Turning a hill of scrubby trees into a guava orchard: 500 million dong a year supported by a Da Nang extension worker
In Que Son district, Da Nang city in central Vietnam, a hill of scrubland that had been logged bare has been reborn as an orchard. In 2023, Truong Van Arinh, who leads the local agricultural cooperative "HTX Nong nghiep Rung Bao," dug up a 3-hectare plot of poor acacia (keo) and planted the Taiwanese-type pear guava "oi le...