Cassava leaf exports

Cassava leaf exports
Previously, cassava stems and leaves are discarded, but now, people in Phuoc Dong A (Hau Giang) take advantage of sales to traders as animal feed and for export to African markets.
Mr. Nguyen Mong Hung (Hamlet, Phuoc Long, intensive manioc 5 years from now) said the farmers are not keen on oranges, mandarins, while cassava is also of interest. Initially only a few households also planted for fun, just to the traders purchasing more and more, people started flocking around tapioca plant to sell tobacco.

According to Hung, easy to grow cassava, less disease, only about 2 months after sowing to harvest the leaves regularly. Currently, the price of cassava leaves VND 1,200 / kg, after deducting expenses, each of the more than 500,000 profit. By this time the cassava growing area in Phuoc Dong A has more than 20 hectares, of which 70% is planted. On the sunny season, cassava leaves attract customers, but the rainy season is the "wait for". In the commune, the purchase of cassava leaves only through dealers, so the price is not stable. Mr. Nguyen Mong Hung worry: "In the past years, this family model is very effective, I also want to expand the area, but concerns erratic pricing".

As the cassava plant seniority, Tran Van Muon, live hamlet, Phuoc Long, said: "From the close planting cassava intercropped on 1 ha plantation land, the family's income has increased significantly. Recently harvested more than 1 ton of tobacco, price of VND 1,200 / kg, collected more than 1 million. From the beginning of the year, tui nearly 10 million interest income from intercropping ".

Many households in Chau Thanh district is to consider planting cassava on a large area, or even think about breaking the current crop. This makes local governments worried. Mr. Nguyen Thanh Vietnam, Vice President of the People's Committee of Dong chuan, said local people should not warned rising cassava planting area too quickly, because if too much production, not consumption up to fall into the price drops, violent rows.

According to Youth