When grain is 'to life'

Once made up life in the village, not the value of the rice is raised a lot, but also contribute to addressing the output for rice farmers.

The rice had higher levels of amilo, when dried and cooked rice often hard conditioned low quality but has a particular niche in the market: great ingredients for making bread, vermicelli, noodles, pho ...
100 year old craft village
In the Mekong Delta, local almost always have these families specializing girdle cakes, noodles, vermicelli, noodles ... with source materials from rice flour.

Many places have formed the famous villages, their products not only for domestic consumption but also for export around the world. Thanh Hung Commune (Giong Rieng, Kien Giang) is one such village with traditional rice paper product nực near, far.

About Giong Rieng, ask Thanh Hung village rice paper from old, young, handsome, finely enthusiastic everyone knows and directions. But the granddaddy of this village who are unknown.

According to the seniors living here, the village has a hundred years. Initially, only a few households in the commune for use in the home, but then thanks to the delicious taste and characteristic toughness, should roll Thanh Hung gradually people elsewhere bid and become specialty famous of the region.

Thanh Hung become rice paper goods sold around the country and even exported abroad.

At its peak, the village has 100 households involved in the production. Experienced many ups and downs but the village never turn off the heat. Many households 2-3 lifetime hereditary continue to preserve and promote this profession.

Currently, Thanh Hung roll villages mainly concentrated in two villages Thanh Trung and Thanh Tan.

Tran Van Sang, Thanh Trung hamlet, said: "The family has to stick with the traditional rice paper craft for decades. Do not smoke every time a break up. When consumed slowly, vacation, but also for a day to remember the profession is bunched firewood furnace. "

According to Mr. Sang, rice paper, but not high income jobs all year round, the sun itself is done. Baking bright, hard-way field. And the harvest time, the free day to do that day.

Anh Sang said: "My family makes traditional cakes, except flour milling machine is now, rest all is still handmade.

A magnificent day 3 from 2000-3000 cake, present price from 140000-150000 copper / Natural (1000 pieces), minus the cost of living is enough everyday family. "

Currently, industrialized, many households have invested automatic coating machine, a day can produce some want (10,000 pieces) cake.

Nguyen Nhu Strong protection is one of the pioneers of investment in machines replace manual labor. Currently, he is Head Strong village leadership, while the Head of Cooperation roll Thanh Trung hamlet with 16 members.

Anh Manh not only directly productive but also stand out collection and consumption of rice paper to their members.

Anh Manh sharing: "The advantages of traditional rice paper is not much cost, using handicraft techniques is essential, organizations producing identifiable household scale, rapid capital rotation, collected stable incomes should help cover many things in everyday life.

So many families have to stick with this job 2-3 away, their diligence, preserve and proud with the job that his father had left as holding cultural beauty of traditional villages. "

However, over time, baking techniques have also changed. Previously, mill with millstone, now has stainless steel bowl, electric motor-driven, quick and hygienic.

And cake coated with coconut shells days ago, took the bread out of banana tree core, then the parcel fabric ...

Although the technical means and baking have been many changes but the quality of the rice paper Thanh Hung traditional villages still remain.

Thanh Hung Rice paper is produced according to traditional craft techniques
Thanh Hung Commune People's Committee Chairman Le Van Chi said, not only that province last time the district has had a lot of interest, investment and development Thanh Hung village roll.

As this is the traditional villages have existed for a hundred years, the peak time jobs, providing income for around hundred farmers in the commune.

Previously, people mainly make bread by hand, but the province has support for a number of investment loans to households coated chain automation to improve productivity, reduce costs. Also branding to have foothold in the market.
Natural white rice paper without chemicals, plastics, tasty, not too salty, not moldy during storage. Therefore, Thanh Hung roll products were the Department of Intellectual Property (MOST) awarded certificates collective trademark protection.

However, according to Manh, concerns of people in the village is now on the market are a lot of imitations of traditional rice paper Thanh Hung.

Even some even poor-quality imported rice paper, not ensure food safety from elsewhere on packaging and launched sold trick consumers. This key feature makes the job dampen enthusiasm for being unfair competitive.

Contribute rice consumption
According to Manh, to get the pie white coated, flexible, delicious, not to mention the most important stages of rice selected. Since 98% of the materials to make the rice cake.

Currently, rice is many people choose to make rice cake from OM in 2517 and IR 50404.

Rice to make rice paper is dry type rice, milled white, then soak them with water for about 24 hours to make a powder and as smooth as possible.

Te powder (packed powder settles, hand dull leave water in the upper layer, instead of the new water) is a very important technique, make as many times whiter the bread, the more delicious.

Anh Sang said: "On average, each household can girdle cake do manually 1 bag of 50 kg of rice, 1 wanted wheeled out. Also coated with industrial machine 200-300 kg is normal. "

Strong in his house, the production line can rinse off 1.5 tons / day. "Now, every day I just ran out of several hundred kilograms of rice, if the output market well, every day every 1 ton of rice is coated well-being," he Manh hoped.

Although not running at full capacity, but the factory roll his Manh Manh Resources is to create jobs for local labor 20-30, depending on the moment, the basic salary of 2.5 to 3 million / person / month, how to eat everyday.

Anh Manh reckons, each coated craft households also consumed several dozen tons a year. Also, the mechanical coated rice consumption up to several hundred tons. Plus the village rice consumption thousand tons per year, contributing to solve the output for local rice.

Anh Manh wished intends to sign a contract with the agricultural cooperative in the district to specialize in producing all kinds of paddy rice demand responsive materials for baking.

When produced under the contract, and the rice farmers in the village baker are Yem mind. Because rice intensification level of the Mekong Delta in general and farmers in particular Giong Rieng very high now, they only worry unstable output stages.

And the baker, it is imperative that the correct type of rice to meet processing needs, sometimes have to travel far to buy it.