Three years ago, Mr. Vuong Dinh Phuoc's family (45 years old) Dalat boldly converted from vegetables to strawberry cultivation for agricultural tourism, selling strawberries in the garden.
Instead of planting on the land in the traditional way, in the rainy season, the rate of fruit of the mulberry is very low, often stamping and rotting. Phuoc couple boldly invest in greenhouses to grow high-tech strawberries.
Mr. Phuoc said that the family has three generations of vegetables, so far decided to change the plant to find new directions. The reason given by him is: "The time of trade is convenient, the Chinese goods are many, vegetable Dalat is difficult to compete. Planting vegetables is hard, insecure, always in the state of losing the price, the price of crop loss even there are cases not sold ... ".
Mr. Vuong Dinh Phuoc in the mulberry garden planted by high technology.
So, three years ago, Phuoc couple moved from vegetable growing to strawberry to serve tourists and retail the berries in the garden. According to Mr. Phuoc, at the beginning of the work, think also fear of investment up to 250 million / 1.000 m2, not including the greenhouse money spent before.
Taking advantage of the terrain near the Holy Road, adjacent to the Valley of Love - Mong Mo and the road to Langbiang so the husband and wife Vuong Dinh Phuoc is opening the farm, become tourist attractions agricultural.
"Many sleepless nights. Fortunately, after two and a half months of cultivation, the mulberry garden started to produce fruit, right in the tourist season, so visitors go to the cucumbers to visit and buy strawberries, left not enough to sell! Phuoc happy to tell.
Phuoc said that in the peak season visitors to Da Lat, every day his family strawberry farm welcomed hundreds of people to visit. Strawberries are grown in a greenhouse on the farm of Mr. Phuoc's family at double the price of strawberries outside. However, this strawberry garden is often "burned" because the demand for strawberries in the garden is always very high.
When we were at the Strawberry Farm of the Phuoc family, the couple, Nguyen Van Thanh (62 years old), lived in Ho Chi Minh City and came to the garden to pick strawberries.
Mr. Thanh said that this season strawberries are sold pretty much at Da Lat market and tourist destinations, as well as many, very reasonable prices are delivered to the place requested. However, he and his wife refused many offers to buy strawberries at these points to the strawberry farm of Mr. Wang's family.
"The purpose of my husband and wife is to visit the mulberry garden, convenient to buy as gifts for the children. My husband and I hand pick, pick the fruit you like ... ", Thanh shared.
Guests come to visit and pick strawberries in the garden of Mr. Vuong Dinh Phuoc's family.
The demand of visitors picking and buying strawberries in the garden is very high but every day average farm of Mr. Vuong Dinh Phuoc family harvest only about 25kg to 30kg. The farm consists of two types of strawberries, including Japanese and New Zealand. All of them are planted on the substrate 70cm in the greenhouse.
The nutrients to grow the strawberry are mixed in water, drip to the root of the strawberry with moderate flow to avoid waste of water and fertilizer. In the rainy season, in Da Lat traditional strawberries are grown outdoors such as America, American ... most damaged due to weather and disease causing damage strawberry prices so strong.
The scarcity of strawberries while the demand of tourists increased suddenly pushed up prices of strawberries Da Lat. Currently, the price of Japanese strawberry is retail to tourists in the garden of his family Phuoc up to 400,000 VND/kg, New Zealand strawberry is 300,000 VND/kg. With the above sale price, this farmer family earns over VND 250 million per month.
Phuoc disclosed that strawberries for visitors to visit and sell products at the garden quite leisurely. With 3,000 m2 of strawberries in the glass house, Phuoc couple only have to hire two workers. Their daily routine is to prune strawberry leaves and to clean the garden. "The strawberry harvest has visitors to visit and pick themselves. Output is not as uncertain as the time of growing vegetables, products are sold in the garden. Irrigation has mechanical, every now and then self-operation and self-stop! ", Said Phuoc.
Source: baomoi.com
