An Son Agricultural Service Cooperative (An Son Commune, Thuan An City) is one of the cooperatives operating effectively and creating a stable source of income for members. Established in 2017, the cooperative has become a common home, the members often care and help each other to develop production.
Members of the cooperative exchanged their experience on pest control on mangosteen
An Son Agricultural Service Cooperative was born with enthusiastic members of mangosteen, and has been trying to maintain the brand of Lai Thieu Mangosteen, expanding consumption markets. The cooperative has a charter capital of VND 200 million, operating in the field of tending orchards, supplying and purchasing seedlings, fruits, mangosteen mainly, developing eco-tourism and services. Agriculture.
In particular, the cooperative develops production towards VietGAP. Mr. Nguyen Van Ngoan, the owner of a mangosteen-specific specialty garden of more than 6,000m2 in An My hamlet, An Son commune, said that since joining the cooperative, he has been learning a lot of useful experiences and knowledge from the other members as well as through training courses, seminars. In the process of developing mangosteen gardens according to VietGAP standards, it must be ensured from the stage of checking on the safety level of water and soil to the process of cultivation techniques, integrated pest control ... have been instructed to make a filter pit to handle leftover pesticides, to ensure safety for the environment and human health ... These are very useful and necessary knowledge to create agricultural products. Clean meets the increasing market requirements. Also according to Mr. Ngoan, in addition to mangosteen, there are also 100 green grapefruit root for fruit all year round, coconut, bananas, jackfruit, fishpond. The garden shines and gives fruit all year round, which is a great condition for developing eco-tourism, exploring and exploring land and Lai Thieu.
Ms. Tran Thi Lam Trung, owner of a mangosteen garden in Phu Hung hamlet, An Son commune, said that she is the youngest member of the cooperative. She is very passionate about the mangosteen garden that the family has left. Currently her garden has about 6,000m2 with nearly 200 mangosteen stems, aged 30 years. Joining in the cooperative, she learned a lot of garden care experience from other members. As a result, her bamboo shoots are growing and yielding higher yields.
Mr. Tran Van Chinh, living in An Quoi hamlet, a member of the cooperative said that his garden now has an area of about 15,000m2, planted mainly with mangosteen with nearly 200 stumps. He also planted other fruit trees such as mango, coconut, areca, strawberry, and fortune trees to improve the economic efficiency of the garden. Each year, mangosteen garden for only 1 crop. Compared to the previous year, this year's mangosteen crop is not equal. With seniority in caring for mangosteen, he often exchanges experiences with other members for mutual development. Joining cooperatives helped him find output for stable products, higher prices than sold to traders.
Mr. Tran Van Vien, Director of the cooperative, said that the objective of the cooperative's operation is to establish a safety management system, high quality, application of technical advances in production to enhance the value and productivity of products. services, thereby improving the physical and spiritual life for members. Since its establishment, the cooperative has maintained its own website to promote Lai Thieu mangosteen products and products according to VietGAP standards. As a result, many partners can access information search and order quickly and conveniently.
In addition to the policy of supporting the maintenance and development of specialty gardens of the province, members of the cooperative also enjoy an additional 30% of garden care materials towards VietGAP. According to the statistics of cooperatives, compared with the previous year, the mangosteen season is not equal, the supply is lower in the market. This year, the cooperative supplied from 4.5 to 5 tons of mangosteen to places like Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Ba Ria - Vung Tau, cost from 65 to 70,000 VND / kg. Mr. Vien said, establishing cooperatives was difficult, holding harder. The members expect the authorities to pay more attention and support, especially to maintain the economic efficiency from the orchard, including the need to develop garden ecotourism for stable operation of the cooperative.
Reported by Van Tien – Translated by Vi Bao
