Hau Giang: Collecting billions from high-tech melon garden

A farmer in Hau Giang used to only grow rice, but in the past two years, he has invested more than half a billion dong to grow melon. Up to now, his family earns billions from the green, rich, high cost melon garden.


                The garden is green and full of fruits by farmers Vo Van Chung in Hau Giang
Mr. Vo Van Chung's family (Binh Thanh commune, Phung Hiep district, Hau Giang. In 2015, to satisfy his passion for high-tech agriculture, Mr. Chung started planting melon. is the first hi-tech melon garden in Hau Giang province.

Mr. Chung said that he loved the new technology and that he knew some friends working in this field, so he initially boldly invested over VND 600 million, applied a model of planting melon in a greenhouse, applied Isarel's drip irrigation technique on an area of about 2,000m². That year, minus all costs, profits reached over 130 million / 2 crops.

            Mr. Chung's melon garden applies Israeli technology of drip irrigation
High-tech watering process, preprogrammed with 10 times / day, and every 2 minutes, saving up to 80% of the water compared to conventional but high yield, good quality, on 90% of fruits reach grade 1, the percentage of loss is less than 3%. Besides, the growing time of melon is relatively short, so it is possible to grow 4 crops / year.

At present, Mr. Chung's melon garden has been very effective. Each year with 5,000m2 of land for 4 seasons of melon, Mr. Chung earns about 1.5 billion VND, of which the cost is only about 30%.

                                                  The workers are harvesting the melon

Mr. Chung said: “The melon is grown in a greenhouse without using chemical medicine, helping the melon fruit to be brought back as natural so it is safe for users.

Just last Tet melon crop with 6,000 melons is estimated to yield about 6 tons of melons, the current selling price is about VND 30,000 / kg and the company has completely covered the profits of hundreds of millions for him.


  Mr. Chung said, last year's melon crop he earned about 6 tons of melon net, hundreds of millions of profit
An officer of the Phung Hiep DARD Division said that when applying this drip irrigation model, the average number of 6,000 melon per month was just over 200m³ of water (more than 900,000 VND). Watermelon plants grow about 65 days, so each crop only costs more than 2 million VND for watering, significantly reducing the amount of water compared to conventional irrigation, suitable with the current weather conditions, so it is profitable. for growers quite tall.

Ngoc Chuc / dantri