Tapioca Leaves Also Selling European People To Make Soup
Tapioca Leaves Also Selling European People To Make Soup
Body cassava piled beside the highway 1A (transverse section Ham Thuan Bac Binh Thuan province), pending the purchase of doing hom (like) the next crop.
SAIGON (VB) - Until now, farmers or gardeners to plant cassava root, after harvesting the stem can take advantage of making cuttings (same) planting the next season. Cassava leaves are few who use, as only temporary as animal feed or for to do is get young leaves boiled fish stock and temporarily put through meals.
So which of these products company New East Limited (Thu Duc District, Saigon) exports, perhaps the most unusual cassava leaves for food processing. "Initially when we asked for cassava leaves, many questions were discarded, buy and do nothing. When freight car on cassava leaves gathered in the courtyard of the company, people in town would not inquire company specializing ... cattle. Now of cassava leaves as one of the "hot" our company "- Ms. Bach Ngoc Ha, deputy director of the New China, said.
To be eligible cassava leaf exports is not easy, simple. First, choose the right type of tapioca do not type that people are planting many places, the hybrid cassava (tapioca or high-yield) with high levels of cyanide in tobacco processing, it is difficult and unqualified manufacturing export. The company New East just buy cassava leaves from Long An area for export. Before harvest cassava few days, people would gather leaves the company sold for $ 3,500 VND / kg, much higher than the price of the old farmers.
At the factory the company, cassava leaf stalks are removed, just take the leaves and then washed, soaked in brine over, finished, crushed, packed about 500 grams / pack, then freezing in temperatures of minus 38 C to negative 40 ° C before crating. Each consignment must be sampled for laboratory testing the amount of cyanide, if achieved dare exports.
Tran Thanh Phu, director of the company, including the 2009, coincidentally a customer from Europe to buy the herbs, fruit and bread specialties VN asked cassava leaves. Learn Phu he knew cassava leaf is one of the favorite foods of the African-European. They use these leaves for food processing such as soup or added to other dishes.
From small batch of initial try, so far every year export company New East on 100 tons of cassava leaves prepared (equivalent to 1,000 tons of fresh leaves), but still not enough to meet the needs of customers.
Not only cassava leaves, leaf types at different values of VN such as pineapple leaves, banana leaves, leaf dong ... Tan Dong company also pre-processing for export to Europe, to consumers of England Germany, France, the Netherlands ... In 2011, exports only the leaves, the company New East has reached more than 150,000 USD.
