Plums covered with mosquito nets are twice as profitable as regular plums, reducing harm to the environment

From the above approach spurred major changes in many farms.

Covering the garden with nets - saving costs for farmers when gardeners have difficulty finding workers to cover the garden, said Tran Vi Dan, director of Loi Loi Dan Company - the heir to the heirloom weaving profession. from before 1975 - said.

Experience during 10 consecutive years of building Kaizen operating system to save and prevent waste, since 2005, has helped Loi Loi Dan Co., Ltd. to have better solutions for customers who are farmers. In 2016, Loi Loi Dan Co., Ltd. was voted as the enterprise of high quality Vietnamese goods by consumers. This time coincided with the time when plum growers in Lai Vung district (Dong Thap), Tan Loc island (Can Tho city) stood still because of the harmful yellow flies.

Kaizen is a management tool that drives small, step-by-step improvement over a long period of time with everyone involved. Meanwhile, gardeners need a "quick" cover solution after realizing the expensive lesson, the more they use pesticides, the harder it is to sell fruit trees. Loi Loi Dan organized many seminars to listen to gardeners, brought the technical team to each meager garden and after calculating everything related to plant growth conditions, insect characteristics... the solution. "covering the net" was born.

The solution of spreading mosquito nets or the whole garden is not too difficult for Loi Loi Dan because the insect net production system has been practically surveyed and improved continuously for the next 3 years. In 2019, Loi Loi Dan Co., Ltd. reached the standard of High Quality Vietnamese Goods - Integration Standard. The main product lines include: UV insect screen (with anti-ultraviolet - UV additives); mesh cover (cover) to block insects - 100% Zin, no UV; sunshade nets (cutting the sun); herbicides; Plastic pots; plastic planter trays; agricultural plastic flooring; The product not only meets the diverse needs of gardeners who grow fruit trees, orchids and safe ornamental plants, but also approaches the needs of high-tech shrimp farming, preserving agricultural products in the Mekong Delta, Central Highlands and South Central.

The factory scale is over 2,000m2 with 50 employees, each year supplying over 200 tons of products of all kinds (equivalent to 300,000,000m2 of net). The distribution system covers the whole country with 7 main product lines, all of which have the advantages of "tough, long, wide, not running on the net"; using primary plastic materials, so it is more durable and lasts longer than ordinary nets (life expectancy is over 10 years).

Currently, UV insect screen and insect screen cover - 100% Zin, even without UV, have been attached to the needs of big partners such as Viet Australia Corporation, Dalat Hasfarm, Nafoods Group, Apollo, Truong Hoang, Yen Sang Anh… “Our great joy is that farmers can sell agricultural products at high prices, with little or no use of pesticides. Gardeners supply for export - even more happy", Mr. Dan was happy when he calculated the investment cost of the net, the labor to cover the net for plums was about 8 - 10 million VND/work, using 10 years, saving money. 6 million VND/work compared to no net; the average profit is about 40 million VND/year, double that of normal plum cultivation.

“There have been many changes in machine tuning, listening to customers, innovating to make production and business results more efficient… We tell each other that we are a brand enterprise with High Quality Vietnamese Goods - Standard Integration, working substantively, fully meeting the requirements of the set of criteria is a matter of course, it is also necessary to calculate and harmonize the interests of customers. If you want to help farmers have healthy trees and sweet fruits, you must do something to ensure people's confidence, take the initiative in making the best quality, most beneficial products at competitive prices," Dan shared about culture. "Standard for integration" enterprise.

Source: Ngoc Bich - nongnghiepviet.vn