Nghe An girl earns hundreds of millions of dong/year from ancient rose garden

Pearl - Lam Tung• November 13, 2020 09:58

(Baonghean.vn) - On an area of 2 hectares, Ms. Dieu Thuy in Nam Thanh commune, Nam Dan district (Nghe An) grows all kinds of ancient roses with fragrant scents. From here, she also applies science and technology to produce products extracted from roses.

Ms. Dieu Thuy's rose garden in Nam Thanh commune (Nam Dan). Photo: The Thang

As a charming, skillful, and diligent girl, Ms. Dieu Thuy, from Nam Thanh, Nam Dan district, once established an embroidery cooperative in Nam Dan, attracting hundreds of workers. However, due to the difficult output and lack of skilled workers, and low efficiency, she decided to switch to growing roses, which has been her passion since childhood.

A few years ago, realizing that roses were a popular flower in the market, she went to the northern provinces to buy old rose varieties and researched how to care for and propagate the plants for sale. At the same time, she asked experts for support from the raw flower source to process them into many beauty products.

Raw roses are picked to make rose water and tea. Photo: Lam Tung

At her farm (Hamlet 9, Nam Thanh Commune) there are more than 20 different types of old roses such as: Van Khoi, Sa Pa old, old peach rose, old velvet, old white rose, white rose, cinnamon red, old Hue, old lipstick rose... With the wish to grow flowers to serve tourists visiting Uncle Ho's hometown, and to have more clean products to bring to the market.

Ms. Thuy grows roses using completely clean technology to make products such as rose tea and rose water. Around the garden, she grows basil, lemongrass, and wild flowers to limit pests. In addition, she buys native roses that are strong, easy to care for, and have both fragrance and high quality products.

From the abundant source of rose material, Ms. Thuy has invested 500 million VND in a factory and machinery to steam and dry the flowers according to the instructions of experts to ensure the color and flavor of the dried roses are preserved. As for the rose water, Ms. Thuy steams it like making wine, then condenses it to make the product.

Ms. Dieu Thuy's rose garden grows mostly Sa Pa old roses. Photo: Quoc Dan

Regarding plant products, Ms. Thuy sells and exchanges nationwide. When someone chooses to buy online, she sends the goods by car if they live far away or directly ships the goods to nearby areas. An average rose tree costs 1 million VND, and the "king" rose trees cost tens of millions of VND. Every year, she also has a decent income from selling rose trees.

To have new products to supply to the market, Ms. Thuy established a company to produce rose tea, rose water, and rose powder.

Rose water 150,000 VND/bottle, rose tea 150,000 VND/box, rose powder used for face masks. Roses have antibiotic and sedative properties, suitable for beauty care for women, so currently her rose water products sell quite well when the price is reasonable.

Every day, Ms. Thuy picks roses to produce products from raw flowers. Photo: Lam Tung

As a child of Uncle Ho's hometown, she wishes to do something, create a tourism model in her hometown, produce new quality products to serve tourists returning to Uncle Ho's hometown with the enthusiasm of youth to enrich the homeland with intelligence and youth. She hopes to expand the area in the future to have an attractive tourism model. Tourists coming here can admire roses, enjoy rose tea and immerse themselves in dewy flowers... feeling life more relaxed and meaningful.