Only about 45 minutes by car from Hanoi capital, life in Kim Long commune, Tam Duong district, Vinh Phuc province still retains the rustic beauty, keeping the character of the old village of the North. When the harvest comes, the rice is fully ripe and spreads all over the countryside. The farmer wears the hot sun and wind of a summer day, reaping the fruits of nearly 3 months of labor. In the past two years, when the mechanization of agriculture came to the villages, the image of harvesters appeared in the fields. But in the village of Tam Duong, farmers still reap rice with ox carts. Most of the people in Kim Long commune are engaged in agriculture, and their year-round life is associated with fields. Returning to the village is like returning to our national roots, living in a peaceful and deep space, inhaling the scent of ripe rice with cool breezes. After the rice is harvested, the field is left with dried stubble. In the traditional way, people burn rice straw – both to clean the field, kill the germs of pests and diseases, and as a source of nutritious fertilizer for the next crop. The columns of smoke kept soaring, spreading throughout the space and blending into the sky. Having been born in the village, when going out, no one can not miss the taste of the village, the busy atmosphere of the harvest and the leisurely afternoons watching the vast fields. The sun gradually disappears behind the bamboo groves, the farmer gathers up his farm tools, rests on the side of the field, enjoys the cool breezes that dispel all his worries. Another crop has passed. When the evening light falls, it is also time to gather around a cozy tray of rice, rest after a day of hard work and talk about a crop.

Strawberry leaves (illustration). In the ancient medical documents, there are many records of the care and treatment of the ancient Chinese beauties – which is considered to be the leading place in traditional medicine. Many Vietnamese traditional medicine doctors know how to refine and bring good ones to apply in our country. Excess fat is the “guy” that makes women look bad, so many women race to find ways to lose weight and lose belly fat. Now, the doctor shares the recipe for a remedy that can be considered a tea, or a very effective weight loss drink for women, with very friendly ingredients found in home gardens in all parts of the country. Lotus leaves (illustration). The original remedy in ancient documents was named “Five Diep to lose fat, lose weight quickly”. The ingredients are all benign, used instead of tea, changed water daily. Loofah leaves (illustration). Resources – Fresh loofah leaves 30-50g – Fresh bitter gourd leaves 30-50g – Fresh lotus leaf 40-50g – Lettuce leaves 30-50g – Fresh mulberry leaves 30-40g Bitter gourd leaves (illustration). Making The above leaves are picked or bought, washed and then chopped. Pour into the pot 2,500ml of water, bring to a boil, then reduce the heat. Cover the pot for a while, then turn off the stove, drink instead of water when it is still warm during the day and drink continuously until you see results. Lettuce leaves. Illustration. According to the concept of nutrition and disease treatment, the use of herbs as well as seasonal foods are valuable, effective, and highly effective. Therefore, women should take advantage of this application because it is the season of melons, bitter melons, mulberry leaves, lotus leaves… And lettuce leaves are available all year round. All 5 herbal medicines are very familiar. In general, the remedy has heat-clearing, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, detoxifying, fat-burning, and laxative properties, helping to release energy and excess fat in the body, helping to lose weight quickly and effectively.

The price of fruit has decreased because it is entering the harvest season Similarly, in the Mekong Delta vegetable prices also keep a sideways trend. Kale costs 18,000 VND/kg, broccoli 18,000 VND/kg, green onions 20,000 VND/kg, bitter melon 25,000 VND/kg, gourd 15,000 VND/kg, okra 20,000 VND/kg, lettuce 10,000 VND/kg , okra 10,000 VND/kg, white radish 12,000 VND/kg… Some fruits continue their downtrend as they enter the full harvest season. Currently, the retail price of fragrant mangoes, four quarters mangoes, acacia mangoes and Taiwanese mangoes are only from 5,000-10,000 VND/kg, while Australian mangoes, Cat Chu mangoes, Hoa Loc sand mangoes are priced at 15,000-30,000 VND. /kg. Meanwhile, the prices of many kinds of jackfruit, longan, strawberry, orange, tangerine, guava, dragon fruit, watermelon, pomelo, etc. are also quite low, with prices only from 5,000-20,000 VND/kg. The price of many fruits decreased not only because the supply increased because of the beginning of the season, but this year the export output of many fruits was difficult due to the impact of the epidemic, so exports decreased. In addition, the market has price competition among many types of fruit. Seafood products, fresh meat prices are stable. Giant freshwater prawn is 250,000 VND/kg, white meat catfish is 35,000 VND/kg, farmed snakehead fish is 50,000 VND/kg, red tilapia is 45,000-48,000 VND/kg, tilapia is 28,000 VND/kg Tilapia is priced at 32,000 VND/kg, a discount of 2,000 VND/kg.

Durian prices fall due to the harvest season Similarly, in the Mekong Delta the price of green vegetables also decreased slightly. The price of collard greens is 10,000 VND/kg, a decrease of 2,000 VND/kg compared to yesterday, broccoli is 12,000 VND, 1,000 VND/kg, water spinach is priced at 12,000 VND/kg, vegetables are 10,000 VND/kg, a slight decrease of 1,000 VND/kg/kg. kg, white cabbage 15,000 VND/kg, a slight decrease of 1,000 VND/kg, eggplant 12,000 VND/kg, a slight decrease of 1000 VND/kg, eggplant price 12,000 VND/kg… Prices of some fruits keep trending sideways. Three-color mangoes cost 6,000 VND/kg, down 3000 VND/kg, Hoa Loc sand mangoes cost 18,000 VND/kg, old bananas 6800 VND/kg, grade 1 green-skinned pomelos cost 30,000 VND/kg, grade 2 cost 25,000 VND/kg , lemon 10,000 VND/kg, jackfruit 12,000 VND/kg. In addition, the price of durian is currently decreasing due to the high harvest season but is still high compared to the same period. Recently, durian in many provinces in the Mekong Delta in the harvest season, the supply has increased, so the price has decreased by 5,000- 10,000 VND/kg compared to more than 1 month ago, but it is still at about 10,000-20,000 VND/kg higher than that of the previous year. The same period of 2020. Currently, durian varieties (Ri 6, Mon Thon…) are being sold by farmers in Can Tho city and the provinces of Hau Giang, Vinh Long, Tien Giang, Ben Tre… to traders and barns. purchasing fruit at the price of 48,000-55,000 VND/kg, while in the same period last year the price was only 30,000-40,000 VND/kg. The retail price of durians with flat seeds on the market is popular from 75,000 to 90,000 VND/kg. Seafood prices are stable. White meat catfish costs 35,000 VND/kg, farmed snakehead fish costs 48,000 VND/kg, red tilapia costs 54,000-48,000 VND/kg, tilapia costs 28,000 VND/kg, tilapia costs 32,000 VND /kg, discount 2000 VND/kg. The price of meat also kept stable at 120,000 VND/kg for pork leg, 140,000 VND/kg for bacon, 240,000 VND/kg for beef, 80,000 VND/kg for ready-made whole duck…

With hundreds of hectares of plums covering the valley, Na Kaa is likened to the “kingdom” of plum trees that are about 20-30 years old. When the plums on the 20-30-year-old tree trunks turn from green to dark purple in the first weeks of May, Na Ka people begin the plum harvest season. In order for plums not to be affected by hailstorms, many gardeners in Na Ka have used a net house system. When the plums at the top of the branches are fully ripe, it is also the time when gardeners in Na Ka like the family of Mr. Hau A Su (Ban Pa Khen 1) enter the peak harvest days, selling to traders right in the garden. In the fruit-picking season, if it weren’t for the epidemic, every day hundreds of traders would come to collect the best plums at orchards like Mr. Hau A Su. The family of Mr. Hau A Su in Pa Khen 1 village mobilized the whole family to collect ripe plums in the garden. Mr. Wait’s family grows about 100 20-30 year old plum trees and with these perennial plums, the collectors sometimes have to move on the trunk like this to get all the plums. Playing with ripe red plums, the Mong people in Pa Khen 1 village collect… … the fresh, juicy plums, specialties of the plateau, are brought out by the Mong girls out of the Na Ka plum valley and sold to traders. In households, the season of ripe plums is also a busy time to harvest, pack and send to other places for consumption. To ensure a closed organic production chain, many plum growers have used insect traps, instead of pesticides… Although affected by the disease, the price of plums after Na Ka is higher than in previous seasons, so the famous agricultural product of Moc Chau plateau is still the main livelihood for the Mong people in the region. This specialty with crispy, fragrant and juicy fruit is mostly purchased, sorted and sold by traders in Hanoi and the southern provinces. … and experimentally planted many new plum strains such as rice plum varieties, which are used to process flexible dried plum products. The plums have just been picked right in the garden, fresh and whole, canned and stamped to certify that the agricultural product has a protected trademark, and sold at major supermarkets in Hanoi for 150,000 VND/kg.

Place to save memories That old life recedes as quickly as possible into the past like a nap. That was the 70s and 80s of the last century, the time we could never forget with the busy days, the “big screen screen projection, earth theatrical performances” was very special. It was so innocently interesting and the “incidents” lingered in the cooperative’s storehouse full of memories. I remember vividly about the warehouse yards of the three villages of Tri Can, Kien Hung and Duong Hoa. The three cooperative warehouses are in three different villages, but the building style is very similar. When we were growing up, the warehouse was ever there. The yard is very large. All three are located in the center of three villages to facilitate collective activities when the village holds games on holidays, New Year and cultural performances between production teams when the planting season begins, The harvest is over … A movie screening session at the cooperative warehouse yard. (Artwork from the internet) Tri Can village is a warehouse of the second team as the center of three production teams: One, Two, Three. Kien Hung village is the warehouse yard belonging to Team Five, which is the center of four production teams: Bon, Nam, Sau, Bay and this is also the central warehouse yard of Thieu Hung commune. There is another yard in Duong Hoa village. This warehouse is centrally located in the production team 10 for 4 teams: Eight, Nine, Ten and Eleven. At that time, the warehouses at that time, during the rice harvest season, all the production teams of the three villages gathered rice for plucking. By the way, this yard is used to dry rice. During the season, rice was spread over the yard and the young men were assigned to guard the whole area. These days, my hometown is happy like the association, I think back to remember and regret it. The warehouse yard is also a place for mobile film projection teams and art troupes of the province to visit and perform for my hometown people to enjoy with neighboring communes whenever there is an emulation movement. Each warehouse yard is a row of solid and solid warehouses. The warehouse was built very big, very big, located inside the yard and arranged very tidily for the convenience of cars, tractors and oxcarts to pull in and out. The warehouse area has many large houses, used to store staple food, the door is tightly closed so that thieves cannot get in and steal, extending a few rows of headlines. The column is made of something that is difficult to peel off. It seems that the warehouse belongs to a rich farmer from a very distant childhood. The roof is tiled with fish scales, this type of tile is difficult to find nowadays, sometimes there are still a few houses left, but the moss is old and old. This tile roof, birds and bats love because this is the quietest place for them to live because the ceiling is very high, no one can play with. Warehouse fence walls are built with bricks, high green stones. On the wall of that fence, people planted many fragments of glass bottles. We dare not play with these glassware for fear of bleeding. Fear of ghosts – an interesting childhood fear At the end of the rice harvest season or there is no event, the warehouse yard will return to a quiet, dull look and only the rice plucking machine is waiting for another harvest season to come. The tranquility of the yard and the ventilation are the ideal places for our children to play. In the afternoon, we gathered to hop on the ground to measure and measure the length of the yard. Remembering the long yard, we jogged from the north to the south end of the yard tired. The yard is tiled with the red ship, the square brick next to the size of 30 cm, straight line. On this brick background, watching the screen projection on the big screen is very interesting. Because the yard was too large, the children gathered together to count how many rows and bricks would take a long time to finish. Tiles are glaring in the eyes. We are also kind of goofy, so we count the number of bricks for sweating to have a quiz about ice cream betting. Yet many of them also gave up, sometimes even adults. My grandmother heard us arguing about winning and losing about the number of bricks in the garlic-stained yard and immediately threatened: “The yard is hiding a lot of ghosts”. Hearing that, we all panicked and did not dare to go there to play anymore, hiding behind her and whispered: “Grandma, people build a very high wall! How can ghosts hide?”. She did not explain any more. Seeing her silent, we feared and skeptically thought of all sorts of things to weave, whispering loud and small. The fear made us feel even more that if anyone in the village died, it would be early evening that we would not dare to pass the door of our room any more. We believe she is right because she is the person with the most image of that warehouse yard. From then on, whenever we walked across that warehouse yard, no one would say anything to each other, so we could not dare to turn around, afraid to turn around and fear that we could not run. We got past the front yard of the courtyard, and we breathed a sigh of relief, our faces rustling. Many of us even came up with a way to walk across the yard by asking the dog to follow to ease our fear. But sometimes when passing by, I kept hearing the birds singing in the warehouse and the wind blowing even more scared. During the day I was scared to wonder what happened at night. Hello! We scrambled to go in the middle. If the ghost clings, there are people who go first and go after. So every mother sent to the edge of the pond to pick vegetables and it was a bit dark, she would make it up like this and that to avoid going through the yard of the warehouse where she said there were “ghosts”. Later we thought “what the hell are you afraid of? Let’s be a hero!” and just invite each other out to the warehouse to play hide and seek to delight. Time passed by, the warehouse yard in my three villages was gone. Instead, they are the homes of the people in my hometown. Now that the decades have passed, we remember forever the storage yard full of memories at that time when we were delighted to play on the drying ground of the cooperative, and also went to the cinema, opera, row … Sometimes I come back and hang around here in the language of my homeland. COMPANION UNIT

Mr. Bui Van Minh (Man Duc town) is hired to harvest sugarcane on sugarcane fields in Nen hamlet, Tu Ne commune. His job is to lower the cane and bundle each bundle, about 16 plants / bunch with a weight of about 30kg / bundle. (Photo: Trong Dat / VNA) The workers who are hired to carry sugarcane hire in a sugarcane field in Tu Ne commune will transport a distance of 300m with a bundle of 30kg sugarcane on their shoulders. (Photo: Trong Dat / VNA) The bunches of sugarcane are transferred to the car to buy right above the road. (Photo: Trong Dat / VNA) According to Mr. Minh (Man Duc town), sugarcane this year is about 2,000-3,000 VND cheaper than every year, but the quality always maintains the Tan Lac brand. (Photo: Trong Dat / VNA) The sugar cane harvesters were engrossed in their work in the late afternoon. (Photo: Trong Dat / VNA) The workers who are hired to carry sugarcane hire in a sugarcane field in Tu Ne commune will transport a distance of 300m with a bundle of 30kg sugarcane on their shoulders. (Photo: Trong Dat / VNA) The workers who are hired to carry sugarcane hire in a sugarcane field in Tu Ne commune will transport a distance of 300m with a bundle of 30kg sugarcane on their shoulders. (Photo: Trong Dat / VNA) The white sugarcane bundles are carefully bundled on the field waiting for the transporter to buy the car. (Photo: Trong Dat / VNA) A bright smile on the sweaty face of the people of Tu Ne commune, Tan Lac district on the day of sugarcane harvest. (Photo: Trong Dat / VNA)

Mulberry tree has long been deeply attached to the people of Vietnam. In addition to silk raising and silk weaving, mulberry tree’s leaves, fruits, stems and roots can all be medicinal. Hiep Thuan commune has about 15 ha of mulberry trees. Mulberry trees were planted in this land by people about 6 years ago, the economic efficiency is higher than that of rice cultivation. Mrs. Thao, the owner of a mulberry garden, shared: “Currently, the family harvests with 3 people every day, they get 1.2 weights to 1.3 quintals, the average price is 15,000 VND – 20,000 VND”. More information with the reporter, she said, the family mulberry garden has 40 roots per sao, harvested an average of 400 kg of fruit / crop, turnover is over 30 million VND / sao. That is the result after many years of changing crops to replace old crops. Mulberry trees are easy to grow, the cost is much lower than other crops, except for fertilizer investment, each pole is invested from 1-2 million VND, the farmer still has a high income. When the mulberry tree has finished harvesting the fruits, people will cut it down, leaving only the rootstock for technical care to the next crop. Mulberry tree is a easy-to-live tree, the leaves are often used for silkworms, but thanks to the higher benefits of mulberry fruit than leaves, the villagers in Hiep Thuan have converted to fruit. Strawberry trees planted for more than a year have yielded fruits. Strawberries taste sweet when ripe, making a refreshing drink in the summer. The mulberry tree, besides raising silkworms, weaving silk, can make medicine from the leaves, fruits, stems and roots of the mulberry tree. Japan North (perform)

Illustration Recognition of the Economic & Urban correspondent in many streets of Hanoi such as Giang Vo, Phan Dinh Phung, Hoang Dao Thuy, Mai Xuan Thuong … lilies have begun to come down the street to serve the needs. of people. In 2020, due to the translation of Covid-19 trumpet is sold at the price of 100,000 – 120,000 VND / bundle of 50 flowers, but there are no customers to buy it, but this year it is only the harvest season, so the selling price is quite high. Currently, the wholesale price of short cotton lilies ranges from 200,000 to 250,000 VND / bundle of 100 flowers, for long cotton, the selling price is up to 300,000 VND / bundle of 100 cotton, retail buyers are priced from 20,000 – 40,000 VND / dozen (depending on on short cotton or long cotton). In addition to selling cotton, small traders also sell by branches, 50,000 VND / 10 branches, customers buy 20 branches at the price of 90,000 VND. Reality shows that playing trumpet is popular, but in order to have a beautiful vase of lilies, the buyer has to plug in 10 to 15 flowers or more, spending about 40,000 – 90,000 VND for our lilies and 60,000 – 100,000 VND for each. with western lilies.
Although the selling price is quite high, the purchasing power still increases strongly. Small traders at Quang Ba flower wholesale market information: Small traders can sell 500-700 cotton, and large traders sell 3,000 – 4,000 cotton / day. The consumption was large, so on this occasion, many small businesses gathered their capital to trade in lilies, while other flowers were halted for sale.
The price is high, the purchasing power increases, so the growers are happy to make a big profit. Mr. Vinh, a household that looks after lilies, shares: Currently, his family is renting 4 acres of land in Ha Mo (Dan Phuong) to grow lilies, on average, her family will bring about 100 bouquets of flowers per day to the flower market. Quang Ba has a trade of 150,000 – 170,000 VND / bunch, is expected to harvest flowers this year after subtracting costs, expected profit of 15 – 20 million VND / rod, calculating the total revenue is estimated at 100 million VND per trumpet season. .
After the Covid-19 epidemic, flower prices are stable and the weather is favorable, this year’s lilies season may last longer than every year, making flower growers believe in a rich harvest regardless of the main flower selling price. service will be mitigated.