, with a total area of ​​about 10 hectares, giving an average income of 5 to 10 million VND/household/1 raising period.

The cooperative group for growing mulberry and raising silkworms in Tan Lam village is also operating well. According to Mr. K'Kil - Chairman of the Farmers' Association of Da Don commune: Initially, growing mulberry and raising silkworms has brought economic efficiency and increased income for households; thereby contributing to hunger eradication and poverty reduction, improving the economic life of households and attracting other households to participate; contributing to the successful implementation of socio-economic development goals, ensuring national defense, security, hunger eradication and poverty reduction of the locality. In addition, the Farmers' Association of the commune also builds and develops effective economic models and mobilizes, guides and supports farmers to participate in developing collective economic forms in agricultural production and building and developing models of branches and professional associations.

In the commune, there are currently 11 farmer associations with a total of more than 900 members. Not only boldly converting to mulberry and silkworm farming, members and farmers in Da Don commune actively invest, intensify, improve crop and livestock productivity, replant coffee...; focus on agricultural and rural development, meet the needs of agricultural production development and new rural construction of the locality. Traditional crops, such as rice and coffee, are invested in, applying science and technology to production, limiting pests and diseases. More than 3,700 hectares of coffee in the whole commune are taken care of by people, improving productivity; replanting, grafting and improving old coffee areas or converting crops.

In particular, many households in Da Don commune have applied science, technology and engineering to control nutrition, control pests and create off-season crops to increase crop yields and increase the value of agricultural products. The movement of good production and business has developed extensively and has many typical and advanced member households in production, contributing to improving the material and spiritual life of farmers. A typical example is the household of Mr. Mai Nguyen Quoc Thang (Lien Ket village), a good farmer with an initiative that won the third prize in the 8th Lam Dong Provincial Farmers' Technical Innovation Contest (2024-2025), which was just announced in April 2025, with the solution "Controlled fermentation to improve the quality of Vietnamese Robusta coffee".

Source: https://baolamdong.vn/kinh-te/202506/nong-dan-da-don-nang-tam-nong-san-16a6e57/