(HBO) - In 2010, many households in Tuan Lo commune (Tan Lac district) boldly replaced trees in their gardens with citrus trees, with positive outcomes recorded initially. By the end of 2018, the entire commune housed close to 50 hectares of citrus trees, of which 20 hectares were producing fruits for sales. Citrus cultivation has helped many households secure good incomes and gradually improve their living standards.


Tran Van Tinh’s citrus garden in Tan Thanh hamlet generates between 400 and 500 million VND each year.

 The entire commune has over 10 families who have at least 1 – 2 ha or more of land under citrus trees, while the rest have between 3,000 and 4,000 square metres or plant the trees on their unused land lots.

 Visiting Tran Van Tinh’s citrus garden in Tan Thanh hamlet, we learned that in 2014, he started the cultivation of 600 orange trees and 30 pomelo trees across some 1.1 hectares of land. To date, Tinh has invested about 1.6 billion VND into the garden. All fruits from his garden are sold to traders from Hai Duong, Thai Binh, and Hanoi. In 2017, his family sold 17 tonnes of fruits for 400 million VND. In 2018, Canh orange suffered a crop failure due to hard weather, but Tinh harvested and sold 7 tonnes of yellow-flesh orange, at 16,000 VND per kilo.

 In order to help local households expand citrus cultivation, the commune’sauthorities have assignedthe Community Learning Center to work with other sectors and organisations in organising relevant training and technology transfer courses. In 2018, eightsessionsof this kind took place, attracting a large number of families. The commune, meanwhile, joined the Vietnam Bank for Social Policiesand Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development in helping locals access loans in line with regulations./.

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