Nghe An, the capital of incense making, is bustling with preparations for Tet (Lunar New Year) orders.

Visiting Chau Hanh commune, Quy Chau district, the village known for its incense making, in the final days of the year, the entire village is filled with the fragrant scent of incense. A bustling, hurried atmosphere of Tet preparations permeates every household.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Uyen, owner of an incense production facility in Hanh Tien village, Chau Hanh commune, said that her facility has 12 workers who have been continuously making incense since October, producing 5,000 incense sticks per day. Currently, they have exported over 80,000 incense sticks to traders from all over the country.

Next door is the household of Mr. Luong Van Hoanh, where 15 workers are working at full capacity wrapping incense sticks and packing them into boxes to meet customer demand during the upcoming Tet holiday. Mr. Hoanh added: "For Tet alone, my facility expects to produce over 1,000 boxes of incense, generating revenue of over 800 million VND."

In addition to traditional products like incense sticks, the craft village also produces new products such as incense cones and incense coils.

To produce high-quality incense sticks, people must first carefully prepare and select the ingredients, blending them from various natural ingredients such as agarwood roots, cinnamon bark, star anise, cardamom, cloves, frankincense, sugarcane bagasse, etc. Thanks to this, the incense sticks have a distinctive fragrance that is increasingly popular in markets everywhere during the Lunar New Year..

Quy Chau incense is made entirely by hand, primarily by women, with an average daily wage of 300,000 - 350,000 VND per worker..

Mr. Sam Anh Dung, Chairman of the Chau Hanh Commune People's Committee, said: The Hanh Tien incense-making village has over 20 households engaged in incense production, providing employment for over 200 workers. Annual revenue from incense production reaches 5-6 billion VND. However, currently, the commune only has 4 hectares of agarwood trees, while approximately 20 hectares are needed to meet production demands..

Currently, Quy Chau has 3 villages recognized as traditional craft villages specializing in incense production. Annual production reaches over 90 million incense sticks, generating revenue exceeding 20 billion VND. 220 households participate in production, providing stable employment for over 600 local workers and contributing to poverty reduction in the area.

To develop the incense-making industry, Quy Chau district encourages large-scale incense-producing households to invest in more machinery to reduce production steps and diversify product designs. At the same time, they are expanding the area of ​​agarwood root cultivation to meet production needs.