(HBO) – With a sack of about 30kg of bamboo shoots harvested in less than an hour, Cao Viet Pot, a resident in Ren hamlet of Gia Mo commune (Tan Lac district), can earn 450,000 VND (over 19 USD). This is a major source of income for mountainous residents like him. In many places across Hoa Binh province, many families have earned tens of millions of VND annually from bamboo shoots.
Bamboo shoots have become a considerable source of income for Cao Viet Pot in Gia Mo commune, Tan Lac district.
Pot said that "lanh hanh” is originally a bamboo variety growing in nature. Many years ago, after trips to the forest to earn a living, he decided to plant this species near his home to prevent erosion and landslides. Now, it has developed into a forest covering up to a hectare.
In recent years, when bamboo shoots have become a specialty of Hoa Binh province and popular among consumers far and wide, Pot has earned tens of millions of VND each year from this produce. Aside from the shoots, he has also sold fully-grown trees, adding to his family’s income.
Across Hoa Binh, a number of families have also earned big from bamboo shoots. In Doi Thung hamlet of Quy Hoa commune (Lac Son district) and Bua Cau hamlet of Hung Son commune (Kim Boi district), people have long relied on harvesting bamboo shoots in forest to earn their living. Each local household can gain tens of millions of VND from the shoots each crop. As a result, many have had stable income to improve their living conditions and support their children’s learning.
The shoots are brought to wholesale markets to distribute to different localities and also sold to factories for export processing.
Recent data from the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development show that Hoa Binh is currently home to more than 17,700ha of bamboo of all varieties, most of which are planted ones. The majority of the area, 71%, is in Da Bac and Mai Chau districts.
Nguyen Huy Nhuan, Director of the department, said the planting and trading of bamboo and related products have helped improve livelihoods of local residents, especially poor and ethnic minority people. Many households have enjoyed a better life thanks to the planting and harvesting of bamboo and bamboo shoots.
In 2022, the province harvested about 5 million bamboos of all varieties and over 5,250 tonnes of shoots, earning some 136.3 billion VND, statistics show.
Bamboo is also a material for the manufacturing of industrial products, household equipment, and handicrafts serving domestic consumption and export. There are three businesses producing bamboo items for export in Hoa Binh at present, including the biggest bamboo processor of Vietnam based in Mai Chau district.
In 2022, Hoa Binh recorded 50.85 billion VND (2.16 million USD) in the bamboo product value, including over 29 billion VND in exports and 21.76 billion VND in domestic consumption.
Thanks to such results, bamboo and the shoots are considered a life changer for many households and ethnic minority communities in the province./.
With the motto of "polite, dedicated, professional, and lawful,” over the years, Phu Cuong commune in Tan Lac district has gradually improved the quality of processing administrative procedures, winning high satisfaction from local people and businesses.
Stretching over 300 meters, valued at hundreds of million dong and built to the new-style rural standards, a concrete road in De hamlet, Bac Phong commune, Cao Phong district, was completed by the end of 2023 thanks to the collective contributions of armed forces at provincial and district levels coupled with the active participation of military units stationed throughout the district.
Over the years, the People’s Committee of Lac Thuy district has issued many plans and programmes to speed up the administrative reform, aiming to better serve local people and businesses.
Kim Boi district is drafting 23 planning projects which are expected to help boost the local socio-economic development, attract investors, and mobilise resources for development, said Vice chairman of the district People’s Committee Tran Tuan Son.
They include the one on Bo urban area development until 2045, 20 zoning, and 12 on rural residential areas in communes.
This year, Hoa Binh province strives to have eight communes recognised as meeting new-style rural area standards and five communes satisfying exemplary new-style rural area standards. Since the beginning of the year, the provincial People's Committee has drastically directed the implementation of the national target programme on new-style rural area building to fulfil the set target.
Cao Phong district achieved positive socio-economic development results last year as drastic comprehensive measures were implemented with high determination of its whole political system, said the Secretary of the district Party Committee Ha Van Di.
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