To offer practical help to watermelon growers that are facing with many difficulties, PetroVietnam Fertilizer and Chemicals Joint Stock Company (PVFCCo, the manufacturer and seller of Phu My fertilizers), urgently carried out a social responsibility program in Binh Son District, Quang Ngai Province. This province has got an area of 387 ha for growing watermelon in 2016-2017 Winter-Spring crop that suffered from “high production, low price” situation, resulting in a loss of hundreds of million dong. Local government authorities had to launch the campaign for“rescuing” agricultural products.
As part of the program, on April 27, 2017, PVFCCo coordinated with the Red Cross Association of Quang Ngai Province and Red Cross Association of Binh Son District to organize a ceremony to grant 240 gifts in Binh Minh and Binh An communes with a total value of 100 million dong (each gift consisting of 50kg of Phu My Urea fertilizers that worth 400,000 VND) to watermelon growers that suffered from loss in the last season. Especially, in addition to offering Phu My Urea fertilizers, PVFCCo together with local agencies organized to popularize and instruct farmers on market information and farming techniques to help them reproduce actively and in compliance with market conditions.
On behalf of local farmers, Mr. Nguyen Hong Dinh, a senior farmer residing in My Long Hamlet, Binh Minh Commune, Binh Son District, expressed his sincere gratitude and said: “This program is very helpful and humane, with lasting and sustainable benefits. It not only provides us with Phu My Urea as input materials for growing our plants by using advanced cultivating techniques, but also helps us update ưith the latest information on output market. We are very grateful to PVFCCoand local governments. We believe that, in the next crops, we shall have a bountiful harvest on productivity, quality and consumption volume”.
Besides providing local agriculture with high-quality Phu My fertilizers in a timely manner, PVFCCo is also one of leading units in conducting social responsibility activities innovatively, practically, timely, and directly to help farmers.
