Bright red ripe dragon fruit in Nghi Loc

(Baonghean.vn) -With its rich, sweet flavor and attractive color, dragon fruit grown in Nghi Phuong commune, Nghi Loc is popular with customers.

Visiting the dragon fruit growing model of Mr. Nguyen Van Dung's family in hamlet 9, Nghi Phuong commune (Nghi Loc), I was impressed by the vast dragon fruit garden in full ripening season.

Mr. Dung said: In 2014, after the locality had a policy to eliminate manual brick kilns, he struggled to find a way to build a new model. By chance, during a trip to visit a friend in Binh Thuan, he was introduced to the dragon fruit model and was very interested, learned about this crop and started growing it on his hometown land.

Red-fleshed dragon fruit with sweet taste, fragrant and beautiful color is being chosen by customers.

With an area of ​​3 hectares, he arranged to plant 1,200 trees. To plant dragon fruit, it is necessary to erect concrete pillars, each pillar is 2.3m high, the part above the ground is 1.6m high for the tree to grow and spread branches around. The distance between rows and trees is 2.5m, ensuring that the trees receive enough nutrients and sunlight. After just over 1 year of planting, the tree has produced its first fruits, but from the second year onwards, the yield begins to stabilize.

Dragon fruit grown in Nghi Phuong fields has a sweet, cool taste and attractive color, so it is favored by customers. Therefore, traders from neighboring areas such as Nghi Hung, Nghi My, Nghi Dong, Nghi Lam come to the fields to buy, his family does not have to worry about the output of the product. Nearly 1,200 dragon fruit trees, each year yield more than 9 tons, with a field price of 25,000 VND/kg. Each year after deducting expenses, he earns more than 200 million VND.

Wherever the dragon fruit is harvested, traders buy it.

Dragon fruit is a drought-resistant plant, with few pests and diseases, and does not require much care, just need to fertilize the roots with manure and ensure enough light. Each dragon fruit tree yields about 15-20 kg of fruit, each crop yields 5-6 harvests, lasting from June to the end of November, every 20 days. What is special is that dragon fruit trees have a long life span, about 20 years before needing to be replanted.

With the economic efficiency it brings, the dragon fruit growing model of Anh Dung's family has opened up a new direction for the people here in transforming the crop structure to increase production value in order to adapt to climate change in the current period./.

Thu Hien - Tran Hoa

(Nghi Loc Radio)