Summer fruits at peak season
- Monday - 12/12/2011 16:38
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* A good crop of rambutan and durian
Binh Son commune, Long Thanh district is long well-known for growing sweet rambutans and durians. Here locate tens of fruit gardening hectares and total growing lands are now seeded with new rambutans and durians. Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu – an owner of 1-ha rambutan and mangosteen garden – stated that this year’s rambutan yield in Binh Son will stay higher than the previous years. The cause is allegedly due to fairly stable weather condition without unexpected rains during rambutan blossoming stage and less hotter climate. Ms. Thu said: “This year, I see every rambutan growing plenty of fruit. My rambutan garden yields much fruit per each plant, estimated around 13 tons. In the past year, it yielded less with nearly 10 tons.”
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Not only Binh Son, many areas in the province have also had good crops. At Bao Hoa where large areas of rambutan is growing with nearly 1,000 hectares, farmers feel inspired by the rambutan trees plentiful of fruit. Mr. Vu Van Hung, Chairman of commune People’s Committee, said that this rambutan crop earns the rising rate of 20% more than the previous one.
Mentioning Long Khanh town with more than 3,150 hectares of rambutan, the town accounts for 30% of the total rambutan land in the province. Meanwhile, longan and Rongrien rambutan occupy more than 40% of total and the rest is shared by the local rambutan. Several gardeners are now having rambutan available to sell out to the market. Mr. Truong Thanh Trung, an owner of 40-ha rambutan land, said that this year’s rambutan crop in Long Khanh is obtaining the high rate of fruit yield, particularly for those that are grown on red soil. Mr. Trung’s rambutan land is earning him more than 100 tons each year and this year he expects to harvest about 150 tons. “In next 3 weeks, my rambutan will be harvested. In fear of affecting the quality and prestige when providing rambutan to key traders in Ho Chi Minh city, I will not allow my rambutan to be picked earlier”, shared Mr. Trung.
The same good news is also heard from durian and mangosteen. Mr. Nguyen Thanh Ting, a durian trader in Long Khanh town, said that durians grown in Long Khanh, Cam My, Thong Nhat and Xuan Loc this year are also having a prolific yield. “I am facing difficulty buying wholesale because gardeners prefer keeping their rambutan at good crop for retail purchase”, said Mr. Tung. This fact is agreed by Mr. Vo Van Thanh, an owner of 2-ha rambutan area at Hung Loc commune, Thong Nhat district.
* Nervous about price
This year’s fruit price is higher than last year. The price from traders are listed at Java: 18,000 dong/kg; longan and Rongrien rambutan: 25,000 dong/kg, which is 5,000 dong/kg higher than last year. Durian price is rising by 3,000 dong/kg. Ri6 sold on the spot is 27,000 dong/kg and the insured priced at the market is up to 34,000 dong/kg. The price of mangosteen remains high; though it is down by 10,000 dong/kg, the current price is 40,000 dong/kg. Mr. Truong Thanh Trung warned: “the high price is not the good news at all but the acceptable price is more sustainable”
Sharing the same thought, Mr. Lam Minh Hoang, an landowner of 3.6-ha rambutan, durian and mangosteen garden at Xuan Tan commune, Long Khanh town, expressed his worry about the redundancy of fruit supply. Mr. Hoang analytically said: “In about next 3 weeks, longan and Rongrien rambutan will be ripe and the number of rambutans is not less than last year. And in more than one month, Java comes to be ripe too. There will be the redundancy of supply when durian and mangosteen are also ripened at the same time”. This year, Mr. Hoang is expected to harvest 30 tons of rambutan, 10 tons of durian and more than 2 tons of mangosteen. With this yield, he will get fairly high income if the fruit supply is controllable.
While summer fruit in the South is ripened, lychee from the North will put more pressure on the fruit market. According to Tung, the fruit price relies much on the export to Chinese market. Mr. Tung added: “it is not the rule that fruit at good crop will have the low price or vice versa. For example, though the previous year was the lost crop, the price was low as well. When Chinese fruit traders consume much fruit, the price will stay high”.
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There are around 12,000-ha rambutan garden with the average yield of 12 tons/ha and more than 4,000-ha durian with the average yield of 7 tons/ha. New durian seeds at Long Khanh town and other districts yields at 12 tons/ha. Additionally, several other fruit such as mangosteen, custard-apple and avocado are intermingled at large area. Each year, summer fruit supply in Dong Nai at the market is rather considerable.
According to Ministry of Industry and Trade, in 2011, the fruit export turnover is probable to gain USD 500 – 510 million, rising by USD 30 million compared with the year 2010. It is widely known that Vietnamese fruit is exported to 50 countries and territories. Chinese market is now leading the top with 41% of fruit yield. Several countries like Japan, North Korea and New Zealand also license the fruit import from Vietnam. During the first four months of this year, the turnover of vegetable and fruit export is estimated at USD 213 million, rising by 44.1% compared with the year 2010. Recently, the US allows to import the Vietnamese fruit, which is then the good news for local and other province’s fruit gardeners.
Reported by K.G, Translated by Minh Minh