Nguyen Van Hoang in Vinh Phuc Province won the Outstanding Vietnamese Farmer award last year for successfully developing a red dragon fruit plantation which earned him VND1.3 billion. Number of fruit, veggie processing plants rises in Vietnam Vietnamese fruit farmers encouraged to apply GAP standards New support for agriculture yields results Strawberry farm in Hanoi – evidence of potential farm tourism Hoang is happy with his red dragon fruit farm. Photo Thanh Tra Hoang was also the first farmer in the province’s Lap Thach District to export his fruit to Malaysia and Chinese Taiwan in 2016. He started growing the fruit in 2012. He and his wife sent their children and his parents to the southern province of Binh Thuan to learn the techniques necessary to grow red dragon fruit in addition to researching the process online. Over the first years he faced many difficulties such as buying low quality saplings that produced small yields that were sour. In 2015, Hoang harvested his first high-quality fruit: sweet with a thin skin. “The climate in the north is very harsh so we can only harvest from April to October compared with the south where the trees fruit all year round. I’ve… Read full this story
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