Bringing Vietnamese bananas out of the border

Huy Long An Company Limited is familiar to many people because of his entrepreneurial journey as well as when clean Vietnamese bananas were first sold on the shelves of a famous Japanese supermarket chain.

Mr. Ut Huy's banana farm (My Binh commune, Duc Hue district) is one of the businesses applying mechanization to banana production

Mr. Ut Huy shared that he invested in the banana farm 9 years ago on an area of ​​120 hectares. This is a banana variety originating from South America, after 5 months it starts to bloom, and after 3 more months it can be harvested. Currently, with more than 700 hectares of bananas located in many provinces, every day, Mr. Ut Huy has to travel between farms to handle work. Each year, his 5 banana farms are estimated to produce over 35,000 tons, mainly exported to Japan, China and Korea.

Up to now, Mr. Ut Huy's entire clean banana production process is encapsulated in a banana harvesting cable system using pulleys leading directly to the processing and packaging stages. This is one of the leading agricultural farming systems in Southeast Asia.

Previously, banana harvesting was carried by workers on foot to the tractor to transport to the processing factory, which took a lot of effort and time, and bananas were most damaged during the rainy season, when the roads were muddy. After that, Mr. Ut Huy visited a banana farm in the Philippines and saw that they used a pulley system to harvest, so he learned from them and invested in the model on his farm.

Since the cable system was installed, after being cut, workers carry bananas 30-50m and then hook them to pulley system, saving a lot of labor. To prevent the bananas from being damaged, workers use foam pads under their shoulders when transporting. Each day, a worker earns more than 300,000 VND from carrying bananas.

The banana farm in My Binh commune has more than 200 workers, living in 70 free rooms invested by the company. This year, it is expected that 15-20% of the workers will stay to work during Tet. Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoang, who works at a banana farm, said: She is a Vietnamese expatriate living on the Tonle Sap lake in Cambodia by fishing. After that, she returned to Tay Ninh province to live but could not find a job. In 2016, she and her husband came to work at the banana farm until now.

"Every day, I rub banana buds. My husband and I are very grateful to Uncle Ut Huy! Thanks to the stable job, over the past few years, we can have enough money to support our family and pay for our two children's education" - Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoang said.

Being both a farmer and a bussinessman, Mr. Ut Huy hopes that the State will have appropriate policies and solutions, especially related to science and technology. Because he believes that this is the key factor to bring farmers into the era of self-development./.

By Song Nhi - Translated by Q. Thien

Source: https://baolongan.vn/nong-dan-dua-chuoi-viet-xuat-ngoai-a188415.html