Growing chili peppers is expected to bring in billions in revenue in Khanh Son - Nam Dan

(Baonghean.vn) – This is the first year that Khanh Son commune (Nam Dan) has converted 15 hectares of peanuts to chili. Chili plants have a high yield, reaching 7 quintals/sao, estimated to bring in 1.5 billion VND/year.

Accordingly, 3 hamlets of Khanh Son 1 and 9 hamlets of Khanh Son 2 grow 15 hectares of chili; of which 10.5 hectares are local chili varieties and 4.5 hectares are commercial chili. On average, each household grows 1.5 - 2 sao of chili.

At this time, Khanh Son farmers are harvesting chili.

For households growing 2 sao, every 2 days they harvest a batch (for joint-planting enterprises) with about 15 - 20 kg of chili, bringing in an income of about 200,000 VND. Thus, with a harvest time of 5-6 months, the average income is 2 million VND/month. Local chili varieties have a larger planting area but the price is not as high as that of chili peppers. Therefore, people mainly bring them home to dry, every 4 kg of fresh chili will produce 1 kg of dried chili peppers costing 40,000 VND/kg.

Local chili is cheap so locals often dry it to sell, every 4kg of fresh chili will give 1kg of dried chili for 40,000 VND.

In each purchase, people import from 250 kg - 300 kg for businesses. At peak times, it can be up to 500 kg.

The area of ​​chili cultivation in Khanh Son commune is only 15 hectares out of a total of 990 hectares of agricultural land. Mr. Nguyen Trong Hong - Vice Chairman of the Commune People's Committee said that the commune has a plan to expand this crop variety.

Quang An