Rise after the flood
There are nearly 2 months left until Lunar New Year 2025. This year, people in the peach growing area of Cam Gia ward (Thai Nguyen city) suffered from storm No. 3 in September 2024, which caused the peach growing land that was about to enter the season to be buried in mud, causing heavy damage to the people.
Returning to Cam Gia peach village at the end of the year, the scene of flooded mud has given way to the green of young trees, signaling the revival of the traditional peach growing village after the great flood.
On the road leading to Cam Gia peach village, among the old peach trees that survived are hundreds of newly planted ones.People here are busy digging the ground, sprinkling lime to disinfect, and pruning branches and leaves.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Dao (Cam Gia ward) shared that the recent flood killed nearly 1,000 family peach trees, causing damage of nearly 800 million VND.
Instead of giving up, she and the local people started the restoration work. Ms. Dao said that the process of land improvement was very hard, costly, and sometimes discouraging. She thought about giving up, but her family encouraged her and the government provided timely support, which helped motivate the people.
“My family has removed all the dead peach trees, improved the soil and bought about 200 seedlings to replant. This year’s Tet crop may not be able to recover, but next year, hopefully, the spring peach blossoms will bloom again like before,” Ms. Dao shared.
Green returns to peach village
Not far away is the ancient peach garden of Ms. Hoang Thi Hang’s family (Chai hamlet, Cam Gia ward), one of the lucky households that was slightly affected by the historic flood. Looking at the fresh green peach trees with healthy, colorful leaves, she could not hide her emotions when remembering the scene of the peach garden devastated by the flood.
Speaking to reporters, Mr. Tran Van Binh - Chairman of Cam Gia Ward People's Committee - said that the flood in mid-September caused severe damage to Cam Gia peach growing village. According to statistics, 37 hectares of peach growing land were damaged, with an estimated loss of nearly 20 billion VND.
Immediately after the historic flood, the authorities of Thai Nguyen province went down to inspect and sympathize with the people of the peach growing village that suffered damage, and at the same time proposed to support seedlings for people to plant to replace the damaged peach gardens. For peach gardens that were not affected or were affected but recovered, officials will be sent down to guide them on how to care for them so that they can serve the market during this year's Tet holiday.
The peach growing village in Cam Gia (Thai Nguyen City) has over 100 members, with over 30,000 peach trees. Peach blossoms here have been granted a collective trademark certificate by the Department of Intellectual Property (Ministry of Science and Technology), and have been recognized as a typical agricultural product of Thai Nguyen province for many consecutive years.
