The countryside has sweet fruits all year round

Farmers in Chieng Hac commune apply mango bagging technique.

Mentioning Yen Chau is mentioning a fertile land with a special round mango variety, fragrant, sweet taste, favored by consumers. This is a native mango variety, grown for a long time and has become more famous since being granted a geographical indication certificate. In recent years, the locality has focused on conservation, selecting parent trees, grafting and improving to replace degraded varieties, applying intensive farming techniques to improve productivity and quality. Thanks to that, the area of round mango has expanded to more than 600 hectares. In addition, many other mango varieties such as Thai, Australian, Taiwanese are grown with a total area of more than 3,000 hectares, of which nearly 1,000 hectares meet VietGAP and organic standards; 298 hectares are granted a growing area code for export.

Farmers of Phieng Khoai commune harvest Tai Nung pears.

Today, going along from the center of Yen Chau and Chieng Hac communes to the highland and border communes of Yen Son, Phieng Khoai, and Long Phieng, the hills are covered with mangoes, bananas, plums, and longans... The fruit growing area has brought a stable source of income to the ethnic people. Thanks to the diversity of ecological sub-regions and climate, the communes have the advantage of developing many types of specialty fruit trees. Along Vat stream, the hot and dry climate is suitable for growing mangoes and bananas; the highland red soil is suitable for longan; the border area is cool all year round, favorable for plums and pears to grow. The province's policy of converting sloping land to grow fruit trees has brought about clear results. The whole region has nearly 12,500 hectares of fruit trees, with an output of more than 100,000 tons per year.

Like mango, longan is a local specialty of Yen Chau. From local longan roots with low productivity, households have learned how to improve and graft new longan varieties for higher productivity, especially late-ripening longan varieties with large fruit, thick flesh, juicy, selling well and at a good price. With over 3,500 hectares of grafted longan, concentrated in Tu Nang and Chieng Hac communes... this crop has helped many families have an increasingly stable life.

In the border area of Yen Son commune, Phieng Khoai, farmers have grown a variety of specialty fruits that are well received by the market, such as plums, strawberries, pears, and passion fruit. A typical example is Kien Cuong Cooperative in Phieng Khoai commune, which has successfully planted pear and plum trees. Ms. Dinh Thi May, Director, shared: The Cooperative currently has 70 hectares of Tai Nung pears and 30 hectares of plums grown according to organic processes. All production is managed by a garden monitoring system, and products have traceability stamps and brand identification. Each year, the Cooperative harvests more than 700 tons of fruit, consumed through supermarkets, clean fruit stores, and e-commerce platforms, bringing in nearly 4 billion VND in revenue. Up to now, the Cooperative has successfully built the Ruby plum brand, which has been selected for many consecutive years to serve in domestic airline meals; and pear products have been recognized as OCOP at the provincial level.

The productivity and quality of fruit orchards have been improved thanks to the application of scientific and technological advances in production, such as: grafting late-ripening longan, Australian, Thai, Taiwanese mango varieties, selecting top varieties of round mango, Tai Nung pear... In early 2025, the Provincial People's Committee recognized 3 high-tech agricultural areas, including: plum area in Phieng Khoai commune, longan area in Long Phieng commune and mango area in Chieng Hac commune, with a total area of 1,030 hectares.

The area of fruit trees has been expanded according to the advantages of each region associated with safe production, so many products have been exported to demanding markets, such as: EU, Australia, USA, Korea, Japan, China... Especially after implementing the 2-level local government model, 14 communes and towns of Yen Chau district were arranged into 5 new administrative units, including the communes: Yen Chau, Chieng Hac, Long Phieng, Phieng Khoai, Yen Son. After the merger, each locality has the opportunity to expand its space, bringing its own advantages for development.

Farmers in Yen Chau commune harvest round mangoes.

Continuing the achievements, the communes are focusing on developing production on a regional scale, associated with product preservation, processing and consumption, especially developing raw material areas for factories; focusing on trade promotion, market expansion, creating favorable conditions for businesses to invest, linking product consumption so that the land of "sweet bananas, fragrant mangoes" can transform strongly, bringing economic value, improving the lives and income of the people.

Strawberry trees were planted by farmers in Long Phieng commune.

Mr. Lu Van Cuong, Secretary of the Yen Chau Commune Party Committee, said: After the merger, the commune has a larger agricultural land area, stretching along Highway 6, which is favorable for growing fruit trees and is a central location for connecting product consumption. Promoting the achieved results, the commune continues to mobilize people to maintain the area of typical fruit trees such as mango, banana, longan...; preserve the original varieties, apply science and technology to production, and improve product quality.

Phieng Khoai plums are packaged for consumption.

Promoting regional advantages, ethnic people focus on developing key crops to improve their lives. Yen Chau land, once marked by a glorious history, is now more radiant with high-quality fruit tree models. This is a clear demonstration of the innovation process, turning a place that was once difficult into a fruit orchard, bringing a prosperous life to the people.

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