'Capital' of Vinh oranges has rare delicious oranges to sell for Tet

The gardens of Xa Doai oranges with golden hearts in Quy Hop have run out of fruit for a long time. Photo: Xuan Hoang

It's only mid-December but the key orange gardens in the districtQuy HopAll the fruit was gone, not a single person came or went. The orange growers said that this year, because many oranges fell prematurely, the harvest was finished early.

Mr. Huynh Huu Phuoc - owner of a 3-hectare orange garden in Tho Thanh hamlet, Minh Hop commune said: Last year, his family harvested until just before Tet, but this year, before December, the whole garden had sold out. The reason is that this year, too many oranges have fallen, so the output of oranges sold on the market has decreased sharply.

Too many young oranges are falling, causing the output of Vinh oranges in Quy Hop to decrease sharply this year. Photo: Quang An

Mr. Vo Van Phong - Deputy Director of Xuan Thanh Agricultural One Member Co., Ltd. (Quy Hop) said: The unit currently has 330 hectares of oranges for business. This year, too many oranges have fallen, so the output is only about 4,000 tons of fruit, with poor quality.Orange VinhHere, the price of oranges also decreased compared to last year, and orange growers had low income. Nearly 100% of the area of ​​​​Xa Doai yellow-heart oranges (about more than 100 hectares) and hundreds of hectares of V2 and Van Du oranges ended the harvest early, and there was nothing left to sell during the upcoming Lunar New Year.

"It is expected that during and after this Tet holiday, only late-ripening V2 orange products will be sold.market, but the area is not much, the remaining Xa Doai oranges with guaranteed quality and beautiful appearance are not available for sale during Tet like previous years" - Mr. Vo Van Phong said.

Piles of diseased orange stumps dug up by locals are piled up on both sides of the road. Photo: Quang An

Observations show that on the roads of the orange area in Quy Hop, there are many piles of orange roots that have just been dug up and dried for firewood. Locals said that the oranges were seriously infected, so people had to dig them up to plant other trees.

It is known that recently, the Plant Protection Institute (Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences) has tested soil samples in the Quy Hop orange growing area, showing that the soil is infected with some fungi that cause diseases on orange trees beyond the allowable threshold.

Mr. Quan Vi Giang - Vice Chairman of Quy Hop District People's Committee said: After receiving the results of testing soil samples for orange growing in key orange growing communes from the Plant Protection Institute, the District People's Committee recommended that people in two communes: Minh Hop and Nghia Xuan stop planting new oranges. Orange growers need to change crops, rotate crops to improve the soil within 3-5 years, then replant oranges with disease-free orange varieties.