( Update: 23/07/2018 )
Unexpectedly, only 26km away from Hanoi has a village cultivation and provide a sizable amount dong leaves Hanoi market and the provinces, especially to the festival every occasion, spring.
Along Provincial Highway 21, through the towns and townships as Ba La, Kim Bai, Binh Da dong saw green leaves sold throughout the market. Each automobile associations, motorcycles tandem under the concrete road to enjoy the garden and eat the hustle radiate districts, provinces near and far. With Trang Cat village, the festival has really started.
Communications and finished 2 trucks full of the line to the southern provinces, and his wife Nguyen Vu Quang and Nguyen Thi Tuat, one of the business owners and tobacco growers dong largest village we speak. According to Mr Quang, then the line was growing longstanding but really new development during the past decade thanks to new market mechanisms, demand is increasing and especially the opening of service collected and sold to the provinces of some major clues in his family's village as an example.
According to the chairman of the cooperative Kim An Sinh Pham is Trang Cat is a movement in 3 villages have the strongest economic development communal gardens with fruit trees, vegetable production and special safety, revenue is growing specialty crops Is the line. With 470 households, more than 2,000 persons, almost always home grown dong leaves, a few at a pole, the more samples 3-4. According to statistics, the entire village of Trang Cat commune is nearly 40ha dong growing trees, not to mention the area planted under fruit trees that do well on the lush garden, flooding the whole head is on harvest. According to the Dog are earthquakes every year, the current price at the garden from 20-25 thousand dollars for a hundred ships that are even more increased these days should Tet income of farmers grow many times their dong compared to other crops. This year she planted a 6 pole, plus the collection and consumption as a focal point to the provinces, including the South, each year at the rate of 50-60 million after deducting all costs. Mrs Chance, stopped cutting dong said she planted the 3 pole, so that the line of family life pleasant than before. This year she planted 3 pole, cut to sell his house Optics grossed over 15 million. According to calculations by households each year perch high income dong 6-7 million, 3-4 million are low in copper. Lunar New Year many families had grown to 5-6 samples collected at 40-50 million, including estimated revenue villages are nearly a dozen billion from the sale of the line.
According to Mr Quang is not hard dong planting, low capital investment, less plant pests, plant leaves once a year-round collection (sold to restaurants, give the place festivals cakes ...) and collected tens of new to break away should replant his family almost the year round, every day I go out collecting leaves over the place, including sending cargo aircraft for overseas Vietnamese in Russia, Eastern Europe and the United States eat Tet. The line asked why the expensive goods Trang Cat, Dog she said the line folds down sometimes grown in gardens should be sunny foil that long, but not to crispy, not torn; pie peeled green and fragrant natural characteristics, not as attractive dong thick pine forests, brittle, fragile, peeled white bread, no green, no fragrance connoisseur should just buy the line home alone . Staff can talk about the line of forest, Quang added: Festival last year with some restaurant information boiled bread for hire additional cores for fast battery in the past nine but not verified that. They used the alum powder blue (ie copper sulfate, toxic) added to green when the user leaves the forest dong. To protect the prestige of the line for his village, Quang has provided all of the line free for University Security to verify packages. The result is a cake cooked with green leaves and white line Cat still fragrant as its capital goods still have this life, bringing joy and peace to everyone.