Expanding the model of growing fragrant root plants.
To ensure sufficient local raw material supply for incense-making villages in the area, on the morning of January 8th, at the Minh Tien community cultural center (Chau Hanh commune), the Agricultural and Fisheries Extension Station of Quy Chau district organized a workshop to promote and replicate the model of growing incense root plants for 50 farmer members and representatives from the committees of 12 communes and towns.
(Baonghean.vn) -To ensure sufficient local raw material supply for incense-making villages in the area, on the morning of January 8th, at the Minh Tien community cultural center (Chau Hanh commune), the Agricultural and Fisheries Extension Station of Quy Chau district organized a workshop to promote and replicate the model of growing incense root plants for 50 farmer members and representatives from the committees of 12 communes and towns.
At the workshop, agricultural extension specialists from the district's agricultural extension station guided farmers in understanding the new crop variety and basic techniques in planting and caring for it, such as: the ecological conditions of the fragrant root plant, soil conditions, planting season, seedling selection, watering, fertilization, and organized visits to experimental models.
District agricultural extension officers introduced techniques for growing fragrant root plants to association members.
Over the three years (2009-2012), the project to cultivate agarwood trees in six communes (Chau Hanh, Chau Binh, Chau Thang, Chau Phong, and Tan Lac town) yielded significant economic benefits. Each year, it supplied nearly 200 tons of fresh agarwood roots to traditional craft villages, producing over 21,000,000 incense sticks, with a total value of nearly 8 billion VND. Expanding this agarwood cultivation model has opened up a new direction, creating local jobs, increasing income, contributing to a rapid reduction in poverty, and raising awareness of sustainable forest resource protection and ecological sustainability.
Tran Ngoc Lan