(Baonghean.vn) - At midnight, we followed the rubber tappers to see all the difficulties and hardships of those who tap rubber. It is not easy for the people of Minh Hop to get "white gold". When everyone falls into a deep sleep, the rubber tappers start their work until early the next morning.
Reporters of Nghe An Newspaper would like to introduce some recently recorded images of Minh Hop commune (Quy Hop):
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| Mr. Nguyen Hung in Minh Ho hamlet, Minh Hop commune is sharpening his knife to prepare for a new latex tapping trip. |
 Before tapping the rubber, the rubber tappers hang flashlights for each other. Flashlights not only help the tappers see insects on the tree trunks but also clearly see each cut on the tree trunk to extract the latex. |
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| In the dim light of a flashlight, Ms. Le Thi Ngan makes cuts on the rubber tree trunk to collect latex. |
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| After 2 to 3 hours, the rubber bowl is filled with latex. With rubber trees, there are 2 latex tapping shifts each day, shift 1 from 6pm to midnight, shift 2 from midnight to 6am. |
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| Rubber tapping knives are cleaned immediately after finishing the latex extraction process and carefully packaged to always keep the blade sharp and good. |
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| Ms. Le Thi Tu said: "After pouring all the rubber in the bowl, you have to turn the bowl upside down to avoid rainwater falling into the bowl, because just a little cold water falling into the bowl will make the quality of the rubber worse, that's why on rainy days no one goes to collect rubber latex." |
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| If this season last year the price of rubber was 15,000 VND/kg, now the price of rubber is down to only 4,700 VND/kg, but people still hope that rubber trees will remain the spearhead in economic development. |
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| Although rubber prices are currently low, rubber growers are still not discouraged from sticking with rubber trees. |
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Nghe An Newspaper reporter after a night of staying up with rubber tappers in Minh Hop. The locals said the reason they have to tap rubber at night is because the cool night makes the rubber trees produce more and better quality latex.
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Thu Huong - Dang Cuong
