Tan My commune, a war zone in the past in Tan Uyen district, today changes with many fruit orchards developed verdantly together with roads covered by asphalt, facilitating the local people’s traveling and goods transport. The local people have also learnt to rise up out of poverty and properly get rich…

Getting rich from restructuring animals and plants

Do Duy Chien, a resident in Tan My commune’s hamlet 3 in Tan Uyen district has bravely shifted to the pomelo-growing model in combination with many other plants like guava, peanut...

 Tan My industrial compound is under construction Thanks to high determination plus knowledge learnt from training courses organized by the local authorities, he has successfully developed this model with the average income of VND150mln per year, helping him secure a stable life.

Also thanks to diligence, many other residents in Tan My commune have risen up out of poverty and properly got rich.

In addition to pomelo, the local people have got involved in many other plants with high economic value like cashew, rubber,... in recent years, contributing to stabilizing their lives. They have also taken full advantage of rubber plantations to develop the chicken-breeding model under industrial formula with the average income of VND600mln-VND700mln a year.

Nguyen Van Tien, vice-chairman of Tan My communal People’s Committee said that thanks to the shift of animal and plant structure well implemented, the local people have made contributions to infrastructure development, hunger eradication and poverty reduction…

Also according to him, with the current growth, the implementation of the resolution of the communal Party Committee in this tenure will be successful. The orientation for the local shift of economic structure towards industry-service and agriculture will also enjoy many advantages. Currently, Tan My industrial compound of nearly 100 hectares is under construction.

Following heroic tradition

Tan My was a vital place of the D base with many glorious feats of arms during the two resistance wars against the French colonialists and the US imperialists.

Huynh Tu, 67, a revolutionary veteran in Tan My commune’s hamlet 3 proudly told that in 1946, the heroic land’s people and army made a great victory when defeating 59 army trucks of the enemy, confiscating guns and seizing two French soldiers. Late 1952,  a regiment of the enemy together with a food-carrying truck in Vinh Cuu was also destroyed by the local people and army…

Following the heroic tradition of the elders, generations today have constantly built and developed a prosperous and beautiful Tan My.

Reported by Kim Van-Translated by K.T