Buddha's hand fruit – Hanoi specialty - welcomes Tet
Wednesday, 28/01/2015 16:46 (GMT+7)
As the lunar New Year approaches, Buddha's hand fruits, or sarcodactylis, a specialty in Dac So commune, Hoai Duc district, Hanoi are being wrapped carefully to be delivered to customers across the country.
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The fruits bring high economic returns to local residents from an area of just over 100 hectares of land in the commune. |
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Ms Ha plants the fruit branches in 3 gardens, producing 300 trees. Each year, she can earn around VND1 billion from each garden. |
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The fruits can be harvested twice a year; however, the planters earn most during the lunar New Year festival. According to the planters, gardens with good-looking fruits are produced for traders at a price of several hundreds of millions of VND each. |
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According to Mr. Thach, to make trees blossom and produce in time for the Tet festival, each planter has his own experience. |
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The trees are planted from their branches and it takes the trees between 2-3 years to fruit. Therefore, apart from mature gardens, planters extract branches to plant in other gardens. |
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The fruits are wrapped carefully in soft paper and transported to many parts of the country. |
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This group of 5 fruits are sold at VND500,000. |