Coming to Lai Chau these days, walking along the roads to the village, you will encounter lush fruit gardens, laden with fruit. Bright yellow peach blossoms, three-flower plums, blood plums, purple plums, and rice plums stand out among the green of the trees. Fruits from nature bring a fresh and green life, nurturing the children of the borderland, blowing into their souls aspirations, dreams, love, and attachment to the fields and villages.
From early morning, Ms. Ly Thi Ca in Sung Cho village, Sung Phai commune (Lai Chau city) has been carrying large and small loads of plums to Doan Ket market to sell. The freshly picked plums are still covered with a layer of velvety white powder, plump and juicy, stimulating the taste buds, inviting diners to stop and buy them as gifts for their relatives. Currently, Ms. Ca's family's garden has 70 15-year-old Tam Hoa plum trees. Every year, her family takes care of, cultivates, and fertilizes the trees to make them grow and produce sweet and delicious fruit. Ms. Ca said: This year the weather is favorable, the plum blossoms bear fruit and bear fruit. During the plum season, many customers come to the garden to buy, especially during the Doan Ngo festival (5/5 lunar calendar), some families order up to ten kilos to send back to their hometown as gifts. For more than a month now, I have been pruning large, ripe plums to bring to the market to sell, estimating about 500 kg of plums, with prices ranging from 10,000 to 20,000 VND/kg depending on the size of the fruit.
When ripe, the three-flower plum has a layer of white powder covering the outside.
Along with peaches and plums, “cat melon”, a native melon variety grown by the Mong and Dao people on fields and hills, is also the choice of most consumers this season. By letting the fruit ripen over the seasons, the “cat melon” variety has been preserved until now, attached to many generations of Mong and Dao people. After sowing, the melon seeds do not need trellises or stakes, the melons “easily” crawl on the ground and rocks, sometimes people intercrop in gardens and corn fields. Being a native plant, adapting to the local climate, with few pests and diseases, the young fruit is light green, when ripe it is yellow, sweet and refreshing, and is included in the list of safe and clean foods by customers. The Mong people say that in the past, life was so difficult that there was nothing to eat, so “cat melon” was used to eat with rice when working in the fields and during hot summers. Recently, people have brought it to the market to sell. Not only attracting customers in the province, "cat melon" also conquers many customers in distant provinces.
Ms. Sung Thi Sau, Bai Bang village, Giang Ma commune (Tam Duong district) shared: Every year my family grows cat melons and this year we have expanded the area to more than 500 square meters. The weight of the small ones is usually around 4-6 ounces, the large ones weigh 2kg. When the melon season comes, many traders contact me to place orders, each market session I usually sell all the melons I bring, earning 300-400 thousand VND.
Plum season comes, farmers prune and sell to traders.
During the local harvest season, which is also the time when students are on summer vacation, many children go to the fields to help their parents harvest. Each child carries a basket full of ripe, plump fruits, and there are joyful laughters as they transport them home.
Ms. Vuong Thi Hang in residential group 6, Quyet Tien ward shared: During the harvest season of wild fruits, I often go to some families growing plums, melons, and mac cop in the highland villages to buy them as gifts to send to relatives living in Phu Tho province. Enjoying these local products, everyone in my family praised them as delicious and felt secure because the farmers did not use pesticides.
The successive fruit seasons attract tourists to the city. Many fruit gardens are bustling with visitors. From the lush foliage, flocks of magpies flock to nest, hoping for favorable weather, favorable terrain and favorable people to make the highland villages more prosperous each day.
Source: https://baolaichau.vn/kinh-te/trai-cay-dan-da-vao-mua-1232261
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