Artisanal exotic leaves and tops, sweet potato strings

(AP) - The sweet potato in Vinh Long since time immemorial mainly harvested tubers but recently someone wants to buy all the leaves, shoots, sweet potato strings that many people could not unexpected. Many question posed by this strange way recovered.
Buying tops, sweet potato cuttings
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On 6/3, Mr. Son Van Luan, head of the cooperative (cooperative) Potatoes, Tan Thanh (Tan Thanh Commune, Binh Tan District) received the phone call ordering buy cuttings of sweet potatoes. Telephone referral woman who wants to buy hom Hanoi sweet potatoes in trials 2 ha area.
Mr. Luan said: "Talking on the phone I asked carriage road from South to North took nearly 3 days and nights, the cuttings dry potatoes, how to grow and die off, the woman said can stay fresh by boxed, frozen ".

However, many years of business experience sweet potatoes for his argument that "Buy cuttings of sweet potatoes so they take only boiled food to freeze for a few days and nights cuttings would not be able to germinate." However, the woman has a wireless ink begged selling sweet potatoes as needed for trials.

After some thought he Luan rebuffed on the grounds that such cuttings can be rooted in difficulties should be paid.
 
The joy of the season, a farmer in Vinh Long
Previously, on 15/2, with four men including two Chinese, two Vietnam to the safe vegetable cooperative Thanh Loi (Thanh Loi Commune, Binh Tan) met Mr. Le Van Trung, chairman of the cooperative proposal is buy small sweet potato tops with 10,000 VND / kg, cooperatives are entitled to commissions 1,000 VND / kg.

Mr Trung said: "When they asked me popular with farmers harvesting the small sweet potato leaves the field to their external procurement. But they do not introduce your name, address, phone number, saying only company in Ho Chi Minh City start-up wants to buy fresh sweet potato leaves for export ".

Mr Trung also rebuffed on the grounds that if they want to sell sweet potatoes planted these top professionals took the top, but took the top of the potato tuber yield decreases. Since then, some Chinese people are not in touch with his Middle again.

Binh Tan District People's Committee leaders did report on procurement young sweet potato leaves in the area. Conclusion so far has not discovered the Chinese public to contact directly with farmers to purchase small sweet potato tops.

Artisanal sweet potato leaves

However, the young leaves of sweet potatoes are a number of recovery for grinding into flour and exports do not know what to do and where to go out. Between May 2/2013, Mr. Phan Khac Trung Tan Binh implies (Binh Tan District) hired local people to collect leaves of sweet potato for delivery to the company in Lam Dong province.

Before that he was Mr. Tran Van Sang China, company director Dawn vegetables (My Hoa Commune, Binh Minh town) request seeking to apply for leaves of sweet potato farmers hire workers to harvest and will be paid 5,000 dong / kg.

He Autumn sweet potato leaves in Tan Hung, Tan Binh 5.2 ton quantities to trade him brought Sang processing plant in Ho Chi Minh City to grind into flour and then transferred to the company in Lam Dong. However, this phase mixed with tops, potato stalks should be firm unusable.
 
Traders to buy the tops, stems of sweet potatoes makes people not from unexpected

The 2nd installment Trung hire workers to harvest 3.2 tons of sweet potato leaves but have not received remuneration from the Company in Lam Dong province, but only for petrol vehicles, travel expenses. The company said pulping to export but do not know how to export to the country.

Mr. Le Van Thuan, Binh Tan district chairman, said: "The Middle ask him sweet potato leaves farmers while 1 to 2 days to harvest should not affect potato production on the field. At the same time all potato fields, not just for not trading problems arise. Current levels, the industry is still the situation artisanal issue this sweet potato leaves. "

However, the leaves and tops, sweet potato strings is what growers often leave this to the people asking to purchase, please leaves the problem that many people suspect. This strange type of recovery that many farmers abnormalities should be careful lest he should continue to trap the foreign traders.

Minh Giang