In the mid-October days of the lunar calendar, people in Kien Thiet commune (Tien Lang district, Hai Phong city) rushed to get rice.
For many years, it has become a specialty that many people welcome at the end of the year. The farmer calls it “fortune”.
The red, greasy, and floury red, after each harvest, is the biggest achievement that farmers of Kien Thiet commune.
However, according to Ms. Dang Thi Hoai (48 years old), through the first wetland from the September of lunar calendar, until now, her family has just drained the water and harvested the second time, but this year’s output is low.
On an area of 16,000 square meters of lagoon, every year, her family harvests about 1 ton of mangroves. This year, output fell to only about a third. That fact makes Hoai and many other swamp owners very worried.
“The crop has lost its crop, but its quality has not decreased, so this year the price of it has increased by 50-70 thousand VND / kg. In order to get it, we also struggled to stay up at night and stay up at night. According to the country, 1 hour of night must also get up” Ms. Hoai said.
According to Ms. Hoai, the more spongy the soil, the better the development. Therefore, before the moth spawning, her family drained the lagoon again, captured all enemies such as crabs, plows … and then plowed and turned the soil, fertilizing chickens.
The net is gently poured into the net, then hung up to drain.
Traders should be placed in a foam bin with ice if transported far away, to avoid breakage.
The low yield of mangrove not only the owner of the lagoon but also many traders also showed impatience when they waited from morning to noon, but still did not collect enough rice for a scheduled trip. Many orders in remote provinces were delayed due to insufficient supply and demand.
In order to buy delicious, traders have to come to each lagoon and order from early morning. Even together with the assistant to catch and wash them with the owner of the lagoon to get fresh and delicious batches, at a good price.
A small trader said that she went “hunting” in 3 lagoons in the area of Kien Thiet during the morning but did not collect 1 quintal. “But luckily, although the price is higher than every year, but sold anywhere,” said this small trader.
Mr. Nguyen Manh Ha – a small trader in Hai Phong said that he has been both the owner of the lagoon and the buyer from Tien Lang district, Vinh Bao (Hai Phong city) to Thai Binh province for many years.
The high price can be up to 480-500 thousand VND / kg. At the present time, the price of straw ranges from 350 to 370 thousand VND / kg.
According to Mr. Ha’s calculation, an average sao of rice field in the North of Vietnam can harvest 40 kg of rice if the field is beautiful, on average, it sells for 350 thousand VND / kg.
Thus, each pole earns about 15 million VND, family who owns 10 acres of wet fields can earn up to 1.5 billion VND / year.
And most of all, at the present time, farmers in Kien Thiet hope that the harvest in November and December of the lunar calendar will be in season, providing a stable income after hard work.
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