Vietnam: The main chili season in the Mekong Delta has a good harvest and good prices

At this time, farmers harvest chili peppers and sell them for 30,000 - 35,000 VND/kg depending on quality, an increase of 10,000 VND/kg compared to last month. With the current stable price, each hectare of land growing chili pepper farmers has an income of over 350 million VND/year. Chilli harvest scene of farmers in Dong Thap province. Along with a number of other cash crops, recently, farmers in the Mekong Delta have strongly developed the model of growing chili peppers at the foot of fields or garden land to replace ineffective fruit trees on thousands of hectares. The area of commercial chili plants is concentrated in the provinces of Tien Giang, Tra Vinh, Dong Thap, and An Giang. Thanks to the transfer of technical advances from the specialized industry and improved seed quality, most farmers grow chili plants effectively. Each hectare of main season chili yields about 25 tons of fruit. In particular, in areas with alum and salty soil in coastal areas, islands, and Dong Thap ...