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Banana leaves travel abroad

( Update: 14/11/2014 )

Speaking of chili leaves, sesame leaves or banana leaves ... people often think they are junk. Previously, after harvesting the fruits, seeds, and leaves the body it is usually stamped colored fields (nutrition) to the soil, dried and burned or thrown countervailing duty on plots. But now, these items are being exported to external worth hundreds of million.
 
In the village of Xuan Tri, Hong Hanh commune, Ninh Giang district, Hai Duong province, unlike many parts of the northern region is the season of familiar crops such as cabbage, soup containers, garlic, onions ... but vast plains almost only a single crop is chilli. Many people here said, planting peppers ago 5 or 6 years ago, after a period of falling prices, the overlap down for 2 years now, it has become a cash crop for hundreds of households in the village.
 
Put a large basket of chili onto the bed, her team 6 farmers, rural Xuan Tri, Hoang Hanh, Ninh Giang, Hai Duong fast and plucked each leaf peppers. Not any leaf pickers always be, the standard of the leaves leaf buds are picked is not too young nor too old, especially, the leaves are not deep and not crushed.

She shared, including 6 acres of her family's fields are planted peppers, the peppers are prices, there are strong family hit rate of up to tens of millions dong / sao.
 
  His family in the village of Xuan Than Tri also uses entire family land to grow export peppers. He said: Although just over 2 acres of planted peppers but she has to have the copper co. The idle time, she picked the fruit, he turned to collect leaves for sale. The average person can pick from 15 to 25 kg / day.
 
5 pm, when the agents opened consolidation is when the flow of people across the plains flock. Those children with a basket full of leaves, adults carrying sacks on their shoulders slot charter carrier. Dozens of people gathered to pour a relationship. Porters, the weight, the busiest call a village together.
 
Spill dealer name, buyers in rural Xuan Tri said: A few years back, chilli leaf items are in great demand. This product has been exported to countries such as South Korea, Japan, Malaysia ... so do vegetables, spices and many other products.
 
Banana leaves to USA
 
Last 2, 3 years, and chili leaves, banana leaves Vietnam was more welcoming foreign enterprises.

Banana leaves become more expensive items, and more and more customers order. Currently the average monthly production of about 1 banana leaf containers enter the US market, the future will also increase because of orders from the supermarkets are on the increase ...
  If the former, banana leaves is the new Vietnam on the US market to cater to many overseas Vietnamese Tet holiday packages used leaf rolls, rice cakes, then this package items have been sold in many countries around the world especially the landlocked countries.
 
In a small business specializing in the export banana leaf collectors said banana leaves are exported to markets in most of Eastern Europe, China. Currently, these countries are very popular "natural packaging" wrapped in banana leaves and stored frozen. Banana is capable of holding heat, does not affect the quality and taste of the products it imported a lot. Basis he provides just one month out of banana leaves 1 container 40 feet away. Banana Leaf procurement prices people are at VND5,000 / kg.
 
Le Hoan, a commercial banana leaf spines procurement said: There needs huge market but few domestic supply, mainly utilize new areas, banana business to the extreme low. But to export overseas, banana leaves are put through pre-processing stage. She adds: relatively brittle banana leaves before becoming packaging, foil cakes, must know the correct leaf pick-year-old farm, picked on enough sun to wilt the leaves without losing the soft blue.
 
Banana leaf is used to export the leaves have wide, 30cm width, leaf seamless did not tear. After thoroughly disinfected handled, packaged in banana leaves and place in container. However, only new western banana leaf can be used and exported.
 
Although export volumes have not grown, but these items have become "rare" in the market. According to many experts in the field of agriculture, in the coming years, product of Vietnam will continue to be introduced to a friend in the world.