Tien Phuoc economy achieves impressive results

Areca growers in Tien Phuoc are happy as areca prices have skyrocketed recently. Photo: DL

Affirming the economic position of the garden

In 2024, many Tien Phuoc gardeners will have an income of several hundred million to billions of dong from areca trees. The price of areca this year is sky-high, at times reaching over 90,000 VND/kg.

The communes of Tien Lanh, Tien Ngoc, Tien Hiep, and Tien Tho have large areca palm areas in the district. For example, Mr. Bui Van Ty's family garden (Tien Hiep commune, Tien Phuoc) has 500 areca palm trees from 7 to 15 years old. When Mr. Ty harvested, the areca palms were priced at 55,000 to 75,000 VND/kg, so he earned about 60 million VND from 1 ton of areca palms.

He shared: “This year, areca nuts have a good price, helping families have a good source of income. In fact, if the price does not increase too much, at 20,000 - 40,000 VND/kg, it will still bring a stable source of income for growers.”

According to statistics from the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Tien Phuoc district, the area of ​​areca palm cultivation in the area is about 1,000 hectares, of which the area that has produced fruit is about 500 hectares. The income value from areca palm and areca palm by-products of the whole district reaches 100 - 150 billion VND/year.

In addition to the areca trees that have been grown by people for many years, Tien Phuoc also has many pepper, orange, tangerine, durian, mangosteen gardens... bringing high economic efficiency.

The whole district has more than 5,000 hectares of gardens renovated, invested in, and intensively cultivated to improve economic efficiency (accounting for 75% of the existing garden area), 128 small and medium-sized farms (of which 27 farms meet the prescribed criteria), and more than 500 gardens meet the criteria of green - clean - beautiful and effective.

The district supports farmers to continue maintaining organic and VietGAP certified models including 2 hectares of organic longan trees and more than 18.2 hectares of VietGAP certified trees of various types (1 hectare of Tien Phuoc pepper, 1 hectare of oranges, more than 5.2 hectares of bananas, 11 hectares of longan).

Since the beginning of 2024, 40 more gardens have been recognized as model gardens in Tien My commune, bringing the number of recognized model gardens in the district to 364. The total value of agricultural, forestry and fishery production is estimated at 873 billion VND, an increase of 7.92% compared to 2023, exceeding the set plan by 0.92%.

Complete many important targets

According to the People's Committee of Tien Phuoc district, the socio-economic situation in 2024 achieved all the targets set at the beginning of the year. Some targets were achieved and exceeded, such as the estimated value of industrial and construction production reaching 2,598 billion VND, the estimated value of trade and services reaching 4,315 billion VND. The total local budget revenue is estimated at 953.3 billion VND, reaching 144.2% of the district's estimate and 147.2% of the province's estimate.

Garden economy continues to affirm its value in Tien Phuoc's economy. Photo: DL

Total local budget expenditure is more than 858.8 billion VND, reaching 126.8% of the estimate assigned by the District People's Council. As of the end of November 2024, the total capital for basic construction investment in 2024 is more than 269.8 billion VND, disbursement of public investment capital in 2024 is more than 244.7 billion VND (reaching 90.7%), disbursement of capital extended from 2023 to 2024 is more than 39.1 billion VND (reaching 100%).

The economy has achieved positive results, helping to ensure social security tasks. In particular, the number of poor households in the district has decreased to 582 households (reduced by 67 poor households, reaching 121% of the plan); near-poor households have decreased to 310 households (reduced by 26/13 near-poor households, reaching 200% of the plan).

Workers are provided with jobs through many different channels, from on-site jobs to working in companies inside and outside the district, and working abroad. The rate of trained workers in the district has reached 79%, of which workers with degrees and certificates reached 29%, creating new jobs for 2,500 workers in the year.

Mr. Tram Que Huong - Chairman of Tien Phuoc District People's Committee said: "The results of 2024 play an important role for the district in implementing the goals of the Resolution of the 17th District Party Congress and the 5-year socio-economic development plan 2021 - 2025.

In 2025, Tien Phuoc still has difficulties to overcome, especially the roadmap for building a new rural district. Tien Phuoc launched a special emulation campaign in 2025, striving to complete major goals.

In the coming time, Tien Phuoc will focus on promoting the economic restructuring of industry, handicrafts, trade, services, and tourism . Exploiting advantages to develop agriculture and forestry, planting large timber forests, and planting raw materials in an intensive manner to increase productivity, quality, output, and economic efficiency.

Tien Phuoc continues to effectively organize and implement the private economic development program, promote, dialogue, guide, and support to attract many investment projects of enterprises into the district, combined with support for the development of cooperative economy. Mobilize and integrate resources to build and upgrade the rural and urban infrastructure system, serving production and people's lives.

Source: https://baoquangnam.vn/kinh-te-tien-phuoc-dat-ket-qua-an-tuong-3145819.html