(HBO) – We had to travel through a bumpy road to reach a mountainous commune of Tu Do (Lac Son district), home to a variety of pure and viscid honey bearing scent of mountain and wild flowers.
Bui Van Nhuan of Tren hamlet, Tu Do commune (Lac Son district)
collects honey from forest bees.
Bui Van Nhuan of Tren
hamlet, who collects honey from bees raised in the forests, said that his
family currently keeps four beehives. The bees return to their hives to make
honey and every day, they come to the forests to search for food and suck
pollen from dawn till dusk.
Before, Nhuan’s family
only kept one hive, but with the support of a poverty alleviation programme,
the number went up to four. He collects about
50 litres of honey in
each crop. With a current price of about 280,000 VND per litre, his family’s
earnings from beekeeping has increased by tens of millions dong, becoming the family’s
main source of income.
Families of local
beekeeper still follow traditional method to collect honey. Accordingly, the
wax, which is full of honey, will be squeezed manually.
Local beekeepers revealed
that to collect pure honey, they have to prepare all equipment for honey
collecting, along with funnel, honey vibrating filter machine, bee brush,
knife, bee smoke sprayer and gloves, among others. All equipment must be clean
before the process.
Each honey crop is one
month apart and time for honey collecting lasts about half a year, usually from
April to September, when the weather is warm and flowers blossom all over the
forest.
It is also the time that
local beekeeping families are ready for their annual honey collecting. Every
household patiently waits until the frame hives are fully coated with bee wax,
they would start to take those frames out and collect honey.
Bui Van Tue, head of the
beekeepers in Tren hamlet said local beekeepers have to be patient in order to
obtain fully ripe and high-grade honey. According to statistics, the commune is
home to more than 70 beekeeping households in Sat Thuong, Trên, Tren, Khay, Mu
and Mon hamlets, which scatter in those localities.
Only Tren hamlet has the
most concentrated beekeeping area with participation of 37 families and over
200 bee colonies. It is also the first hamlet that has formed a beekeeping
group which has gone under fundamental technical training with support of each
group member.
Bui Ngoc Thien, Chairman
of the People’s Committee of the hamlet said local people have tapped the
potential of the rich natural forest in the Ngoc Son – Ngo Luong Natural
Reserve to keep forest bee for honey, greatly increasing local income and
improving living standards./.
In the first quarter of 2024, the credit institutions in the province have actively deployed the legal documents of the State and the State Bank relating to currency, credit and interest rates. At the same time, they have promoted the capital mobilization, focusing on the solutions to expand the credit investment along with strengthening the credit quality management, lending to priority programs to promptly meet the capital needs for export - business and consumer demand during Tet in 2024.
Outside the key economic region of Hoa Binh, yet Lac Son district has utilised its potential and strengths regarding labour, land, and transportation connectivity to attract investment to the locality, contributing to promoting socio-economic development.
In a move to expedite the execution and disbursement of the 2024 capital plan for ODA projects, aiming for a disbursement rate of over 90% of the allocated funding, the Hoa Binh People's Committee issued Document No. 483/UBND-KTN on April 3, 2024, regarding such efforts.
Nguyen Van Thap from Kim Duc hamlet, Vinh Tien commune, Kim Boi district, has built the brand of Hoa Qua Son for local fruits. His efforts have brought about income for his family and generated job opportunities for locals, helping hundreds of households escape from poverty.
The Hoa Binh administration was entrusted by the Prime Minister with a budget of 3.43 trillion VND (142.91 million USD) for investment in 2024. The provincial People's Council approved nearly 3.76 trillion VND, which has been meticulously allocated to projects, achieving 100% of the assigned capital plan.
Hoa Binh province has mobilised all resources to propel local agricultural products to make inroads into foreign markets, towards lifting the export turnover of key agricultural products to 137.8 million USD by 2030, accounting for 3.4% of the locality’s total export value of goods.
The locality aims to export farm produce to the US, the European Union, the UK, China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea.