Black gac fruit brings in profit of 70 million VND/ha

(Baonghean.vn) - Applying the technology of producing hybrid black gac varieties by cuttings, farmers in Quynh Luu (Nghe An) have reduced many costs and earned a net profit of 70 million/ha.

Mother's gac garden is grafted using the technique of cutting young branches to produce 100% fruit. Photo: Nhu Thuy

Mr. Nguyen Duc Thanh, Tan Thang commune said: Previously, we also intensively cultivated gac trees to provide raw materials for the fruit and vegetable processing factory. However, due to lack of initiative in the seedling, 70% of the sown seeds were male, leading to losses.

After applying the new technique of intensively cultivating gac trees by grafting young branches onto mother trees, 100% of the gac trees flowered and bore fruit, each generation of mother trees bears fruit within 10 to 20 years.

Each black Gac Lai tree produces more than 1 ton of fruit, weighing from 2-4 kg/fruit. Photo: Nhu Thuy

After testing 20 hectares of black hybrid gac in Tan Thang commune, Quynh Luu district, it was shown that this gac variety grows well, produces many fruits, has large fruit weight and especially completely eliminates male gac trees.

On average, for every 1 hectare of black hybrid gac, people need to spend 80 million on setting up a trellis, installing a drip irrigation system, seeds, and fertilizers, and can harvest for 10 to 15 years without having to replant.

"According to our calculations, after 1 year of growing the first crop of gac, people will recover their capital and from the second year, each hectare of gac will give a profit of 70 million VND" - Engineer Nguyen Dinh Thi - Head of the project to propagate black hybrid gac by cutting young branches affirmed.

People of Tan Thang commune (Quynh Luu) take care of gac fruit garden. Photo: Nhu Thuy

In the coming time, Quynh Luu district plans to promote mass production of varieties, planning a gac raw material area of ​​about 100 hectares to put into raw gac production.

Nhu Thuy