Busy digging and distributing fortune in Tien Hung
In Tien Hung commune (Hung Yen province), Bich peach and phai peach gardens in Dinh Phung, Hoang Duc, Lien Minh, Duy Tan villages are entering their peak season. From early morning, on the roads leading to the peach growing area, trucks and three-wheeled vehicles line up to enter and exit continuously. Peach growers are urgently plucking trees, removing roots, tying pots, and transporting them to provinces and cities to serve the Tet flower market in time.
Mr. Dinh Ba Tien's family, a long-time peach grower in Tien Hung, said that with more than 1 mau of pink peach and pink peach, all the trees in the garden have been ordered by traders since the beginning of December. Favorable consumption helps peach growers to focus on the care and completion of trees before handing them over to customers.
Along with ornamental peach trees, these days, Tien Hung commune is also bustling with the atmosphere of urgently completing products from lucky bamboo trees. At the family of Mr. Nguyen Dang Nghi and Mrs. Hoang Thi Hue, people who have been attached to the profession for more than 20 years, the yard is always packed with trees arranged neatly in molds.
Ms. Hue is responsible for arranging trees and shaping them, while Mr. Nghi directly cuts and adjusts to complete products according to customer requirements. The work takes place continuously from early morning to late at night.
According to Mr. Nghi, at this time, customers have come to take almost all the trees in the garden, mainly traders from Hai Phong, Quang Ninh, Ninh Binh. On average, each Tet season, the family sells about 1,000 - 1,500 trees. To have beautiful, healthy and timely products, care has started from July of the lunar calendar with a regular pruning and fertilization process.
Hoan Long kumquats, Xuan Quan flowers enter peak season
The Tet atmosphere in Hung Yen stretches across the kumquat growing area of Chan Dong village, Hoan Long commune. These days, in kumquat gardens, people are constantly wiping fruit, packing, and putting trees on trucks to transport for consumption. Radiant smiles are clearly visible on the faces of farmers who have been attached to the profession for many years.
Mr. Do Van Phien, a long-time kumquat grower in Chan Dong village, said that this year the weather is dry and favorable, so kumquat trees grow well, with few pests and diseases, and uniform and shiny fruits. Up to this point, his family has sold about 650 trees, currently only about 20 trees remain in the garden.
Not far away, Mr. Ngo Van Thuc's kumquat garden is also bustling with people coming in and out. According to Mr. Thuc, besides customers in the area, this year there are also customers from distant provinces such as Quang Ngai, Son La coming to the garden to choose trees.
The selling price of kumquats ranges from about 500,000 - 600,000 VND/tree, depending on shape and beauty. With about 800 kumquat trees planted in this crop, his family has consumed the majority, the rest waiting for customers in the days leading up to Tet.
At the same time, Xuan Quan flower village (Phung Cong commune, Hung Yen province) - one of the largest flower and ornamental plant growing areas in the North - also entered the peak season to serve the Lunar New Year. From early morning, a large number of people and traders flocked to flower gardens to choose ornamental plants and Tet flowers, making the atmosphere here always bustling and exciting all day.
With a large production scale, Xuan Quan flower village annually supplies a large amount of flowers and ornamental plants to the capital market and many provinces and cities.
From peach blossoms, lucky buds to ornamental kumquats, Tet flowers, the atmosphere of urgent labor is spreading throughout the ornamental plant growing areas of Hung Yen, signaling a Tet season is approaching with many expectations for a favorable crop season and good prices.
