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Dropped leaves filled the countryside fence, selling abroad for a lot of money

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Along with banana leaves, almond leaves, fresh and dried bamboo leaves are being bought by many small traders for export to other countries as materials for wrapping food and food packages at not cheap prices.
On the net market and online sales groups, many small businesses openly buy bamboo leaves, also known as the “” “” leaf “, with an unlimited quantity. This is a wild tree, grown in abundance in the highlands and plains.

Mr. Tran Van Hai from Lang Son said that for the past few years, his family specializes in purchasing, preliminarily processing and refining all kinds of cake wrapping. In the past, people only used bamboo to build their house, cook, firewood, make cakes, and discarded leaves. But in recent years, fresh bamboo leaves have been collected and purchased by many people and then sold to traders exported to Taiwan for 10,000 VND / kg of fresh bamboo leaves and 40,000 VND / kg of dried bamboo leaves. Bamboo leaves are bought and exported to Taiwan “I myself and my family never thought that bamboo leaves could be sold abroad. It is not until a contact to buy bamboo leaves to return to a traditional Taiwanese cake package that we know that bamboo leaves can be sold and exported abroad. From there, my family went to get bamboo leaves to sell. When the collection is not enough, hire more workers and advertise on the internet to buy bamboo leaves in other localities with any quantity ”, shared Mr. Hai. According to Mr. Hai, with fresh bamboo leaves, he buys for 7,000-10,000 VND / kg. As for dried bamboo leaves, he buys 35,000-40,000 VND / kg. All must be bamboo leaves (also known as bong). The purchased scales of bamboo leaves meet the quality criteria, the leaves must be big, not torn, still green in color and absolutely not yellowed. Each leaf is about 38-40cm long and 8cm wide. “Bamboo is very different from ordinary bamboo leaves. They are much larger in size. When purchased, fresh bamboo leaves will be sun dried for about 2 sun. Then, the leaves are counted and then clamped to the cork. At that time, we will dry it cleanly, bring the bamboo leaves to the oven to dry them and then sort them into bags, ”Mr. Hai said. The bamboo leaves are completely cleaned by natural methods, without chemicals, will be exported to Taiwan for cake wrapping materials, food packages … and are loved by the people of this country due to the taste. delicious and for a long time. “The kind of cake that Taiwan or is wrapped in bamboo leaves is like Vietnamese banh chung. However, due to being wrapped in bamboo leaves, the cake has a characteristic aroma. In addition, the wrapped cake from this leaf is easy to peel, leaves for a long time and not as fast as seaweed and banana leaves ”. From the end of April to October of the solar calendar every year is the autumn season to buy bamboo leaves. Therefore, many personal Facebook pages go to groups to sell and purchase fresh and dried bamboo leaves with unlimited quantity. There, the atmosphere was ruffled by many bamboo growers in places asking for the purchase price as well as the specifications for the collection and transportation of the fresh and dried bamboo leaves. For long-term business cooperation, all establishments that register to sell fresh and dried bamboo leaves, Mr. Hai, come to collect and check them. “I have to go down to the site to instruct the facilities that the individual collects bamboo leaves to ensure the leaves are not torn, beautiful green and especially big. On-site to view specific items once. Next time, they just do that, then I decide to buy, to avoid wasting time on both sides, ”he said. At present, in Yen Bai, Bac Giang, Thanh Hoa, Soc Son – Hanoi … there are many people growing bamboo and rattan. They just use the tree and the leaves leave it. Therefore, he came to guide the collection of leaves and now they become agents, helping his establishment to buy fresh, dried bamboo leaves up to a few quintals / day in the locality.

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