Hazard when people grow macadamia rumored
A few months ago, macadamia trees talked with outstanding economic efficiency of it. Many individuals and organizations have on the economy and push up macadamia the "craze" with names like the tree is full of expectations "billion" strategic crops, trees "queen" ... Plans Investors also the tens of thousands who with ambition mirrored and area macadamia global output, making Vietnam a macadamia capital of the world.
Earlier, during the Lunar New Year in 2015, according to AFP news report, on the market, dried fruit, macadamia, hard shell, cracked yet cost around 300,000 to 350,000 VND / kg; kind of cracked shell but did cost VND400,000 / kg. Who were shelling own fluctuating price 900000-1400000 / kg.
Ms. Huong, a sales agent nutrition nuts in Hanoi said, in all kinds of nuts such as walnuts, pistachio, almonds ... the macadamia despite high prices but selling well with many diverse ways packaging including package 35gr, 150gr, 500gr, 1kg ...
According to Professor Hoang Hoe - Director of development projects in Vietnam macadamia trees - the project is completed in 2005, each macadamia trees for fruit continuously for more than 60 years. After 10 years, an average of 1 ha question-ca-income adults for more than 200 million / year. If deep processing of fine taste and cosmetics, its value increased ten times. Currently, production of macadamia worldwide meet only 25-30% of consumer demand, so very little climates suitable for macadamia fruiting. Vietnam can grow about 20 thousand hectares of macadamia in the Central Highlands and the Northwest, with the goal of achieving commercial value of approximately $ 4 billion by 2030, if the positive building material area now .
Recognition of Youth, the last time many farmers in Gia Lai joined macadamia tree planting movement, in which many households demolished coffee garden for planting macadamia macadamia do ... rumored price dozens of times more than coffee and rubber.
Not easy, "ate"
The project studies the Australian macadamia trees sponsor VN, deployed in 2005 and after the end in 2010, the document also left Australia on planting techniques and the like, which has a similar number well recognized MARD.
However, planting macadamia requires very complex techniques. Must understand the varieties are planted with any breed, any breed thick planting, planting little seeds do not have great buying, planting on emotions like other trees.
By macadamia trees are cross-pollinated, thanks to new varieties should be planted pollination is 3-4 seeds in a garden. It can not just buy great 3-4 different varieties of plant that is because like A variety pollinates with C rather than B. pollinated varieties
On the other hand, according to the analysis of the Saigon Economic Times, the nature of economic cycles and investment bubbles are created from actions instinctive pursuit of investment returns. At the culmination of the fever, high prices cause profits are huge expectations and the number of participants is always the largest. They took exceptional earnings of previous minority in a high-price market while demand overwhelming supply to plan large-scale investment for themselves. Tree "billions", or county, "queen" are names known only at the peak of a cycle up prices.
The fever was completely different from the way people had praised the catfish is the absolute advantage of Vietnam, coal, oil is black gold 2007-2008 period, while rubber is white gold price peak in 2010 -2011. But price increases and sales will decrease, even with scarce commodity like gold or oil as essential. It is the surge of capital chasing the price boom will increase the supply and end every cycle prices.
When prices fall below cost, the old garden harvesting macadamia to be abandoned, or cut away to replace them with other trees are in new craze, recreated what happens currently popular with high trees rubber, sugar cane, which is only 4-5 years ago there was the kind of "tree king".
Recently, the Vietnam News quoted the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said the new plant macadamia, stochastic processes also give different results. On the other hand need to consider carefully the issues of processing and marketing. Thus far, the Ministry has not enough scientific basis to approve development plans suffer tree ca.
The technical process of propagation, planting, tending, processing technology with nuts are in the process of completion. Ministry is directing the organizational unit of the emergency functions, focused research and issued in 2015.
MARD said that macadamia plantation area to try and forestry projects under this program in the Northwest and Central Highlands is about 520 ha. In addition, the area by organizations and individuals in other locations to plant about 1,920 hectares. Thus, the total area of the country macadamia tree around 2,440 hectares so far.
