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Many times ago, Nga Son (Thanh Hoa) has been well known for
planting sedge and weaving mat. Even local travelers or visitors
all buy the couple Mat of Nga Son as a present. It is cheap,
beautiful and comfortable for sleeping... weaving sedge mat
becomes the triditional handicraft at Nga Son. The local people
at born-time get used to smoking scent, loom and consider
the colour of sedge flower as the colour of aristocratic apricot
blossom.
The Sedge makes the life of Nga Son's people less tired. Children
go to school and there are always the well pupils at provincial
and national levels. Adults is took care more of food and
clothes... coming to Nga Son in sedge bloom season, people
seem to be lost in the forest of sparkling color. The sedge
with 3 edges is planted on a large scale, rising up over the
taste of marine soil.
In the changes of the economy market, as the sedge is unmarketable
the Nga Son people were full of hardship in some time. There
are many people leaving their loom to find new means of living
because of lacking patient. From the latest 10 years up to
now. Nga Son sedge has found the market again. Beside the
3 edges sedge there has been planted kind of white flower
sedge with high productivity on the higher salty rate of land.
The tree-trunk is quite round with the stable white fibber
and 1.5-2 meter length. The peoples living far from hometown
come back and reunite with sedges and looms. All the country,
Nga Son is known by sedge and sedge mat. In 1999, Nga Son
sold out 2,160,000 mats, increasing by 13% compared with the
same period of 1998. With the beautiful models, good quality...
Nga Son Mat has rose up and controlled the market, defeated
the other competitor as nylon mats, sedge mats from the other
village... The face of Nga Son is changing
The redevelopment of sedge and sedge profession brings to
Nga Son peoples the big source of income. Only the sedge goods
of Nga Son get USD 1.78 million (about VND 25 billion). Work
is still an urgent matter in Nga Son. Sedge gives regular
job to 16,550 labors (11,172 professional labors among) and
the millions of the other service labors. The annual source
of income is about VND 69 billion, it makes up over a third
the total income on field
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