Palms are in season and selling well, making palm growers in Nghe An excited.
(Baonghean.vn) - These days, people in mountainous districts in Nghe An have begun harvesting palm fruits. This year, the palms have a good harvest, with many fruits, selling well, making palm growers excited.
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Mountainous districts of Nghe An such as Thanh Chuong, Anh Son, Con Cuong, Tuong Duong, Que Phong, Ky Son... still have quite a lot of palm trees. Many families still preserve and grow palm gardens with dozens, hundreds of trees. Photo: Huy Thu |
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This year, the palm trees have a good harvest, with many bunches and many fruits. According to local people, good palm trees produce 7-8 bunches, or even more. Each bunch weighs from 8-12kg, with hundreds of fruits. Usually, "young" palm trees produce many bunches, many fruits, large fruits, thick flesh. Photo: Huy Thu |
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Nowadays, most of the fruit-bearing palm trees are "old" and have tall trunks, so harvesting is difficult. Palm pickers have to use ladders to climb or tie sickles to poles to pick them. Families with palm trees, when the palms are ripe, often leave long poles next to them to pick and test the palms. Photo: Huy Thu |
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Ms. Nguyen Thi Ti in Thanh Thinh commune (Thanh Chuong) said that every year, the palm trees in her garden all bear delicious fruit. The tree with the most fruit each autumn harvests 70 kg. According to Ms. Ti, in the 11th lunar month, when the weather is very cold, the palms are just starting to get fat, and then they can be harvested. If picked early, the palms are still bitter, but if picked late, the fruit will be heavily wormy. Photo: Huy Thu |
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Short palm trees are easy to harvest, just chop a few times to get the palm cluster. Districts such as Thanh Chuong, Anh Son... used to cut down a lot of palm trees to plant other trees such as acacia, orange, grapefruit. People also do not plant new palm trees, so short palm trees produce very little fruit. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| According to palm growers, the year when the palms bear fruit, the weather will be very cold. In the photo: A palm bunch weighing 12 kg in Thanh Thinh commune (Thanh Chuong). Photo: Huy Thu |
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| Ms. Nguyen Thi Sau in Thanh Thinh commune (Thanh Chuong) said: From the beginning of the palm season, she often picks palms in the garden and brings them to Ho Chi Minh road to sell. The palms are delicious, the fruit is beautiful, the flesh is thick, there are many customers, every bunch is cut down and sold out. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| Palm trees are easy to grow, not picky about soil, and do not require much care or investment. Palm trees have been associated with many generations of rural people in the mountainous areas of Nghe An. Nowadays, palm leaves are rarely used to roof houses, but palm fruits are still popular with consumers everywhere. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| Currently in Thanh Chuong, each family that still has a lot of palm trees only has a few dozen trees, while in Con Cuong and Ky Son districts, people grow a lot of palm trees, some households grow hundreds of trees, harvesting tons of fruit per crop. In localities that grow a lot of palm trees, each palm season, the sale of fruit brings in a significant source of income. The retail price of palm trees at the beginning of the season was about 20,000 VND/kg, now it is 10,000 VND/kg. Many traders go to each house to buy palm trees, collect palm fruits from mountainous districts and bring them down to the lowlands to sell. Online sales channels also contribute to the rapid consumption of palm fruits in the districts. Photo: Huy Thu |
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Palm fruit can be processed into many delicious dishes. After buying, palm is usually rubbed in a bamboo basket to remove the shell, soaked in water for a few hours before being put into a pot to stew or salt in a ceramic jar or glass jar. Salted palm with the shell intact can be stored longer. Ripe palm is soft, fatty, has a characteristic aroma, can be fried or dipped in soy sauce, with sour fish sauce, all are attractive. Photo: Huy Thu |
