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title: 'Kontum (Kontum Progress: Monthly News Pictures on Choosing and Preparing a Vegetable Plot)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kontum-progress-vegetable-gardens-1965-1969/
description: A two-panel photo sheet (code SP-2116) headed 'Kontum Progress' and 'Monthly News Pictures' shows soldiers and villagers digging.
section: Collection
---

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# Kontum (Kontum Progress: Monthly News Pictures on Choosing and Preparing a Vegetable Plot)

A two-panel photo sheet (code SP-2116) headed 'Kontum Progress' and 'Monthly News Pictures' shows soldiers and villagers digging, raking and sowing vegetable beds, with step-by-step instructions on choosing a plot, mixing fertiliser, draining, sowing and watering. The left text says highland people who fled communist persecution are being helped to grow vegetables to improve family diet and income. Text appears in Vietnamese and in at least two other languages.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
KONTUM TIẾN-BỘ
[Highland-language subheading, not transcribed]

HÌNH ẢNH THỜI SỰ HÀNG THÁNG
CÁCH THỨC CHỌN LỰA, CHUẨN BỊ MỘT KHU ĐẤT TRỒNG RAU.
[Highland-language subheading, not transcribed]

Đồng bào Thượng tỵ nạn Cộng Sản tại các ấp Đời mới được khuyến khích, giúp đỡ phương tiện khai thác một nguồn lợi mới: trồng rau. Những chuyên viên được phái đến các ấp để hướng dẫn phương pháp trồng tỉa.
Ngoài việc cho gia đình có thêm một món ăn hàng ngày, lợi tức thu được còn giúp cho đồng bào nâng cao mức sống.
[Parallel highland-language text, not transcribed]

Sau đó, khai một rãnh sâu chung quanh luống cho thoát nước, để hạt giống khỏi bị thối vì úng thủy.
[Parallel text, not transcribed]

San bằng đất trên luống và đánh dấu những hàng để gieo hạt. Dùng một cái que bằng ngón tay rạch một rãnh sâu độ 2 phân để bỏ hạt giống xuống cho đều; trên rãnh, hột này cách hột kia độ 2 phân. Sau đó lấy tay cào đất phủ lên trên hạt giống đã gieo. Nếu hạt giống nhỏ quá có thể lấy một tấm ván nén cho hạt giống chặt với đất để dễ mọc mầm. Không nên gieo hột sâu quá có thể hột bị thối mà không mọc được.
[Parallel text, not transcribed]

Để chuẩn bị trồng rau, ta phải chọn lựa một khu đất thoáng khí, có đủ nước tưới, tránh được gió. Trước hết phân bón phải trộn đều và xới cho thật nhỏ để gieo hạt.
[Parallel text, not transcribed]

Khi đã chuẩn bị cho gieo hạt sang, ta phải giữ đất luôn luôn ẩm ướt, nghĩa là phải tưới nước khoảng 2 ngày một lần, cho đến khi những hạt giống đâm chồi và đúng lúc nhổ lên đem trồng chỗ khác.
[Parallel text, not transcribed]

SP- 2116
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
KONTUM PROGRESS
[Highland-language subheading, not transcribed]

MONTHLY NEWS PICTURES
HOW TO CHOOSE AND PREPARE A VEGETABLE PLOT.
[Highland-language subheading, not transcribed]

Highland compatriots who are refugees from Communism in the New Life hamlets are being encouraged and helped with the means to exploit a new source of income: growing vegetables. Specialists have been sent to the hamlets to teach planting methods.
Besides giving the family one more daily dish, the income earned also helps the people raise their standard of living.
[Parallel text, not transcribed]

Then dig a deep ditch all round the bed so water drains away and the seeds do not rot from waterlogging.
[Parallel text, not transcribed]

Level the soil on the bed and mark the rows for sowing. Use a stick the width of a finger to scratch a furrow about 2 centimetres deep to drop the seeds in evenly; along the furrow, put the seeds about 2 centimetres apart. Then rake soil with the hand over the sown seeds. If the seeds are very small, a board can be used to press them firmly against the soil so they sprout more easily. Do not sow seeds too deep, or they may rot and not grow.
[Parallel text, not transcribed]

To prepare for growing vegetables we must choose an airy plot with enough water for irrigation, sheltered from the wind. First the fertiliser must be mixed evenly and broken up very fine for sowing.
[Parallel text, not transcribed]

Once the seed bed is prepared, we must keep the soil constantly damp, that is, water about every 2 days, until the seedlings sprout and it is time to pull them up and transplant them elsewhere.
[Parallel text, not transcribed]

SP-2116
```

[← Kontum on the Way to Reconstruction (Kontum xây dựng)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kontum-on-the-way-to-reconstruction-1965-1969/) [Kontum tiến bộ (Kontum on the Way to Improvements) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kontum-tien-bo-kontum-progress-1965-1969/)

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