I am the child of the field. Dozens of generations, both paternal and maternal, are farmers and live in the countryside. Honestly, I don’t feel proud or honored with that cultivated background. Farming is like trading, making salt, cutting firewood, fishing, working as a worker… that’s all. My grandparents and parents were not landowners, but they were also not part of the poor peasantry, so I don’t know how good that part is. But it’s definitely hard work, no one wants to. Running to eat every meal, many people do not have a piece of land to place coffins. It is different from the old poor peasants and proletarians of today. Full cover with super cars, play with enough fingers. As a journalist living in the countryside, I’m sure, in my hometown, 100% of the farming families who work in agriculture have food and property to escape poverty, that family must have a part-time job. other extremes: trading, working as a worker, buying aluminum and plastic waste, trading with the highlanders, or at least knocking noodles or “needle” as far as Saigon. Each worker only has an average of 300m2 of land (a few decades ago), now rescue melons, tomorrow rescue chili. Clean cut sugarcane planting cassava. Tapioca tubers are sometimes several thousand a kilogram. Rich is rich how? About the same size as Doan Nguyen Duc, he went to Laos to grow sugarcane, but his face fell. Yes, dream! In the rural areas, if they are not classified as “having money”, they are also in the category of poor people who are hungry and hungry, which are the following: teachers, healers, local teachers, fortune-tellers, traders of cows, sellers of pig bran, and maters. pig spirit… and so on. And retired, like me. Ah, forgot, commune officials too. I’m a rural person, have a garden, have a field, what do I do if I’m not a farmer? It’s not like day after day playing chess, drinking alcohol, carrying a camera around. Writing sloppy, sloppy poetry doesn’t mean anything. Write a newspaper and your children won the job. Research is “a late-night affair”, often tearing up work. Well, let’s do the gardening so that the little ones can snap clean vegetables in their meals. A little more, bring relatives, friends. Looking for flowers to plant in the yard, watching butterflies in the morning is the momentum, also like. In the afternoon, I went to the yard to water the plants with my grandchildren. After watering, take a shower and then eat rice, feel cool and gentle. But gentlemen, don’t think farming is easy. During my life, my father said; “Farming is a profession that everyone can do, but not everyone becomes a good farmer.” Nowadays, that is even more true. No matter how diligent and experienced a farmer is, he lacks knowledge about climate, organisms, soil, livestock, plants, varieties, markets, consumer habits, etc., how can it be called knowing? farming. My classmate in elementary school, living in the same village, came to my house to visit, saw me nursing melons, reminded me: When melons are about 1 meter up, you roll them into the ground again and then let them crawl on that rig. I pretended to ask: – What are you? – He is a real desk man. Scroll down to increase the rooting while saving the truss space. At this point, I burst out laughing, but said: Very outdated, sir. This melon crawls up about 1 meter to flower and bud. Crawling on corn stalks, harvested chilli stalks. I plant, choose only 1 fruit each wire. Listen to this, my friend has O eyes, A mouth, looks too funny. In the past, even though I was a wage earner on the street, I was still one of the best rice sowers in An Khanh hamlet, growing pumpkins (pumpkin), squash, papaya, and everyone in My Yen village. love. When I retired and returned to farming, thanks to the help of my brother of many hybrids Luong Van Minh Dao, I became one of the very few people (sometimes the only one who didn’t play!) who planted the seeds. The first ST24, ST25 (world famous delicious) rice in Quang Ngai, yield is not inferior to any other rice variety. Anyone who wants to try to know how delicious this variety is, please come to my house. The house has stock goby with pepper stock. Water spinach ball oil cake also. More wine. Tasty and bold. I wrote these lines while out in the field. Yesterday, we cleared the field at dusk, sowed the rice at dusk. This morning I went to the field to look again. Seo a few puffs to worship. Wash hands, face, face, go to the mother’s house to burn incense for the father, water the plants. Going to the wife’s house to burn incense for her father-in-law, mother-in-law and wife. Then back. That’s it. Try to add a few more life terms for fame. This life is so cheap! My Yen hamlet, last day of May, year twenty-one Refer to the newspaper Labor: The miracle of Vietnamese rice “After only 14 years, Vietnam has surprised and admired the world when it rose from a starving country to become one of the rice exporting powers. Especially in recent years, Vietnamese rice has continuously been at the top of the world’s best rice contest. It is a miracle created by Vietnam”. Nguyen Quoc Toan – Director of the Department of Agricultural Product Processing and Market Development (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) – said: Rice export output in 11 months of 2020 reached 5.4 million tons, worth about 2.85 billion USD. . In the rice export category of Vietnam in recent years, the export value of white rice accounted for about 40.3% of the total rice export turnover, Jasmin rice and fragrant rice accounted for about 37%, glutinous rice accounted for about 17.6% remaining. Japonica rice and Japanese rice varieties account for nearly 4.5%. “Farmers and production enterprises have focused deeply on quality, not on quantity; Right at this Winter-Spring crop 2020-2021, in the large fields associated with Trung An Hi-tech Agriculture Joint Stock Company in the provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta region are sowing seeds, the company has completely eliminated plant protection drugs. ) with chemicals out of the field on a large scale, supported and accompanied by farmers, the agricultural sector, local authorities and consumers. Vietnamese farmers are the main force contributing to that miracle!

Fruit garden planted on basalt Through the fairy land Buon Choah is also known as Cat village (Choah village, Krong No district, Dak Nong province), formerly mainly Ede people, they took the alluvial sand from Krong No river to name the village. The remote commune of Krong No district is the location of the global volcanic geological park. On the way from Buon Ma Thuot city to Choah village (where there is a volcanic cave complex), we heard Mr. Le Hoang Co, General Director of Dam San Tourism and Trade Company, a passionate explorer, many times. led the delegations to experience and learn about the land and volcanic caves of Dak Nong, sharing: for many years, the people here have lived by the rice trees, drank the river water, lived a kind and loving life. They love the road which is the burning rocks not because of the scorching sun but due to the impact of the volcano, which is quite interesting and strange. Especially the orchards planted on the wrong rocks are full of fruit. Whether it is a rice field or an orchard, when harvested, the yield is unbelievably high. This place has tourism potential, attractive agricultural resources, must combine all the strengths of the region to make products to attract tourists and improve the quality of life of the people. What makes this land poetic beauty is the endless stretch of rice fields, becoming a feature of the material and spiritual life of the people here. The fragrance of rice rose gently through the nose and the golden sun fell to the foot of the hill, Nguyen Thi Yen (Thanh Son village, Choah village) expressed, people call the rice fields in Choah village the golden rice bowl. because ST24 rice variety has good rice quality and high yield. In 1996, her family came here to set up a business, at this time, they grew RVT rice. In 2016, the government experimented with planting ST24, now it has grown the whole field. Her family has 2 hectares of this rice variety, two crops a year for 14 tons/ha and 2 sao of fruit trees: jackfruit, coconut, litchi and 10 cows, with a total income of 300 million VND per year. The newly discovered cave has a length of nearly 1 km The Krong No River appears before your eyes. The large ferry approached the shore, a group of 45 people from a company in crimson uniforms carried luggage onto the ferry. More than a few minutes of moving, touching the shore, each group in turn was arranged to wait for 5 workers and farmers. The peacock raced up the slope, everyone was surprised to see papaya, avocado trees on both sides of the road, forming a beautiful green patch, pressed against the dark gray pumice area. And the farmers themselves still see the mystery, in the fields and fields, there are only rocks and stones, yet the orchards are still green for bountiful crops. People forget the fatigue of the heat, find the heaven and earth here strangely enchanting. The hustle and bustle of life gradually subsided, in front of my eyes, thousands of colors flickered back and forth around the foot of the mountain, which was quiet and immense. This land for many years has been deposited by alluvium, now becoming the most fertile place of Choah village. The Krong No River builds up from the water to the products on both sides of the river, giving the local people a warm and friendly atmosphere, amidst the vastness of heaven and earth. The legendary story of A Tay and A Yong is told by the village elders over a jar of yeast that has been handed down for generations. That, their love was hindered because the girl’s house was too poor, there was no gift to bring the boy back to be her husband. The desperate couple threw themselves into the river to die. The girl turns into Krong Ana river (mother river), boy turns into Krong No river (father river). The Serepok River is the eternal blend of faithful love. The river has nurtured and created a culture unlike any other. While here there is a revelation of wonder that fascinates all mankind. The Mystery of the Bat Cave The vehicle carrying the group stopped in the middle of the orchard, next to the people’s farm huts. Weaving through the fruit-laden lychee orchard, we walked more than a kilometer on jagged pumice paths, frozen by the molten lava spewing out of the crater. The feet quickly reached the basalt field stretching as far as the eye could see. People seem to be trapped in the vast windy space, the fatigue is somewhat reduced. Touching the lava rock shelf where the new cave was discovered, each stone surrounded a giant arch. Following the flash of a flashlight, we groped on the jagged rock and entered the nearly 1 km long cave. In the dark and deep recesses of the cave, the smell of dampness penetrated the nostrils. The cool world inside the cave dispels the hot air outside. Flashlight streaks quickly glide over countless stalactites, traces of a volcano that have fallen asleep, making everyone stunned. The cave we are exploring, the experience is the newly discovered cave. Indigenous people say that there are many caves around this area, including bats, which is not strange. Before knowing Chu Bluk cave, the people around here used to call it Bat cave. If there are tourists to visit, these caves are not the first place they introduce, because of the wildness, difficult-to-find location, undeveloped services. Therefore, this has contributed to preserving the original purity of the cave until now. Leaving the cave, the sunset is long. On the Krong No river, the bobbing boats of the fishermen cast their nets and cast fishing lines. The woman showed off a 3kg trout struggling in her hand, returning down the stream after releasing the spoils. From time to time, motorboats carrying sand tore through the water, making the river’s surface agitated. Then, momentarily right there, the river was calm and calm again… The volcanic cave system in Krong No district, Dak Nong province is a 25km-long volcanic cave system in basalt, stretching from the crater of Buon Choah along the length of the Serepok River to the area of ​​Dray Sap waterfall. Dak Nong Geopark was recognized by UNESCO as a global geopark in 2020, contributing to strongly promoting tourism and attracting domestic and foreign tourists to explore. This is the third global geopark in Vietnam.