Tet holidays

There are no barren cassava and maize fields as seen in the past on hillsides in Mo Cong hamlet in Son La province. The hills are now covered with passion fruit, bringing growers billions of dong a year. On pre-Tet days, Thao A Ho in Mo Cong hamlet was still busy working in his field taking care of passion fruit trees. The work took him only half a day, while he spent the other half going to market to do shopping for Tet. According to Ho, Mo Cong’s people were happy as they have collected big money from yellow passion fruit sale. Ho has earned VND100 million, while households which have larger growing areas could earn up to VND500 million. In the past, Ho grew cassava on an area of two hectares, which bring little money. Later, he shifted to grow purple passion fruit, but the price of this fruit has always been low in the last years. He last year sold purple passion fruit at VND2,000-3,000 per kilogram only. He tried to grow 400 yellow passion fruit trees on an area of 0.5 hectares. Though he harvested 10 tons of this fruit, he still could earn big money thanks to the high price. So, he and his family members had a comfortable Tet holiday. The passion fruit is farmed in accordance with VietGAP standards. An enterprise provides standard seeds, fertilizer, bioproducts and technical officers to farmers and commits to collect all passion fruit output if farmers strictly observe their instructions. Farmers don’t have to make high investments to grow passion fruit. “The passion fruit tree can bring higher profit than maize, and it is not a strenuous work,” he said. Also according to Ho, there are tens of households in the hamlet cooperating with the enterprise to grow yellow passion fruit. Sung A Dinh, 28, has become a DONG? millionaire in the mountainous village. Dinh and his wife had two hectares of sweet passion fruit area which gave output of 50 tons. With the selling price of VND15,000-26,000 per kilogram, he collected VND800 million and …

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Nguyen Duc Hieu - the winner of the First Prize at the Nationwide Dance Performance Talent competition 2020 Born in Hanoi in 2000, from a young age, Nguyen Duc Hieu soon revealed his qualities of a professional dancer. Before turning to ballet, Nguyen Duc Hieu was known as a talent in the dance sports field with more than 50 domestic and international gold, silver, bronze medals. In 2020, after graduating with a good degree from the Vietnam Academy of Dance, Duc Hieu was admitted to the dance troupe of the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet Theatre (VNOB). When he was sent by the VNOB to participate in the Nationwide Dance Performance Talent competition, he won first prize in the category of European classical ballet and modern ballet. Nguyen Duc Hieu shared: “2020 can be considered as the moment to mark many of the best things for myself, even though Covid-19 pandemic has been raging around the world. Hopefully with my dancing, I can bring great stories to the public”. Vu Viet Hoa - Young talented theatre actress Born in 1996, in Yen Bai, Vu Viet Hoa graduated from Hanoi University of Theater and Cinema as a young actress in the Vietnam National Drama Theatre. She made a mark in 2020 with many impressive roles, especially having excelled to win the Gold Medal in the contest for national young theatre actor talent with the role of Phon Y in the play named 'Loi Vu'. For television audiences, Viet Hoa has made a mark in the movies "Nhung Ngay Khong Quen" (Unforgettable days), "Nhung Thien Than Nha S6" (Angels of the S6), "Co Gai Nha Nguoi Ta" (The girl of another family) and most recent movie "Tro Ve Giua Yeu Thuong" (Return between love) . In "Nhung Ngay Khong Quen", the role "Dao" as a hairdresser, who is sister of a teacher named Uyen (played by Phuong Oanh), is a role with depth. The role "Uyen" is tender, meanwhile the role "Dao" is so sharp. However, behind her personality, Dao is still rich in love and kindness. It can be said that the …

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