VietnamNews-Nov 21

Growing medicinal plants has helped tackle hunger and poverty for ethnic minority people in the central province of Quảng Nam’s Tây Giang District, according to Nông Thôn Ngày Nay (Countryside Today) newspaper.  According to Trần Văn Ta, head of the district’s agriculture and rural development department, 90 per cent of the mountainous district’s population are ethnic minorities who live on agricultural production with unstable incomes. However, in recent years, thanks to the expansion of medicinal plant growing, hundreds of poor ethnic minority households have escaped from poverty, Ta told the paper.

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