With a plot of over 1,000m2, two buffaloes and farming tools like plows, harrows, firewood cookers, rice mortars and others, for last 10 years, farmers in Cam Thanh commune of Hoi An have taught Occidental tourists to farm, collected thousands of dollars.
Increase
income from farming
“Every Vietnamese people
also belittle this agricultural vocation toiling and moiling in the fields, I
don’t understand why Western tourists to Hoi An fascinate it. They are willing
to spend money to apprentice.” – said Nhi Pham, an old farmer lives in Cam
Thanh, Hoi An.
Over nearly 10
years, thanks to the field, two buffaloes, farming tools, and a firewood
cooker in the cottage in the middle of Cam Thanh field, he has earned thousands
of dollars.
The work of teaching
Western tourists to farm of Mr. Nhi and the young man Khoa Tran Van, as he
said, was not similar to anyone, but helps their family have a good life thanks
to the income higher than 10 times, about 5-7 million VND per month (235 – 330
USD), compared to just only cultivating on this alum field.
“If growing two rice
crops per year on this 1,000m2 field, minus the cost, I will collect
just above 4 million VND. However, over last 10 years, we has earned average
more than 60 million VND (2806 USD) per year, which has been just “school fees”
that Mr. Khoa brought for us by teaching Western tourists to farm.”
Not only Mr. Nhi, Mr.
Khoa also has taken Occidental tourists to tens of farming households in Cam Thanh
commune so as that they teach these tourists the agricultural occupation. The
short-term farming courses within 6 hours are opened frequently by Khoa and these
farmers that makes Western tourists to Hoi An flock to register. For each 6-hour-course,
foreign tourists pay 50-60 USD/ person.
Beside learning farming, tourists to Hoi An also learn the work of a fisherman. View here.
Pay
to win jobs of farmers
Many households planting
vegetables in Tra Que village told, in the peak season that numerous foreign
tourists travel to Hoi An, beside income from planting vegetables, they also
earn extra income (about 3-5 million VND/ month) owning to teaching Western
tourists to grow vegetables.
Mrs. Thuy Nguyen Thi, a
farmer in Tra Que village said, she started the work of teaching to plant
vegetables in a highly unexpected way. One morning as usual, she was hoeing the
field to prepare to plant a few bed of vegetables. Suddenly, Khoa took a group
of overseas tourists to her field and asked her for help to teach them how to
hoe on soil, put manure on beds, plant vegetables.
“Mr. Khoa spoke English to Occidental tourists, then they rushed down the fields, asked for working with me.
I instructed them. At the end, Mr. Khoa paid me 100,000 VND as wage. Since
then, I became a teacher.” said Mrs. Thuy.
Thanks to this, the tired
works of hoeing up ground, growing vegetables and watering of Mrs. Thuy as well
as other farmers in Tra Que village has been less strenuous during several years
recently.
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Mr. Nhi Pham teaches the tourist group how to transplant rice seedlings |
“In the previous time
there was no Western tourists, I alone tried my best to hoe all the field also
took me several days. Now also the same field, in just only a morning I work
with tourists, my hoeing job complete. I do not spend a lot of power but still
earn more money.” She said.
The wife of Mr. Nhi
related: “When I was very busy in the kitchen to prepare for the lunch meal, I
saw a Western tourist group at the field rush into my house. They contended for
washing rice, lighting a fire and cooking rice. Saw me stupefied, Mr. Khoa told
me to instruct them the way of making a fire and steaming rice. Since then, I
has become a reluctant teacher.”
In addition, she also
teaches Western tourists how to pound rice, mill flour and make “banh xeo”
(rice pancake folded in half). She has done these jobs for several decades
so there is nothing difficult to her.
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