No ginger prices as high as any year this year. First case 2/2014 40,000 sold in garden / kg, to mid-June amounted to 80,000 VND / kg. 

 

Ginger price nearly doubled over the past 2 months 

 

Information on by Mr. Tran Van Thanh - Chief Association Farmers Association hamlet 1, Long Hung Commune, Binh Chanh District, Ho Chi Minh City said. 

 

Talking to the Reporter, Vo Thanh Phong (live hamlet 1, Long Hung Commune, Binh Chanh District) said, before his family mostly grown vegetables. Due to the unstable price years is not stable, 4/2012, he moved over 2,000 m2 ginger trials. In each of which there is no technical inexperience, ginger killed many. 

 

Not discouraged, he traveled looking for information on books, learn about the plant before applying for the ginger family garden. Ginger proper care techniques, good development. "Right now my family has grown to 7,000 m2 ginger. This year people excited about anybody price up to 75000-80000 / kg "- he said cheerfully room. 

 

Similarly, Tran Van Tung, and social lives, said: "My family has been growing ginger over 10 years. Previously very difficult economy, the initial capital to buy 11 kg of ginger like to test it. Since then, every breed has grown recently, thanks to price hit a few years, the season so far I've got 5,000 m2 ginger ". 

 

Tung said, Ginger is not only a popular spice in the cuisines of Vietnam, it is also useful herbs for health. Because so many uses ginger markets increasingly open. 

 

About ginger cause price spike, many farmers said, because this is the season for ginger fruit should yield no more. At the same time last year many rain storms, large amounts of ginger rot output decline. How much ginger harvest, traders purchase all of the park take the company to sell to export, supply does not meet demand, ginger sauce increasingly scarce and prices. 

 

Ms. Nguyen Thi Lan, a ginger traders in Thu Duc wholesale market, said sources give fresh ginger HCM mainly of the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Buon Me Thuot, and Lam Dong provinces West, plus ginger source in China. China's own ginger traders do not buy some more push prices up so high. 

 

According to the understanding of PV, farmers are now struggling preservation products after harvest. Vo Thanh Phong said, wants to sell more high-priced ginger must be preserved for a long time, selling in the off season, but how to preserve? If preservation of 100-200 kg in 2 months, people can do; but storage 1-2 ginger tons or more, people we do not, ginger plant will grow soon. 

 

"This is an issue that concerns farmers, the agricultural sector are looking more attention, guidance and technical transfer processes planting, care and preservation of ginger products after harvest so that farmers can apply and improve high yield, and quality ginger towards export markets. "

 

Currently, Vietnam's ginger products were exported to foreign markets such as Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, India ... 

 

Van Hieu / nongnghiep.vn