{"id":11377,"date":"2026-07-17T06:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landmines.org.vn\/?p=11377"},"modified":"2026-07-17T06:20:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:20:50","slug":"mr-tams-peanut-garden-land-handed-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landmines.org.vn\/vi\/mr-tams-peanut-garden-land-handed-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. T\u00e2m’s Peanut Garden, on Land Just Handed Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Impact story<\/p>\n

In January 2026, we met Mr. Nguy\u1ec5n S\u01b0 T\u00e2m (born 1974) just after NPA\/RENEW clearance teams found and safely destroyed an artillery shell right in his garden in Thu\u1ef7 Trung village, V\u0129nh Ho\u00e0ng commune. On 14 July 2026, we came back, to the very same ground, as part of the post-clearance impact assessment process.<\/p>\n
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Mr. T\u00e2m weeds his cassava between rows of young rubber trees, on land just cleared.<\/p><\/div>\n

His family’s 1,500 m\u00b2 of land sat inside Confirmed Hazardous Area (CHA) 0885. On it, T\u00e2m grows rubber, intercropped with peanut, cassava and yam to earn income while waiting for the rubber trees to be ready for tapping. The last peanut harvest brought the family 12 million VND (US$460). His wife, Nguy\u1ec5n Th\u1ecb H\u01b0\u01a1ng, makes cassava starch and hand-rolls incense at home for extra income. The couple has two sons: one drives a taxi, the other is a student at Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry.<\/p>\n

“It feels safe. I feel a real joy now that the land has been cleared of unexploded ordnance,” T\u00e2m said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Mr. T\u00e2m helps his wife, Nguy\u1ec5n Th\u1ecb H\u01b0\u01a1ng, dry incense in the front yard.<\/p><\/div>\n

On 6 May, NPA\/RENEW handed over two areas (CHA 0884 and CHA 0885, totaling 2,482,460 m\u00b2) to the local authorities, returning safe land to 3,014 people in Thu\u1ef7 Trung. During clearance, the teams found and dealt with 655 items of explosive ordnance, of which 347 were cluster munitions.<\/p>\n

Right next to the two handed-over areas, the teams are now clearing CHA 0881 in X\u00f3m N\u1ed7ng village, C\u1eeda T\u00f9ng commune (1,349,662 m\u00b2), which began on 20 April and is due for completion on 30 September 2026. So far they have cleared 777,765 m\u00b2, more than half, and found 336 explosive items.<\/p>\n

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Two NPA\/RENEW team members search for ordnance with a large-loop detector.<\/p><\/div>\n

Every square meter cleared of explosive ordnance is another peanut crop, another cassava crop, sown without fear.<\/p>\n

We sincerely thank the Government of the United States through the\u00a0U.S. Embassy in Hanoi<\/a>, and the Government of Norway for the valuable support to our meaningful mine action work in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

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Two months after his land was cleared and handed back, Mr. T\u00e2m has replanted rubber, peanut and cassava. A first look at what happens after clearance in Thu\u1ef7 Trung.<\/p>\n

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