Selling visually appealing root vegetables for skincare to South Korea and Japan, farmers from a district in Hai Duong province are earning billions of Vietnamese đồng

These days, people in Duc Chinh commune (Cam Giang, Hai Duong) begin to harvest carrots. On large fields from the inner fields to the outer fields (the land outside the Thai Binh river dyke), there are bustling scenes of farmers pulling tubers, trimming leaves, packing bags, and carrying loads onto trucks parked in the fields. "More than 3 acres of carrots in my house this year are quite beautiful, the yield is estimated at 1.6-1.8 tons/acre. Many new areas have been planted for more than 2 months, and traders have come to order the whole field for 8,000 VND/acre. 5-10 million VND/sao, earning a profit of more than 5 million VND/sao," Mr. Nguyen Van Bac in Dich Trang village, Duc Chinh commune said excitedly. Mr. Bac still has more than 1 acre of carrots grown in the field with large, beautiful roots and sells them to export partners to Korea for 8,000 VND/kg (preliminarily processed and packaged), earning 13-14.5 million VND. /pole. At the carrot processing facilities in Duc ...