(Baonghean.vn) - Nam Anh Commune (Nam Dan) is one of the specialized vegetable production areas in Nghe An. With over 200 hectares, Nam Anh farmers produce an average of 3.5 crops per year. If the year is a good harvest and the price is good, each hectare of vegetables in Nam Anh can reach a value of 150 - 200 million VND.
It is currently the peak season for Nam Anh people to prepare vegetable products for the Lunar New Year and the first lunar month.
Some pictures of vegetable fields in Nam Anh:
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| Mr. Nguyen Van Thuyet's 4,000 square meter chive garden in hamlet 5, Nam Anh commune is being cared for to wait for sale during Tet. On average, Mr. Thuyet harvests once every 1.5 months, earning 1 million VND. |
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| Chives are grown year-round, each bunch like this sells for about 2,000 VND. Chives are clean vegetables because they are not suitable for chemical fertilizers. |
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| Ms. Le Thi Vinh, hamlet 5, takes care of the Malabar spinach garden. |
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| Ms. Nguyen Thi Huong, hamlet 5, takes care of a coriander garden of over 300 square meters. According to Ms. Huong, coriander leaves can be harvested after more than 1 month of planting, and the selling price at the field is about 2,000 VND/bunch. |
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| Mr. Le Trong Nhan's kohlrabi garden in hamlet 6 is about to be harvested. Thanks to good care, the yield is high, each ear is about 2 kg, selling price is about 3-5 thousand VND/kg. |
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| To ensure vegetable safety, because the average area of each family is not much, about 300-500 square meters, every day workers often go to the fields to take care of them, catch insects and minimize the use of pesticides. |
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| Late harvest bitter melon garden of Mr. Thanh Quang's family in hamlet 6. With this off-season farming method, the value reaches a maximum of 22 million VND/sao. |
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| While the plot next door is being harvested, in another plot, Mr. Le Trong Nhan's family in hamlet 5 is renovating the garden to continue sowing coriander seeds. |
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| Ms. Thanh's eggplant model in hamlet 8, average selling price from 3,000 to 4,000 VND/kg, each sao earns about 6-8 million/crop |
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| While taking care of kohlrabi, Nam Anh people also take the opportunity to make hedges to grow jasmine and bitter melon to harvest in March and April. |
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| After harvesting corn, Mr. Hoang Van Truong in Hamlet 7, Nam Anh Commune is renovating the garden, making beds to grow bitter melon. According to Mr. Truong, if the price is good (12,000 VND/kg), bitter melon will bring in an income of 20 million sao, but if the price drops (1,200 VND/sao), it will only bring in 6-8 million VND/sao. |
Nguyen Hai
