Quynh Luu farmers are supported with incense card making machines.

Hamlet 1 Tien Thanh, Quynh Thang Commune (Quynh Luu) has 96 households, of which 100% of households grow vetiver. Every year, people here produce dozens of tons of vetiver roots, exported to provinces in the country.

Incense stick making machine costs 15 million VND. Photo: Viet Hung

In 2017, Quynh Thang commune was recognized by the People's Committee of Quynh Luu district as a village with the profession of processing raw materials and producing incense sticks in hamlet 1 Tien Thanh.

Since the development of vetiver, people have mainly grown and sold raw products after harvest, without processing, so the value is low. Therefore, people have not focused on promoting the advantage of local raw materials to produce finished incense.

To develop the craft village and especially increase the value of the products, Quynh Thang commune was supported by the district People's Committee with 5 incense stick making machines, each worth 15 million VND; the total support value is 75 million VND. The incense stick making machine has a capacity of 200 sticks/minute, equivalent to 80kg of finished products/day.

With the 5 supported machines, the people in hamlet 1 Tien Thanh now have 9 machines to produce incense sticks. Putting the machines into use contributes to increasing the value of the products from the planting stage to the processing and consumption stages.

Starting from November DL, people in Quynh Thang commune (Quynh Luu) enter the season of harvesting vetiver roots. Photo: Viet Hung

Quynh Thang Commune is the locality with the largest area of ​​​​vetiver planting in the district, with over 200 hectares. Currently in the harvest season, every day people sell 5 - 7 tons of vetiver roots to the market, earning hundreds of millions of dong.

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