Unique pumpkin noodles

Ms. Luong Thi Yen Van (owner of a noodle squash garden in Xuan Tho commune, Da Lat city, Lam Dong ) said: "I often research strange fruits and plants online. One time, I accidentally went on YouTube and saw a strange squash variety. When I pulled out the inside, there were noodles-like strands, so I bought these seeds from a company in Japan to try planting them."

Ms. Yen Van harvests squash noodles

With the seeds, Ms. Van planted them experimentally on her family's land in Xuan Tho commune. From the initial few hundred meters, she expanded the area of ​​​​cultivating cassava but still could not produce enough products to supply the market. Therefore, she established the Dalat Home Garden Cooperative to link with farmers to produce cassava cassava on an area of ​​more than 2 hectares.

Squash noodles

The cassava squash is grown in a greenhouse, from planting to harvesting about 75 days. The squash garden is automatically watered by a pre-installed drip system, watered twice a day; cultivated organically, completely without using chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The owner uses yellow light boxes and yellow stickers to trap insects. Ms. Van added that this is a hermaphrodite squash, to ensure 100% pollination rate, the grower must pollinate the squash by hand, the most suitable time is from 6 to 8 am.

Finger lime

A spaghetti squash weighs from 1.1 to 1.5 kg, and is sold for 120,000 to 150,000 VND/piece. The squash is sold under contract and has not been widely sold, but is always in a state of supply not meeting demand. Ms. Van said that in addition to spaghetti squash, the cooperative has recently continued to research new and unique plant varieties such as pink-fleshed radish, Sweet Palermo pepper, Colombian passion fruit, finger lime, rainbow carrots, etc.

Pink radish

Up to now, Dalat Home Garden Cooperative has cooperated with 225 households to produce over 150 types of agricultural products according to high-tech processes and organic agriculture . The products are granted VietGap certification, using the brand "Da Lat - Miraculous crystallization from good land". Currently, every day, Dalat Home Garden Cooperative supplies the market with 5 - 6 tons of various vegetables, mainly supplying to restaurant chains and clean vegetable stores nationwide; including about 300 kg of squash noodles.

Rainbow Carrots

Ms. Nguyen Thi Tuong Thao, manager of the TikTok channel "Strange dishes from home garden" of the Dalat Home Garden Cooperative, said: "In this day and age, selling products through TikTok, Facebook, and Zalo platforms is very effective. I still remember that the livestream session introducing squash noodles became a phenomenon on TikTok, in one session, thousands of orders were sold, bringing the revenue from selling agricultural products of the Dalat Home Garden Cooperative that month to more than a billion VND."

In November 2023, Ms. Thao represented Da Lat Home Garden Cooperative to receive the Luong Dinh Cua award.

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