Sunny weather, Nghe An salt farmers have a good harvest

Quynh Luu salt farmers have a good salt harvest. Photo: Viet Hung

For nearly a month, the hot weather has created favorable conditions for salt farmers in An Hoa, Quynh Thuan, Quynh Tho, Quynh Minh communes... (Quynh Luu district, Nghe An) to produce salt. Local people said that at this time, the price of salt purchased by traders is 1,300 VND/kg (200 VND/kg lower than at the beginning of the season), however, compared to last year, this price is still higher and stable.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Noi (65 years old) in Thang Loi village, An Hoa commune said: With the purchase price of salt at 1,300 VND/kg, people have an income. On average, a household has 20-30 salt plots, if the sun is strong, it can produce 2-3 quintals, earning from 250,000 - 400,000 VND/day. Her family has 24 salt plots, producing 2 quintals of salt per day, earning about 250,000 VND/day.

Thanks to working in the sun to produce salt, each household earns an average income of 250,000 - 400,000 VND/day. Photo: Viet Hung

To make salt, salt farmers have to go through many steps such as raking sand, sweeping water onto the beach, then scooping sand into a settling tank to filter the water to make salt. If the weather is sunny, they can scoop water into the tank early in the morning and in the afternoon they will have salt to harvest.

In recent years, with the support policy of the State, Quynh Luu salt farmers have applied salt production using tarpaulins on an area of ​​15 hectares in An Hoa commune. With this production method, productivity will increase by 10% per unit area, and increase by 2-3 times the price compared to salt produced in the traditional way.

Traders come to the place to buy salt for people at 1,300 VND/kg. Photo: Viet Hung

Quynh Luu is a large salt "barn" of Nghe An with an area of ​​600 hectares, an output of about 50,000 tons per year. Since the beginning of the year, salt farmers have been actively producing, so the salt output has reached 35,000 tons, reaching 64% of the yearly plan, of which June produced 16,000 tons.

To purchase products for the people, there are dozens of traders in the district purchasing salt for storage, including 4 factories in the district purchasing thousands of tons to process salt for export to the US, Japan, Korea and Laos.

According to the plan, in 2018, Quynh Luu salt output will reach about 55,000 tons with revenue of over 60 billion VND./.