Binh Thuan province is growing area of ​​the largest dragon, dragon fruit is considered to be "key" poverty reduction, "know-how" to get rich farmers. However, the current "craze" produced, massively grow dragon fruit growing area become "hot spots" of concern.

 

Increadible development 

 

The time constant of dragon fruit price collapses, beautiful fruits at around 10,000 VND / kg, the type usually from 3000-5000 VND / kg, however, many households in the province continues to expand the area.

 

On this day, we come to Phu Long town, Ham Thuan Bac district, winding dirt road leads to the village of Phu Hoa is dragon fruit ripening every field between the worn green rice fields. Along the road, the immense dragon form just to trough, which is installed in the office. Park your dragon 4 samples Nguyen Thanh Tri - Phu Thinh village, Phu Long town on land previously planted rice for 3 years awaiting harvest. He intends Tri extended area should just buy 2 more investment rice paddies are backfilled into office. Anh Tri, said: "The current rice prices have inched up from 3000-5000 but often precarious contracts should completely switch I've grown dragon. 2 days ago with rice paddies, if 40ta/sao yield a good crop, harvested every 2 years for all costs unless I just over 6 million words, regarded as lost lost season. And with 2 pole dragon, dragon with prices 3000-4000 VND / kg also collecting some tens of million, said more than rice. " But Nguyen Gia Go - Phu Cuong village, Phu Long town just down the new 450 dragon head on over 3.5 acres of land wheat is 1 month. My brother reckons: "The cost to dump paddy soil than 3 acres of land, more than 70 million cast cylinder, excluding ponds. I did not mean to break the rice planting dragon, but because the field would shift around, the dragon tree for high income, so I grow as people. " Although there have been advocated to protect rice land to ensure food security, but due to fruit production economic efficiency is much higher than rice, so people continue to break ground rice, dragon fruit planting. Statistics of agriculture and rural development in the province, said the dragon total area of ​​6,151 ha provinces have "grown" over paddy land in previous years, in which more than 3,600 hectares of rice land is 2, 3 seasons remaining land for rice 1.

 

According to our understanding, planting dragon fruit not only in the major rice growing regions of Ham Thuan Bac. Currently dragon trees were planted in 8 out of 10 districts, towns and cities and expanding area. Specifically in Ham Tan District, as of May 5/2014, the area of ​​fruit tree development of 500 hectares, is most concentrated in the Song Phan commune, in which more than 168 hectares of new planting. At Tan Thuan commune, Ham Thuan Nam district far dragon commune area of ​​1,500 hectares, including new planting area from 360 hectares this year. As planned, the area of ​​Binh Thuan dragon fruit cultivation in 2015 is expected to be 15,000 ha, but now expects that number exceeds 7,000 ha. The reality has not yet stopped. Since early this year, dragon fruit planting area continue to increase to hundreds of hectares.

 

And concerns ...

 

According to statistics, dragon area is 22,000 hectares across the province. Of these, about 17,000 hectares are to the left. Thus, the amount of dragon emerging market is very large, each year, Binh Thuan dragon fruit production of over 5,000 tons. There are more than 75% of dragon fruit exports to the Chinese market but mainly through quota. In addition, the important export markets such as Indonesia, Thailand, the Netherlands, Singapore. According to the Institute for Southern Fruits, 2012, immediately after successful trials, China currently has deployed commercial planting of around 20,000 at 2 dragon Guangdong Province, Guangxi. With investing massively speed, large-scale, China threatened to become competitive in terms of area and production of dragon fruit. On the other hand, so far not only in Binh Thuan dragon fruit has developed in more than 40 provinces and cities throughout the country, especially in the Mekong Delta 2 specialized areas with large concentration is Long An, Tien Giang. So, Binh Thuan dragon fruit tree to sustainable development, high efficiency needed directions, scientific solutions, convincing.

 

Thanh Duyen / Binh Thuan news