Mr. Tran Quang, Director of Xuan Tien Agricultural Service - Trade Cooperative, Xuan Phu Commune (Xuan Loc District) was voted as the excellent Vietnamese farmer in 2022. Having this title is the whole journey of more than 30 years of working with the field, being a pioneer in establishing cooperatives, bringing machines to the fields, doing large field projects to grow clean rice and corn...
Mr. Tran Quang, Director of Xuan Tien Agricultural Service - Trade Cooperative introduced ST specialty rice products grown in the organic direction, bringing high economic value.
This farmer is also the one who built the specialty of Dong Nai's organic rice, which is favored by both domestic and export markets, bringing high profits for himself and his members.
Excellent Vietnamese farmers
Old farmer Tran Quang comes from a poor farming family in Quang Ngai province. More than 30 years ago, he and his family moved to the South to settle down. At first, the family's economy was very difficult because their income depended on a few acres of rice land. Then he applied for a job and learned a job for a local factory that invests in machinery for threshing services. Accumulating a little capital plus extra borrowed money, he bought the first thresher machine, which he used to both harvest his family's rice fields and do local threshing services. Gradually, he invested more plows, harvesters... specializing in agricultural services to increase his income. Farmers love the land should accumulate any money, he buys land again, so his family now has about 10 hectares of productive land.
He is also the initiator of the high-yield club and then established Xuan Tien Agricultural Service - Trade Cooperative in 2014 with the desire to link farmers together to buy and sell to reduce input costs; The output has a large volume so as not to fall into the situation of traders forcing prices.
Xuan Tien Agricultural Service - Trade Cooperative is also a pioneer in the project of large fields of rice and corn; link cooperative members to contribute capital to invest in modern machinery instead of human labor. Mr. Tran Quang compares: "We invested in a harvesting machine that produces corn kernels right in the field, the stage of harvesting 1 ha of corn reduces labor costs by millions of Vietnam Dong compared to the traditional method. With rice, too, all stages of harvesting and packaging are replaced by machines. Farmers only need to stand on the shore waiting for traders to come and sell rice and collect money, not running around and hiring labor as before.
Up to now, the mechanization rate of cooperatives has reached nearly 100%. Thanks to building a good chain of links in the direction of large-scale production, the cooperative's corn products are consumed by businesses with good and stable prices. The cooperative also cooperates with businesses that grow corn for trees, the short planting time can increase to 4 corn crops per year for higher profits. In addition, the cooperative also has many supporting activities for local members and farmers such as: providing agricultural materials and services, assisting cooperative members to access preferential capital...
Agricultural supplies store of the Director of Xuan Tien Agricultural Service - Trading Cooperative provides materials at good prices for members.
Making organic rice specialties to earn billions
Agricultural production faces many risks, especially a series of difficulties due to adverse effects of weather, input prices are constantly escalating while the output market is high. fluctuations. Rice farmers are even more at risk and struggling because profits from rice, which are already low, are shrinking because of these difficulties. Therefore, when he learned about the delicious rice variety ST24 of Dr. Ho Quang Cua, the old farmer who was always willing to study and worked, returned to Soc Trang to learn from experience and then buy specialty rice varieties for pilot planting. When he saw this specialty rice grown in Dong Nai growing well, giving high yield and good quality, he again encouraged the members to switch to special rice varieties for high profits.
According to old farmer Tran Quang, currently local rice farmers are converting from common rice varieties to specialty rice varieties such as ST24, ST25. These are all specialty varieties that are popular in the market, so they can be sold at high prices. This model not only helps old farmer Tran Quang become a billionaire farmer, but the profits of cooperative members also increase significantly compared to before.
In order to build a specialty rice production area according to organic standards, the cooperative has signed a contract to associate production and consumption with farmers on the basis of an agreement to share benefits between the parties. The cooperative is the bridge to organize training and transfer science and technology to people; control the care process… The cooperative also mobilizes capital to invest in a rice drying system, rice mill, and rice processing machine to produce organic rice products to supply to the market.
According to Mr. Quang: “The organic rice products of the cooperative have good quality rice, soft and fragrant rice grains, so they are popular with customers. Clean rice products of the cooperative are currently supplied to many provinces and cities nationwide, focusing on the big market, Ho Chi Minh City. The cooperative is also very interested in investing in making packaging, trademarks, registering to participate in the OCOP program to build brands for products to not only meet the domestic market but also export.
Xuan Tien Agricultural Trade - Service Cooperative currently has 10 members contributing capital and 95 cooperative members participating in production association with a total area of 150ha. In addition, the cooperative also cooperates with farmers in many other localities such as Dinh Quan, Cam My, Long Khanh ... to expand the area of specialty rice varieties in the direction of organic.
