Vietnam: Ca Mau farmers earn hundreds of millions planting squash under the rice field

Every year, when preparing to harvest the winter-spring rice crop, people in the communes of Khanh Binh Dong, Tran Hoi, Khanh Hung (Tran Van Thoi district) conduct seeding of vegetables on the sidewalls that are cut along the middle of the field. Local people mainly breed squash, gourd, squash or okra... After harvesting rice, people switch to fertilizing the crop. Although it is a secondary crop, it has helped people earn tens or even hundreds of millions of dong, depending on the area and farming techniques. This year's pumpkin crop has been well-seasoned, helping many farmers have a stable income, and some households have earned hundreds of millions of dong. Mr. Pham Van Phuong's family (Khanh Binh Dong commune, Tran Van Thoi district) has just finished harvesting the pumpkin crop in the field. "With an area of nearly 4 hectares of land specializing in rice cultivation, I went up to eight banks to grow squash. On an area of about 2.7 hectares of pumpkin land, his family ...