In the field of Dong Ban village, Dong Thai commune, Ba Vi district, Hanoi city, 72-year-old Mrs. Phung Thi Huong is hastily harvesting the first fields of the crop. According to her, two-thirds of her life is spent in the fields, more than at home. For Ms. Huong, the field is a blood bond, a homeland, not just an economy She shared that now her children go to the city to do business, in the house and only she is a farmer attached to the fields and gardens. In the past, her family did a lot of work, sometimes 2-3 acres, but recently because of her old age and no one to take care of her, she only kept 3 sao of field for convenience. “In these fields, I alone take care of fertilizers from the beginning of the crop until now. When will the harvested rice come home, you will be assured. Every time the harvest came, the children on the street came back to help until it was finished. This year, the rice harvest is better, from 2 to 2.5 quintals per acre,” shared Huong. My conversation with Mrs. Huong was interrupted by the sound of a large harvester According to the farmers, in the past, there were no harvesters, so the people also worked hard and had to hire laborers to reap. Some houses have to hire more than 10 workers, each 300-400 thousand VND/day. Now, having a harvester is also less difficult, only having to spend 150-170 thousand VND / one pole of field to be able to carry rice home During the harvest time, the fields are always filled with laughter and laughter, accompanied by the sound of mowers. At these times, there are 2 to 3 rice harvesters in the fields. Mr. Nguyen Van Tu, owner of a harvester, shared that he also left his hometown to go to the city to do business in the past. However, after a while in business but no progress, he returned to his hometown and invested in agricultural services. When asked about the income from the harvester, Mr. Tu shared: “During the harvest season, my partner and I go around the fields to harvest rice for our relatives, sometimes up to Thai Nguyen. Each pole of rice is from 150 to 170 thousand VND, in some crops, my relatives lost revenue, I only took 130,000 VND.” The rice fields are as golden as a picture woven from stretchable golden rice grains. This year is a good season, so everyone has a smile on their lips, even though they have to work under the hot summer sun. This is probably the happiest time of the village. As soon as she quickly tied the bag of newly harvested rice, Phuong shared: “In order to save labor, the family had to go to the field from 5am to 9am to avoid the hot midday weather.” “The heat makes harvesting difficult, because my field is located in the middle of the field, so the process of transporting rice home is more “hard” than other houses,” said Huy, Phuong’s husband. People here take advantage of all means to move rice home as quickly as possible, from rickshaws, motorbikes, or even electric bicycles being used as means of transportation. Many families take advantage of the reaper at night to both ensure the harvest and avoid the harsh summer heat.

Rice fields in Thuy Khue village (Sai ​​Son commune, Quoc Oai district, Hanoi) are ripe for harvest Wing Paddy field Thuy Khue village (Sai ​​Son commune, Quoc Oai district, Hanoi city) has matured. Coming here in the afternoon, people can admire the bright yellow sunshine on the stretching rice fields, fragrant with the aroma of ripe rice. The rice fields stretch as far as the eye can see, the limestone mountains undulating on the horizon create an impressive scene. On two rows of trees along the path through the fields, in the afternoon the golden rays of sunlight crept through the foliage. Here, some rice fields have been harvested earlier, the farmers are bringing back straw The afternoon smoke blends with the surrounding scenery, making many people come here to be surprised by the idyllic beauty The golden rice fields mixed with the afternoon sun create a beautiful picture Take straw after harvesting rice, can feed buffaloes, cows or burn… Some people here don’t take the straw back and burn it in the field When all the straw is burned, the farmers will let the land rest until the next season mùa Despite the hard work, the bright smiles of the farmers in the suburbs of Hanoi during the ripe rice season are peaceful. Many people in the countryside take advantage of cycling to exercise and look at the ripe and golden rice fields in the afternoon sun Currently, the rice fields are gradually shrinking, instead of industrial zones, high-rise buildings or other crops “The buffalo is the head of the business” – a familiar image of a Vietnamese village People return home after a hard day’s work

Straw was piled up and burned by people, causing smoldering smoke to spread everywhere, spreading to the highway. Photo: Le Phu/ Newspaper As part of the series of events “Air pollution and our responsibilities”, the Science and Development Newspaper of Spark Magazine in collaboration with the Center for Living and Learning for the environment, the community (Live and Learn), the Internet. The Vietnam Clean Air Network (VCAP) organized an online seminar on the topic “Straw burning: Don’t waste gold and lessons from the community”. This is an opportunity for experts and businesses to share about applying local solutions to reuse straw, the challenges faced when completely ending burning straw in the field. Master Nguyen Thi Yen, Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Center for Organic Agriculture (Vietnam Agricultural Academy) said: In the winter-spring crop of 2021, there are at least 6 suburban districts of Hanoi (Soc Son, Dan Phuong) , Thanh Oai, Chuong My, Dong Anh, Ba Vi) with more than 1,000 hectares of fields applying straw treatment solutions to replace burning. Activities such as training the core group of farmers; deploying communication through online and group channels; technical guidance, practice handling solutions; Budget support for localities, cooperatives, farmers to access probiotics or collect straw has been implemented… Since then, many models and initiatives have been encouraged to be implemented such as: Association Women in Soc Son district process rice straw into organic fertilizer, Dan Phuong District Farmers’ Union distributes bio-products, Ba Vi district farmers collect straw and mill straw to make fodder for cattle… Ms. Truong Thi Thanh Nhan, Vice Chairwoman of the Women’s Union of Soc Son district, said that the collection of recycled straw into microbial fertilizer was implemented in Duc Hoa and Xuan Thu communes. In addition to propaganda to raise awareness for farmers, the District Women’s Union also helps households collect rice straw and compost 60 mounds (2 quintals of straw/mound), process it into micro-fertilizer, contributing to reducing reduce the burning of straw. Mr. Nguyen Tuong Hung, Director of Pho Hien Machine Co., Ltd. shared that the company is currently processing rice straw by using a straw roll machine in combination with a local plow to collect straw; technical support and consumption of the output straw. The advantage of the straw rolling machine is that it has a reasonable price, only about 5-10 million / machine. Harvest time is from 1-2 days after reaping and before plowing, yield from 1.5-3 ha/shift/hour. The straw roll has a diameter of 50cm, a width of 70cm, weighs from 12-14 kg, easy to carry, transport… At the seminar, the speakers and businesses answered some questions from readers related to the reuse of straw. The experts discussed and proposed some solutions using different technologies to continue using rice straw, increasing the value of straw in agriculture; can be applied from large scale for enterprises, cooperatives to small farmers. According to statistics from the Hanoi Department of Natural Resources and Environment, it is estimated that each year, the city generates over 1 million tons of rice straw and agricultural by-products. In which, the amount of straw burned in the field is about 352,000 tons (accounting for 33.7%). The burning of rice straw produces CO gas – a very toxic gas that can be deadly, and at the same time causes smoke and dust affecting road and air traffic safety in the area. In addition, according to experts, the nutrient content in straw ash is very low, so it has no effect on soil improvement.

Cultivating terraced fields in Hoang Su Phi. Photo: Duc Long Hoang Su Phi is a district located in the west of Ha Giang province. From Ha Giang city, it takes about 3 hours to reach Vinh Quang town – the capital of Hoang Su Phi district. Setting foot in Hoang Su Phi land, visitors will be immediately attracted by the terraced fields of harvest, golden sunshine like honey, beautiful scenery like in fairy tales. Then there are cultural festivals imbued with national identity, very strange, wild and strangely attractive. Hoang Su Phi land is located on the ground with an average altitude of 800m above sea level. Here, the terrain is strongly dissected, high mountains, deep valleys, many streams, primeval forests … very suitable for the development of various types of adventure tourism, discovery tourism. Hoang Su Phi also hides in her a unique cultural treasure of ethnic minorities such as Dao, Mong, Nung, Clao, La Chi. In addition, referring to Hoang Su Phi, people immediately think of terraced fields stretching like stairs to the sky. A rare masterpiece in Vietnam’s wet rice civilization was created by human hands to adapt to the soil, climate and irrigation conditions bestowed by nature. The terraced fields were formed in the process of natural improvement, expanding the wet rice cultivation area of ​​ethnic minorities living throughout the Hoang Su Phi strip of land. Through the survey, most of the ethnic groups living in Hoang Su Phi district have mastered the technique of terraced farming such as La Chi, Tay, Nung, Dao… However, each ethnic group has its own experiences. different techniques and experiences. Hoang Su Phi terraced fields in flood season (flood season) Hoang Su Phi has a strongly dissected terrain and steep slope, so the people cannot grow rice by shifting cultivation, but instead, they have to take advantage of low hills, wide areas, and moderate slopes. Right, taking advantage of both rain water and spring water leading from high altitudes to low fields to form terraced fields. The exploitation of terraced fields requires appropriate techniques and terrain. Depending on the terrain and topography of each region, the fields are wide, narrow, long, short, high, and low. In the past, through each production season, households who found that there was a shortage of arable land would choose in the family’s forest and shifting fields the most suitable location, closest to the water source, to develop into fields. Currently, because the land is less and less, the most fertile land has also been cleared into terraced fields, the choice of land does not require as many requirements as before. The government’s policy of land allocation and forest allocation also somewhat limits the choice of places to exploit for farming. Usually, if the previous year’s hill area is cleared and the land is still there, they will continue to do it, when the land runs out, they will find another hill to explore. When families have a need to explore new fields, they will gather together to do the work in exchange. The farming season of the Dao people in Ban Luoc and San Sa Ho communes usually starts right after the Tet holiday, while the La Chi people in Ban Phung commune open their fields in the rainy season, from April to September of the lunar calendar. Before proceeding to renovate the field, they also need to carefully calculate the length and width of the field, the low altitude between the fields, the location of the water channels, the way to conduct the water … effort, time consuming. Usually they will ask elderly people who have experience in clearing fields to take care of the design of the fields. The selection of farming sites is carefully conducted by the local people. The area that meets the requirements must be a place where the soil is loose, fertile, without big rocks, formerly a primeval forest. The slope of the land is not large, it is possible to create a wide and long field. The most important thing when choosing land to exploit is that in the area or nearby there must be a source of water, a place where water can be brought to the field easily and without much effort. Once the calculations are done, get to work. The first is to create a field surface, the tools to exploit the field are very simple, only a hoe, a pickaxe, a wooden harrow and a knife. The process of clearing the field is started from the highest place to the lowest. Depending on the topography and slope of the hill, the height and width of the terraces are also different. Once the ground is available, they proceed to embankment and then bring water to soak the field feet. Usually, it is not until the next year’s crop that they start plowing. For the Red Dao people in Ho Thau commune, they subtract a small area of ​​forest around the field for each area of ​​the field to keep the land from landslides; while the La Chi in Ban Phung commune keep the top layer of soil. After clearing the field, they spread that layer of soil and cultivate it right away. In order for the fields to be shaped, shaped, can be cultivated and ensured productivity, the farmers in Hoang Su Phi have spent many days in the rain. The work of cultivating the fields is continued by the ethnic people here from year to year, from generation to generation, creating the slopes of the fields like monumental art paintings hanging on the hillsides. The industrious and creative labor of the people of Hoang Su Phi has helped to make life full and create a beautiful picture of nature. The golden rice mats in the shape of raspberries, streams, and winding rivers continue to stretch to the horizon. From his labor, the farmer drew a beautiful picture of nature from the song of breaking the ground. Developing tourism associated with the heritage of terraced fields Hoang Su Phi terraced fields in the ripe rice season. Photo: Duc Long Mr. Then Ngoc Minh, Chairman of the People’s Committee of Hoang Su Phi district said: The terraced fields in Hoang Su Phi not only ensure food for the people but also create an attractive tourist product, because of its high aesthetic value and high aesthetic value. rich in art. In recent years, not only encouraging, mobilizing and supporting farmers to get rich on terraced fields by measures, such as: Bringing new high-yield rice varieties into production, planting winter crops; At the Party Committee level, the government of Hoang Su Phi district also promotes tourism development based on the available potential as the National Monument of Terraced Fields. “In order to promote the full value and create different tourism products, in the coming time, Hoang Su Phi district will create many conditions to attract and promote investment in community tourism in the terraced fields or areas. specific products associated with people’s agricultural cultivation, such as: Water season; encouraging the planting of specialized crops or the same type of rice to have the same ripening time, harvest time… At the same time, the district also focuses on investing in transport infrastructure, projects related to terraced fields, Key projects with the emphasis on terraced fields such as paragliding grounds, check-in points, stopovers, terraces sightseeing spots …”, Chairman of the District People’s Committee Hoang Su Phi, Then Ngoc Minh affirmed. Up to now, Hoang Su Phi has over 3,720 hectares of terraced fields spread throughout 24/24 communes and towns. In 2012, terraced fields in 6 communes (Ban Luoc, San Sa Ho, Ban Phung, Ho Thau, Nam Ty and Thong Nguyen) of Hoang Su Phi were certified as a National Monument by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. family. By 2017, 5 more communes (Ta Su Choong, Ban Nhuong, Po Lo, Thang Tin, Nam Khoa) were added to the list of terraced fields in the heritage area. The whole district has over 2,196 hectares of terraced fields in the protected heritage area. From value and promotion, the image of Hoang Su Phi terraced fields is now not only limited to domestic but also international. For many years now, foreign tourists have known Hoang Su Phi through the path of travel and discovery, especially discovering and experiencing the heritage of terraced fields. However, for terraced field tourism in Hoang Su Phi to develop sustainably and create long-term livelihoods for local people, the locality wants the province to continue to have orientations to guide tourism development; pay more attention to the investment in facilities so that the locality can focus on developing tourism in the direction of agricultural tourism, community tourism combined with preserving the national cultural identity to attract tourists. .

Bac Giang lychee has entered the harvest season, but the outbreak of Covid-19 has affected consumption. To join hands to help people, these days, Bac Giang lychee selling points have appeared on many streets of Hanoi. This occasion is the beginning of the season, so most of the lychees are pink, egg, large, beautiful and sweet. The lychee is pre-packed into 10kg plastic bags for everyone’s convenience. Fabric is sold for 20,000 VND/kg. The lychee rescue points in Hanoi are quite popular. There are points of sale that only take a few hours to consume 3-4 tons of fabric. Many lychee selling points support Bac Giang farmers in Hanoi Also related to lychee, Mr. Nguyen Van Tho, Deputy Director of Bac Giang Center for Industrial Promotion and Trade Promotion, said that on May 27, Tan Yen early lychee was officially on the shelves of Japanese supermarkets. This specialty fruit of Vietnam is packaged in boxes and sold at prices ranging from 350,000-500,000 VND/kg. Mangoes in the South have fallen in the garden, and the North is expensive Mangoes in the South and North of our country are facing opposite fates. While mangoes in the South are full of orchards, mangoes in the North are expensive and high prices. Specifically, Australian mangoes grown in Cam Lam (Khanh Hoa) in previous years cost 20,000-30,000 VND/kg, now 3,000-4,000 VND/kg still have no buyers. Hoa Loc sand mango costs only 20,000 VND/kg, Thai mango is 15,000 VND/kg, Taiwanese mangoes are sold at the garden for only 3,000 VND/kg. Contrary to the tragedy in the mango “capitals” in the South, on this occasion, in Son La mango granary, people are busy harvesting in time for export orders, despite the Covid-19 epidemic. In Muong La district, recently, a batch of 60 tons of mangoes was also on the way to export to China at high prices. Prices of watermelons, zucchini, and sweet potatoes have fallen More than 40 hectares of watermelons of the people of Xuan Hoa commune (Nhu Xuan district, Thanh Hoa) have come to harvest. Despite the good season, the price of watermelon decreased by more than half compared to last year, only from 3,500-3,800 VND/kg. Meanwhile, growers have to spend about 90 million VND to invest in planting 1 hectare of melons. Similarly, zucchini grown in Vu Thu, Thai Binh has reached the harvest period but no traders have asked to buy it. People bring to the market to retail for 2,000-5,000 VND/kg. Last year, the price of pumpkin was 10,000 VND/kg. In Hanoi, the price of zucchini is 7,000-10,000 VND/kg. In addition to zucchini, pumpkin prices also dropped to only 5,000-6,000 VND/kg. Squashes piled up in the house, the price dropped to the carpet (Photo: Thao Nguyen) Many Japanese purple sweet potato farmers in Binh Tan (Vinh Long) are also suffering because the price of sweet potatoes has dropped dramatically, to less than 1,000 VND/kg. Even some growers called for but no one took. Airfares near bottom According to a survey by Zing, due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, domestic airfare prices dropped sharply. With the return flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi departing on June 2 and returning on June 5, the cheapest fare is currently at nearly 900,000 VND including taxes and fees. Compared to the last time it hit the bottom, domestic airfares inched slightly, partly because the preferential tickets for 0 dong were sold out, partly because airlines increased taxes and fees to supplement revenue during a difficult market period. towel. The original ticket price offered by airlines is only 5,000 VND, 6,000 VND, 49,000 VND or 99,000 VND. Peach ‘disguised’ Sapa specialty costs only 20,000 VND/kg According to Tien Phong newspaper, on many roads in Saigon, peaches labeled as Sapa peaches are sold widely. The peaches “disguised” are plump and shiny Sapa peaches with extremely cheap prices, only from 16,000-20,000 VND/kg. These large and juicy peaches are advertised by small traders as originating from Sapa. Mrs. C., a small trader selling fruit at Hoa Binh market (District 5, Ho Chi Minh City), affirmed: “Peach sold in carts, street vendors are “fake” peaches, and mine is the main Sapa. brand. Those who sell peaches for less than 20,000 VND are not from Sapa, and I don’t know where the origin is. Sapa peaches must be big and round, ripe like this to be real.” The price of live pork has dropped sharply, the price of meat in the market has not been reduced yet In recent years, live hog prices have continuously decreased. At the beginning of May, hog prices were at their lowest level in a year and are forecast to continue falling. Currently, the price of live pork is purchased in the range of 64,000-69,000 VND/kg. Compared to the same period in 2020, the price of live hog across the country has decreased from 30,000-32,000 VND/kg. But the price of pork sold at markets and supermarkets is still high. Compared to the time when hog prices peaked in the same period last year, the decrease in supermarkets was not significant, only about 15,000-20,000 VND/kg. In traditional markets, the price of pork is currently at 120,000-160,000 VND/kg. Compared to the same time last year, the price of pork decreased by 25,000-35,000 VND/kg. Explaining the record drop in live hog prices, but the selling prices are still high, Mr. Nguyen Van Trong, Deputy Director of the Department of Livestock Production (MARD) explained, the reason is from slaughter to sales in Vietnam. Nam is still going through many intermediate stages. Each stage costs additional costs, leading to the finished meat reaching consumers without enjoying the desired price. Green mangosteen guts ‘fly’ to Hanoi, the ‘chat’ price is still expensive At this time, mangosteen begins to be in season. Besides the ripe red, sweet, and succulent mangosteen fruits costing from 45,000-80,000 VND/kg, the mangosteen with the green skin, crispy intestine, and slightly sour taste is sought after by many people. Green mangosteen flesh costs half a million dong/kg (photo: NT) Mangosteen when green is still a rare specialty dish, because the collection and preliminary processing takes a lot of effort. Moreover, because there is only one season each year, the price of this fruit is not cheap. Unpeeled green mangosteen costs from 80,000-95,000 VND/kg. Particularly, peeled mangosteen is extremely expensive, up to 480,000-650,000 VND/kg depending on the time. Because, you have to peel about 4-5kg of fruit to get 1kg of intestine. Electricity is in short supply, prices increase Sharing on Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper, Mr. Truong Hoang Thanh, in charge of trading a system of electronics supermarkets in Ho Chi Minh City, said that most new model electrical products have increased in price by at least 3-5%, especially television increased sharply by 10-20%. Meanwhile, a representative of Media electronics company announced that all items have increased in price from 8-20%. Similarly, Mr. Le Xuan Hoan, General Director of Kangaroo Group, cited the price increase of components by 20%, copper materials by 50% and plastic by 20%… to explain the price adjustment plan. products add 10%-20% in the coming time. Meanwhile, the expected price increase at Viettronics Joint Stock Company is 10-30%. Manufacturers warn that the TV supply shortage will continue from now until the end of the year due to the impact of the global chip crisis. The reason for the shortage of electrical and electronic goods, the price increase is due to the 3-4 times increase in the cost of transportation and the 8-9% increase in the component price compared to last year. Hanh Nguyen (Synthetic)

Rice prices fluctuate in opposite directions Specifically, for ordinary rice in Long An, the price is 6,900 VND/kg; Tien Giang is 7,750 VND/kg; Dong Thap is 6,550 VND/kg; An Giang is 5,900 VND/kg… For long-grain rice, the price in Long An is 7,300 VND/kg; Tien Giang is 7,950 VND/kg; Dong Thap 7,100 VND/kg; An Giang 6,000 VND/kg… With rice prices, today is mixed. Specifically, the new NL IR 504 rice increased by 100 dong, to 7,900-8,000 dong/kg; new TP IR 504 rice reduced by 200 dong, to 8,800-8,900 dong/kg. While plate 1 IR 504 is stable at 7,900-8,000 VND/kg and gold bran is stable at 7,650 VND/kg. Traders said that today, the purchasing demand of warehouses has not prospered, in general, raw rice has returned to hybrid rai. ST rice types are sold well, prices are stable. Similarly, the types of rice sold at the market in An Giang also continued to be stable. Specifically, sticky intestines 14,000 VND/kg; fragrant rice diced 18,000 – 19,000 VND/kg; Jasmine 14,000 VND/kg; common white rice 14,000 VND/kg; Miss Hoa 16,200 VND/kg; Squirrel is usually 14,000 VND/kg, white rice is usually stable at 11,000 – 12,000 VND/kg, Japanese rice is 24,000 VND/kg; Nang Nhen rice 20,000 VND/kg; Thai squirrel 17,000 VND/kg… On the world market, the export price of rice today suddenly decreased slightly by 5 USD/ton for 5% broken rice. Accordingly, 5% broken rice is 483-487 USD/ton. Other types of rice continue to stand still, including: 25% broken rice 463-467 USD/ton; 100% rice price 418-422 USD/ton; Jasmine 563-567 USD/ton. Along with the adjusted Vietnamese rice price, the Thai rice offering price was also adjusted down by 1 USD/ton for 5%, 25% and 100% broken rice varieties. Currently, this country’s rice is recorded at 25-31 USD/ton lower than Vietnam’s rice of the same type. It is the lower Thai rice price that is creating great competitive pressure for our country’s exporters because buyers are turning to other rice exporters who are offering cheaper prices.

Burning rice straw often does not burn into flames, so there are many harmful gases in the smoke such as CO, CO2, SO2, NO2. Exhaust all toxic gas In 2020, the Hanoi People’s Committee issued Directive No. 15/CT-UBND on strengthening state management measures for the illegal burning of straw, crop by-products and other wastes in order to minimize the negative impact on the city environment. Prof. Dr. Hoang Xuan Co, Hanoi National University, said that now there are many researches and solutions to treat rice straw and limit post-harvest burning. However, the solutions need to be thoroughly researched, scientific and feasible. To solve the problem that needs to be studied to the end, we have had many studies such as converting tablets to burn, making mushrooms, and making manure. But the most basic is how to organize, where is the funding? Accordingly, from January 1, 2021, 100% of rice straw and crop by-products generated will be collected, reused or treated to meet environmental technical requirements; No more burning of straw, crop by-products and domestic solid waste in contravention of regulations in the city. However, at the beginning of June is the spring rice harvest of 2021, in many fields of the city, farmers continue to repeat the situation of burning straw. Typically in Soc Son district, people in communes: Phu Lo, Mai Dinh, Phu Cuong, Thanh Xuan, Tien Duoc… burn rice straw near Noi Bai International Airport, affecting the visibility of aircraft when taking off. , landing. Every year, the Northern Airport Authority must send an official dispatch to Soc Son district to take measures to prevent this situation. The Hanoi Department of Natural Resources and Environment said that the rate of burning straw in the spring crop is about 20%, higher than that of the crop. However, the actual number in districts is much larger such as: Thuong Tin, Thanh Oai accounted for 50%, Thach That 45%, Chuong My 37%, Thanh Tri 33%, Me Linh 30%, Soc Son 25. %… This situation not only causes traffic insecurity but also creates dust, smoke, greenhouse gas emissions, heat causing serious environmental pollution… Environmental experts analyze, burning rice straw often does not burn. As a result, the smoke contains many small dust particles and produces many harmful gases such as CO, CO2, SO2, NO2, affecting people’s health and increasing air pollution in the burning area as well as in the burning area. surrounding areas. Let straw not be a burden to the environment Prof. Dr. Pham Van Toan, Deputy Director of the Vietnam Institute of Agricultural Sciences (VAAS), shared that in the past, rice straw was considered a multi-purpose by-product for Vietnamese farmers (using for cooking, roofing, animal feed, etc.). But when the farming industry thrives, rice production is increasing, the annual source of rice straw generated in Vietnam is very large (estimated at about 50 million tons/year), then the straw is redundant and becomes waste to be treated. According to the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Vietnam currently burns more than 20 million tons of rice straw each year. Many localities have promoted the application of mechanization (straw roll machine) in the collection and transportation of straw. It is recommended that the application of biological products to treat rice straw after harvest into organic fertilizer for agriculture, contributing to minimizing environmental pollution. Facing the uncontrolled burning of straw in suburban districts, in the two years 2017 – 2018, Hanoi Department of Natural Resources and Environment introduced to 19 districts in the city a model of using bio-products. Learn to process rice straw into organic fertilizer, and at the same time support 50% of the cost of probiotics for farmers. Dan Phuong district (Hanoi) has an area of ​​​​about 2,500 hectares of rice cultivation. Every year, it has to process 37.5 thousand tons of rice straw and agricultural by-products. After 3 years of implementing the model “Field without burning straw”, using biological products to compost straw into organic fertilizer in 9 communes for growing crops, until now, the situation of burning straw The field is almost nonexistent. According to Mr. Thieu Van Son – Chairman of Dan Phuong District Farmers’ Association, this solution brings “dual” benefits of both improving crop productivity and protecting people’s health. But unfortunately, after a short pilot period and narrow scope, the project ended, the localities were not interested in communicating about the long-term benefits to farmers, so the straw returned to the reluctant treatment. is dried, burned. Strictly handle the act of burning straw in violation of regulations The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has just sent a written request to the People’s Committees of the provinces and cities to direct the Departments of Natural Resources and Environment, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Department of Information and Communications, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism; People’s Committees of districts, towns and cities organize propaganda and mobilization to prevent people from spontaneously burning waste, burning rice straw and agricultural by-products after harvesting crops; assigned Farmers and Women’s Unions, Youth Union to organize for members, union members and farmer households to sign a commitment not to burn rice straw in the field. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment also suggested that provinces and cities need to develop projects and tasks to guide farmers to implement measures to maximize collection, treatment and thorough processing of by-products, post-harvested rice straw into useful products. At the same time, direct the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, the Environmental Police, and local authorities at district, ward, and commune levels to strengthen inspection and strictly handle the improper burning of waste and agricultural by-products after harvest; direct Traffic Inspectors and Traffic Police to inspect and strictly handle vehicles carrying soil, stones, construction materials, and daily-life solid waste that are not covered, causing environmental pollution.

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.

On MXH, in addition to the “go into the ground” jackfruit phase, netizens have many times witnessed the fruiting of jackfruit trees with extremely “unruly” results. Typically, in the case below, the first fruiting jackfruit made the owner overjoyed because the day was coming to pick the fruit, who would have thought that it would grow in such a strange way. Under the comment section, another girl also shared the same moment, but ironically, her jackfruits were left on the street as if given away to no one else. This jackfruit tree produces such fruit, who dares to pick it. The jackfruit tree grows fruit … in the jar makes the owner miserable to post the piano for help. Not only jackfruit, many other “unruly” fruits have betrayed their owners when they grow to the neighbor’s house or appear in a strange position. The family did not grow many fruits, but there was a child who voluntarily reached out to the neighbor’s house like this. Originally from my house but the result was someone else’s house. Three delicious mangoes donated to a neighbor’s house. Although it doesn’t take much care, the fruit that grows on whoever’s house belongs to that house. The melon grows like this, how does the homeowner harvest it? Photo: Synthesis Invite readers to watch the video: The future of Thai jackfruit: Sweet fruit or “bitter fruit”? – Source: General THVL

Hops are an indispensable ingredient in beer production – a wonderful drink that is loved by every country. However, few people know that hops are also used to eat with the most expensive prices in the world. The hops, scientifically known as humulus lupulus, are shaped like the tops of asparagus and are only for the rich to enjoy. In the past, when the beer industry was new, young shoots that did not bloom into flowers were considered waste. Over time, what used to be discarded has become the most expensive vegetable in the world with a price of more than 1,000 USD/kg. The reason why the price of hops shoots is so high is because of the scarcity of this plant. Hops sprout only once in the spring, between March and April. Moreover, the life time of hops shoots is not long. Just a short time after the hops sprout, the hops will quickly perish if not harvested. The expensiveness of hops buds also comes from the sophisticated harvesting process. Hops do not grow in rows, so harvesting must be done entirely by hand. The harvester must carefully find the buds growing in the foliage. They are so small that it takes thousands of hops to fill a bag Garden owners also have to depend on the weather to have a reasonable harvest schedule within 14 days of hops sprouting. They are quite picky about habitat, so they are usually grown only in England and Belgium. Having a shape and taste similar to asparagus when eaten raw, some people think that the hops buds, if eaten raw, are quite bitter, tasting like green beans, but when cooked, it has a very distinct flavor. After being harvested, most of the hops are used by luxury restaurants to cater to privileged diners. Hops shoots can be used for salads, noodles or baked… according to the preferences of the buyer. Sautéing garlic is also an option that many people who have eaten hops appreciate. For many chefs around the world, hops are considered a great ingredient to prepare the unique dishes that make them famous. Please watch the video: The strangest shaped trees in the world. Source: Happy and healthy every day

In 2015, studying in the first year of university, Dinh Le Thao Nguyen (SN 1996, Ward 3, Da Lat City, Lam Dong) decided to take a break even though her family disagreed. “Since I was in high school, I was determined not to go to university, but I did not expect to pass the exam,” the girl born in 1996 shared. However, after only a few months, the girl decided to drop out of school. The garden of Thao Nguyen is more than 7,000m2, planted with all kinds of different fruit trees. Having a passion for plants and gardening, after leaving school, Thao Nguyen and her parents planted more ornamental plants, flowers and vegetables in the garden. She also redesigned her garden in the direction of “going back to nature” and discussed with her parents the intention of inviting “strangers” to her garden to play. “The land is large, but only my parents, me and my younger brother live. Gardening is done by me and my father, so it can’t be done,” Thao Nguyen shared. She wants to invite others to work in the garden and harvest products. Guests will be free to eat and drink, while the owner has a companion when gardening. “I only choose female guests,” Thao Nguyen said. The selection of people to play will be “selected carefully” through the profile and the times the two sides talk to discuss topics related to planting trees and taking care of the garden. Guests and owners will have a month to contact and talk to each other. When it feels right to talk and feel that guests are sincere in coming to the garden, Thao Nguyen will receive the application and make an appointment for the two sides to meet. However, Thao Nguyen’s idea was opposed by her family. “My father said: “When you come to play, I take them to Da Lat city to tell me. Bringing a friend back and forcing you to garden for yourself is exploiting your labor,” Thao Nguyen recalls. There is no other way. otherwise, Thao Nguyen had to put her ideas aside. Thao Nguyen took a commemorative photo with an elderly guest who used to visit her garden. In 2020, Mr. Lac – Thao Nguyen’s father, just started letting his daughter invite strangers to his garden. Thao Nguyen posted information to find people in the provinces and cities to come to her garden to play and many people responded. “The garden is currently in the harvest season, so I want to find someone to visit, take care of the plants and harvest the products together. Every day, we will do gardening for 4 hours, including 2 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon. Gardening is sowing seeds, planting flowers, growing vegetables, watering plants, picking up trash, weeding, picking fruit… Thao Nguyen’s garden is located in the middle of Da Lat city, surrounded by a stream. The rest of the time we will cook together, walk around Da Lat. The garden will arrange accommodation and meals during your stay. If you want to wander around the restaurant and eat, I’m happy to share when eating with you. If you can take care of the garden for a month, the garden will be completely free of charge. If you only spend 1-2 weeks in the garden, the fee will be 200,000 VND/week,” she wrote. Reading about Thao Nguyen, a female friend in Hanoi asked to visit the garden for a week. After carefully reviewing the girl’s profile, Thao Nguyen agreed. The girl stayed for a week, worked in the garden, ate together and talked with the owner of the garden. Before leaving, the girl planted a green tree as a souvenir. Thao Nguyen promised, when the tree bears fruit, she will invite the girl to come and harvest. Ms. Pham My Ly (Hanoi) also registered to come to Thao Nguyen’s garden to stay for a week to practice being a farmer. “The days of gardening with Thao Nguyen, I feel very happy, comfortable and meaningful. In the morning, I go to the garden to pick vegetables and weeds. In the afternoon, I finish work early, I drive around Da Lat,” she wrote. on personal page. Recently, many people also registered to visit the garden, but Thao Nguyen did not agree, due to the complicated development of the Covid-19 epidemic. “This season, the garden is in the process of harvesting avocados and durians… but due to the epidemic, we can’t invite everyone to come, I’m sorry,” 9X confessed. In addition to fruit trees, Thao Nguyen also grows chrysanthemums, roses, five-color, bougainvillea… The succulent berries that Thao Nguyen can grow. She also grows more vegetables and tubers to provide clean food for her family and visitors to the garden. Thao Nguyen said that gardening also has worries, expectations, joy and fatigue like other jobs. However, since starting gardening, she finds life meaningful because she takes care of plants and immerses herself in nature. Thao Nguyen also designed an area to make a fish pond, a place to relax for family and guests. The cat is lying comfortably under the fruit-bearing jackfruit tree. Stone lotus is grown in dried coconut shells. Among these, there are trees planted by guests as souvenirs. The girls came to garden with Thao Nguyen. Up to now, Thao Nguyen has welcomed more than 20 strangers to the garden to play. In the next time, she will design a garden according to the homestay model so that she can welcome many guests, especially families with small children. Thao Nguyen and the guest visit her garden. 9X said, up to now, she always feels that the choice of garden is done right and is becoming more and more meaningful. Watch more videos: Hanoi is strangely beautiful in the rice flower season, the red color dispels the cold of Ban Tu Anh Photo: Character provided

I told you yesterday, I have started my summer vacation. He was so happy, he jumped up and down. Thinking about it, seeing it as I was when I was a kid, but hearing that the teacher was busy, sick, and on vacation, the students were more busy playing than studying. Particularly for Summer is a very long excitement, because it brings so many plans, plans and games ahead. “Dragonfly bites navel and knows how to swim” – so many children have been tricked into this. Photo: Thanh Nguyen. I still remember, when I was a kid, Summer was an opportunity for a lot of “starts” at first. From the first time going to see crabs (crab hooks), fishing for frogs, catching fish, slapping fish… to children’s activities: exercising and kicking football early. As for the games, there are many, from shotguns, passing, marble shooting, fighting, fighting, umbrellas… Part of a memory. Photo: Thanh Nguyen. In those days, the field after the harvest was a big stage for the country kids. In my house, there are no buffaloes or cows, but because I crave the country atmosphere with many games and strange dishes, I often follow my brothers and friends in the neighborhood. After the harvest, the countryside is temporarily empty. After the harvest, all the grasshoppers, frogs, and especially mice were gathered in the fields of elephant grass. These are the fields converted by dairy households, from rice to grass for food. At that time, during the day, they fished frogs, at night they looked at locusts and caught birds. But the most fun is still the sessions to dig mice. Usually groups of several or three children will bring a bucket, basket or bag, a spade and a dog. Dogs have the ability to sniff out and catch mice very well, buckets can make water with simple burrows. Field after harvest. Photo: Thanh Nguyen. Rats this season are fat because they are full after a rice season. After catching, bring back, peel off the skin, cut off the head and legs, just take the meat of the body and thighs and then marinate it and bake it. In the summer, every child does not have a small cage. In the countryside, usually every house has a few areca trees. In the summer, those who are good at climbing will be responsible for finding the nests of young birds and sharing them with each other. The young sparrows are hungry, full of shit, their mouths are always wide open to eat when they see people. The food is cold rice, but the most common is grasshoppers, so if you don’t go to the field every day, you have to run to green vegetables (5% field area for households to grow vegetables) to catch some locusts to bring back. make bird food. Draw sketch. Photo: Thanh Nguyen. I remember, when I was a child raising birds, my parents taught me to give the birds light salt water to drink, so I got used to it, even if the birds fly away when they grow up, they still have to come back to drink water. That pure joy keeps growing, from the time the bird is young until the bird is full of feathers, flying and growing. I remember back in the 90s, raising snails was fashionable among the kids. In the new wave of that movement, I had to ask my parents for money to buy it. Where 1,000 VND/pair of small snails, or a few thousand a tool snail, bring back and drop into a crock pot or fish tank to raise. Day by day, go to pick duckweed, water hyacinth, or gather all kinds of leaves for snails to eat. When the snail lays, each pink ovary as big as a strawberry will gradually turn white, it’s time to take out toothpicks to get the baby snails. Raising snails and birds is also meticulous and takes time, but fun. Then, only later, did I know that the “toy” once was a terrible thing to destroy the rice fields. The imprint of the game in childhood has not ended many times when returning home many times, on ditches or bamboo poles in ponds and lakes, still full of eggs of this agricultural “rebellious” group. The nest of golden snail eggs is associated with the childhood of many rural children. Photo: Thanh Nguyen. Summer brings showers. After such meals, the pond is filled with the sound of frogs, hawks, and owls. Me and my friends carried fishing rods. Frogs with nuggets (a baby frog about the size of a big toe) are brought back to be raised somewhere in the garden or pond. Big frogs have to buy long bamboo sticks and melon flowers to lure. If there is a frog, there will be a pot of melon soup. In those days, finding a frog with 3 fingers was already very big, unlike now, frogs raised as big as fists, why eat frivolously. Summer is coming, for the children of the countryside, it is also the season of petty theft, because this is the most fruitful season. From sugarcane, guava, alligator, toad, citrus, mango, queo, papaya, etc. The day before yesterday, when I returned to my hometown, my friend also read aloud the “directory” of sweet and fragrant flowers, who had what tree, what delicious fruit. , it’s by heart. See, the taste of stolen fruit is so delicious and attractive that, after more than 20 years, people still remember it. In those days, the children often looked at Gac fruit, any house that had a ripe gac fruit, even if it was new, but did not cut it quickly, it was stolen by the children, just to get the seeds to play. As for the other fruits, they are extremely different, each day they change a dish. In those days, the booty was often carried by the children to the bunker on the embankment to raid. I don’t know how many moonlit mornings, the village dike was filled with laughter, eating and talking like that. And the most interesting thing, that day, the matter of stealing fruit was rarely concerned by parents, it was an accepted thing. Maybe it’s just a few reprimands from time to time, because everyone seems to implicitly admit that it’s a part of everyone’s childhood.

At this time, the peach season begins. On the streets, traditional markets or “web markets”, peaches are sold in abundance. However, in addition to Sa Pa peaches, smooth peaches, gold hearths, crows, … new types of strange red crows appeared in the market. According to the clues, this is a Chinese peach, the outer skin is dark red, the inside is yellow, the sweet crunchy taste is no different from the Vietnamese peach. Due to its fancy look, large fruit and beautiful code, this peach is being bought by housewives to eat, even though the retail price is up to 100,000 VND/kg. Strange peaches with dark red skins flood the Vietnamese market Chinese suckling mangoes are selling well amid the high harvest of Vietnamese mangoes As noted by the reporter of Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper, recently, the Ho Chi Minh City market “re-exported” the motorbikes peddling mangoes, also known as ripe yellow mini mangoes, quite similar to Chinese sucking mangoes, attracting quite many buyers. This mango is sold for 25,000-30,000 VND/kg. Mr. Nguyen The Bao, Director of Suoi Lon Mango Cooperative (Dong Nai), this year, Chinese mangoes ripen early, hitting the Vietnamese mango season, so competition is fierce in both domestic and export markets. Meanwhile, domestic mangoes are in full season and cheap. An Giang low-seeded mango is 9,000-15,000 VND/kg, precious quarter mango is only 15,000 VND/kg, Vip Taiwanese mango is only 7,000 VND/kg… On the “web market” instead of selling by weight as before, Mangoes are now sold in sets of several pounds or in boxes. Japanese octopus whiskers super cheap price, full of online market Octopus whiskers are firm, sweet, crunchy, and are loved by many people. The price for each kilogram of Japanese octopus antennae, officially imported, is VND 800,000 to VND 1 million. Cheap octopus whiskers are sold widely online. However, according to Dan Tri Newspaper, recently, on the online market, many small businesses sell giant octopus antennae advertised as Japanese goods at super cheap prices, from only 90,000 VND/kg. If customers buy in bulk, the price is only 80,000 VND/kg and free shipping to your home. Many people suspect this type of octopus whiskers may be made in China, not from Japan. Tiny cabbage priced at 400,000 VND/kg causes fever Cabbage is a familiar vegetable in Vietnam, with prices ranging from 10,000-40,000 VND/kg. However, according to Dan Tri Newspaper, recently, a tiny cabbage, only about the size of a plum, is being sold for 400,000 VND/kg, making housewives crazy. This type of cabbage, whose English name is Brussels Sprouts, originates from Belgium, is grown in many countries such as Australia, France and is a high-class product with many nutritional values. Goat pearls priced at half a million are still sold out Goat jasper is the testicles of a male goat. Since ancient times, jade yang goat was “praised” as a “panacea” in the bedroom. Dishes from pearl goats are increasingly popular. Ngoc Duong goat stir-fried with lemongrass and chili (Photo: Dan Tri) Ms. Vu Nhien (longtime goat meat restaurant owner in Quang Ninh) said on Dan Tri Newspaper: Currently, each set of goat pearls costs from 300,000-500,000 VND, depending on the size. Coil price increased sharply Major domestic steel brands have simultaneously announced to increase the price of CB240 coil to over 18,000 VND/kg. This is the third increase in the price of coil in May. Only in May, steel price has increased by about 10%. Since the beginning of the year, coil prices have increased 15 times, a total increase of about 40%. The sharp increase in steel prices makes it difficult for construction contractors to implement fixed unit price contracts and will incur losses. The first fruits of the season are simultaneously discounted Although the season has just started, many fruits at the beginning of the season are retailed in the market at much cheaper prices than in previous years. If at this time last year, the first crop of crocodiles was sold for 60,000-70,000 VND/kg, this year the price suddenly cooled down, only 40,000 VND/kg. The price of young crocodiles is much cheaper than last year The price of early season fabric is also cheaper than every year. For example, at the beginning of last year’s season, the price of pink lychee was 100,000 VND/kg when it arrived in Hanoi, this year it is only 50,000 VND/kg. On the online market, there are people selling cloth for only 50,000 VND / 3 kg. In Ho Chi Minh City, the price of Hanoi plums for sale is only from 40,000-50,000 VND/kg, half the price of plums at the beginning of last year’s season. Durian has just popped up and arrived in many markets in Ho Chi Minh City for about 2 weeks now, but the price is extremely cheap, about 60,000-80,000 VND/kg (food bag). Great price melons, pumpkins for cows to eat bò Due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, the output of cantaloupe was affected, causing the price to plummet. Ho Chi Minh City Law Newspaper information, in some markets in Ho Chi Minh City and on mobile vehicles, melons grown in fields and greenhouses are being sold for only 20,000-40,000 VND/kg, not equal to 50% of the selling price in recent years. Pumpkin prices also dropped dramatically. According to Dan Tri Newspaper, the price of pumpkin in Dak Lak is only about 800-1,500 VND/kg, causing many farmers to suffer. In Phu Yen, hundreds of tons of pumpkins are piled up without buyers and have to be fed to the cows. Cheap Chinese ice cream flooded the market According to ANTV, at the beginning of the hot summer, domestic Chinese ice cream sticks with cheap prices of only a few thousand dong flooded the market and on social networks. Cheap, colorful and attractive, these ice cream sticks are sought after by many people without knowing the real origin and quality. In fact, all of these products are imported into Vietnam through a small quota, so there are no documents on the source of goods as well as product quality control. Therefore, many small traders in Hanoi have to open many warehouses, in order to divide the source of goods, to bypass the eyes of the functional forces. Wholesale pork prices drop sharply, retail markets drop trickle According to Ho Chi Minh City Women Newspaper, for about a week now, in Ho Chi Minh City, the price of live pigs has decreased by about 8,000-9,000 VND/kg. The price of thin pork (wholesale/jaw) of grades 1 and 2 also fell sharply by about 12,000-15,000 VND/kg, to 85,000 VND/kg grade 1 and 78,000 VND/kg grade 2, respectively. mixed with snakehead has not much decrease, only about 5,000 VND/kg. The retail price of pork in some markets is still high, some places only decrease by about 5,000-10,000 VND/kg, some places do not decrease. Specialty chili ‘regiment’ expensive price Unlike the scene where farmers in Binh Dinh, Quang Ngai, Quang Nam, … have to sell chili at a cheap price, this occasion in Muong Te (Lai Chau), the regiment’s chili specialty has the highest price. sharp. Chili regiment towering prices. Ms. Nguyen Thi Su – a regiment chili grower in Kan Ho commune (Muong Te) – said: “Last year, the price of chili fluctuated from 150,000 to 220,000 VND/kg depending on the quantity and time, but this year the chili crop failed. so the price is higher. I buy wholesale from 5kg with the price of 220,000 VND / kg, sometimes the retail price of fresh chili is up to 280,000-300,000 VND / kg, customers still compete to buy. According to Ms. Su, the reason for the regimental chili’s name is to refer to their spiciness, which means that the whole regiment only ate one of these chili peppers because it was too spicy. In addition, this type of chili also has a unique aroma that makes anyone who eats it remember forever. Old, broken computer components are sold at high prices Recently, the component market has become much more active because many people buy computers for the purpose of mining coins, Dan Tri newspaper said. Even old, broken components are also bought and sold at relatively high prices. To mine bitcoin, players need to invest in a highly configurable machine, especially, the graphics card must be very strong. The price of graphics cards has now increased by 30% compared to before. According to the business world, if virtual currencies hit the bottom as before, the price of computer components can return to the true value. Hanh Nguyen (Synthetic)

The market is full of mangoes, but there are few buyers At noon on 24/5, at many traditional markets in such as Ho Hoc Lam, An Duong Vuong (Binh Tan District), Ho Trong Quy (District 6), Hoa Binh (District 5)… all kinds of acacia mango, Thai mango, Hoa Loc sand mango… are displayed at the stalls. Offering to buy mango, Mrs. Lam (small trader in the market next to Cho Lon Bus Station, District 5) said: “Mango is in season, so the price is almost half as cheap as last year. Like Hoa Loc sand mango, only 25,000-30,000 VND/kg; Acacia mango 10,000 VND/kg… There were days when many mangoes arrived, so they were not sold in time, so the basket was full, we had to reduce the price to push the goods.” “Buying a bag of mangoes with more than 2kg but the price is only 20,000 VND, cheaper than vegetables” – Ms. Trang (living in Tan Binh District) said and added that in recent days, she has bought a lot of mangoes for dessert summer vitamin C booster. When small traders “discharge” ripe mangoes, she also buys some (buying) to make mango jam, dried mango, mango rice paper… to save for later. Ms. Thu, a trader who buys mangoes in Long An, said that because mangoes in the southern provinces were in the harvest season, they were hit by an epidemic, so they dumped the goods. Accordingly, the price of acacia mango is reduced to 4,000-5,000 VND/kg, Cat Chu mango is 9,000-10,000 VND/kg, Hoa Loc sand worm is only 15,000-17,000 VND/kg. At many supermarkets, grade 1 mangoes on the shelves are also very cheap. As at Bach Hoa Xanh, the price of acacia mango is 15,000 VND/kg, the other types are slightly better but do not exceed 25,000 VND/kg. Meanwhile, Co.op Food supermarket sells first grade Hoa Loc mangoes for 45,000 VND/kg, reducing the price to only 35,9000 VND/kg… However, in stores selling clean fruit, mango is still at a high level. At a fruit shop next to Vuon Chuoi market (District 3), mangoes cost up to 80,000 VND/kg; or a “3 clean” shop on Hai Ba Trung Street (District 1), Hoa Loc mangoes cost nearly 100,000 VND/kg. According to the shop owner, this is an organic mango grown for export, so it has a high price. A representative of the Thu Duc agricultural wholesale market said that from the beginning of May until now, the total amount of mangoes imported to the market is 4,285 tons; average 194.77 tons/night. Mangoes are displayed on the sidewalk of Hoa Binh market (District 5) for only 10,000-15,000 VND/kg On the side of Cho Lon bus station (District 5, District 6) grade 1 mangoes are sold at wholesale market prices, but there are few buyers. Hoa Loc sand mango bag, price is only from 30,000 VND/kg. The small trader said that mangoes have never been so cheap as now. The fruit stalls in all markets in Ho Chi Minh City have no shortage of mango products, and customers who buy a lot also get a discount. Due to being in the harvest tool right away during the epidemic, many localities distanced themselves; while exports also face difficulties, leading to lower mango consumption. At the supermarket, Hoa Loc sand mango grade 1 is also on promotion, the price is only 35,600 VND/kg

Sil Pop’s coffee garden applies economical irrigation to reduce costs. Photo: D.L. Garden improvement techniques Sil Pop (36 years old), a J’rai ethnic in Yo 2 village, Ia Ka commune (Chu Pah district, Gia Lai) has a 3-hectare coffee garden in his home garden. He said, this coffee garden family has been nearly twenty years. Initially, the coffee garden was green and had a high harvest due to the new land, moreover the price of coffee at that time was good, so he and many other households boldly invested in the garden. However, for a long time, the orchards have deteriorated due to improper care, the initial selection of varieties is not good, and the price of coffee has continuously plummeted, so there is no money to invest in the garden. “For several years, watching the coffee garden gradually degraded, yielding low, the price dropped to the bottom, my family was sad,” said Sil Pop. In 2018, Sil Pop decided to bring his coffee garden to participate in Ia Mo Nong Agricultural Production – Trade – Service – Tourism Cooperative (Cooperative). By 2019, the VnSAT project will install the sprinkler irrigation system at the root, Sil Pop is the first out of a total of nearly 200 ethnic minority households to participate in the installation of this system. Spending 43,592,000 VND (50% of the project’s counterpart), he bought plumbing, valves, pumps, digging wells… for the sprinkler irrigation system. Under each coffee tree is a water pipe about 40cm above the ground. From here, every time you water, just turn on the switch and the system will bring water to each coffee tree. Sil Pop said: For the first time, just open the power bridge, water for about 5-6 hours is enough. After 10 days of watering again the second phase, just 2 hours is enough water for coffee plants. Depending on the weather each year, watering more or less. “Since the installation of the sprinkler irrigation system, taking care of the coffee garden is very easy. Just open the bridge and then… go play, when it’s time to turn off the bridge, the job is done. It’s not like before, you have to bend your back and drag the water pipe to every coffee tree,” said Sil Pop. According to Sil Pop, since applying the sprinkler irrigation system to the root, his family’s garden quickly turned green again, as if there was a “miracle”. Sil Pop next to a lush coffee garden, thanks to the application of sprinkler irrigation technology. Photo: TA Outstanding efficiency Mr. Le Van Thanh, Director of the cooperative said: The application of sprinkler irrigation technology at the root has brought great efficiency to the coffee garden. According to Mr. Thanh, applying this irrigation technology has saved a lot in the process of investment and care for the garden. The first is to save labor: If before, it would take a lot of time to pull pipes to irrigate each tree, unlike now, just open the bridge and finish; In the process of watering, farmers can take advantage of making branches or doing other jobs. Applying this irrigation technology has also saved up to 50% of water according to the previous irrigation method, because the water goes to the root without evaporating or spilling to other places like traditional irrigation. If before, each watering required 450-500 liters of water for each coffee tree, now only half is enough. The amount of fertilizer is also significantly saved because the fertilizer is quantified, put into the water system to bring to each tree, avoiding the case of a lot of roots, less fertilizer, or scattered fertilizer throughout the garden. Then save electricity, save health… “If this system is not installed, this year’s coffee garden will probably be left to die due to a serious lack of water this year,” Sil Pop said. Saving is like that, but the effect brought is a big surprise. According to Sil Pop, in addition to saving labor and investment costs, applying this irrigation technology has significantly improved the quality of orchards: The fruit is larger, stronger and stronger, the yield is superior to the old farming method. . After the first year of applying sprinkler irrigation technology at the root, his garden harvested over 5 tons of kernels/ha. “This crop will probably yield five and a half to six tons per hectare,” Sil Pop said happily. In the harsh climatic conditions, many gardens do not dare to boldly apply science and technology, so the productivity is reduced, Sil Pop’s coffee garden is indeed a model worth learning. Commenting on Sil Pop’s orchard, Mr. Thanh said: “Sil Pop is the member household with the most methodical investment in the coffee garden. Thanks to this right investment, every year, his family’s orchard leads in both yield and quality of fruit. For many years in a row, Sil Pop has been recognized as a good farmer.” According to Mr. Thanh, it was difficult at first to mobilize ethnic minority households to apply this irrigation technology, because people had to “see and then believe”. Since seeing Sil Pop’s application and being effective, many member households who are ethnic minorities have voluntarily followed, bringing positive effects to the orchard. “Sil Pop deserves to be a pioneer in the movement of applying technology to agricultural production of the people of Yo 2 village,” Thanh affirmed. Ia Mo Nong Agricultural Production – Trade – Service – Tourism Cooperative has over 500 member households, with over 700 hectares of coffee. In which, about 190 member households are ethnic minorities. Thanks to learning Sil Pop’s method, up to now, the coffee garden of the people has improved significantly in quality and productivity, which is superior to the backward traditional farming method.

Mulberry skin – in the local language of Ha Tinh is elm skin. This is a woody fruit tree, appearing a lot in highland areas in mountainous districts such as Huong Son, Huong Khe. With the characteristic that the results are chained on the stem from the root to the top, the mulberry tree in the fruit season is very beautiful, chosen by many families to grow as an ornamental tree. Mulberry is usually ripe around June, lasts until July, August of the solar calendar… mid-May has begun to have ripe fruit. The young skinned berries are dark red or dark green, but when ripe, the skin turns ivory white, apricot yellow and has a sweet and sour taste. The mulberry tree trunks are filled with tens of thousands of fruits, making both growers and guests feel good. Mr. Tran Van Ky’s house (residing in Ha Linh commune, Huong Khe district) can grow 17 roots of mulberry skin, in the crop every day, traders come to ask to buy. These mulberry roots have been planted since 1980, each crop gives an income of tens of millions of dong. Each root averages from 1.5-2 quintals of fruit. The current selling price is from 25 to 30 thousand VND/kg, bought by small traders in the garden. As Mr. Ky shared, when the harvest is complete, he will weed, dig the soil and dig a deep hole near the base of the mulberry tree to fertilize. The characteristic of this plant is that it loves water, so this area is flooded every year, it is alluvial, so the tree grows well. No need for sophisticated care, on this occasion Mr. Ky’s family has harvested from 3 million VND or more each. The fruiting stem starts from the root to the tip. As Mr. Ky shared, there were many guests who came to pay more than tens of millions of dollars for a mulberry tree that is over 40 years old, but he still did not sell it. The mulberry tree stumps are decades old, not only economic in fruit collection, but also sought after by many people to buy. The berries are plump, ripe, waiting to be harvested. The fruit grows from the base to the top of the tree. Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoa (Ha Linh commune) also has a mulberry tree that is decades old at the time of fruit harvest. Ms. Hoa said that in previous years, this root yielded more than 2 quintals of fruit, but this year the harvest is more likely. “Strawberry has many different kinds of fruit, some trees give red fruit, but there are white fruit trees. On this occasion, people come to buy a lot, they will climb up to pick, then come down at the yard to weigh and charge. Like this original, someone came to pay tens of millions and did not sell. Because I want to keep it for my children and grandchildren, I have a few million silver coins here every year,” said Mrs. Hoa. On this occasion, Ms. Tran Thi Ha (resident of Huong Khe district) often goes to houses with skins to buy and sell. She said, usually traders will choose the sweetest, most delicious root to buy, the price is offered by the grower. “The strawberry skin is harvested in about 20 days, and customers buy a lot. Some people buy a whole weight and take it to Hanoi and Saigon to give it,” said Ms. Ha. The berries are picked and put on the street for sale.

Father and son Tran Minh Tung together take care of the vineyard. Photo:N.Son It is said that in Tan Hanh Ward there is a Ha Den vineyard planted in a safe way, many curious Bien Hoa people have come to Mr. Tung’s vineyard both to satisfy their curiosity and to save money. images with clusters of grapes laden with fruit. * Work and learn at the same time Introduced by friends, Ha Den grape is a grape variety with outstanding advantages compared to other grape varieties being grown in Vietnam such as: healthy growth, fast to harvest, sweet fruit, mild aroma and especially no taste. There were seeds, so Mr. Tran Minh Tung began to learn about the characteristics and techniques of growing this grape variety. In 2019, seeing that his son had a passion for farming, the family had land available, so Mr. Tung boldly invested in a drip irrigation system, materials for making trellis, tarpaulins, heat sinks and ordered 200 plants. Ha Den grape variety from Bac Giang University of Agriculture and Forestry for trial planting. Mr. Tran Minh Tung shared that in the coming time, he will continue to expand the area of ​​​​Ha Den grapes. In addition to selling grapes, he will develop the vineyard into a tourist attraction and experience. Mr. Tung said that when he brought the grapes to plant, everyone around him told him to take risks because grapes are often grown in the South Central coastal provinces, in Bien Hoa City, only a few families have grown as ornamentals. Planting for shade, few people grow grapes on a large scale (about 700-800m2) like him. When buying materials and equipment to build a truss, receiving grape varieties for planting, he realized that he had taken a risk when he spent 120 million VND to do something without knowing success or failure. Encouraged by his family, especially his son, and expressed his determination to successfully grow the Ha Den grape variety with his father, Mr. Tung felt empowered. However, passion and determination is one thing, the reality of growing and taking care of grapes is another. In addition to instructions from Bac Giang University of Agriculture and Forestry, in order to take care of the vineyard, he had to find books to read, go online to find articles about Ha Den grapes for reference, and even fly from South to North, find gardeners to learn from experience. The vineyard is located next to the house, so the first time he planted it, he was in the vineyard almost every day to monitor the growth of the grapes, as long as the grapes showed signs of abnormality, he would contact a number of gardeners to ask and handle. right. Thanks to that, after only 2 years of growing grapes, Mr. Tung has mastered all techniques of growing and taking care of grapes, handling problems related to Ha Den vine. Knowing the vineyard, many people in Bien Hoa City came to visit and take pictures at the vineyard. Photo: Facebook Nguyen Thuy MC According to Mr. Tung’s share, in addition to buying healthy seedlings, a prerequisite for growing Ha Den grapes is a roof. The roof is made of transparent nylon that has the effect of covering heavy rain to prevent leaf breakage, fruit loss, and pest control. The fertilizing and watering is not the same as for ordinary plants, but must use a drip irrigation system and an automatic fertilizing system on the grapevine, absolutely do not water the leaves. In the period of flowering and fruiting, the care is the most difficult because it is necessary to prune flowers, prune fruit, and cover fruit. The technique of pruning grapes needs to be very skillful so as not to scratch the fruit and cause it to crack when it grows. In the near-harvest stage, watering must be stopped to increase the sweetness of the grapes. * Add a “check-in” place for Bien Hoa people Ha Den Vineyard has only been nearly 2 years old so far, starting to generate income. Mr. Tung said that from the 2nd year onwards until the 8th year is the time when the grapes are at their strongest, so the yield will be higher, about 5kg/plant/crop (2 crops per year). Because this is the first harvest, the family wants to create conditions for customers to try Ha Den grapes, so the family only sells it for 120,000 VND/kg (while in the market, the price ranges from 150 to 170 thousand VND/kg). . Ha Den Vineyard not only brings income to Mr. Tung’s family but also becomes a destination to visit and take pictures of Bien Hoa people. Ms. Trieu Hoa Ngoc Lan, Secretary of Doan P. Tan Hanh said, Bien Hoa city has no fruit garden that can serve the needs of visiting, taking pictures and experiencing, so the grape growing model is quite new. She contributed to introduce the vineyard to friends, colleagues, and youth union members. Therefore, the first grape crop last year, although there were not many fruits, attracted many visitors to visit and take pictures. Having a hobby of traveling experiences, Ms. Nguyen Ngoc Thao An (living in Quang Vinh Ward, Bien Hoa City) has traveled to experience many gardeners inside and outside the province. According to Ms. Thao An, in Da Lat she had been to the garden of cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, lettuce, strawberries…; Coming to Ninh Thuan, she visited the vineyard and dragon fruit. In the province, she visited Tan Trieu pomelo garden, rambutan garden in Long Khanh… Most recently, when friends introduced about Ha Den vineyard in Bien Hoa city, Thao An also came and “checked in” here. Ms. Thao An shared, Ha Den vineyard is the same size as other gardeners she has been to, but has the advantage of being located in the campus of Bien Hoa city. This is a favorable condition for those living in Bien Hoa city who are passionate about garden tourism like her to take advantage of visiting and taking pictures without spending much time traveling. A special feature, besides visiting Ha Den vineyard, visitors can manually cut their favorite bunch of grapes with scissors, taste grapes right at the garden, but only pay the amount equivalent to the purchase amount. grapes.

Artwork/INT Last year, Le Thuy flooded, the water was immense, fish, shrimp, and alluvium also followed the water and stayed in the fields. After the flood, the land is fertile, most of the crops grown down are green. I remember when I went back to my hometown after Tet, I went to the market to buy a bunch of big, young green cabbage that was delicious to the eyes, but had 2 thousand VND. Buying 10,000 cucumbers, the old lady selling melons filled a basket. I said: – Your teeth give a lot? She laughs: – Like I sold it, one day she sold nearly 1 basket but got 6 thousand. The immense rice fields in the countryside this year also have a good harvest, a yellow color stretching to the foot of the distant mountain. The rice heads bowed heavily, covering the whole road separating the fields. The wind about the rice waves keeps undulating, it feels like standing in front of the sea but the waves are peaceful and golden. In my hometown, many houses still keep the new custom of offering rice. Every season of ripe rice, people reap the first field, after threshing (previously using human power or cattle to pedal, later with a continuous harvester, only packed grain rice was brought back). let the rice dry in the sun. Select the field with good rice varieties, then threshing and drying separately. When the rice is dried (in the sun and dry enough for long-term storage), it is milled, pounded, gradually, sieved (later milled by machine), giving white rice grains. Use that rice to wash with clear stone well water and then blow the rice with a wood stove. You have to be careful with the fire so that the top rice grains are white and fragrant, and the bottom is just scorched yellow. Select pullets to start nesting (the new hens begin to lay their first eggs), by this time there have been some early rains of the season. People in the countryside who are used to thunderstorms, when they see termites flying out, know that after 5 to 10 minutes, it will stop raining. The termites fly out, meet the wet rain, then swoop down to the ground, lose their wings and run away like small round meatballs. When chickens eat termites, the meat is fragrant and golden. The newly placed tray of rice has only a large plate of fresh white rice mixed with pieces of golden brown rice, on top of which is left over a fertile yellow boiled hen and a plate of crushed roasted salt and peppers. with 1 lemon cut in half. The owner lights 3 incense sticks and prays to heaven and earth, gods and ancestors to eat a new meal, to bless and protect the whole family for a year of peace, a bountiful and prosperous next season. Looking at the new tray of rice, though simple but full of herbs, of the owner. Farmers still spread word of mouth, when making new rice, people must be clean and clean in their thoughts, their minds must be good to cook a full fragrant meal; Boiled chicken with bright colors, neat and tidy shape. Old farmers looking at the tray of rice can know the happiness of the house, know if the next year’s crop is better or worse. With the new tray of rice used for worship, the elderly eat first, then the people who work in the field have the most merit, then divide it among the children and divide it equally among all members of the family. No matter how much or how little, everyone has their share. Fresh and fragrant rice, sweet and fatty chicken pieces, roasted salt seeds pounded with hot, spicy chili peppers, crispy golden pieces call back a whole heaven of memories of the new rice seasons that have passed in life. In the new meal, family members remind about the lost family members, those who are far away from home… So many people keep holding a bowl of rice and remember to eat. My family also grows rice, so since I was young, I always eat new rice. Eating from the time when the grandparents were still alive until the grandparents returned to the crane world in turn. Every new rice season, I try to arrange to bring my baby home. Show me the ripe rice season, let me know my hometown My father sometimes asked his grandchildren to burn incense on the ancestral altar during the new rice offering. The children followed their grandfather’s orders, but now everyone knows how to light incense sticks straight, not letting the incense fall out. The children always know how old their great-grandparents died, who went away in the family, who died… I remember that every year when we offer new rice, we share our chicken meat with our children. Ma says: – Ma doesn’t like chicken, I hate eating chicken… The chicken was delicious, but it was less so the kids were very happy, and saved and compared which one was bigger. Later, when I grew up, I knew how to give a little bit of delicious fat to my children. My health is not good, or I am sick. Every time the plating hurts, the kids often cook chicken porridge for the plating. Ma only eats porridge with water. Chicken doesn’t really like to eat now because it’s old now, has weak teeth, and hates eating chicken because it has teeth. I just wish, if there is no disease, I will take my children home. In the middle of the field, stop and fill your chest with the new scent of rice. And come back to eat new rice. New rice for me now is also eating, remembering… eating love…

Strawberry season is ripe from May to the end of August. Now is the time when the strawberry season is in full swing, so gardeners are busy harvesting to sell. Mulberry – also known as mulberry tree, is a woody fruit tree, the fruit grows from the base to the top. In Ha Tinh, mulberry trees are often grown in mountainous districts Mulberry trees usually bear fruit in the spring. Strawberries grow in clusters, chit from the base to the top. By May, the mulberry fruit begins to ripen and to be harvested Strawberry skin when ripe, the skin gradually turns to ivory white, apricot yellow. The fruit has a mild sour taste, very popular with many people. In recent years, many traders have come to the garden to buy strawberries. Mr. Tran Van Ky’s household (residing in Ha Linh commune, Huong Khe district) can grow 17 mulberry roots. Many unripe roots and fruits have been deposited by traders. Most of Mr. Ky’s mulberry roots are grown over 30 years. Each year, harvest from 1.5-2 quintals of fruit. Currently, each kilogram of strawberry skin costs from 25,000 VND to 30,000 VND. In addition to white and red strawberries, there are also blue-skinned strawberries. The fruit has a sweet taste and the price is also higher For many mountainous people, strawberry skin is not only a snack from the countryside but also a significant source of seasonal income. On average, each mulberry tree can be harvested from 2.5 to 3 million VND/year. With the characteristics of fruit, beautiful canopy, for shade … in addition to planting for fruit, the mulberry tree is also chosen as an ornamental. In recent years, the mulberry tree has been hunted by many people. On average, each perennial mulberry tree costs from 5 million to 30 million VND/tree.

According to Mr. Pham Duy Phong, Director of Ninh Binh Tourism Promotion Information Center, Tam Coc field is one of the most beautiful fields in the Northern Delta region with views from above. Therefore, from 2018 until now, every middle of May, Ninh Binh tourism organizes Ninh Binh Tourism Week, taking the yellow color of Tam Coc as the theme to attract tourists to Ninh Binh, enjoy the outstanding features and values ​​of local tourism resources, especially of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage – Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex. Ninh Binh tourism week “Golden colors of Tam Coc – Trang An” this year has many activities organized, including the photo tour program “Photo Tour – Tam Coc golden season”. Through the photo contest, Ninh Binh has more excellent works to promote domestically and internationally. In order to ensure the safety of artists and tourists taking photos during Ninh Binh Tourism Week, the Organizing Committee had previously had many visits to survey rice fields, an ideal photo spot to install ladders for the ” manipulator” easily occupied the high point on the mountain. According to the experience of the “managers” and the Organizing Committee, Ninh Binh currently has 4 most beautiful places to take photos from above, including the top of Ca cave taken in, the top of Trai Bo mountain taken out, and the top of Key Voi mountain taken horizontally. and shoot down from the top of Hang Mua mountain. Particularly with the view from the top of Mua cave, visitors will get two ripe rice fields with different colors. Because rice in the fields of Tam Coc and Ngo Dong River is planted with short-term varieties to avoid floods, the rice has begun to ripen in mid-May. As for the rice in the field on the side of Hang Mua tourist area, it is a long-term variety, so the harvest season will not come until June. The moment to get the best photos is the period from 9-11am, because if you come too early, it is still foggy and there are few boats on the river. If it’s late, the sun will shine, and the image will lack blocks to enhance the contours of the field. For those who are healthy and passionate about photography, they often choose the most beautiful locations on the tops of the mountains to take a panoramic view of the peaceful Ngo Dong River winding between the golden colors of the ripe rice fields. , the farmers are busy harvesting rice with happy laughter and small boats full of golden rice. All of these things have created beautiful pictures in Tam Coc’s golden season. In order to protect the clean and beautiful natural landscape, environmental protection in Tam Coc tourist area in particular and Ninh Binh in general is of great interest to the authorities and people. Through practical exchanges with the boatmen here, they say that every year they hear explanations about the meaning of protecting the clean and beautiful ecological environment and the safe and friendly social environment. The people here are aware that, protecting the natural environment will preserve the beauty of resources and landscapes in a sustainable way, contributing to the development of local tourism, creating jobs and creating jobs. create stable, long-term income. The safe and friendly social environment will make a good impression on visitors, making many people want to return to Ninh Binh and introduce others to Ninh Binh tourism. Therefore, the local people are very proud of the scenery here, often reminding each other to protect the environment, protect the landscape and the good cultural values ​​of the ancient capital. Some pictures taken from above: https://dulich.petrotimes.vn/

In the early days of June, the sun was burning like fire, after a few appointments, asking for directions, we found Mr. Tran Van Hanh’s house in Chao village (Giap Son, Luc Ngan, Bac Giang) – the owner of the areas high quality lychee garden, selling at the most expensive price in Vietnam. Taking us to visit the litchi garden, which is ripening red, Mrs. Truong Thi Bay – Mr. Hanh’s wife said: “The family is about to have a big feast, my grandfather has been busy these days to invite guests, he will probably come back in the afternoon”. Stopping in the middle of a litchi garden laden with branches, Ms. Bay said: “This year my lychee crop failed due to hail during Tet, but this garden alone is very fruitful. There is about a week left to harvest, the business has already consumed all the first-class lychees in the garden.” She and her husband have been growing lychees since 1991. In the early days, they ate rice with cassava and corn porridge to gain strength to use a hoe to level the land on hills to grow litchi. At that time, people only knew how to plant and take care of them according to their own experience, which lychees could be picked and sold, and did not know the planting and fertilization techniques so that the lychee would meet the same high quality standards as now. . In the early years of growing Luc Ngan litchi, the output was not much, so the price was high. Later, the area increased, the people had more experience in planting, and the yield also increased. However, a lot of goods are easy to depreciate. In the harvest season, her husband and her husband carried heavy baskets of lychee to the market to sell, but merchants competed with each other to criticize the bad, small fruit and then deliberately forced it to sell at a cheap price, only a few thousand VND per kilogram. Even when the price is so cheap, people growing lychee here also bring lychees to the market to sell by baskets, not by weight. The basket of cloth weighs more than 1 quintal but only sold 100 thousand VND, enough money to fill up with gasoline to go home, considered a waste of effort to fertilize.
Many houses at that time were tired of selling cheap lychees and cut them down, destroying the whole garden. She and her husband tried to keep it because lychee is the main source of income, destroying the garden and not knowing how to plant another tree to replace it. “Once, my grandfather saw that the canopy of a litchi tree grew quickly, many branches and leaves created a shady space for pests to thrive. He took a knife and cut off the small branches at the top of the canopy to create light for the garden. Then, in the trunk, many new buds sprout, then flower and bear fruit. More surprising is the rate of fruiting in the branches growing from the trunk is very high. The quality of the lychee obtained is also much higher than that of the litchi from the top,” she said. Desperate, risking to change your life Seeing this, her husband proposed to renovate the family’s litchi gardens, but she was afraid of failure. The couple is quite hesitant, but if they don’t change and still do the old way, how can they escape the scene of selling cheap fabrics. So they decided to take a risk. Thirty years old farmer San Diu produces the most expensive lychee in Vietnam Thirty years old farmer San Diu produces the most expensive lychee in Vietnam
In 2011, she and her husband started the process of improving the technical process of caring, “squeezing” the litchi tree to produce fruit from the stem. Looking at the lychee garden was fined almost all of the tops, still bare with branches and roots, but her guts were sore, worried that it would damage the lychee garden, she recalled. “There was no process, at that time it was called taking risks. Just doing it and gaining experience. Initially made a garden, later increased to 2 gardens. Once you have experience, you can renovate and convert all of the family’s lychee gardens,” she said. Finally, with the technique of pruning, limiting the growth of the canopy to help light shine down the trunk, the buds that grow from the trunk after harvesting the fruit must be cut off, the second buds out to take care of the flowers. , bearing fruit and fertilizing periodically, … her husband also “squeezed” the lychee tree to bear fruit from stem to top. Accordingly, for nearly ten years, every year the lychee in her house has been harvested. The lychee fruit is of much higher quality, the design is also more beautiful. Each tree produces about 40-50kg of lychee fruit from the trunk, in addition, lychee on the top can produce 70-80kg, even there are trees up to 1.8 quintals of fruit. Importantly, her family’s lychee always sells for one-and-a-half times higher than the market price. Traders come to the house to buy, she boasted. Making high-quality goods, counting money happily After visiting the garden, Mrs. Bay took us into the villa, and that was when Mr. Hanh returned. Seeing us, he smiled and asked if everyone had tasted organic lychee to see how the quality was. Then he said: “This time the litchi is ready to eat.”
Mr. Hanh said that the litchi season in 2019 was the first year he shook hands with a business to make organic lychees. The organic farming process is much stricter than the VietGAP process. Organic fertilizers and pesticides must be on the list of permitted use. The fertilization process is divided into 3 phases. Phase 1 fertilize before the plants flower or set young fruit. Phase 2 fertilizes when the fruit is with the tip of a finger and the third phase when the fruit is in the pulp, the seeds are covered, Ms. Bay added. In addition to the detailed diary, he also installed a camera in his garden to monitor the entire process from tending to fruit picking. Products are provided with labels and QR codes so that when customers need to check, they can use smartphones to verify. As a result, last year’s lychee season, he sold 3 tons of high-quality organic lychee to the business. They canned 12 fruits and sold them for 200,000 VND/box (equivalent to 17,000 VND/fruit and 600,000 VND/kg). This is also the most expensive type of lychee in Vietnam. “The first organic lychee they bought from my family cost 90,000 VND/kg for canning, and the bag type cost 60,000 VND/kg. This price is also double the price in the market, “she said. According to her, the yield of organic lychee is not as high as that of the VietGAP method, but in return, organic lychee is easy to sell. Guests in Bac Giang and in Hanoi also rode a car up to her garden to ask to buy lychee. “Last year, the fabric sold at a high price. Picking baskets of cloth to sell enough money to measure rice for half a year. The amount of fabric may not be as good as five years ago, but the money is more collected, counting happily,” said Ms. Bay. In the last Tet holiday, there was hail that affected the flowering and fruiting rate of litchi trees. However, Hanh and his wife still believe that with 2 hectares of lychee growing area, the output of this crop is estimated at 20 tons. Enterprises also put up a deposit to cover all type 1 lychees. Regarding the income from lychee, according to Mr. Hanh, it depends on the price of each crop. But with the same area of ​​cultivation as his family is doing each year, he also earns about 800-900 million VND from this specialty fruit. In recent years, in addition to taking care of the family’s litchi garden, Mr. Hanh also teaches pruning techniques as well as care techniques so that lychee fruit can come out from the trunk to farmers inside and outside the province. Many successful people, grow and obtain lychees of the same quality as lychee in his garden.

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Recently, the social network shared a series of pictures of a wonderful hydroponic vegetable garden of a Vietnamese man living and working in the US. Green hydroponic vegetable garden According to research, the owner of this garden is Mr Nguyen Xuan Vuong (born 1974) currently lives in Iowa (USA). The garden with many kinds of green vegetables, in addition to providing food for the family, also gives Mr. Vuong an ideal working space, close to nature. Mr. Vuong’s workspace meets the “green” standard. Mr. Vuong’s garden has an area of ​​​​about 20m2, with part of the greenhouse growing hydroponically and the outside growing traditional soil. “Because the place where I live is a temperate area, with snow cover for 3-4 months, very cold in late autumn and winter (-5 to -20 degrees Celsius), so planting is only done in the summer for more than 4 months. Therefore, most plants are nursed before the crop in a greenhouse until the weather is favorable to bring them out. The most in the garden is hydroponic farming, there is also a combination of symbiotic fish farming, “said Mr. Vuong. Mr. Vuong said that hydroponics is a convenient, clean and safe farming method in greenhouses. He can grow almost all kinds of trees and vegetables, including Vietnamese vegetables, in greenhouses in the middle of the cold snowy season in temperate regions. “Hydroponic plants grow without soil, so it is convenient for relocation, saving space, creating more cool, close to nature space for the family. More importantly and also the biggest motivation when creating my own garden is to create an environment that guides my daughter to know the origin of how to get the food she eats and she is cared for and harvested successfully. fruit,” said Mr. Vuong. Although only 7 years old, his daughter thanks to gardening with her father, so she knows almost all kinds of Vietnamese vegetables and fruits. The climate in the area where Mr. Vuong lives has 4 seasons, the harshest is winter, so keeping warm and stabilizing the garden’s temperature is not easy. He had to reuse plastic tubs of water and CO2 from the fireplace chimney to allow the greenhouse garden to retain heat during cold nights. Thanks to the careful care of the garden, Mr. Vuong always has Vietnamese vegetables and fruits for daily use, even very convenient during the time of social distancing against Covid-19. “I have been living in the US for 30 years now. Daughter loves Vietnamese vegetable and melon soup. The baby is conscious of eating a lot of green vegetables for each meal and his wife also often cooks Vietnamese meals, “said Mr. Vuong. Mr. Vuong’s vegetable garden not only serves clean food for his family, but is also shared with neighbors and friends. At the end of the summer, he harvested a lot of vegetables and fruits, and he also brought them to the local food place, the church so that anyone who needed them would come and get them. This is also how Mr. Vuong teaches his daughter about the spirit of sharing with everyone around.

Last year, Le Thuy flooded, the water was immense, fish, shrimp, and alluvium also followed the water and stayed in the fields. After the flood, the land is fertile, most of the crops grown down are green. I remember when I went back to my hometown after Tet, I went to the market to buy a bunch of big, young green cabbage that was delicious to the eyes, but had 2,000 VND. Buying 10,000 cucumbers, the old lady selling melons filled a basket. I said : – Your teeth give a lot? She laughs: -Like I sold it, one day she sold nearly 1 basket but got 6,000.. The immense rice fields in the countryside this year also have a good harvest, a yellow color stretching to the foot of the distant mountain. The rice heads bowed heavily, covering the whole road separating the fields. The wind about the rice waves keeps undulating, it feels like standing in front of the sea but the waves are peaceful and golden. In my hometown, many houses still keep the new custom of offering rice. Every season of ripe rice, people reap the first field, after threshing (previously using human power or cattle to pedal, later with a continuous harvester, only packed grain rice was brought back). let the rice dry in the sun. Select the field with good rice varieties, then threshing and drying separately. When the rice is dried (in the sun and dry enough for long-term storage), it is milled, pounded, gradually, sieved (later milled by machine), giving white rice grains. Use that rice to wash with clear stone well water and then blow the rice with a wood stove. You have to be careful with the fire so that the top rice grains are white and fragrant, and the bottom is just scorched yellow. Choose a young hen to start jumping (the new hens begin to lay the first eggs), at this time there have been a few thunderstorms at the beginning of the season, when it rains, the termites fly out, the villagers are used to thunderstorms. When I see termites flying out, I know that after 5 to 10 minutes, it will stop raining. The termites flew out, met the wet rain, swooped down to the ground, lost their wings and ran away like small round meatballs. Chickens eat that termite, the meat is fragrant and golden. A new tray of rice is placed to worship heaven and earth, the gods, the ancestors only have a large plate of white new rice mixed with pieces of yellow burnt rice, on top of which is left over a fertile yellow boiled hen and a A plate of crushed roasted seeds with chili peppers accompanied by 1 lemon cut in half. The owner lights 3 incense sticks to pray to Heaven, Earth, Gods, and Ancestors to come back to eat a new meal, to bless and protect the whole family for a year of peace, a bountiful and prosperous next season. Looking at the new tray of rice, though simple but full of herbs, farmers still tell each other that when making new rice, people must be clean and clean in their thoughts, and the mind must be good to cook a full fragrant, boiled meal. The hen is brightly colored and neatly shaped. Old farmers looking at the tray of rice can know the happiness of the house, know if the next year’s crop is better or worse. With the new tray of rice used for offerings, the elderly eat first, then the people who work in the fields have the most merit, then divide it among the children and divide it equally among all members of the family. have his share. Fresh and fragrant rice, sweet and fatty chicken pieces, roasted salt seeds pounded with hot, spicy chili peppers, crispy golden pieces call back a whole heaven of memories of the new rice seasons that have passed in life. In the new meal, family members remind about the lost family members, those who are far away from home… So many people keep holding a bowl of rice and remember to eat. My family also grows rice, so since I was young, I always eat new rice. Eat from when you know how to eat, from the time when your grandparents are still there until your grandparents return to the crane world in turn. Every new rice season, I try to arrange to bring my baby home. Show me the ripe rice season, let me know my hometown. My father sometimes asked his grandchildren to burn incense on the ancestral altar during the new meal, without a word of instruction, the children just followed, but now everyone knows how to light incense sticks straight, not letting the incense fall go out. The children always know how old their great-grandparents died, who went away in the family, who died… I remember that every year when we offer new rice, we share our chicken meat with our children. Ma said: – Ma doesn’t like chicken, I hate eating chicken… The chicken was delicious, but there was little, so the kids were very happy, and saved for a bigger piece compared to each other. Later, when I grew up, I knew how to give a little bit of delicious fat to my children. My health is not good, or I am sick. Every time the plating hurts, the kids often cook chicken porridge for the plating. Ma only eats porridge with water. Chicken doesn’t really like to eat now because it’s old now, has weak teeth, and hates eating chicken because it has teeth. I just wish, if there is no disease, I will take my children home. In the middle of the field, stop and fill your chest with the new scent of rice. And come back to eat new rice. New rice for me now is also eating, remembering… eating love…

According to experts from a California-based start-up company (USA), this electric multi-purpose self-propelled agricultural machine can help farmers transform green production more strongly because it is a completely electric-powered product. the world’s first. Monarch’s products are considered the “King of Agricultural Machines” to open up the process of green production transformation with unprecedented smart, high-tech and safety features. Photo: Designboom The advantage of the versatile agricultural machine designed by Monarch Tractor is that it is quite compact and programmed to perform different jobs such as plowing, harvesting, mowing and can operate in up to 10 hours after 5 hours of charging. According to Monarch experts, when each of their agricultural machines is powered by renewable electricity to replace the traditional older generation with diesel engines, it can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by an average of 53 tons per year – the equivalent of removing 14 gasoline-powered passenger cars from the road. Although this versatile agricultural machine does not require a driver, to comply with applicable US regulations it must have a person operating it remotely, receiving real-time warnings and being able to stop the vehicle. in necessary situations. The product is also equipped with sensors, which can remotely detect livestock and crops, and has a collision prevention system that allows it to work autonomously at the same time as farm workers. Several tech companies are also working on developing unmanned agricultural machines, including California-based Bear Flag, Illinois-based John Deere and Denmark’s Agrointelli, but Monarch is the first to offer the product. With nearly two decades of experience working in mobility and energy, Monarch Tractor startup founder and CEO Praveen Penmetsa says he captures the trend of how technology can shape an industry. “Looking at these two industries has helped me shape a pattern and the idea that global agriculture is also ready for transformation,” Mr. Penmetsa said. CNN Business. In addition, this versatile agricultural machine can also collect data during operation to provide farmers with information on crop health, long-term yield forecasts, and warnings about problems. problems such as leakage of irrigation water or degraded soil … After raising $20 million in March, Penmetsa and a team of more than 50 engineers at the company’s Livermore headquarters conducted a series of trials on farms in three states. Save labor and fuel It is expected that within the next two months, the company will officially offer the first agricultural machines to farmers in the states of California, Washington and Oregon with prices starting at $ 50,000. The Monarch company is hoping to start commercial production by the end of this year. Monarch’s versatile agricultural machine can save farmers thousands of dollars a year in labor and fuel costs, experts say. Monarch Tractor’s versatile agricultural machine is expected to be mass-produced from the end of this year. Photo: Agriland According to David Rose, associate professor of agricultural innovation at the University of Reading, farmers are under increasing pressure to manage to feed a growing population coupled with consumer demand for agricultural products. sustainable products, while they face labor shortages. “The whole society is asking farmers to overcome many challenges at the same time. I don’t think we look at our plates on the table three times a day and think about all the hardships farmers are facing,” Mr Rose said. According to Mr. Rose, at this stage, the most transformative feature of the Monarch farm machine is that it runs on electricity and the relief of gas-hungry, diesel-hungry equipment is amazing. However, what Monarch’s founder and CEO is most excited about is the prospect that farmers can use parameters and data in the production process to provide more transparency to customers. Mr. Penmetsa envisions that there will be a QR code on agro-food packaging that shoppers can scan to access information about how the product is made. “We want consumers to appreciate what farmers go through to get food to the table. If farmers can tell that story through data, I think we can create a direct bridge,” Penmetsa said.

Saffron is the most expensive raw material in the world, for sale at prices ranging from 350,000 VND to 450,000 VND per gram, equivalent to 350 – 450 million VND/kg depending on the quality and origin. Iran is currently the largest saffron-producing country in the world with an output of about 90% of the world, followed by India, Spain, Turkey, and Morocco. Saffron is a bulbous plant, belonging to the family Iridaceae, with a height of about 15-20cm and purple flowers. The plant usually only blooms from October to November. Each saffron flower has only 3 stigmas, which have a different aroma and taste than other flowers. In Vietnam, after many years of research and trial planting, Sa Pa has successfully grown saffron with strict temperature regulation techniques. On average, to get 450g of saffron, one must harvest about 75,000-250,000 saffron flowers and must be harvested entirely by hand in the morning immediately after the flowers bloom. Vanilla is a familiar flavoring to create flavor and aroma for food. However, few people know that natural vanilla is very rare and extremely expensive, about 15-20 million/kg. Natural vanilla is the crystalline coating on the seed surface of an orchid of the same name. There is a favorable growth period and better harvesting conditions than saffron, but the process is still quite laborious. To harvest vanilla, farmers will have to hand-harvest the fruit just before it’s ripe, steam-treated, and store for four weeks in an airtight container for fermentation. In Vietnam, Mr. Tran Van Minh (1981, in Binh Duong) was the first person to successfully grow natural vanilla with a farm size of more than 10,000m2. It took him 5 years to test and scale up. Aji Charapita pepper is known as the most expensive spice in the world and is less widely grown, so it becomes more and more precious and rare. This agricultural product is sought after by many high-class restaurants and the rich in some parts of the world. In some countries, the price of this chili is sold to high-end restaurants up to $ 25,000 (about VND 560 million) per kilogram. Even, there was a time when the price of Aji Charapita chili was up to 35,000 USD (more than 800 million VND). The size of this chili pepper originating from northern Peru is only about the size of a pea. This chili can be eaten raw or crushed into a powder to spice up the dish. When eaten raw, Aji Charapita peppers have a delicious fresh fruity taste that makes salads or sauces more flavorful. Mr. Cuong in Dak Nong has imported Aji Charapita from Europe and successfully planted it in his garden. He successfully propagated and sold the first chili peppers to the market. The selling price is only 10 million VND/kg for the fresh type, while the dry ones are priced at 50 million VND/kg. Please watch the video: The strangest shaped trees in the world. Source: Happy and healthy every day

Monarch’s electric plow. Photo: CNN CNN channel (USA) said that the plow was programmed to perform the tasks of digging trenches and reaping and harvesting. Manufacturer Monarch says this electric plow can work for 10 consecutive hours after 5 hours of charging. Although there is no operator, but based on US regulations, the plow is designed to be operated remotely. Thus, the operator can remotely command the plow to stop working when necessary. The plow is also equipped with sensors to avoid collisions with livestock and works automatically next to farmers. Monarch claims that when these electric plows come to market, they can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by an average of 53 tons per year, equivalent to the emissions of 14 gasoline-powered cars. In addition, this electric plow has the ability to collect data during operation, helping to provide information about crops and support for farmers to promptly handle arising problems such as lack of irrigation water. … Below is a video simulating the operation of the plow published by Monarch: Monarch expects to sell the first plow in the next two months to farmers in California, Washington and Oregon for an expected price of $50,000. These farmers will work with Monarch to perfect the electric device. Monarch expects to mass produce electric plows by the end of this year. According to Monarch, the electric plow can save farmers thousands of dollars a year in fuel and labor.

Quite common use These days, Mr. Phan Thanh Thai (Dien Son commune, Dien Khanh district) is always busy collecting straw in the field of Lung bridge. From the day the field was harvested, his straw rolling machine had to work continuously to ensure that the straw was not wet or slowed down. Mr. Thai said that in the past, he received a contract to supply rice straw to other places, but it had to be done manually. Recently, he invested in buying a straw rolling machine and then connected it to a plow to deploy the machine. In addition, he also rented a straw rolling machine to secure the contract to supply straw rolls to the provinces and cities: Phan Thiet, Phan Rang, Lam Dong. 1 straw rolling machine ensures a productivity of 500 rolls/day, each roll weighs 20kg. Harvesting straw in the field of Cau Lung, Dien Khanh. The mechanization of straw handling by a straw rolling machine is now quite popular. Mr. Nguyen Truong Sanh – Director of Dien Lac Agricultural Cooperative (Dien Khanh) said that Dien Lac farmers have been selling straw rolls for several years now. Dien Lac Commune has 180ha of 2-crop rice, more than 50% of the area is used for straw rolling machines, except for the small and fragmented area located in residential areas and flooded areas that cannot be harvested. Harvesting straw by machine helps to save labor, straw is used for many purposes such as making mushrooms, root cabinets, fodder for cattle… Currently, on average, 1ha of harvested rice is purchased for 600,000 VND, help farmers have more income from straw. The cooperative makes a contract with the person who has the machine, sells straw to customers in need and pays debts of the cooperative members to the cooperative from selling straw. According to Mr. Nguyen Kien – Chairman of the Farmers’ Association of Cam Tan commune, Cam Lam district, recently, farmers in the commune have also known to sell rolled straw to customers. Large fields are mostly harvested by machine, estimated 70-80%. The commune is encouraging farmers to use biological products to treat rice straw to improve the soil. Should replenish the land The advantages of machine harvesting are clear, however, through the sale of straw, harvesting by machine also raises controversial issues. Users of the machine believe that, in addition to the above advantages, the use of straw rolling machines also helps to cut off the source of pest spread in the field from untreated straw, preventing the next rice crop from being poisoned with straw. untreated straw, and at the same time resists smoke pollution from burning copper… People who are worried about the depletion of soil colorants think that the sale of rolled straw should not be encouraged, because in this way the source of nutrients From the straw is increasingly lost, the soil will gradually degrade because of the lack of organic matter, the yield will decrease in the following crops if there is no other source of fertilizer to compensate. Both of the above comments are valid. However, in fact, for a long time, farmers have paid little attention to nutrients for the soil, leading to poorer soil quality, especially in the one-crop rice area. If in the past, when inorganic fertilizers were not widely used, the soil was difficult to degrade because farmers used a lot of organic fertilizers to fertilize crops, even cooperatives were worried about buying fertilizers from the northern provinces. such as Lam Thao and Van Dien for farmers. Currently, farming in the way of “instant noodles”, running with inorganic fertilizers makes the soil increasingly degraded, so the source of fertilizer from rotting straw is meaningful. Therefore, agricultural extension officers advise that harvesting straw by machine is still necessary and suitable with the current level of technology. Farmers need to pay attention to the issue of nourishing the soil when taking away the source of rice straw, funding from the source of selling straw. Only in this way can the role of mechanical machinery be promoted, and at the same time the arable land is not degraded and degraded. VL

The wet rice area of ​​Dak Lak province remained at 47,500 ha, of which districts such as Krong Ana, Lak, Ea Sup, Ea Kar, Krong Pak are localities with increased wet rice area. Currently, up to 60% of families in Krong Pak district still work in the fields, which is also one of the main sources of income. Under the blazing sun of summer days, farmers are quickly weeding to prepare for harvest. The urgent, bustling atmosphere with the sound of the harvester, the sound of the farm truck carrying rice mixed with the laughter of the people, created a vivid picture of the village signaling a new harvest. (Image: Duy Hoc). Eakly people can produce 2 crops a year, with an average income of 140 million/ha. Having the opportunity to come to Krong Pak district in the harvest season, it is not difficult to see the image of rice fields laden with seeds and farmers working hard to harvest on the mats of ripe yellow rice, stretching under the blue sky. (Image: Duy Hoc). Bumper… All the village roads are covered with a brilliant yellow color, creating a peaceful and warm scene. (Image: Miss Ha). Cars full of agricultural products, showing a bountiful harvest after many days of hard work by the people, were gathered at one point before being taken home. (Image: Huong Loan) Despite hard manual labor, farmers always create their own joy in every hard moment. Breathe in the fresh air, passionately look at each carpet of ripe, heavy rice, and fall in love with the peaceful village scene even more.

Only in full bloom for more than a month, this pure white flower is present on the streets of Hanoi, so people often call the lilies the April flower or the Summer leopard. We invite readers to admire the flowers in the seasonal weather in Hanoi, through the perspective of the reporter World & Vietnam Newspaper : Saying goodbye to the season of flower and rice flowers not long ago, the people of the capital fall in love with the pure white color of lilies. Lilies (also known as juniper, lily, lily …) is a flowering plant species of the genus Lilium, the lily family. It is native to the Ryukyu Islands, south of Japan and Taiwan (China). (Photo: Trung Hieu) The lilies are white in color, with a hint of green and the fragrance is soothing. A lilies branch usually has 1 to 3 flowers. Lilies do not bloom all year round but only bloom once in the summer, the flower season is short and usually lasts until the end of April. On many streets of Hanoi, it is easy to see bicycles “carrying” many kinds of flowers, including bouquets of lilies … (Photo: Trung Hieu) Lilies are loved by gardeners because they are easy to care for, the bulbs are cheap and can be replanted. If well cared for, a single stalk can produce up to 3 to 4 flowers. The main harvest period usually lasts about 2 weeks. This year, the wholesale price in the field is about 150,000 VND / bundle (100 cotton), the retail price is about 180,000 to 200,000 VND / bundle (100 cotton). With about 50,000 to 60,000 VND, you will have a beautiful bouquet to play indoors. Every flower season, the sisters do not forget to wear ao dai to keep beautiful memories next to the lilies … (Photo: Trung Hieu) For the Hanoians, lilies are considered to be a luxurious, noble, yet pure and gentle flower characteristic of Hanoi every April. Loudspeaker is not only associated with the lifestyle of the Hanoi people but also goes into poetry and painting for a long time. (Photo: Trung Hieu) The pristine white color of the flower blends with the white color of the delicate ao dai to create a harmonious and complete whole … (Photo: Trung Hieu) Flower lovers also do not miss the opportunity to capture the capital’s poetic moments during the lilies season. Vietnam Beauty Photography Club in Hanoi gathered on Sunday, April 18 for the morning of composing the theme “The beauty of April flower season”. Photographers are passionate about composing and photographing young women with lilies. (Photo: Trung Hieu) The trumpet calls to remember how to love, and the trumpet has stirred up so many people. For the Hanoians, this is a gentle and pristine flower like a girl in Hanoi, simple and lofty. (Photo: Trung Hieu) The girls next to the lilies are an image that makes people remember and love them easily … (Photo: Trung Hieu)

Newspaper Vietnamese culture Introduce two types of combined sugarcane harvesters: large capacity combined sugarcane harvesters and mini sugarcane harvesters. Mini cane harvesters With a compact size, light weight makes the machine flexible. The knife can be stored deep into the soil layer 20-30mm, so it greatly limits the rate of damage to sugarcane. It can neatly collect sugarcane in a variety of natural states including spilled cane. The machine is equipped with an advanced hydraulic control system adapted to different terrains. Especially with mini machines, the low oil consumption can be below 0.15 liters per hour of operation. The machine is compact, portable, suitable for small and medium-sized sugarcane farms. Sugarcane harvesting machine THM 2.0 by engineer Le Quyet Tien. Interestingly, in 2013, engineer Le Quyet Tien from Nam Dinh and his colleagues invented the THM-2.0 mini-complex cane harvester which was put to trial and application under production conditions in Hiep Hoa. (Long An) and achieved the same productivity and quality standards as the imported machines before: The machine works in complex areas of sugar cane, and can harvest spilled sugarcane. Pure yield is high, can reach 0.21 ha / hour Standard cutting rate ≥ 80%, can cut close to the base without missing and do not crush the sugarcane, spread the trees evenly to the direction of the machine. The hydraulic devices of the machine work smoothly, stably, and operate easily and gently. Up to now, this type of machine is still preferred in small and medium sized sugarcane farms. Large capacity sugarcane harvesting machine The combined sugarcane harvesting machine is a machine with modern technology, fully equipped with hydraulic control system. They have the role of harvesting sugarcane on a large area of ​​land. The hydraulic system works continuously and completely automatically during the sugar cane harvest. Large capacity sugarcane harvesting machine. True to their name, the combined sugarcane harvester, many functions are integrated in the machine. From sugar cane cutting, transmission, peeling, topping, and cleaning are all included in this combined sugarcane harvesting machine. They are very suitable for use in areas with large sugarcane growing areas, where the topography of sugarcane is relatively flat. One more point, the machine can help you harvest any sugarcane you grow. This machine usually has a large capacity, massive design, and is suitable for medium and large scale sugarcane farms. The outstanding features of the combined sugarcane harvester Fast harvest, high yield Before, when there were no modern machines, people still had to use their own labor force. Labor productivity is not high. Moreover, with limited human strength, it is extremely difficult and difficult to harvest the large sugarcane fields. The sugarcane harvester helps the harvest productivity increase significantly. The capacity of the large capacity machine can reach 40 tons / h. This is 300 times more than a healthy worker. Economical and efficient A combined sugar cane harvesting machine works with 70 workers. Instead of hiring a lot of workers, the combined sugarcane harvester saves labor and increases labor efficiency. In addition, the combined sugarcane harvester can cut to the base of the sugarcane, the yield is estimated to increase by 2 tons / ha compared to manual labor. When the sugarcane is harvested by the combined machine, all the tops and leaves of the cane are chopped, crushed and left in the field. This is a huge amount of fertilizer for the next crop. Thanks to that, productivity is also much improved. Currently, in Vietnam, large-scale sugarcane growing farms use many modern and advanced combined sugarcane harvesters in the world. In particular, Brazil and India are the two countries with the most modern sugarcane harvesters available in Vietnam. Sugarcane harvester CASE A8000 Sugarcane harvester CASE A8000 – Brazil Made in Brazil Engine power: 358 horsepower. Design: Distance between rows:> 1.4m Fuel consumption: 1.6 – 2 liters / ton Harvesting capacity: 30-40 tons / hour The sugar cane harvester Shaktiman 3737 Shakatiman 3737-India Made in India Engine power: 173 horsepower. Fuel tank capacity: 208 liters Cylinder volume: 5.9 liters.

The delicious, nutritious cups of soymilk are cooked, are attractive drinks associated with many childhoods. Photo: H. THAO Now it’s time to get the kids involved. The bean plant was dried until the pods were hardened, cracked, until about 14, 15 o’clock, while the sun was still bright, my father mobilized the whole family to use the sticks to smash the soybean tree, down. lined the canvas to let the beans fall out. Then, the soybean stalks are reserved for firewood, the seeds are sifted thoroughly. The gift we were most eagerly waiting for after the bean-beating season was that Mom left a few beans, making the whole family a soy milk dish. Although home-cooked soymilk is rustic, it has to go through many preliminary stages of preparation to make a delicious and nutritious beverage. Mom soaked a handful of beans in a tub of water for overnight. The next morning, Mom sat meticulously using her hands to peel the beans out clean. Then she treated the skin and the bean paste separately, and by doing that, the pot of milk would turn out to be a beautiful white color. Then, the mother put the peas in the mill with a little water, and blended it well. Mother used a cloth mosquito was prepared, folded it in half to filter carefully, only get bean juice, leaving the residue. The pure white filtered water is put into the pot, depending on the liquid density of the bean juice, the mother adds water and catches it on the stove to boil. Mom told us to go to the garden to pick a handful of pandan leaves and wash them, cut them in half, and tie them together carefully and put them in a pot of soybeans. During cooking, the soup should be on low heat, so that the pot of soy milk does not spill out and is not scorched under the bottom of the pot. Mom cooks the fire while using a spoon to cook the milk evenly. The aroma of soybeans, pineapple leaves spread gently throughout the kitchen. Mom put the sugar in and stirred it evenly so that the sugar melts, seasoning until the sweet taste matches the taste. So finished the pot of attractive soy milk. Mother soy milk cooked, drink hot or cold, are delicious. Wanting to drink cold, we wait for the milk to cool, then break the ice into a glass, pour in soybeans. The best thing is that in the hot weather, we come home from school, have a glass of soymilk ready, drink a gulp, it’s comfortable. In winter, a cup of hot soybeans helps us warm up in the cold weather. Remembering the soy milk my mother cooked when we were children, I also took the beans to soak. A few hours later, sitting and peeling the beans, I felt that this process needed patience because it took up a lot of time. After that, I realized that the glasses of soymilk sticking in my childhood were not only delicious, nutritious, but also filled with mother’s love for us.

According to statistics, Thanh Hoa has nearly 1,000 species of medicinal plants such as: trichromats, mulberry, tuberose, white mulberry, cinnamon, hi thiem, saffron, tomato thorn, ha thu o, saffron, gao Ancient lam, ivy, mint, mint … In which, there are about 20 species of valuable medicinal herbs. Medicinal species are mainly concentrated in 11 mountainous districts with many endemic species. Growing red peas to raise red ant wings gives economic efficiency dozens of times more than planting acacia. Photo: Vo Dung. In fact, growing medicinal plants brings high economic efficiency, many localities and units in the province have implemented projects and solutions to conserve and develop medicinal plants sustainably, step by step. forming raw material areas for processing. However, the development of medicinal plants in the province is still not commensurate with the potential. For decades, the people of Muong Lat district (Thanh Hoa) have raised red ant wings and harvested plastic. All products are currently purchased by a company in Hanoi. The effect of raising red ant wings on the host tree is obvious, but what makes many people wonder is that the area of ​​red ants farming in the Thanh area is still too small. Mr. Luong Thanh Binh in Zone 3, town of Muong Lat currently has 1 hectare of thyme tree that flies red ants to exploit for resin. According to Mr. Binh, ant wings released on thieu pea trees can be harvested from 2 to 2.5 tons of resin / ha / year. With the purchase price of a unit in Hanoi committed at present, farmers can earn from 80-100 million VND / ha / year on average. According to Mr. Binh, on the border land that is both sloping and nutrient-poor, there is no tree more effective than raising red ants to collect resin from the host tree. As a breeder of red ant wings for decades, Mr. Binh said that raising red ant wings is both leisure and high economic efficiency. Compared with acacia trees, which are commonly grown locally, cultivating red ant wings gives economic efficiency 15 – 20 times higher. Red ant resin is a valuable medicinal material that is currently purchased by businesses with high prices. Photo: Vo Dung. Mr. Binh analyzed: The hills and mountains are exhausted, it is almost impossible to plant anything, there is no manpower, not much capital and time to take care of it to grow acacia. Meanwhile, compared to acacia cultivation, it doesn’t take much effort to grow host crops to raise red ant wings, and invest less … “In the past, Muong Lat people used to drop ant wings on big, tall trees, but later on they mainly raised ant wings on thieu pea trees because they were of moderate height and easy to exploit for resin,” said Mr. Binh. . According to Mr. Binh, thieu peas are leguminous plants, easy to grow, with low nutrient and water requirements and need to be replanted in 3-4 years. If planting pure palm trees as a host tree to raise red ant wings, the retention time is usually 20-30 years, but the disadvantage is that the stem is high and difficult to harvest. Currently, people still like to grow thieu pea to feed red ant wings because in addition to the advantages of low trees, easy to harvest, thieu lentils are also legumes to help improve the soil, simple care, and less pests. part of Muong Lat people plant this plant to release ant wings. Money picking, but not focused Thieu peas are locally available plants that can be propagated by seeds, so planting thieu lentils costs almost no cost in terms of seeds, and also does not need to be fertilized or taken care of. According to local people’s experience, if using thieu bean as host plant, they usually sow seeds at the beginning of the year and plant in April and to October. Red ants are also insects available in the environment. Thieu lentils themselves have “charm”, helping to attract red ant wings. Mr. Ha Van Huan, Zone 3, Muong Lat town, who has 500 thieu pea trees released red ants, about to reach the harvest date. Photo: Vo Dung. The adult red ants will find themselves, parasitize on the thieu pea tree. After laying eggs and hatching larvae, farmers often tie the larvae to the smallpox plants so that the red ant wings proliferate and develop evenly on the host plant and release the resin to exploit. Usually each year, farmers will have two times to exploit plastic in April and October. The product is currently signed by an enterprise in Hanoi with the price of 40 thousand VND / kg. In addition to planting thieu peas on the hillsides, on roadside land, some people raising ant wings also have the idea of ​​planting thieu lentils on the field banks to release the ant wings. Mr. Ha Van Huan, Zone 3, Muong Lat town, who has 500 thieu lentils, has released red ants about to reach the harvest date, shared: Planting thieu peas on the field bank while taking advantage of the excess land and harvesting. are red ant wings. The leaves of the thieu pea plant fall into the field as fertilizer for the plants as well. Next time, Mr. Huan will continue to plant more thieu pea trees on the field banks to release red ant wings. In 2007, Mr. Luong Thanh Binh (Zone 3, Muong Lat town) was supported by Thanh Hoa Union of Science and Technology Associations to train and transfer techniques of raising red ants to exploit plastic. After being transferred, in addition to his family area, Mr. Binh has now developed the farming area to 50 hectares, concentrated in communes Quang Chieu, Muong Chanh, Tam Chung, Muong Ly, Muong Lat town, Nhi Son, Pu Nhi … (Muong Lat district). The current red ants growers and cultivators are mainly the H’mong and Thai ethnic groups of Muong Lat district. According to Mr. Binh, people from Quan Son and Quan Hoa districts of Thanh Hoa province and some mountainous districts of Nghe An province have also contacted him for technology transfer and seed supply. Growing red beans to raise red ant wings can take advantage of a lot of land funds such as village roads, rice fields, pond banks, forest edges … Photo: Vo Dung. Raising red ant wings gives high economic efficiency, but according to Mr. Binh, ethnic minorities in Muong Lat district have not really paid attention. It is a very regrettable thing when the economic conditions of the people here are still many difficulties. “Raising red ant wings is very leisurely and gives high economic efficiency, but in reality, many people still do not understand its value. The elderly and children can also raise and harvest red ants; Where the product comes out is purchased there. I really want to expand the farming area to develop the local economy and increase income for the people, ”Mr. Binh pondered. To make the harvesting of red ants resin easy, Muong Lat people often plant on low host trees with short harvesting cycle. This explains why the cultivation of red ants is not suitable in the forests if they want to green the barren hills. Mr. Mai Huu Phuc, Director of Thanh Hoa Forest Protection Department (Management Board) also said that raising red ant wings to use plastic as medicine brings high economic efficiency. In the past, the Muong Lat District Protection Forest Management Board also raised red ant wings, but mainly selected multi-purpose host trees. Therefore, when the host tree has grown, it is difficult to release and harvest the red ants, so for many years, the Management Board no longer has cultivated red ant wings. This is one of the factors that makes the red-wing farming area not being focused in Thanh Hoa. Red ant’s wing is a red resin excreted by a species of red ant leaf aphid (a member of the ant wing worm family) that sucks on the sap of its host plant. According to traditional medicine, red ant wings have a bitter taste, cold properties, have a heat effect, blood pressure, detoxification, hemostasis, peas … Currently, all the resin of ants harvested in Muong Lat district is under construction. Duc Phu Agriculture and Forestry Joint Stock Company in Hanoi buys buckets for 40 thousand VND / kg.

This time is the peak of harvest of melon, melon fields in Dien Chau are always bustling with people. If in previous years, watermelon yield and quality decreased due to pests, diseases, weather … this year, melon will grow better; People are happy to have a good season, although they are still on holiday, they are still eager to harvest. Photo: Nguyen Chau It is known that this year melon yield about 9 quintals / sao, higher than the previous years; Therefore, each household has an income of 10-12 million VND in this crop. This is not a small amount for the farmer at this time. Photo: Nguyen Chau According to observations, this year’s melon fruit is big, round, less pests and sweet, so it is favored by the market. The selling price in the field is 18,000 VND / kg, much higher than the previous crop. If people bring to retail, the price is even higher. Photo: Nguyen Chau Melon pears, after picking, are washed right in the field by people to clean the sandy soil layer, then packed in bags to enter for traders. Photo: Nguyen Chau Ms. Nguyen Thi Van, a trader who buys melon in Dien Ky commune (Dien Chau), said: “The timing of this year’s melon harvest coincides with a long holiday, so many restaurants and hotels contacted to place an order. Many families return to their hometown for the holiday season also come to the fields to buy large quantities of melons as gifts, so wherever they are picked, they can all be bought. ” Photo: Nguyen Chau This year the whole district of Dien Chau planted nearly 20 hectares of melon, concentrated in the communes of Dien Ky, Dien Hong … in which Dien Ky commune had the largest area. According to medicine, melon has relatively high levels of vitamins A, B, C and minerals that are good for health. Especially eating melon to beautify the skin, lose weight while enhancing memory, good for the heart, blood pressure … Photo: Nguyen Chau

This time is the peak of harvest of melon, melon fields in Dien Chau are always bustling with people. If in previous years, watermelon yield and quality decreased due to pests, diseases, weather … this year, melon will grow better; People are happy to have a good season, although they are still on holiday, they are still eager to harvest. Photo: Nguyen Chau It is known that this year melon yield about 9 quintals / sao, higher than the previous years; Therefore, each household has an income of 10-12 million VND in this crop. This is not a small amount for farmers at this time. Photo: Nguyen Chau According to observations, this year’s melon fruit is big, round, less pests and sweet, so it is favored by the market. The selling price in the field is 18,000 VND / kg, much higher than the previous crop. If people bring to retail, the price is even higher. Photo: Nguyen Chau Melon pears, after picking, are washed right in the field by people to clean the sandy soil layer, then packed in bags to enter for traders. Photo: Nguyen Chau Ms. Nguyen Thi Van, a trader who buys melon in Dien Ky commune (Dien Chau), said: “The timing of this year’s melon harvest coincides with a long holiday, so many restaurants and hotels contacted to place an order. Many families return to their hometown for the holiday season also come to the fields to buy large quantities of melons as gifts, so wherever they are picked, they can all be bought. ” Photo: Nguyen Chau This year the whole district of Dien Chau planted nearly 20 hectares of melon, concentrated in the communes of Dien Ky, Dien Hong … in which Dien Ky commune had the largest area. According to medicine, melon has relatively high levels of vitamins A, B, C and minerals that are good for health. Especially eating melon to beautify the skin, lose weight while enhancing memory, good for the heart, blood pressure … Photo: Nguyen Chau

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)

Take a picture (see also called a pond, with a depth of about 2.5m, width about 7-10m). This is one of the traditional, very popular and unique harvesting methods of copper fish by Ca Mau farmers that not everywhere. According to local people, the shooting is usually around December of the lunar calendar every year. One day before taking pictures, people will carefully check the surroundings so that when they are disturbed, the fish cannot escape. Next, clear the grass, pull out the brush in it to prepare it on the net (made of nylon thread). Then use a net wider than the mouth to cover the entire water surface. On the day of catching fish, people will lower the net about 0.5m from the pond bottom, then use the branches of the tree in distress to pin the net border to the wall. After that, waiting for about 3 hours, when the fish come up and lie neatly on the net, people start to pin the second time thicker and deeper to prevent the fish from coming back to the bottom, then pin in here. Finally, only a few workers are healthy young men pull the two nets at one end out of the side and the staples are fixed firmly on the shore. The other end pulls the net to collect the fish to the fixed end, and then sort the big and small fish to use the net to scoop up the fish.

According to the gardeners, although the price is as cheap as vegetables, plum rice is still unprecedented. Traders come to buy a little, ripe red plums on the tree, people do not bother to harvest. Mr. Nguyen Van Trong – a rice plum growing household in Chieng Co commune (Son La) – shared, his family has been growing plums for decades, but never fell in such a tragic situation. With the amount of up to 2,000 rice plums, his family is estimated to have around 25 tons of plums every year. The rice plum in Son La is in a flourishing harvest, but the price has dropped sharply. Photo: Nhat Thanh In previous years, since the beginning of the March crop, the traders’ car ran loudly to the buying garden. At one point, the price of plum rice at the beginning of the season was up to 70,000-80,000 VND / kg, but the quantity was not much. This year, the atmosphere is quiet, plum rice is cheap, partly due to the good season, and the output pumpkins, so the selling price at the garden is record low. Mr. Trong said that last year, he sold beautiful big fruits for 18,000 VND / kg. This year, the price of plum drops to 10,000 VND / kg, the cheapest bucket is only 1,500-2,000 VND / kg. Currently, he wholesales each bag from 50-52kg, the average price is 5,000 VND / kg. Although the price is so cheap, Mr. Trong reflects that the number of plums sold this year has decreased significantly. As every year, on average, he dumped to the provinces about 5 tons / day, now he only sells about 3 tons / day. In addition to the amount of fruits collected from his home garden, he also collects from local people. Gardeners said that this type of plums eat green better than ripe. Photo: Nhat Thanh In the year when traders were slow to purchase, plums in the garden began to ripen red. Photo: Nhat Thanh In the same situation, Ms. Nguyen Quynh – another rice plum growing household in Son La – lamented, with the price as low as giving, has not been able to buy a cup of iced tea in a year. Last year, the cheapest goods she also sold was 8,000-9,000 VND / kg, beautiful goods cost 15,000-20,000 VND / kg. Now, the plum is small, mixed green, she sells for 120,000 VND / bag (50-52kg), only about 2,300 VND / kg; selected products with large fruit prices are only 3,500-6,000 VND / kg. Even plums fell at 1,000 VND / kg, there was no buyer. “The selling price is a few thousand dong, which is enough to compensate for the rent of the pickers, the money for canning, packing is all, not to mention the fertilizer fee, the effort is considered to give away. Now if you can’t sell it, you will lose a lot, ”she said, boredly. Ms. Quynh said, the plum rice season starts from March and lasts until May is over, then comes the plum season. However, this year, due to the fact that the goods cannot be sold for sale, there is no clue to buy, the sales volume is quite slow, many trees in her garden have become red and red. Plum prices are currently down to a few thousand VND / kg still meager. Photo: Nhat Thanh “This plum type, when the fruit is still green, can be sold when it is crispy and sour, only to be thrown away if it is ripe,” she said. On average, each tree gives about 30kg of fruit / crop. Her family’s crop this year is about 12 tons, but the amount of ripe fruit removed is 4-5 tons, the rest has not been sold much. Ms. Tran Hai Yen – the focal point selling plum rice in Trieu Khuc (Thanh Xuan, Hanoi), also commented that she has been selling Son La plums for 3-4 years now, seeing this is also a rare year for plum prices to drop so low. . Currently, retail plums are 20,000-25,000 VND / kg, wholesale from 5kg is priced at 15,000 VND / kg. In previous years, the price of plums ranged from 30,000 to 60,000 VND / kg, sometimes up to 90,000 VND / kg. Cheap, one day she can sell 50-60kg because customers buy more food. On the internet market, many clues are selling this plum with a retail price of only 10,000-13,000 VND / kg, even some places sell 5kg combo for 35,000 VND, not retail, attracting a lot of women. buy.

Currently, melon is in bloom, on average, each pole brings income to people in Nghi Huong about 15-20 million VND. Photo: Thanh Phuc On the 3-hectare field of Dien Bien (Nghi Huong ward, Cua Lo town), people are busy, rushing to harvest melons in time to bring them to the market. This is a traditional melon variety, sticking with the people of Nghi Huong for 30 years. Nghi Huong watermelon has an oblong shape, when ripe, the skin is cracked, the flesh of the melon is smooth and fragrant, very “popular” with consumers. This year, the weather is favorable, melons are in good season and good value. After being harvested, melons are bought by traders at the field for 12,000 VND / kg or according to the fruit from 10,000 – 30,000 VND / fruit (depending on size). Compared to every year, each fruit increases on average from 3,000 to 5,000 VND / fruit. On average, each pole of melon gives an income of 18-20 million VND, excluding expenses, and a net profit of 10 million VND, 7 times higher than that of rice cultivation. Melons are purchased by traders from the field with high prices. Photo: Thanh Phuc Ms. Hoang Thi Hong, a melon farmer in Dien Bien, said: “Melon is a local variety, plant it by itself, takes little care of it, does not have to control pests and diseases and has a short growth time, only 1, 5 months (melon) and 2.5 months (main season melon) for harvest. Each year, 2 melon crops are planted, the main crop is planted from February to early April for harvest; The fruit season starts from May to the end of June for harvest. Compared with rice and maize, melon has many times higher economic value ”. Dien Bien block has 200 households working in agriculture, about 120 households growing melon. For the past two years, the area of ​​the Nghi Huong people of melon has been narrowed down due to the land acquisition for the construction of the coastal road. Previously, the entire ward had 10 hectares to grow melon, but now it is reduced to 4 hectares. From the economic efficiency of melon plant brings and wants to preserve and develop local melon varieties, in the near future, Nghi Huong ward is planning to develop melon growing area on rice land. Cantaloupe Nghi Huong, Nghi Thach is a local traditional melon, which is especially delicious and different from new varieties of melon in other provinces. Photo: Thanh Phuc In Nghi Thach commune (Nghi Loc), there are about 10 hectares of melon, mainly concentrated in the villages: Xuan Lac, Xuan Hoa, Xuan Tien, Xuan Thinh and Trung Khanh. According to melon growers, melon has the advantage of not having to buy seeds and materials such as nitrogen, phosphorus or plant protection drugs. This plant only likes manure. Low cost while high resale price, so growers are profitable. Mr. Nguyen Tho Khang, a farmer who grows melon in Xuan Thinh hamlet, said: “This year, the heat comes early, the melon is consumed strongly. After harvesting, someone buys them right at the field. Many households sell to customers across the road along National Highway 46 to Cua Lo; import for beverage bars and retail in Vinh city markets with higher prices. My family harvests 40-50kg of melons every day, earning about 1 million VND “. Melon is present at local markets in Vinh city, is a cool fruit on summer days that many people choose. Photo: Thanh Phuc Currently, melon is in full bloom, every day on Nghi Huong melon fields, traders from all over Nghi Thach pour in to buy. People also actively connect with beverage shops to find a stable outlet for melon. Therefore, when harvested, melons are sold out. Only about 1 week to end the main melon crop, continue to do soil, sowing for the melon crop. Melon is a delicious fruit – nutritious – cheap – cool, both refreshing, good heat, and cures many diseases such as: Cure acne and pigmentation, smooth skin, cure insomnia, cough anhydrous, constipation … When buying, choose a thin shell, heavy-handed. The delicious and safe melons on the skin still have a thin layer of undercoat, emitting a pleasant aroma. If the melon is chemically soaked, both the undercoat and the scent will be lost.

According to Ms. Nga – a small trader selling fruit at Quan Lau market (Vinh City – Nghe An), this year, the weather is quite hot early this year, so people buy many kinds of cooling fruits. The amount of melon this year, although new at the beginning of the season, is consumed quite strongly. In the early summer, business households here sell for 15,000 VND / 1kg, or sell by fruit. When in the main season, the price can be reduced from 10 -15,000 VND / 1kg. Compared to the previous year, although at the beginning of the season, the average price increased from 3,000 to 5,000 VND / fruit. However, due to the short season, fruit quality and each time of harvest, the price changes according to … The end of April is the start of the melon season and lasts only 1 to 2 months. These are fruits that are rich in nutrients, have a strange aroma, are refreshing, heat and refreshments are effective. Currently, farmers of Dien Bien block, Nghi Huong ward, Cua Lo town (Nghe An) are focusing on the field to harvest melon, excited for the good season and the good price. Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoa, a melon farmer in Dien Bien, said that melon is a traditional melon variety, sticking with the people of Nghi Huong for more than 30 years. Nghi Huong watermelon has an oblong shape, when ripe, the skin is cracked, the flesh of the melon is smooth and fragrant. This year, the weather is favorable, melons are in good season and good value. Melon here at the end of the season just need to choose the old ripe fruit, add the dried seeds, and preserve well that the next season can be planted. It is a pure local variety with little care, no pest control and short growing time, only 1.5 months (melon) and 2.5 months (main season melon) for harvesting. Each year, 2 melon crops are planted, the main crop is planted from February to early April for harvest; The fruit season starts from May to the end of June for harvest. Compared with rice, maize, melon has many times higher economic value. My family planted 1 sao of melon, except for the cost, it was about 9-10 million VND … people who planted melon this year were very excited, Ms. Hoa said. According to the experience of the farmers here, this is a traditional melon variety, so it tastes different from other regions. When ripe melons themselves crack soft, smooth flesh like sand, choose the best melon fruit with evenly cracked ends. Talking to PV, Ms. Hoang Thi Huyen – Chairman of the Farmers Association of Nghi Huong ward, said that Dien Bien block has 200 households working in agriculture, there are about 120 households growing melon. In recent years, the area of ​​growing melon of Nghi Huong people has been narrowed down due to land acquisition for construction of the coastal road. Before that, the whole ward had 10 ha of growing melon, but now it is reduced to 4ha. From the economic efficiency of melon plant brings and wants to preserve and develop local melon varieties, in the near future, Nghi Huong ward is planning to develop melon growing area on rice land. Melon is a crop rotated with wet rice, bringing high economic efficiency. In the near future, the ward will mobilize people to expand. The Association will coordinate with specialized agencies to open training courses on planting techniques, care, pest control and product consumption for farmers, for the stable development of melon trees, contributing to improving income for farmers. Local people… Ms. Huyen said more. Not only in the area of ​​Cua Lo town in Nghi Thach commune (Nghi Loc), farmers also planted 10 hectares of melon, concentrated mainly in the villages: Xuan Lac, Xuan Hoa, Xuan Tien, Xuan Thinh and Trung Khanh. The characteristics of this melon are yellow, green stripes, smooth or shiny, the flesh of the melon is yellow and smooth. Melon is in full bloom, every day on Nghi Huong melon fields, traders from all over Nghi Thach come to buy; People also actively connect with beverage shops to find a stable outlet for watermelon. Therefore, when harvested, melons are sold out. The selling price of melon is bought by traders at the field for 12,000 VND / kg or according to the fruit from 10 to 30,000 VND / fruit (depending on size). Compared with every year, each fruit increases on average from 3,000 to 5,000 VND / fruit. On average, each pickle pole yields 5 quintals, giving an income of 18-20 million dong, minus expenses and net profit of 10 million dong, 7 times higher than rice cultivation. Mr. Nguyen Van Nam, a farmer who grows melon in Xuan Tien hamlet, Nghi Thach (Nghi Loc), said: “After harvesting, people brought melon to customers across the road along National Highway 46 to Cua Lo; import for beverage bars and retail in Vinh city markets. This year, the heat comes early, so melon consumption is strong, the price is higher than every year, melon growers are very excited… ”. Cantaloupe, also known as cracked melon, melon is grown in many provinces of Nghe An, Ha Tinh and some northern provinces such as Vinh Phuc, Hoa Binh, Lang Son … This is a fruit that provides many nutrients for the muscle. can, effectively treat a number of diseases such as constipation, diuretics, sunstroke prevention, acne and pigmentation marks, smooth skin, treat insomnia, dry cough … According to the experience of farmers, when buying melon with a round shape, pick up the melon to feel firm and heavy, not soft. The stalk is new and not tarnished. Delicious melons are usually old melons, are heavy and firm with the aroma and cracks in the peel. Fresh melon is on the peel with a thin, fluffy undercoat, emitting a pleasant aroma. If the melon is young or pressed, ripe because the drug will have softness but not cracking, no characteristic aroma, no thin outer layer of undercoat …

Mr. Tuong’s jasmine flower is well harvested by the traders for the output, giving a quite high income. Photo: Thien Thanh. Mr. Tuong said that the jasmine flower he is growing is single jasmine, another name is jasmine. Flowers are white, fragrant, blooming all year round and are used for tea production. The tree is suitable for tropical climates, belongs to shrubs, tolerates sunlight and flowers all year round, so it can be harvested every day. Mr. Tuong shared: Thanks to the efforts to learn and learn from the previous employees, so far, jasmine flowers have developed well. Jasmine is easy to grow, light on care, less pests and diseases. However, jasmine flowers like light, so in order to flower a lot, you must plant in a sunny place. The spacing of plants must be suitable, especially jasmine only suitable for organic fertilizer, if taking good care of plants with a lifespan of up to 10 years. Currently, more than 1 ha of jasmine flowers of Mr. Tuong are growing well and are giving flowers, every day there are flowers to harvest and he sells to a tea production unit with the selling price of flowers ranging from 150 to 200 thousand. VND / sign. Jasmine flowers grow very well in the land of Chau Thanh district (Dong Thap). Photo: Thien Thanh. With this price, each month, Mr. Tuong earns several tens of million dong from this jasmine flower. Mr. Tuong happily said: Growing jasmine flower only takes initial labor, when the tree is young, we have to regularly weed. Later on, very few had to use feces and drugs. Initially, Mr. Tuong only planted jasmine in a 5,000 m2 garden, planted jasmine for a while to bear local land, so he continued to propagate more in the back garden. Source of jasmine, he sells quite easily because there is a local Tra Huu Nghia Company that buys about 200,000 VND / kg of jasmine flowers (depending on the time the price goes up and down). Mr. Tran Minh Tuong (second from left) shared his experiences of growing jasmine flowers with farmers. Photo: Thien Thanh. Not only increasing income, Mr. Tuong’s jasmine growing model also creates jobs for some women in harvesting flowers with wages from 130 to 150,000 VND / day. According to Mr. Tran Phuoc Tung, Chairman of the Farmers Association of Tan Phu Trung commune, Chau Thanh district (Dong Thap), Mr. Tuong’s jasmine growing model is considered a new model that brings economic efficiency to farmers. appreciated local. Mr. Tung commented: Jasmine has high economic efficiency, stable income source every day. However, in terms of output, growers need to link production and consumption with tea bag production units to ensure product consumption …

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)

One of the steps to graft the branches to renovate citrus varieties. Photo: H.Tien. Steps taken before transplanting – On the garden of sour grapefruit varieties or low quality indigenous grapefruit varieties (real grapefruit): Choose plants that are 3-7 years old, grow well, be free of pests and diseases, especially have no stem borers, no germs. leaf rot yellow leaf disease, greening leaf yellowing (Greening) and Tristera’s disease. Then, cut down the entire canopy to the stem or branch with a diameter of ≥ 2cm, leaving only the ends for eye grafting in the position of the stem with the color of the cake, the same size as the top of the chopsticks. The number of branches left for grafting should be arranged evenly 0.5 m on the tree canopy as a mesh. Grafting season can be carried out all year round. It is best to graft in 2-3 months and 9-10 months. Note, stop watering and fertilizing on real plants 15-17 days before grafting; do not extract and graft trees into the rain. – On the mother Ruby grapefruit tree, choose a tree that grows balanced and free from pests and diseases as above. It is advisable to choose mother plants grown in a net house to prevent insects, to avoid completely dangerous diseases such as Greening and Tristera. Then, select branches under 1 year old, have rounded stems and are tilted from horizontal canopy upwards, then remove all leaves, leaf stalks attached and remove the tip at the position of the stem color of the cake. Continue to cut the branches to divide the seedling into branches containing 4-5 leaf axils, 7-10 cm long and have a flat color. Technique of grafting the branches (also called grafting, grafting wedge) – At the base of the seedling segment, use a specialized knife to cut 2 opposite beveled slices, 2-2.5 cm long to remove 2 stem parts at the base of the seedling and open a wedge-shaped composite end. At the predetermined graft head on the phylogenetic tree, split a line 2.5 cm deep at 1/3 of the tip diameter to open a grafting mouth, insert the wedge-shaped graft head into the grafted mouth that just opened above. Ruby grapefruit has been successfully grown in our country. Photo: TL. Then, stretching and twisting the nylon strip, twisting the rope, then wrap 5-6 rounds tightly around the graft. Finally, pull the grafted plastic strip flat, completely covering the seedlings and grafting spots, so that rain cannot penetrate the grafting marks and keep the seedlings from dehydrating. After about 10-15 days (depending on the season), the grafted eye will sprout. Must eradicate in time the sour grapefruit sprouts growing outside the grafted eye. Note choosing self-destructing polypropylene tape. – In addition to improving the seed by grafting wedge into the branches mentioned above, it is also possible to graft wedge into the cross section of the branches of much larger size, or graft windows, small wooden eyes along the trunks. tree, trunk. However, these grafting methods have certain limitations, compared to the method we introduced in the previous section, such as, small eye grafting with wood, only taking the seed eyes open, the tree will grow long. , time for exploiting business results is slower … Take care of real plants after grafting Spraying to draw amulets when the eyes are like sprouting is 0.5-1.0 cm long. Except for red spiders, soft aphids, leaf hoppers and plant diseases, during the period when eyes are like spreading branches and canopy. Fertilizer for 1 root: 0.2-0.3 kg NPK 13-13-13 + TE, fertilize periodically once a month. Foliar fertilizer sprayed evenly 7 days / times. Decomposed chicken manure 20-30 kg + 2-3 kg of microbiological organic fertilizer, fertilizing when the grafted eye has reached about 15 cm long branches. After 1-2 years grafting and improving, Ruby grapefruit trees have been exploited for business. From this stage on, the steps to take care and control pests and diseases are similar to other current pomelo seedlings. Ruby grapefruit is one of the elite citrus varieties of Thailand, which has been imported into our country. The variety has the advantages of strong growth and development, beautiful fruit shape, good resistance to pests and diseases, red fruit, thick and thick pods, fragrant sweetness, no seeds … Grapefruit is equivalent to or slightly better than that of our country’s green skin grapefruit. , depending on farming techniques and ecological conditions. Ruby grapefruit tree is easy to distinguish from other grapefruit varieties thanks to the small leaves and branches, smooth hair.

Let’s start with the apple story in America. According to the American Apples Association, every year, only about 5% of the apples consumed in the country are imported products, the remaining 95% are domestic apples. American apples are produced mainly in three states: Washington, New York and Michigan. Remove fruit from storage with gas regulation technology. Photo: Thanh Son. Depending on the variety and state, the apple harvest season in the US is between mid-August and mid-November each year. However, Americans can eat apples all year round and the quality of the apple is still very good, even if it has been harvested for many months. The secret to keeping the American apple fresh for a long time lies in the preservation technology with the CA (Controlled Atphosphere) method. Once harvested, the apple continues to respire by absorbing oxygen, releasing CO2, and maturing to ripening. But when the apple is hibernated, the respiration rate slows down, and the quality, color, taste and nutrition are maintained. Based on that principle, CA technology adjusts the ratio of oxygen, CO2, nitrogen, temperature, and humidity to a suitable level to form a friendly hibernation environment for apples after harvest. Thanks to that, it helps apples in the US to be more fresh for a long time compared to being stored in a cold environment. Professor Chris Watkins (Cornell University) affirmed, the apple industry in the US would not exist without CA technology. High loss in conventional refrigeration Ms. Quach Thi Le Chan, Director of CASS Agricultural Conservation Company Limited (Long An) said that after harvest, vegetables, fruits and other agricultural products continued to breathe and breathe stronger than before. when harvested. Therefore, agricultural businesses all know that refrigeration will slow down agricultural respiration, reduce nutrient loss, reduce heat generation, and prolong the life span. The earlier agricultural products reduce their respiration, the longer their life expectancy. Therefore, cooling quickly for fruits and agricultural products is the first choice of many businesses in preserving fresh agricultural products. Put the fruit into storage in cold storage at CASS Agricultural Product Preservation Company Limited. Photo: Thanh Son. However, every agricultural product has a storage temperature limit, if refrigerated beyond the lower limit, they will suffer cold damage. Vietnam is in the tropics, so agricultural products often have not low lower limit. Therefore, the storage must ensure that the temperature is cooled quickly and not above the appropriate temperature. Under commercial storage conditions, this is difficult to do because produce is stacked on pallets, preventing cold air from cooling the bulk. In addition, the ventilation fan system is only located in a few points, near the fan, very strong wind is easy to lose water, cold damage, the blinds will be poor convection, difficult to cool the block. On the other hand, when the temperature has not decreased, the intensity of respiration (heat generation) in the mass is still high, making it more difficult to cool down. A typical example is that dragon fruit has the recommended storage temperature of 6 degrees Celsius, but the current cold stores do not dare to stay at this temperature because most are damaged after a few days. The warehouses currently have to cool down a few degrees to ensure a quicker cooling of the left mass. This means that a certain proportion of goods will be cold (about 20-30% of volume). The signs of cold lesions will usually appear after about 10 days, causing the loss rate to increase. The “5 star hotel” hibernates the fruit In order to contribute to reducing post-harvest agricultural product loss and keeping Vietnamese agricultural products fresher longer, CASS Agricultural Product Preservation Company Limited (CASS) has invested in a warehouse system to preserve fresh agricultural products. with the first fully automated CA gas control technology (all operation processes are managed by software and the storage and retrieval activities are operated by robots) in Vietnam, also known as “customer. 5-star hotel for fruit. Accordingly, in the warehouses of CASS, fresh vegetables and agricultural products will immediately fall into a state of hibernation, reducing respiration thanks to CA technology. Thereby, it helps to adjust the proportion of gas components in the warehouse in the direction of reducing oxygen to low and increasing Nitrogen up to over 90%. Thanks to that, each warehouse of CASS is like a giant nitrogen tank containing agricultural products, making fruits and agricultural products immediately reduce respiration, no more heat generation in the agricultural block. In addition, in the warehouse, the distance between the pallets is very uniform due to being stowed with a robot system, thereby facilitating easy ventilation. The ventilation fan system is arranged with thousands of points, reasonable wind speed is all over the warehouse, helping to exchange heat quickly and evenly throughout the warehouse. With the three above synchronous solutions, CASS can quickly cool down agricultural products without having to lower the temperature in the warehouse. This is the most important starting step of the preservation process, this step makes a valuable contribution to the effectiveness of prolonging the life of vegetables and agricultural products by many times by slowing down the ripening and aging process, without causing damage. for them. Many types of fruit are brought in by businesses for preservation using CA technology. Photo: Thanh Son. CA technology helps fruits and agricultural products to maintain freshness during storage, while inhibiting microbial growth that damages agricultural products as well as cross-contamination between consignments. Agricultural products stored in this environment can extend their life by 2-4 times compared to other methods. As for apples, CASS’s CA technology can last up to 12 months. This is an advanced method of preserving green and clean agricultural products, meeting the strict preservation standards of high-end markets. Ms. Quach Thi Le Chan, Director of CASS said, compared with conventional cold storage, preservation by CA technology has a higher cost. But in return, the CA technology brings many great benefits to agribusinesses, which is much greater than the extra cost of using this technology. First of all, preserving by CA technology helps produce only lose weight due to dehydration of 1-2% after about 10 days of storage, compared with 8-10% loss in conventional cold storage; failure rate is reduced from 15-30% to below 5%; quality decline rate (must sell at a discount), reduced from 30-40% to 2-10%. In particular, CA technology helps businesses increase brand reputation because the goods are always of stable quality, the source of goods is always ready, not passive when the market is in trouble such as ship jam, container jam … With such great advantages, the fully automatic gas adjustment technology of CASS has quickly attracted the attention of many businesses trading in fruit and agricultural products. Up to now, many kinds of fruits and agricultural products have been trusted by businesses to send to CASS’s warehouses such as beetroot, sweet potato, guava, coconut, pomelo, kumquat, lemon, dragon fruit, watermelon, melon. own, jackfruit, passion fruit … “CASSS’s model of preserving agricultural products using fully automated gas control technology is a pioneer and unique model currently in Vietnam. This is a breakthrough in logistics, contributing to capacity building. competition of Vietnamese vegetables, fruits and agricultural products because it prolongs storage time while still ensuring quality, thereby helping businesses to be more proactive in doing business “.

Video of the people harvesting Normally, the tree planted for 3 years is to give fruit, the fruit quality is large and small, sweet and sour depends much on the weather, the ripening time lasts about 30-45 days, when in the season, the fruit will ripen very quickly. people have to harvest every day. Previously, very few trees were planted concentratedly by households, but only intercropped in gardens, fences … but in recent years, this type of fruit has been favored by many people. The selling price is quite high, so many households grow more tending. However, due to the benefit of the Covid-19 this year, the ripe price is lower than every year. The wholesale price (wholesale price) at the garden ranges from 7,000-28,000 VND / kg, depending on the type. The people here said that the tree has high economic efficiency and is easy to take care of. If there is a good season, the farmer can reap hundreds of million VND from this fruit. Growers are sorting to deliver to customers It is the time for the garden to ripen, the garden owners must rush to harvest in time to deliver the goods to the traders, to avoid falling. Mr. Do Nhu Phong, a grower in Hoai Duc, said: “This year is better than every year, the first purchase price is still very high, about 48,000-55,000 VND / kg, but is now at the end. The price of the first type has been much reduced. The most beautiful type 1 has a price of about 28,000 VND / kg, while type 2 ranges from 18,000-22,000 VND / kg ” As for Ms. Ngo Thi Le, her family used to grow around the fence, interweaving the crops in the garden, but in recent years, this fruit has been popular with many people. The selling price is quite high, so not only her family but many people in the commune also invest in planting. “At present, my family has planted more than 1 acre” – Mrs. Le boasted. Some pictures recorded at some growers in Hiep Thuan commune (Phuc Tho district, Hanoi city): Hiep Thuan commune is the second largest growing area in Hanoi The gardens are mixed with many crops to increase farming productivity These few years, according to some people, are better season than every year … … due to the Covid-19 translation, the price has come down but not significantly People are busy harvesting and bringing to the market. Picking must pick evenly hand, choose ripe red fruit The ripe berries are carefully selected by the people. People pick it up with bare hands. The small and soft fruit must be picked lightly with the right hand so as not to peel or break, if hard hand the fruit will be broken and cannot be sold “ The whole bunch of flowers weighed heavily on the fruit Sorting and stuffing into foam boxes to deliver to traders

In April, on many streets of Hanoi such as Thuy Khue, To Huu, Nguyen Trai … lilies were covered with carts carrying flowers. Hanoi is in a hurry, and the stuffiness of normal days suddenly becomes poetic and romantic. For Hanoians, this is a gentle and pristine flower like a Hanoi girl, simple but elegant. Perhaps so, for a long time, the trumpet has entered the musical and musical poetry, and has become a symbol of the early summer days of the Capital. According to florists, at this time, the lilies are mainly like “ta trumpets”: the flowers are small and short, but when they bloom, the petals turn white, giving off a gentle fragrance. Lilies are popular because they are easy to care for, the bulbs are cheap and can be replanted. If well cared for, a tuber can have up to 15-16 flowers. According to many traders, lilies are usually planted mainly in September and October, but have to wait until April next year to be harvested. Lilies are very “sensitive”, outdoors the flowers must always be soaked in water to avoid wilting. Each petal is white and the sweet scent of the lilies is half as if to keep a little of the spring air, half bustling with the golden rays of early summer. Driving through roads such as Thuy Khue, Phan Dinh Phung, Lang Ha, Thanh Nien, … hardly anyone can hold back the pristine beauty, the gentle scent of the trumpet. People in a hurry are willing to stop by the roadside flower bouquets to choose to buy some beautiful lilies at the beginning of the season. Flower lovers also do not miss the opportunity to capture the capital’s poetic moments during the lilies season. Although coming quickly and quickly, the lilies season always leaves many problems, strangely remembered./.

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Author | Song Wanxin

Edit｜ Yang Jin

After the traditional e-commerce of Taobao and Jingdong, and the social e-commerce of Pinduoduo, Douyin put forward a new concept-“interest e-commerce” at the recent e-commerce conference.

According to the explanation by Kang Zeyu, president of Douyin e-commerce, “interest e-commerce” is to tap the potential shopping needs of users based on the content ecology and recommendation algorithm of Douyin. If the traditional shelf-style e-commerce in the Taobao era is that users go shopping with their goals, then “interest e-commerce” is to use algorithms to recommend products that may be of interest to users when they have no purpose.

If you compare Taobao to a shopping mall, Douyin is more like a pedestrian street.

Another new concept was introduced, and the controversy about “whether it is a pseudo concept” also arises. From the perspective of implementation means, the essence of “interested e-commerce” is “commodity recommendation”, and this function is actually not absent on platforms such as Taobao and JD.com. But Chen Jun, a senior practitioner in the e-commerce industry, believes that Taobao does the most to match demand. He told Sohu Technology that the algorithm recommendation is to increase the conversion rate as much as possible, that is, to allow people at each level to get the consumption they need, so as to increase the conversion rate.

Regardless of how “interested e-commerce” is defined, Douyin has come up with algorithmic tools to tap the value of public domain traffic, convert more potential users to shopping live broadcast rooms, and then undertake with a brand with a certain degree of recognition and trust. , Guarantee retention and repurchase rate.

“The efficiency of the Douyin team is still very high. From the start of the e-commerce business to the present, it has output its own methodology in more than a year.” Wuyou Media CEO Lei Binyi told Sohu Technology.

A few days before the Douyin E-commerce Conference, Kuaishou also held a self-e-commerce conference. The live broadcast e-commerce methodology expounded by Kuaishou seems to be quite different from Douyin, but when you look closely, the two essentially have the same demands.

“Rely on public domain in the short-term and private domain in the long-term”, Kuaishou advocates that the promotion of transaction traffic comes from the follow page, so that the master and the merchant have the right to control the traffic. Although Kuaishou emphasized the “private domain” from the beginning to the end of the conference, one detail worth noting is that Simba, who has the strongest private domain traffic, did not appear in any promotional videos of the conference due to the “bird’s nest sale incident”. And the anchor case.

In fact, Kuaishou seems to be deliberately weakening family-style private domain traffic, and instead uses “private domain traffic” to attract mid-waist anchors and business self-broadcasts to balance the power of the family, and covertly transfer to the public domain under the crust of private domain.

With Kuaishou’s listing and TikTok approaching its listing, the two e-commerce businesses have also come to an interweaving point dramatically, that is, the competition for public domain traffic and brand owners. Douyin once again chose to start from the high line, and Kuaishou once again completed the low line and hit the high line from the low line. The short video war between the two sides once again repeated itself in the field of e-commerce.

It’s better to rely on the anchor than the brand

“The vibrato is a lesson learned from Taobao live broadcast and Kuaishou.” Chen Jun said.

In the field of e-commerce, although Douyin is a late player, it may be a smart and powerful opponent. More than a year after Douyin started its e-commerce business, the first e-commerce methodology that has attracted the attention of the outside world is the importance of Douyin e-commerce on brand self-broadcasting.

Since Luo Yonghao launched the first shot of Douyin live e-commerce last year, various celebrity artists have also appeared one by one, but while sales are refreshing high, the industry has also begun to talk about the platform ecology of “Douyin does not have a brother”. Compared with Kuaishou’s strong private domain traffic, Douyin’s public domain ecology is difficult to incubate a benchmark anchor, and it has almost blocked the idea of ​​relying on anchors to bring goods to establish an industry image.

Xiaohulu big data shows that from April to December last year, among the top 100 master anchors in total sales on Taobao, Kuaishou, and Douyin, 45 were Kuaishou anchors, 40 were Taobao anchors, and only 15 were Douyin anchors. Among the top 10 sales talent anchors, 5 are Taobao anchors, 4 are Kuaishou anchors, and only Luo Yonghao is the Douyin anchor.

According to Tencent’s deep network citing people who ran Douyin e-commerce in the early days, 6 accounts were incubated on Douyin, with a total number of fans of about 100,000. However, according to his observation, the number of fans is not directly related to the amount of goods carried. 3 After the monthly explosion, sales have entered a stable period.

This problem is not uncovered within Douyin. At the conference, Douyin e-commerce put forward the “FACT model”, which represents the self-broadcasting of merchants, the talent matrix, marketing activities, and the big V of the head. The four horses are equally important to balance the forces of all parties.

In fact, before the official announcement, the Douyin e-commerce ecology had already formed a big environment where the brand was popular. In August last year, Xiao Dongyu, head of Weige’s MCN brand live broadcast service, told Sohu Technology that Douyin’s head anchors generally tend to work directly with the supply chain, with brand-specific shows accounting for the majority, while Taobao’s mixed broadcasting is the main focus.

“The FACT mode of Douyin deliberately avoids the potential hazards of Hengqiang on the head. There must be drawbacks to only grabbing one head in the private and public domains. The space in the waist really needs a platform to redistribute traffic. What I see is , Douyin is strengthening this transformation.” Wuyou Media CEO Lei Binyi told Sohu Technology.

Judging from the experience of Kuaishou and Taobao, the negative impact of strong top anchors is self-evident. Simba, Li Jiaqi and Wei Ya gradually evolved from platform signs to platform ceilings and began to counterbalance the overall ecological health of the platform.

Take Simba’s return to his debut as an example. Although Simba has tried his best to keep a low profile, it is still difficult to conceal his influence. At the end of the whole live broadcast, Simba recommended a batch of newcomer anchors, and added fans to these newcomers’ accounts. Some of the anchors increased their fans at one time by more than one million orders. In a sense, Simba’s private control of traffic has been Beyond the platform.

Chen Jun said that the essence of Douyin’s support for brand self-broadcasting is to redistribute benefits and achieve a balance between all parties, instead of letting a certain character become fat, and other characters are sucked up.

Kang Zeyu, President of Tik Tok E-commerce, emphasized that Tik Tok attaches great importance to all levels. For Long Tail, Tik Tok will set up a selection alliance to make it easier for them to choose products. There may be some requests for brand cooperation in the middle waist, and Douyin will support it through mechanisms such as Douyin Link. On the head, there are more customization needs, such as building your own team and even brand.

In terms of revenue, Douyin e-commerce is similar to Taobao. Its revenue mainly consists of GMV rake and advertising. Brand merchants can contribute more stable GMV and traffic purchase costs. Moreover, mature top brands have a complete supply chain, which can make up for the incomplete Douyin stores. This all constitutes the reason why Douyin supports brand self-broadcasting.

However, Douyin’s brand self-broadcasting is obviously still in its infancy. Xiaohulu big data shows that of the top 100 stores with total sales last year, 98 live rooms are from Taobao, and only 2 live rooms are from Douyin.

The hidden worries of large-scale anti-super fast hands and Taobao live broadcast

In the outside world’s perception of live e-commerce, Kuaishou e-commerce has a first-mover advantage and seems to be the best in terms of scale, but from the data point of view, there may be some deviations between facts and subjective feelings.

According to a report from the financial media “LatePost”, Douyin’s live broadcast of e-commerce GMV exceeded 500 billion yuan last year. The Kuaishou financial report shows that last year, Kuaishou’s GMV was 381.2 billion yuan, and Taobao’s live broadcast exceeded 400 billion yuan. In terms of scale, Douyin has achieved a surpassing Taobao live broadcast and Kuaishou.

The Douyin e-commerce business plans to raise the GMV target this year to one trillion yuan, doubling the previous year. In contrast, Pinduoduo only broke through one trillion in 2019, compared with 1.6 trillion last year. In other words, if the goal is achieved, Douyin’s e-commerce business alone will surpass the scale of Pinduoduo in 2019.

According to Questmobile data, during the National Day last year, Douyin stores have basically become the only channel for live e-commerce on the platform, accounting for 96%, while Kuaishou stores only accounted for one-third of their revenue, and Taobao and Youzan each accounted for it. one third. From the data point of view, Douyin has basically formed a closed loop, and Kuaishou’s e-commerce revenue still has a high proportion of people making wedding dresses for others.

Since the establishment of the first-level e-commerce department last year, in order to establish a closed-loop Douyin store, Douyin first broke off the third-party platform for live broadcast and delivery, and then launched Douyin payment. In addition, it has reached a cooperation with the big channel brand Suning to support various players. TikTok e-commerce closed loop was established quickly.

However, the construction of the Douyin store and the overall operating system is still relatively simple. After Douyin’s external link was broken last year, Li Jianfeng, the director of Roman e-commerce, once told Sohu Technology that Douyin stores are relatively immediacy, and merchants have not received clear guidance for long-term operations.

It is understandable that Douyin is an e-commerce company starting from its own strengths “recommendation algorithm”, but this also makes it difficult for the “recommended live broadcast” to meet the daily sales needs of merchants. In addition, merchants who have become accustomed to Taobao’s more complex operating rules cannot quickly build a similar operating system on Douyin, and the Douyin platform itself does not have a standardized product similar to Alimama to guide merchant operations.

At the product level, unlike Kuaishou and Taobao live broadcasts, Douyin’s e-commerce portal “Douyin Mall” is located on the personal homepage. There is no classification as a whole. Only the “Guess you like” part recommends products based on algorithms. It is designed as a double-row information stream. In the information flow, live broadcast portals and commodity link portals are mixed.

This shows that “search-based e-commerce” currently does not have a high priority in Douyin e-commerce as a whole.

In addition to the differences in product design, Lei Binyi believes that if Douyin and Taobao are compared, because of their genetic differences, Taobao, as an e-commerce platform, converts traffic to live broadcasts, and the accuracy rate will be higher than that of Douyin.

QuestMobile’s data report in April last year showed that among the current major content platforms, the average conversion rates of Douyin and Kuaishou were 8.1% and 2.7%, respectively. However, there are still differences between sub-industries and brands of different sizes. A person familiar with the matter revealed to Sohu Technology that the conversion rate of Douyin stores is only 1.4% for the top brand in a certain vertical category. The flow of the department is coordinated”.

The greatest insecurity in Douyin’s public domain traffic distribution is reflected in the instability of sales conversion. In such an environment, the top brand can survive the cold start period more smoothly by virtue of a higher consumer awareness base.

Wu Lifeng, head of the e-commerce platform of Peacebird Live, told Sohu Technology that if 1 million people come in to watch the live broadcast during a live broadcast, and 150,000 people will eventually enter the store, the conversion rate can reach 15%, which is already a considerable benefit. From the perspective of the entire brand’s self-broadcasting, the launch traffic accounted for 30%, and the organic traffic accounted for about 70%.

Douyin has already begun to make attempts on private domains. In March of this year, Douyin quietly launched the test of the fan group chat function, and businesses can establish private domain communities on Douyin. For example, Luo Yonghao’s “Make Friends” Douyin fan group has reached 50.

On the other hand, in order to open up public domain and private domain traffic, Kuaishou began to test the e-commerce marketing platform Magnetic Taurus on March 31, and integrate Kuaishou Noodles + Xiaodiantong. As for the shortcomings of “brand self-broadcasting”, Kuaishou is also working hard to erase the prejudice of the outside world. Xiao Gu, the person in charge of Kuaishou e-commerce company, responded, “Many brands ask us whether I can do it in Kuaishou and whether Kuaishou is suitable for brands. It’s suitable for brands, but the way of doing it is different. We encourage store broadcasting and self-broadcasting more.” He explained that if it is a flagship store of XX, the content and trust of store-broadcasting are insufficient. On the brand side, you can open an account to make the personality more interesting.

In the traffic war between private and public domains, the battle between Douyin, Kuaishou and Taobao Live has just begun.

Where is the channel dividend, where is the brand

In the past three years, live broadcast e-commerce has developed rapidly, but it has quickly reached a bottleneck. Among the three leading platforms of Douyin, Kuaishou, and Taobao Live, Douyin is still a newcomer, but it is also the only platform that is still on the rise. In e-commerce, an industry that has high customer acquisition costs and constant need for traffic access, it is the common understanding of merchants to seize Douyin, even if the future of Douyin e-commerce is still unclear.

Earlier, many merchants told Sohu Technology that Douyin’s disconnection of external links last year did cause them a relatively large turmoil in the short term. Originally, there was no plan to open a small store on Douyin, but considering that Taobao has not too many Incremental space, just to be on the safe side, still cannot give up the market of Douyin.

“We are indeed investing more operational energy in Douyin now, because relatively speaking, Taobao’s live broadcast pattern has been more solidified.” Lei Binyi told Sohu Technology. He observed that even if it is Taobao’s head anchor, Spending a lot of money to advertise outside the site, such as WeChat’s Guangdiantong and various other channels.

Recently, Tmall has rarely lowered the threshold for merchants to enter. After April 19, newly opened stores can become official Tmall stores only by passing the 7-month trial operation capability assessment. This is the first time that Tmall has revised its store opening rules since its establishment in 2009.

Where the channel dividend is, where is the brand owner. Its own bottleneck and Douyin Kuaishou’s plundering of merchant resources are increasing the sense of crisis on Taobao and Tmall.

In fact, the Taobao brand has already worked hard in the field of self-broadcasting, and it has become a standard for Taobao live broadcast. However, Lei Binyi pointed out that Taobao’s live broadcast mechanism has defects in store self-broadcasting. “Taobao’s service fee for proxy broadcasts is paid by the hour. Paid, that is, how much is an hour, but Douyin is a cost model of CPS (charged by actual sales volume), which is obviously more effective in motivating anchors.”

QuestMobile’s live e-commerce report in October last year showed that as of September 2020, the proportion of users watching live broadcasts on Kuaishou and Douyin platforms has reached around 80%, and the user habits of live e-commerce have basically formed. However, it is worth noting that the proportion of Kuaishou head KOLs participating in live broadcast is 58.5%, and the proportion of carrying goods is 36.6%. In contrast, the proportion of Douyin head KOLs participating in live broadcast is about 27.5%, and the proportion of carrying goods is 51.2%.

In other words, although Kuaishou has created its image as the “first live broadcast e-commerce platform”, Kuaishou still dominates live entertainment. On the vibrato, more than half of the anchors who started live broadcasts for the purpose of bringing goods accounted for more than half.

Under the influence of head anchors such as Simba, Li Jiaqi and Wei Ya, Hengqiang, the waist and tail anchors began to test the waters in many ways. The person in charge of MCN once told Sohu Technology, “The anchors are studying how to drain traffic more accurately. Taobao does not The method is to provide traffic to the live broadcast room, but Douyin can. The two sides have very different operating methods for the anchors. Therefore, many mid-waist anchors can only test the water in many ways, and a small proportion of them are “out of the country”.”

E-commerce anchors are fleeing Kuaishou and Taobao, and the agency service providers are also seeing the dividends of Douyin.

Chen Jun told Sohu Technology that the service provider of TikTok Lining’s official account used to be mainly engaged in content marketing, but only transformed into an e-commerce agency operation in August last year. “Originally, the company was almost unable to sustain it. After the transformation, it is now one month later. The transaction turnover is about 50 million.” He said that the general trend of brand self-broadcasting will drive the rapid growth of the entire agency operation industry.

On the whole, the basic ideas of Douyin e-commerce, the overall framework of the store, the basic disks of the top merchants and users are all in place. The next decision is whether the wild growth of GMV can last or not, which is the most critical user experience. , And whether internal management can keep up with the speed of business expansion.

An insider of Douyin revealed to Sohu Technology that the two e-commerce departments within Byte are trying to integrate. One is the e-commerce department of the group established in June last year. Before the establishment of the department, Douyin already had one of its subordinates. E-commerce department. And BYTE hopes to put the old e-commerce department under Douyin into the commercialization group, that is, Zhang Lidong’s subordinates.

“This year Douyin is going to engage in e-commerce.” The insider said. After Douyin catches up on the scale of GMV, whether it can reverse the live broadcast e-commerce landscape and carry the imagination of going public, perhaps there will be an answer within the year.

(At the request of the interviewee, Chen Jun is a pseudonym)

Dubbed the “Queen of April”, the lilies have long been a symbol of the Capital’s early summer days. White lilies have entered poetry and painting, symbolizing the gentle and shyness of the young woman. On roads like Hanoi such as Thuy Khue, To Huu, Le Van Luong, Lang Ha, Quang Ba … lilies have covered and followed the street vendors. Lilies are easy to spot on the street. Many people commented that the lilies were fresh as if they wanted to dispel the stuffy, stuffy side of crowded streets. Lilies is also known as the cypress flower or the lily. Currently, the type of flower sold for sale is mainly like a trumpet with small flowers and shorter than western trumpet, when blooming has white petals, yellow pistil emits a gentle aroma. In Hanoi, lilies are grown in flower villages such as Dong Anh, Tay Tuu, and Dan Phuong. To be able to harvest in April this year, farmers have to plant and cultivate from 10 to 11 years ago. If the rain is good, the flowers meet the standards, each branch has from 3 to 4 flowers. From the garden house, the flowers are busy and the vendors walking down the street to the hands of customers. Although many people are busy, busy, and hustle, they also took advantage of buying April trumpets. Lilies are very “sensitive”, outdoors the flowers must always be soaked in water to avoid wilting. According to the seller, when buying, for about 3 days, the flower buds will bloom and can play flowers in 7-10 days. The price of lilies this year has not changed much, with prices from 30,000 to 50,000 VND per bunch.

Lilies are at their most beautiful, with branches up to a meter long, and are preferred by buyers to choose to place jars and jars. Shorter branches, from 50 – 80 cm, single cotton, the price difference is about 50,000 VND / bundle of 100 cotton. Cut flowers at the garden are available in bundles of 100 flowers, 10 boxes / bundle to be transported to the provinces. Lilies garden in Tay Tuu (Hanoi) in the very harvest Each year, lilies (also called lily West, cypress) bloom only once and are considered the symbolic flower for April. This season, people call it short, to distinguish it from Chinese trumpet. National planting year round, off season. Lilies are commented by the growers to be easy to care for and develop evenly, so they do not take the effort to prune. Each branch can give 2-5 flowers. In the flower village of Tay Tuu (Hanoi), lilies have been harvested since the beginning of March, and have now entered the main season. Each 100m2 garden here is expected to harvest about 2,000-3,000 flowers / day. The grower said that the flower season is estimated to last about 2 weeks. Flowers can stay up to 2 weeks, longer than most other fresh flowers. Flowers are priced according to cotton, 3-4 flowers are beautiful, the highest price is 10,000 VND / branch In addition to wholesaling for wholesalers, the lilies are also personally transported by growers to retail at the market, and to sell more on social networks. The average price at the markets is 2,000 VND / cotton, branches 3-4 cotton can be up to 10,000 VND / branch. On the online market, flowers are mainly displayed in bundles of 30-50-100 flowers, delivered to the place. The florists said that this year’s flower price is equivalent or even cheaper than last year’s flower season. Main season, flowers cheap to half compared to early season. Households who ring the tubers early, harvested from February, have better profits, because the early flowers in the season are good. Currently, some households also rent land in neighboring areas such as Ha Mo (Dan Phuong) to plant more lilies. The 3,500 garden of lilies “fever” on social networks On this occasion, flower lovers do not miss the opportunity, constantly sharing flower arrangements, displaying beautiful white blooming vases. In flower-loving associations, white trumpet color dominates many posts, from small and beautiful flower pots to hundred and thousand lilies and gardens all “cut the hearts” of netizens. Famous on social networks with the 200 square meter garden in the middle of the capital, each season, Ms. Tran Dieu Thuy (Ha Dong, Hanoi) wears a new coat for her flower garden. This April, Thuy herself planted 3,500 lilies. In order for the flowers to bloom beautifully, Ms. Thuy said, experience is that after 5 days of arranging, flowers need more nourishment, enough water to bloom. The master garden owner arranges flowers himself, happily welcoming his friends to take pictures every flower season In April flower season, Thuy’s garden is crowded with rafts to take pictures. 2,000 lilies in the garden, are the birthday gifts she received from friends. Thuy’s social media posts made netizens in awe. Not only funding, but the owner of the garden is also dedicated to taking care of the trees, creating a valuable green environment in the noisy city.

This time is entering the main harvest, people are busy cutting flowers to sell. Every day, a household cut thousands of flowers, and wherever they cut, they can be sold there. (Photo: Thanh Dat / VNA) This time is entering the main harvest, each garden has thousands of lilies. (Photo: Thanh Dat / VNA) This time is entering the main harvest, people are busy cutting flowers to sell. (Photo: Thanh Dat / VNA) Compared to every year, lilies this year are priced, with prices ranging from 130,000-170,000 VND / bunch (100 flowers) in the field. (Photo: Thanh Dat / VNA) If well cared for, a single lilies can produce up to 4-5 flowers. (Photo: Thanh Dat / VNA) This time is entering the main harvest, each garden has thousands of lilies. (Photo: Thanh Dat / VNA) The bouquets of flowers are brought to the street by people to sell. (Photo: Thanh Dat / VNA) Lilies are usually planted in August and September of the previous year; It is not harvested until March and April of the following year. (Photo: Thanh Dat / VNA) People watering to keep flowers fresh until they are cut flowers for sale. (Photo: Thanh Dat / VNA) People watering to keep flowers fresh until they are cut flowers for sale. (Photo: Thanh Dat / VNA) The villagers in Tay Tuu village eagerly harvest flowers to sell to traders or sell them to the market. (Photo: Thanh Dat / VNA) Lilies bloom, signaling a coming summer. (Photo: Thanh Dat / VNA)