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GROWING MINT IS EFFECTIVE IN TIEN GIAN PROVINCE
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26/02/2014
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Mint is an ancient crop farmers are now planting a garden at the foot mixed use in food processing family as sour soup , stir-fried , braised fish squeeze water erosion dot ... But about 3 this year , mint is one of the favorite crops . Currently, Ngu Hiep local mint acreage Most Cai Lay district .
Menthol is a very easily grown plant , easy to care for and less capital investment . It is well suited to the soil, but moisture and grow everywhere , focusing orchards intercropped with durian , rambutan ... it's very appropriate, because the grass has just avoid increased revenue Added to the family .
Body for sale mint leaves are also sold and used for rabbits , fish , pigs ... The time from planting to harvest is about 3 months , on good ground , often care for each baby weight nearly 1kg , sometimes weighing up to 3kg 2 steelhead , prices range from 1,200 - 3.100d/kg , as well as a pretty incomes of farmers . Today is the time for sowing from November to January ( lunar ) harvest high prices , even though this is the rainy season , but also sold price per sign 1300-1400d/kg .
Mr. Bui Van Promptly - Chairman Ngu Hiep Commune Farmer said : " In the past , farmers planted a few acres spontaneous , almost 3 years now that has stable output , farmers associations launched the hamlet , for should acreage year after year . " Ngu Hiep commune currently has about 140 hectares of mint , Tan Son hamlet where most planted to 80 acres , a hamlet about 10 remaining acres . It is worth mentioning here, mint stabilize both the input and output .
Ms. Mai Thi Tam Tan Son village live confided : " Peppermint tree is less capital , but hard to quit regular care can reap many , the stems, leaves and seed ! . Mrs. Eight mint mixed planting on the 7.8 durian , except costs per year she also said to be 30-40 million. she said : " May the sun appreciated from 2.800-3.100d/kg enough without selling , selling only remaining months of rain 1.300-1.400d/kg , but also more than a few years ago . "
One thing worth mentioning is that the harvest , the farmer from having to toil traders to price negotiations with definitive purchase form , then manually cut them into gardens . Reportedly , after each cut selling , home garden fertilizer to spread over a few trees continue to grow. Previously, the majority of traders are local people , but now traders everywhere are flocking to scrambling to buy , so the purchase of the farmers here get more advantages . Relatives said a day traders can trade from - 4 tons of mint Tan Vinh Kim and Ho Chi Minh City .
Seeing this model to achieve high efficiency in the economy , " take short -term feeding " , Tan Phong islet people have to learn how to plant , how to care for people from Marble Association . Currently at the time of Tan Phong commune is approximately 20 hectares of new planting mints .
Growing mint alternating foot garden is a model that can benefit many aspects , this is a general joy to farmers on land isles Tan Phong . Hopefully output is always maintained , in order to help growers have developed stable conditions of production, increase family income economy .
Articles, photos : Nguyen Thi Bong- www.tiengiang.gov.vn
