Nghe An farmers go to the mountains to pick blackberries and earn hundreds of thousands of dong every day
(Baonghean.vn) - While many other localities have failed to harvest sim due to drought, the hills in the coastal area of Quynh Luu (Nghe An) are producing a lot of fruit. Hundreds of farmers cling to the forest to pick sim and earn hundreds of thousands of VND/person/day.
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| At this time, the season of ripe sim is in full swing. Every morning at around 5am, people from the coastal villages of Quynh Nghia and Tien Thuy (Quynh Luu) gather in groups carrying baskets and baskets into the forest to pick sim. |
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| This year, in some districts such as Hung Nguyen, Thanh Chuong... due to the impact of the recent drought, the sim trees dried up and had a bad harvest; however, the sim trees growing on the hills and mountains in the coastal area of Quynh Luu still bear fruit, and the harvest has lasted from June until now. |
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| After about 1 session of trekking through the forest, each person can pick 5 - 7 kg of sim fruit. According to the people, about 1 month ago, wild sim fruit was purchased for 30,000 VND/kg; at this time, the purchase price is 20,000 VND/kg. In total, each person earns 150,000 - 200,000 VND/session. |
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| After the sim is brought back, people bring it to a gathering place to wait for traders to come and buy it. Ms. Nguyen Thi Moi in Quynh Nghia commune (Quynh Luu) said: “Among the group of people picking sim, most are between 40 and 60 years old, there are couples earning from 10 to 15 million VND/month. |
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| According to locals, wild sim can be picked all the way through October. If the weather is cool and rainy, the fruit will be big and beautiful. |
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| The fruit is as small as a fingertip, and when ripe it is pink-purple and then turns dark black. The outside has a layer of fine, silky hair, and inside there are many seeds. Ripe fruit is sweet and slightly astringent. |
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| In recent years, the demand for wild sim has increased sharply, because many people use it to soak in wine to drink, so the price has increased. According to folk, wild sim fruit contains a sweet, astringent taste, has many effects in health care, especially used to treat blood deficiency, hemoptysis, nosebleeds, tinnitus, spermatorrhea. |
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