Vietnam: Unprecedented profitable year for durian and coffee growers

In the days approaching the Dragon Festival, many gardeners in the West are busy harvesting off-season durians to sell to China. Each durian fruit weighing 5 kg is sold by the gardener for nearly a million VND, or about 200,000 VND per kg. Mr. Thoai, garden owner in Can Tho, said that there has never been a year when durian farmers have grown a "bumper harvest" like 2023. The price of this fruit is always high during the main season, sometimes reaching 140,000 VND per kilogram. For the first time in more than ten years, he earned a profit of billions of dong by selling durian. Not only in the West, people in the Central Highlands also made big profits last year thanks to the continuously peaking price of this fruit. Mr. Cuong, a gardener in Dak Lak, said he earned 120 billion VND after harvesting 40 hectares of durian. 2023 is a bumper year for key agricultural crops in Dak Lak province, according to Mr. Vu Duc Con, Deputy Director of Dak Lak Department of Agriculture and Rural ...