Vinh City: Vegetable prices 'dropped dramatically', people dumped them all over the fields
(Baonghean.vn) - The sharp drop in vegetable prices has caused many farmers in the largest vegetable growing area in Vinh City to face numerous difficulties. Traders do not come to buy them, and they cannot sell them, so they have to dump them all over the fields.
Hung Dong commune area, Vinh city is a planning area.specialized in growing green vegetablesThe largest in the city. Here are Vinh Xuan, Long Hoa, My Hau hamlets with a large concentration of people growing vegetables, with a total area of over 40 hectares, of which the largest is Vinh Xuan hamlet with over 20 hectares of various vegetables.
The vegetables in this area are mainly short-term varieties such as: green onions, chrysanthemum greens, mustard greens, coriander, sprouts, herbs... The vegetables grown are supplied toVinh marketand neighboring provinces such as Ha Tinh and Quang Binh.
With a tradition of growing vegetables for more than 20 years, people have mastered the techniques of cultivating vegetables, meeting the regular needs of the market. However, at this time, the price of green vegetables has fallen dramatically, causing many farming households to face the situation of being empty-handed. Growing vegetables cannot be sold, but if they decide to continue growing, they will lose money, so they have to produce sparingly, focusing on vegetables of shorter duration.
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| Currently, people are trying to salvage the old vegetables, each bunch costs less than 1,000 VND. Photo: Tien Dong. |
Ms. Tran Thi Bac, Vinh Xuan hamlet, shared: her family grows more than 2 sao of vegetables. Since the flood in October 2020 until now, vegetable prices have hit rock bottom, and production has no income.
Each sao of vegetables costs about 2 million VND to invest in, from seeds, fertilizers, irrigation water, and care. After about 2 months of care, the sale price must reach 5 million VND or more for the farmer to have an income.
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| The whole truck was full of more than 100 bunches of vegetables, but when brought to the wholesale market, they were sold for less than 100,000 VND. Photo: TD |
However, in recent months, vegetable prices have been falling continuously. There was a time when a bunch of mustard greens could be sold for less than 1,000 VND. If one took the trouble to pull them out and sell them, it would be a waste of time and no one would buy them, so the mustard greens had to be left alone to flower and then pulled out.
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| Many people had to pull them out, piles of vegetables were thrown at the end of the field, waited to dry and then burned for fertilizer. Photo: TD |
Ms. Ngo Thi Vien, also living in Vinh Xuan hamlet, has rented more than 2 sao of land to grow vegetables. In recent months, due to the epidemic, vegetables have not been imported. Vegetable prices have dropped, so wholesalers have not even bothered to look. Feeling sorry for herself, Ms. Vien trims vegetables every day and brings them to the wholesale market to buy from traders, but to no avail. A truck full of more than 100 bunches of vegetables has been sold for less than 100,000 VND. Ms. Vien said it is not worth the effort to go out and pick them and bring them to the market at 4-5 am, but she has to go to save some money on the land rental.
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| When asked about the possibility of switching to other vegetables with higher value, Ms. Ngo Thi Thao could not hide her sigh and said that people here have been growing vegetables for more than 20 years, some for up to 30 years. Previously, they also experimented with growing tomatoes, carrots... but this area has heavy rains and is prone to flooding, so they had to focus on short-term vegetable varieties. Photo: TD |