(AP) - Since the beginning of September to the lunar far, people of ethnic Dao, Mong, Ha Nhi highlands of Lao Cai province in the slave tingle forest harvesting cardamom new services. 
Cardamon is not only valuable medicinal plants but also for processing spices unique indispensable in the cuisine of East Asia.
 
A special feature of cardamom is just normal development and for fruit if planted under large trees in the forest in a mountainous district of Lao Cai, Lai Chau, Ha Giang, Yen Bai, Son La. 
 
Currently, nearly 3,000 Lao Cai province cardamom hectares (the largest Northwest), the average yield of 250 kg dry fruits / hectare, the price at 65,000 VND / kg dry fruits, also brought to market Ha export (Yunnan, China) is priced around 120,000 VND / kg (in some years than 240.000/kg). 
 
Large cardamom and revenues of some important social and family in the highlands province of Lao Cai. 
 
Many families out of poverty and become millionaires, billionaires from cardamom plantation in the forest. Maybe so, natural forests in upland cardamom always be people voluntarily strictly protected from generation to generation. 
 
Please recommend a series of pictures we've recorded in the harvest of cardamom 2009 alpine Bat Xat, Lao Cai