Vietnam: Rushing to plant poor man's ginseng, but the price plummeted and farmers were affected

It used to be likened to a "poor man's ginseng" by the people, but recently, the price of cloves has plummeted, greatly affecting the lives of growers. Following the small concrete road, green on both sides of the leaves, we found Mr. Nguyen Van Tho's house in hamlet 3. As one of the first people in the commune to bring clover to plant, Mr. Tho confided: On an area of 1ha of land for growing oranges and lemons, the efficiency was not high, so he switched to planting cloves. Dandelion is a fairly easy plant to grow. Tho has carefully studied how to plant and care for trees, so he did not encounter many obstacles, the tree grew well, and was highly appreciated by buyers. In the first three years of planting cloves, Mr. Tho earned hundreds of millions of dong in profit. However, in the past few years, the price of cloves has been falling. If before, the price of whole roots, stems and leaves was about 30-40 thousand VND/kg, sometimes up to 50,000 VND/kg, now it is only 1/3 to 1/4 of ...