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For more than a year now, Coconut Butterfly Cooperative in Cam Thinh Dong Commune (Cam Ranh City, Khanh Hoa Province) has done very well. However, the biggest difficulty of the cooperative group is the development of new members.

Good product

To members of the cooperative group of coconuts in My Thanh hamlet (Cam Thinh Dong commune), we find the atmosphere of labor production quite bustling. Each family has about 3 - 4 people busy with broom making. Le Dong Nhat, a member of a cooperative group, said that the output of the product is very good, not only in Nha Trang, Dien Khanh and Cam Ranh but also in Phan Rang, Gia Lai. Sometimes his family has to do until 1 to 2 am to deliver goods to guests. According to Japanese calculations, each broom after deducting expenses, profit about 3,000 to 3,500. His family has 3 laborers doing regular 150 plants / day, earning more than 500,000 VND / day. Due to many orders, he hired more people in the same village. Therefore, his family's total income is about 1 million VND / day. "In the rainy season, brooms are very strong, not enough to sell. Brush making has become my family's main income for several years. Thanks to that, my wife has money to repair the house and raise children in college in Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh City, "he said. Not far from the Japanese family, Vo Thi Kim Ha's family is also urgently brooming to deliver large orders for a troop unit. Ms. Ha shared, all expenses and tuition of 3 children are thanks to brooms.

Chau Thi Lan, head of Coconut Butterfly Cooperative, Cam Thinh Dong said that the group was established in 2013 with 12 members. Initially, the team was set up to make use of locally available resources to create jobs for older women and workers. However, at present, coconut broom making has become the main source of income for the members, the lowest is 4 million per person per month. Many members have expanded their production, creating regular jobs for about 60 local workers. At the beginning, besides 6 million dong, members of the team were given VND8 million / person, each of whom could borrow two times to develop the production. Thanks to the favorable production activities, the members have now completed their loan to the bank.

Production of coconut broom brings stable income for members of the cooperative group producing coconut broom in Cam Thinh Dong commune.

Production of coconut broom brings stable income for members of the cooperative group producing coconut broom in Cam Thinh Dong commune.

Difficult to develop more members

According to Mr. Dang Van Thu - Chairman of Cam Thinh Dong Commune, the cooperative has cooperative production of coconut broom, incense, salt production, goat sheep. In particular, cooperative production of coconut brooms work best and have mutual support in production, such as: link purchase raw materials cheap; Borrowing raw materials so that the production and consumption of products more favorable. Currently, thanks to the support of the team members, the line is extended, who do not consume it, then send other people help; At the same time, when there are large orders, the members to work together to make delivery to customers.

However, the biggest difficulty of the cooperative group is the development of new members in order to orient the establishment of cooperatives in the future. Le Huu Ngan, Chairman of the Commune Farmers' Association, said that the whole commune had about 35 households making coconut brooms. Apart from the team members, other households work on a very small scale. The Association has repeatedly mobilized the households to join the cooperative to develop the production but they have not agreed because they are not supported by capital. In addition, members of the cooperative group also want to borrow more capital with a higher level of borrowing to reserve raw materials in the rainy season. As this is the most consuming season of the year, the material is limited. "The association has absorbed the aspirations of its members and will propose their superiors to consider and coordinate with the social policy bank for members to expand production loans," Ngan said.