Bringing valuable medicinal plants to Dong Nai

Mr. Nguyen Van Khon (left), Director of ETZ Pharmaceutical Investment Joint Stock Company (Trang Bom district), shared how to make Paramignya trimera cuttings.

Besides the number of plants listed above, Mr. Khon workes with farmers in Thong Nhat, Cam My districts to supply seeds, techniques, and ensure the output for this plant with an area of approximately 3 hectares.

Growing medicinal plants on barren land

Attached to Paramignya trimera since 2012, but the local people and the government will not know until 6 years later when he carrying out the procedures related to quality inspection, recognition, qualitative, valuation, and business establishment.

According to Mr. Khon, prior to 2010, many people scoured everywhere for Paramignya trimera plants to sell to pharmacies, domestic herbal processing facilities, and exported to China. Faced with the threat of extinction, many people spend billions of dollars to buy seeds to plant but fail because this plant is difficult to propagate and very picky. After hearing this from a family member, Mr. Khon decided to quit his state job in Ho Chi Minh City to concentrate on planting Paramignya trimera.

Mr. Khon drove to Khanh Hoa and moved 1.4 thousand seedlings to Dong Nai for planting after seeing that the trees could grow. In his free time, Mr. Khon practiced the breeding of the Paramignya trimera by Cuttings cloning method. Mr. Khon selected the most magnificent trees on the farm to move to the separate area, limiting the use of fertilizers, pesticides, and serving the purpose of breeding, rather than exploitation of leaves, stems, and roots. The number of trees in the garden grew to 15 thousand, then 20 thousand, and 50 thousand.

Mr. Khon has currently planted around 130,000 Paramignya trimera on family land more than 4.6 hectares. The largest garden, in fact, has reached its eighth year, and about half of the garden area is harvesting leaves.  Mr. Khon is not only a supplier of seed, technique, and ensure output, but he is also a shareholder who gets profits from these gardens.  " My farm currently leads the world in the number of plants, perennials, and plants bred annually," Mr. Khon said.

Standardization of large-scale medicinal regions

Mr. Nguyen Van Khon intruduce medicina Paramignya trimera plant tea bags.

 According to Mr. Khon, there are many people who grow Paramignya trimera at the moment, but they follow a closed method that includes propagating, planting, and it processing very few products. Many units inquired about purchasing seeds to plant, but he refused to sell and instead prioritized seeds for farmers to cooperate in planting and consuming goods with the company. “Each year, I grow about 50,000 seedlings, but I also make money by cuttings to sell. However, mass plants bred  would reduce the quality of cuttings and deplete seedlings. “I sold seeds to farmers at 50,000 VND per tree, which is one-tenth of the price I paid when I bought them in 2012,” Mr. Khon said.

Mr. Khon's product of Paramignya trimera tea bags were sold in supermarkets, pharmacies, resorts, and store of the Provincial Farmers' Association in the mid-2020s and was well received by the market. Some units wanted cooperation in the consumption of raw materials and the production of goods, but he declined because the new exploiting garden was approximately 4 hectares, and the production capacity of the new factory was approximately 9 tons of fresh products per month.  Furthermore, he is cooperating with the Center of Ginseng and Medicinal Materials in Ho Chi Minh City (under the Vietnam Institute of Medicinal Materials, Ministry of Health) to develop a product line of Paramignya trimera balm, as well as with Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy to extract medicinal herbs, prepare tablets.

In Dong Nai, Mr. Nguyen Van Khon is a person who grows and develops Paramignya trimera on the current largest farm scale. According to Mr. Khon, if properly cared for, leaves can be harvested after about 3 years, and stems and roots can be harvested after about 6 years. At the present, each kilogram of dried and leaves of Paramignya trimera costs more than 500 thousand dong, while roots cost between 3 and 10 million dong, depending on the value content of the substances tested. The average annual income is around 500 million.

In discussing the upcoming orientation, Mr. Khon said that he would continue to grow the medicinal plant region by cooperating with farmers in Dong Nai and other central provinces. His goal is to have 25 hectares by 2025. Seedlings, process support, and pre-harvest quality control will be provided by the company. Furthermore, rather than waiting until the sixth year to completely exploit (branches and roots), priority is given to leaf exploitation starting in the third year in order to increase farmers' income and improve root quality. Collaboration with Eastern Technology University (Ho Chi Minh City) to complete the project of building and standardizing a Paramignya trimera medicinal area in the Trang Bom district.

By Phan Anh

Paramignya trimera is found in dry hills and mountains, according to the Vietnam Institute of Medicinal Materials. Flavonoids, saponins, alcaoids, courmarin, and triterpenoid are spacific substances found in plants. Experiments on rats revealed that the Paramignya trimera contains components that suppress acute hepatitis as well as cancer cells in the liver, intestine, breast, ovary, and cervix.