Hyacinth weaving: creating jobs for hundreds of workers

The technical support of rural training on weaving handicraft products from water hyacinth as well as support loans to purchase raw materials have created conditions for cooperative development of a stable Thanh Tu, simultaneously, creating hundreds of jobs for local workers, contributing to increased income for rural households.

Tu cooperative founded in 2008, but owners of the cooperative - Le Thi Ngoc Thu to weaving water hyacinth from previous years. Thu see the original model introduced water hyacinth weaving high economic efficiency in some places to look to a person familiar with the company specializes in purchasing products woven from water hyacinth for apprentices and talk to women in local the invitation from the company to teach people with savings from selling vegetables, selling rice, chicken sale, ... to pay for the training for several weeks. Just curious, has enjoyed a relatively new profession, sister Vi Thang learned profession, self picking hyacinths in rivers, canals near as raw materials for knitting products.
In early 2008, she noticed some of craftsmanship, to create a stable product, Thu registration boldly established the Cooperative Tu specializes in manufacturing products of handicrafts made from water hyacinth. At first, many hyacinth grows in rivers and canals, the abundance of raw materials to make products, the company designs put on products made by the company are very favorable consumption for the job. However, the order gradually increasing the number of members in the small to meet. Seeing this, Thu urged more local women to cooperative apprenticeship and work here, the sisters were skilled bring about homemade material for ease of livestock and crops in family. By this time, the cooperative Tu has over 100 members specializing in weaving handicraft products from water hyacinth and nearly 300 other families do home delivery of spare time, in addition, also there are many specialized households harvesting water hyacinth grows naturally in rivers and canals to provide cooperative.
Available from a plant in the wild, hyacinth has become a source of raw materials to create hundreds of jobs for rural workers in Vi Thuy district. Handicraft products from water hyacinth Tu cooperative's rich and diverse in design, style, from fashion handbags to the common basket, decorations and housewares. Cooperatives are currently producing 15 kinds of products, which are mainly fashion bags and basket, making 4,000 monthly product, about $ 60 million. Depending on the number of products that each employee has income from 1 million to 2.5 million per month. Ngoc Thu said: Product of cooperative where consumption has stabilized, things to do in the future is a guide for all working women receive skilled firmly spare time, create uniformity in products, improve the skill of some of them was proficient to meet some kind of sophisticated products, sophisticated.

Nguyen Thi Bich Van cooperative members share: From hyacinth weaving said family life was more stable, with a monthly average earn more than a million. Many women working in the fields, livestock, fruit trees, home selling and delivery of spare time to make extra income.
According to the chairman of the Farmers' Sum Vi Nguyen Van Thang, woven hyacinth model of cooperative Tu efficient operations, create jobs for many people who should have registered for the women in the cooperative is engaged craft of knitting classes hyacinth held by the district, introduced Ngoc Thu attend training classes on knitting hyacinth organized by district and province. The commune also campaigned Vi Thuy District Farmers Union Cooperative support for interest-free loan of 100 million to have stable sources of raw material procurement. Time to commune will continue to register for sisters in cooperative training classes on basic knitting hyacinth and enhanced to many rural households are apprentices to earn extra income for the family. / .