Dalat flowers are dying because of Chinese flowers
The farmers still diligently tend to the flowers in the garden, but almost everyone does their own work, and there is no laughter or joking. The owner is sad, and the hired workers are not happy either, they work in silence...
Flower village on the day of unsold flowers
Pouring me a drink, Mr. Ho Ngoc Dinh, chairman of the Farmers' Association of Ward 12 - where the most chrysanthemums are grown in Da Lat City, was frustrated and clicked his tongue: "For the past two months, chrysanthemums have gone from 5,000 VND/bunch (5 plants), down to 4,000, 3,000... Now they are only 1,000 VND/bunch, I don't know when the price will increase again so that our gardeners can ease their suffering."
Dozens of hectares of chrysanthemums in Da Lat are "past their prime"
Mr. Nguyen Van Quoc, a hired flower harvester, shared with me after quickly swallowing a bowl of lunch brought to the garden by the owner: “The flowers are cheap and unsold, so the daily wage has been reduced to less than 100,000 VND. If the flowers are expensive, the price is not less than 150,000 VND, not to mention the bonus the owner gives if you work hard.”The chrysanthemum garden of Mr. Huynh Van Minh's family, Be Van Dan Street, Ward 12 (Da Lat City) invested 25 million VND, now it is time to harvest, is considered by everyone to be the most beautiful in the area but still has no buyers. Mr. Minh asked for a price 200 VND higher than the market price/bunch of 5 plants to recover the capital, but after 1 week of bidding, many traders shook their heads and said it was too expensive, so recently he had to sell at the common market price of 1,000 VND/bunch of 5 plants.
Sharing the same fate with chrysanthemums are lilies, which have long been considered noble and expensive flowers, and their prices have dropped below 50,000 VND/bunch of 25 flowers. Even more dismal, the price of each bunch of yellow lilies is now only 20,000 VND. The low prices have made farmer Lam Van Hoang, Ward 7, (Da Lat City) feel sad when looking at his vast lily fields, with flowers all in order. Mr. Hoang said: "The flowers have failed those who have cared for them day and night, but what can we do now? With the market price like this, we have to accept it, just hoping that this situation will never happen again."
The "culprit" is Chinese flowers
Just over a month ago, rose growing families in Van Thanh - Da Lat opened their eyes and had hundreds of millions in hand after harvesting the flowers.
But now, many rose gardens are in full bloom and the owners are not interested in picking them, because the selling price of the flowers is not enough to pay for workers to harvest them, and there are many other costs, such as hiring people to pack them, packaging costs, shipping costs... and each rose sent to Ho Chi Minh City can only be sold for 200 - 500 VND.
According to Mr. Tran Huy Duong, Chairman of the Dalat Flower Association, the reason why many types of flowers in Dalat have such low prices is because they are having to compete with similar products imported from China into our country and sold at very cheap prices.
Currently, flowers originating from China have almost completely dominated the market in the Northern provinces. Because they are sold at low prices, Da Lat flowers find it difficult to enter this market to compete fairly with similar flowers from China.
"It can be said that our flowers were defeated miserably right on their home field" - Mr. Tran Huy Duong said bitterly.
Another reason, said by Mr. Nguyen Duc Cu, Deputy Head of the Economic Department of Da Lat City, is that recently there have been no festivals in the country, so flower consumption has decreased significantly. While the favorable weather after spring has made the supply quite abundant, purchasing power has not increased.
According to Kienthuc.net.vn - vp
