Cho Lach District - Ben Tre province

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Cho Lach District is a district of Ben Tre.
Cho Lach is in north-west of Ben Tre province, subject to the old TB Minh:
East side district residents worried.
Long Lake west district (Vinh Long).
South of the river Co Chien River.
Ham Luong River to the north border.

** Area: 189 km2
** Population: 131,000 people.

The administrative units:
Cho Lach town
Hoa Nghia
Hung Khanh Trung B
Long Thoi commune
Phu Phung
Phu Son
Son Dinh Commune
Tan Thieng
Vinh Binh
Vinh Hoa
Vinh Thanh.

Administrative geography, Cho Lach District but are common on the island along with their two and Thanh Phu, Mo Cay District, but this land was once part of the province of Vinh Long, at the entry of Ben Tre province. From CMT8-1945 and earlier, Cho Lach District is a district of Vinh Long province, located on the left bank of Co Chien River. From Cho Lach districts by road to Vinh Long town only 17 km, while the section from Cho Lach, Ben Tre to town nearly 50 km long.

As an eastern district of narrow, low average land, but Cho Lach have a point that other districts in the province do not have. The first is the preference of nature. Cho Lach land due to sediment deposition of the two great rivers and Ham Luong Joint Session, to be watered by a system of 25 branch canals, large and small runs along the horizontal, the fresh water year round. Just a couple of small pump horsepower is that farmers can make fresh water from the river into the field, his garden as you want without much difficulty. So in this land almost no failures due to drought as in other places. Annually water season, some areas have flooded the low-months, and when to sprint back on the ground, then planted a silt layer as a new fertilizer. There isles isles as Phu Da, The Chicken Island is where intensive orange, banana exporter with large output. Good soil, fresh water year round, climate regulation is the natural elements are the basic advantages for people here to help create a special zone fruit trees which are the most abundant of the South.

To the Vinh Thanh Commune, Vinh Hoa, Phu Son, Son The fruit season, guests can not help amazed at red ripe rambutan gardens, the wooden orange, wooden mandarin, grapefruit wrong buckling wooden covering both the left aisle, want to take steps to stem arms laden with fruit each. Scent of the flowers called on honeybee colonies, bee flies. The green mulberry, bon bon with the left chamber built around from root to tip, looks like eyes. Cho Lach fruit known far and near, not only in quantity but in quality and variety. In popular folk songs in praise of Ben Tre on local produce with the sentence:
"Durian, mangosteen Cai Mon
Clam shells alcohols Loi, Mo Cay good medicine. "

The two following products and district, Thanh Phu, Mo Cay district, while two products before, Cho Lach District. But fruit is not only the Cho Lach durian and mangosteen, but also grapefruit, plums, oranges, tangerines, mangos, bananas (each with five three types), rambutan, bon bon, berries, frogs, guava, longan, soursop, sapoche, lekima, left his season, which also left many kinds, also delicious, which is greatly appreciated. Many fruit trees from before, the propagation and cultivation spread to another, but the starting point is the land Cai Mon, Vinh Thanh.

But perhaps more worth mentioning, there is also a unique profession: career extraction plants, grafting, breeding and propagating the planting of fruit trees and ornamental trees. There are no specific statistics, but according to preliminary calculations, Vinh City and some neighboring communes each year has provided people in the province and other provinces, including some central provinces, the Western Originally tens of millions of seedlings of all kinds, as well as ornamental plants, to be rich and refined life. Looking at the code tree (kumquat) ornamental laden placed in bamboo baskets, or those long, roller, or deer, are shaped by branches and leaves similar to the serene beauty, the more I admire energy and skilled hands of its people.

With talent and experience hereditary, people employed producing seedlings and ornamental plants here have relatively high income every year, tens of times more than rice, sugar cane or other crops on the same single surface. Just half the land (500 m2) two spouses, several small children to work long is not too heavy, can collect tens of million sale of seedlings and plants each year. People in here would say "make a New Year season can live ornamental enough to sell all year."

Indeed, horticulture and the production of seedlings, ornamental plants has given people here a life of affluence, houses spacious, fully furnished, clean roads in villages and wide. The bridges which are common to many areas of rivers and canals, here is largely replaced by concrete bridges, ensuring bicycles, motorbikes, the Lowland, the burden back and forth easily. Women and children, the elderly no longer have to struggle when crossing the bamboo bridge, wiggles, rugged. The farmers, especially the young men and women, students from grade I to III, dressed not only clean but also to, not unlike where towns and towns. Should add one thing, compared to other districts in the province, the Cho Lach is less prone to the most devastating war, so that favorable conditions to quickly overcome the consequences of the war, soon come into question build up, stable organizations after the liberation. Facilities for cultural activities, arts and mass media like radio, catxet, television, musical instruments ... vehicles are also abundant than elsewhere, precisely because in the high income as mentioned above.

In addition to the advantages as described, Cho Lach also has a significant advantage is that is located right on the pearling strategic trunk roads from west to east, up the Ho Chi Minh City, in the middle two large rivers Ham Luong and Co Chien. Therefore, people here have had long relationships rather broad exchanges with other provinces in the region. The way to do business mostly in the form of "self-production, on their own." It can be said for every 10 houses is home to eight separate boat and canoe. Fruit they produce is brought to market, and the waterways they also buy other items, from rice paddy, fish sauce, the necessities brought about, then to the user, then the market share resale. The sale of agricultural policy, trade sale not only increase revenue outside the fields, gardens, but also create conditions for its people can acquire traits or, the beauty in cultural life, in the way of doing business, organizations of people living elsewhere to enrich our lives.

Cho Lach is home to many religions: Buddhism, Catholicism, Cao Dai, Hoa Hao Buddhists. Accounted for the largest number of fellow Christians. Most communes have church. Cai Mon parish (Vinh Thanh) is the oldest parish, was founded on June 2-1872, one of the 10 largest and oldest center of Christianity in our country. Here, outside a large church also has a nursing home, school, orphanage and chapel for the nuns. Cai Mon is also home to the scholar Truong Vinh Ky. Beer and his memories are still intact. They directed the fragile (Long Thoi commune) is also a large parish, outside the church, where there is a seminary. Fellow Christians in these two places up from 80 to 90 percent of the population.

So far, many communes have completed the renovation of gardens in the direction of intensive farming, intercropping crops reasonable, given the new plant to replace adapted to soil conditions and climate. The Phu Phung, Son Dinh, Tan Thieng, Hoa Nghia has concentrated investment in the construction of embankments, irrigation combined with traffic, to protect and stabilize crop yields. In each commune, in practical terms, self-reliant as dikes people locally. Phung Phu forefront of scientific applications, increases the likelihood of rambutan fruit.

The movement of production, has appeared more typical of collective and individual high efficiency in farming and animal husbandry VAC. People increasingly conscious in the selection of plant diseases, high yield, as well as the application of new science and technology into production.

As mentioned above, Cho Lach District narrow the east, agricultural land in the district is 12,500 hectares per capita of less than 1,000 m2. Therefore, what crops, what a child, method of land rotation calculations must choose. According to 1999 statistics, the rice land in the district from 5300 ha (1990), this remaining 1,500 ha. Meanwhile garden land from 7,000 ha (1990) now increased to 10,500 ha. Out of this garden land, 80% for fruit-growing species with high economic value such as oranges, tangerines, mango, rambutan, durian, mangosteen ... Thus, the annual fruit production of the district (excluding coconuts) has reached 100,000 tons. It is a positive step forward and brings higher income to farmers, has solved the jobs, while more than 2,000 people each year are added to the workforce. According to 1999 statistics, the number of people of working age in the district has 66,700 people, 96% have a job all year.

We can say the biggest success of the district in 25 years (1975-2000) was essentially completed the restructuring of economic, socio-intensive gardening under the option, accelerate the production seedlings and ornamental plants.

Regarding the construction of infrastructure, the district has invested in building a system with 86 rural transportation routes inter-communal and inter-village with a total length of 132 km. Street cars were hooked on the very heart of the 11 communes. Many villages have been paid footbridges. Cho Lach canal bridge crossing linking Cho Lach 888 provincial highway from the town through the Phu Phung, now Highway 57, was inaugurated on 19-5-1994.

National Grid works covering 10 communes and 1 town, but only 10,500 households using electricity, accounting for 35% of households in the district.

Cho Lach District has 5 automatic telephone exchange with 3,000 machines, an average of 1.76 telephones per 100 people; there are 4 communal cultural post offices.

On education, communes have now every primary and secondary schools. Having completed the first phase, the University High School and Cho Lach A completed kindergarten in the town center. Since 1995, Cho Lach District have been recognized standard of universal primary education and combat illiteracy.

The district health center in the town has 60 beds and a 10 bed infirmary area, 8 commune health stations have been solidly built, of which 5 stations have doctors in charge. On average in the district is 7.5 doctors per thousand people.