Orchid growers in Gia Loc busy preparing for Tet season
THANH CHUNG•18/01/2024 15:01
Gardeners growing orchids in high-tech net houses in Gia Loc district, Hai Duong province, are in a hurry to prepare goods for the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) Festival.
Duong Hai Doan in Doan Thuong commune, Gia Loc district spends 10 billion VND building a 2,400 m2 high-tech net house in early 2023 to grow 70,000 moth orchidsOrchid varieties are purchased from the Gia Lam Fruit and Vegetable Experimental Research Center in Ha Noi or importedOrchids are kept in the net house with temperature 18 – 27 degrees Celsius and humidity 50 – 80%All flowers here meet standards and are not inferior to those grown in Da Lat or imported80% of Doan’s products have been ordered by customers in Hai Duong, Hung Yen, Thai Binh, Quang Ninh, and Hai Phong for TetContract and retail prices of each pot of orchid flowers range from 110,000 - 120,000 VND and 140,000 - 160,000 VND, respectively, 15 - 20% lower than market priceDoan’s production area provides jobs for 10 seasonal workers with a monthly salary of 7 million VNDLe Cong Thuyet invests more than 1 billion VND in planting and multiplying native orchids with modern methods at his Tung Lam orchid production facility in Trinh Thanh Van hamlet, Yet Kieu communeAbout 500 pots of Thuyet’s orchid flowers are bought by traders inside and outside the province right in September, when orchids germinate, for 150,000 - 5 million VND/potThuyet selects, breeds, and multiplies Cattleya orchid, deemed the "queen" of orchids by hobbyists, for sale on the Tet market at a price of 150,000 - 1 million VND/pot
