Earning over 20 billion VND from peach trees during Tet, Kim Thanh residents are excited to enter the new crop season
(Baonghean.vn) - Excited about the peach blossom season blooming on time and selling at good prices, in the days after the Lunar New Year, peach growers in Kim Thanh commune, Yen Thanh district are rushing to start the new crop, preparing income for the following Tet.
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People in Kim Thanh commune moved their gardens to the fields to grow native peach varieties. Photo: Thai Duong |
On an area of nearly 3 sao of Mr. Nguyen Dao Vuong's family in Hong Lien hamlet, Kim Thanh commune, there are currently more than 300 peach trees that have been planted for nearly 2 years. After Tet, taking advantage of the sunny weather, his family mobilized manpower to focus on weeding, hilling, and fertilizing the peach trees.
As someone who has been attached to peach trees for many years, according to Mr. Vuong, if you want peach trees to bloom beautifully, you must first understand the characteristics of peach trees, because this is a drought-resistant tree and must be planted in an open area with regular sunlight. After each harvest, the branches must be cut, each tree only needs to be fertilized with a small amount of decomposed manure and about 0.5 kg of compound fertilizer, then the tree will develop many branches, and the flowers will bloom more at the end of the year.
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To preserve the Kim Thanh peach brand, Mr. Nguyen Dinh Quang's family in Trai Mat hamlet, Kim Thanh commune has grown more than 5,000 seedlings to supply to people in need. Photo: Thai Duong |
As for Mr. Nguyen Dinh Quang's family in Trai Mat hamlet, during the recent Tet holiday, they earned over 100 million VND from selling peach blossoms. Right after Tet, in addition to planting nearly 300 peach trees in his garden, he also nurtured about 5,000 peach seedlings to sell to peach growers in the area, with the hope that more households will develop together.
Kim Thanh peach is a native peach variety, with many beautiful shapes, thick petals, smooth pink, has long become a brand, customers inside and outside the province come to admire and buy to display in their homes every time Tet comes, Spring comes.
During the recent Lunar New Year, due to higher temperatures than usual, peach trees in other places bloomed early, but in Kim Thanh, peach trees still bloomed on time thanks to proper care and technical procedures, selling at a very good price due to high market demand, bringing the total income from peach growing in the whole commune to over 20 billion VND.
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Kim Thanh peach is a native peach variety with many beautiful shapes, thick petals, and smooth pink. Photo: Thai Hong |
Currently, peach growing and peach trading in Kim Thanh commune has become a traditional profession. In the commune, there are over 400 households investing in peach growing with a scale of about 20 hectares, many of which have boldly moved their home gardens to the fields to grow peaches.
According to local people's calculations, 1 sao of peach blossom land, if well cared for and blooming on time for Tet, will bring in an income of 40 - 50 million VND. This is a favorable condition for the locality to continue to promote in order to restructure the agricultural economy, improve the quality of income criteria of new rural communes.
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In the early days of spring, Kim Thanh farmers focus on pruning and caring for peach trees to have more income for next year's Tet. Photo: Thai Hong |
Mr. Nguyen Van Quan - Chairman of Kim Thanh Commune People's Committee said: Along with the competitive spirit of labor production in the first days of the new spring, the commune is focusing on directing hamlets to support people in renovating their gardens, transferring scientific and technical advances in growing flowers and ornamental plants. Identifying peach as a tree with many potential advantages, easy to grow, requiring little investment and suitable for climate and soil conditions, and will flower after only 2 years, the commune has planned an additional 10 hectares of hilly land, low-efficiency crop growing, encouraging households with conditions to plant native peach varieties, in order to increase income value.
"With the experience gained, right after Tet, most peach growers focused on investing in planting many new peach trees; at the same time, they took care of, grafted, and shaped the previously planted areas, with the expectation of having a high income in the following Tet season." - Mr. Quan added./.