Orange harvest season

The whole province currently has over 1,800 hectares of oranges, concentrated in the districts of Van Giang, Kim Dong, Phu Cu, Hung Yen city... Some orange varieties that are widely grown by farmers are: Vinh orange, Duong Canh orange, V2 orange... At this time, gardeners start harvesting oranges to supply to the market in and outside the province. With the early season price of 20-25 thousand VND/kg, oranges are easy to consume.

Farmers in Kim Dong district harvest oranges

This year, the province's orange growing area decreased by 125 hectares compared to last year. The reason is that people cut down old gardens to plant new ones and switch to other types of trees. To improve economic efficiency from orange growing, ensuring that the gardens are still exploited for high economic value, the province focuses on propaganda, organizing training courses, technical guidance; applying orange growing according to VietGAP standards; following the organic direction; promoting trade promotion to find markets for products. Thanks to that, the quality and output of oranges are guaranteed. To date, the whole province has over 700 hectares of oranges certified to meet VietGAP standards; the functional sector has assessed and granted certificates to a number of leading orange gardens to exploit grafted eyes each year; many localities have built orange products that meet OCOP standards...

Kim Dong district currently has about 300 hectares of oranges of all kinds. At this time, the Vinh orange growing areas of the district have begun to enter the harvest season. This year, the initial selling price at the garden is about 23-25,000 VND/kg. Comrade Nguyen The Tuyen, Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Kim Dong district, said: In the past 2 years, the orange growing area of the district has decreased because people have cut down old gardens to plant new ones. For the orange growing areas that are still growing and yielding fruit, in order to improve the quality and value of orange products, the district coordinates to organize propaganda and mobilize people to take care of oranges according to technical procedures, monitor the situation of pests and diseases on orange trees to have a solution, expand the orange growing area according to VietGAP, organic production. At the same time, encourage and mobilize people to link up and establish cooperatives (HTX), orange growing cooperatives to facilitate the production process and expand the product consumption market. This year, the district's orange output is estimated at 7 thousand tons.

Quickly cutting the first ripe oranges of the season, Mr. Nguyen Van Ba, Thanh Sam village, Dong Thanh commune (Kim Dong) said: My family has 1.5 hectares of oranges, a decrease of more than 3 sao compared to last year. To improve economic efficiency from orange growing, this year, in addition to maintaining production according to VietGAP, I apply organic production, without using chemical pesticides. Currently, I have started harvesting, for oranges grown according to organic direction, the selling price is 35-40 thousand VND/kg.

In Quang Chau commune (Hung Yen city), people have prepared vehicles and concentrated human resources to go to the garden to harvest the first ripe, juicy oranges of the season for timely sale. Mr. Nguyen Van Biet, Director of Quang Chau High-Quality Agricultural Products Production and Trading Cooperative, said: To improve economic efficiency from orange trees, the commune has recently organized training courses on techniques for caring for and preventing diseases on orange trees. The city's professional department coordinates with the locality to promote people to choose high-quality orange varieties to replace diseased and old orange trees, ensuring food safety and hygiene during production and harvesting to improve the quality of the Hung Yen orange brand.

This year, the province's total orange output is estimated at over 31 thousand tons of fruit, of which the output of oranges certified to VietGAP standards is about 11 thousand tons. To facilitate orange consumption, in addition to traditional sales channels, cooperatives and orange growers have proactively posted their products for sale through e-commerce platforms such as Postmart, Sendo...; social networks such as Zalo, Facebook...

Minh Hong

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