Deputy Minister of Agriculture highly appreciates Nghe An's passion fruit production model

(Baonghean.vn) - In the coming time, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will have a policy to develop key crops, including passion fruit - Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh said during a working session in Que Phong district on February 21.

Attending the meeting were leaders of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and Nafooods Company.

The delegation visited the high-tech passion fruit seedling production area, with a scale of 5 hectares, producing 4 million disease-free passion fruit seedlings each year. Photo: Xuan Hoang.

The delegation visited the passion fruit seedling production area of ​​NaFoods Joint Stock Company, which is currently producing clean passion fruit seeds and is developing new passion fruit seedling production. With an area of ​​5 hectares of high-tech passion fruit seedling production, the unit produces 4 million seedlings each year, supplying seedlings to provinces in the country and exporting to foreign countries.

Visiting the place where the new passion fruit variety was grafted, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh welcomed the unit for training local workers to be proficient in their jobs. Photo: Xuan Hoang

Nghe An has completed planning for passion fruit growing areas in Que Phong district of 1,500 hectares and 600 hectares in Tuong Duong district. Of which, up to now, Que Phong district has planted 280 hectares and about 20 hectares in Tuong Duong district. Passion fruit productivity reaches 20 - 30 tons of fruit/ha, people earn from 200 - 300 million VND/ha.

Working with the leaders of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and NaFoods Joint Stock Company, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh highly appreciated the high-tech passion fruit seed production process of NaFoods Joint Stock Company, and discussed a number of contents: NaFoods Joint Stock Company needs to pay special attention to producing disease-free passion fruit seeds, especially viruses on passion fruit trees that have been commonly encountered in the past, to ensure the supply of quality seedlings for provinces that have planned to grow passion fruit in the country.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development continues to accompany businesses to develop the agricultural sector; in the near future, the Ministry will have policies to develop specific key crops, including passion fruit.

Xuan Hoang