( Update: 12/09/2014 )
Profession chopsticks from plants such as chancroid rock, tree shadow, monitoring, ebony ... always faced with the situation of rising prices due to depletion of natural forests. However, it has the chance to grow again with bamboo material, by virtue of low cost, easy to sell products and designs to diversity.
When making bamboo chopsticks, producers in the hands of just under 10 million in capital. To provide high quality products, strong tones to choose bamboo, bamboo hardwood Friendly withstand hot when baked, with erect stems, large diameter of 1.5 inches or more. Each bamboo slang used only last 3 to VND 15,000 / 10 slang category 1 m.
Anh Pham Huy Thanh, Phuoc Village School, (Hoa Thanh district, Tay Ninh province), which is famous for bamboo chopstick, said his family produce two types of chopsticks, types of pickets by hand and machine-made type 2 form, chopsticks and chopsticks round square. Square chopsticks territory dyed fluorescent powder or black food coloring, print Tau. This type of consumption is not stable, when selling, being stagnant. He Thanh also revealed the secret: "To overcome the disadvantages of bamboo chopsticks easy to mold, termites around the time of transition from rain to sun and back, who made bamboo chopsticks should only produce consumption adequate fertilization, best available material reserve ".
Bamboo chopsticks are consumed in the western provinces, crossed the border in Tay Ninh, Kien Giang to Cambodia, at the time best seller from last until New Year Lunar New Year. Thanh told his wife: "This is a major job to do get the words but never fear unemployment, so many families living here quite stable". Currently, bamboo chopsticks wholesale prices range from 4500 to 10,000 / 100 double.
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Vietnam News (Theo_VnExpress)