The bitter “road” of a farmer in the West stretches as far as the eye can see with rigs after rigs, each rig is 2.5m wide and 50m long, the fruit is crowded, sometimes from the root to the top, anyone who sees it also admires. .
The owner of the “road” of suffering is the family of Mr. Vo Van Ut in An Thanh commune, Ben Luc district, Long An province.
The reason many people call Mr. Ut’s bitter melon field “the road” is because in the middle of each row there is a ditch, which is the way to go when harvesting. The harvesters walk in the middle of the ditch, push the basket or can sit on the small boat, move to where they cut the fruit on the rig.
Mr. Ut said that the variety of bitter melon he planted in the Western bitter melon 06, which his family has been cultivating since 2019 for 2 years now. The kind of seedlings he planted with short fruits, lighter thorns than other varieties, are popularly grown in Long An, Tien Giang, and the Southeast provinces.
The old man digs through the bitter melon and planted an A-frame. The truss is 40 to 50 meters long, about 2.5 meters wide and about 2.5 meters high, more than 20 centimeters from the water surface, with a ditch in the middle. With an area of 1,000m2, Mr. Ut currently has 8 rigs of bitter melon intercropped, giving fruit all year round.
“I have been growing bitter melon for 7-8 years, but since I switched to this variety, the yield has increased. On average, each crop is about 3 months, I can harvest from 3 to 4 tons of bitter melon per square meter,” he said. Unscrew the switch plate.
According to observations, Mr. Ut’s bitter melon tree has strong vines, dark green leaves, and covers the trellis. In particular, bitter melon grows evenly from root to tip, making anyone who looks at it is fascinated.
The 52-year-old farmer added: “Every time a bitter melon produces young fruit, I go to the fields every 3-4 am to light up the field with the lamp to ‘check out. The feeling is very eye-catching when I see that the fruit is both large and uniform in size. “.
Recently, Mr. Nguyen Van Many – a market employee in charge of technology for people growing vegetables in Long An was suddenly famous on social networks when he posted a clip about Mr. Ut’s bitter melon field.
After the clip of Mr. Loi was posted on social networks, Mr. Ut’s bitter melon field received more and more attention. Mr. Ut also added that he was very happy that he had grown a field of bitter melon with “thousands of people’s passion”.
The owner of the bitter melon field “thousands of people love it” added that he has more than 4,000m2 of land to grow crops such as cucumbers, peppers, and Tet flowers, but the main thing is bitter melon. Thanks to the conversion to the “super-fruit” bitter melon variety, this old farmer “pocketed” quite a bit, about 20 to 30 million VND/crop.Follow Dan Tri