Growing luxuriant arrowroot plants, tubers sprouting everywhere, the Phu Yen farmer makes delicious flour.

The arrowroot plant is also known as the galangal plant. In the localities of Tay Hoa district ( Phu Yen province), people often call it the banana taro plant.

Fermented arrowroot (banana taro) has a sweet taste, helps to cool down and calm the nerves effectively.

From arrowroot can be processed into powder, cake, vermicelli, tapioca pearls to cook sweet soup or can also just be boiled and can be eaten immediately.

A bush of arrowroot with delicious tubers pulled up in the garden of Mr. Le Xep, a farmer in Hoa Binh 1 commune, Tay Hoa district (Phu Yen province).

According to Mr. Le Xep, in 2020, he happened to visit some neighboring provinces and found the planting and processing of arrowroot interesting. Then he learned more through books and newspapers and gradually became interested in arrowroot.

Realizing that this is a tree that adapts to the climate and soil conditions and can thrive in the locality, he decided to invest in buying seeds to plant.

Having successfully grown arrowroot, Mr. Le Xep took the risk of buying a machine to process arrowroot tubers when harvesting them. Four years have passed since then.

Mr. Le Xep, a farmer in Hoa Binh 1 commune, Tay Hoa district (Phu Yen province) next to a bush of arrowroot plants grown in his garden.

Mr. Xep added: Currently there are two types of cassava: white cassava and red cassava. There are two ways to propagate cassava.

That is to separate the young shoots from old bushes or use old tubers that are not damaged or rotten, use a knife to cut the tubers into cuttings, each cutting has at least 2-3 eyes, then dip them in kitchen ash to slow down the sap.

After cutting the cuttings, arrange them evenly on trays, leave them in a dry, shady place, water them and let them incubate for 1-2 weeks, then the cassia cuttings will sprout buds. When the cuttings are about 3-5 cm long and have at least 1-2 buds, they can be planted.

Although arrowroot can be grown on many types of soil, on loose, humus-rich, moist, sunny soil, arrowroot grows strongly, giving high tuber yield and good quality.

Therefore, the alluvial land along the Ba River is very suitable. The time to plant arrowroot in Tay Hoa district is from August to January of the lunar calendar every year, best planted at the beginning of the rainy season.

Mr. Le Xep introduces arrowroot powder, a delicious powder.

Regarding powder processing, 10 kilos of fresh tubers produce 1 kilo of powder. The steps for making powder from arrowroot tubers: First, wash the tubers, then put them in a blender to peel off all the skin, filter out the moist powder, then dry for 5-7 days.

The current selling price of arrowroot powder is 110,000 VND/kg of finished powder. With an area of ​​2,000 ^m2 of arrowroot, he can harvest an average of 200 kg of dry powder per crop per year.

Besides, with the machines available, he bought black turmeric and yellow turmeric to process and sell to those in need.

In the near future, he plans to label the packaging of arrowroot powder to register for the 3-star OCOP product voting.

For more information, please contact: Mr. Le Xep, Tel: 0942278437.

Source: https://danviet.vn/trong-cay-dong-rieng-tot-um-tum-cu-la-liet-troi-len-ong-nong-dan-phu-yen-lam-ra-loai-bot-ngon-lanh-20240715190232151.htm