(HBO) - Gherkins have been planted in Lac Thuy district’s Thong Nhat, Khoan Du and Hung Thi communes since the 2019 winter crop under a pilot production-distribution cooperation model between local farmers and the Hagimex JSG company, yielding encouraging outcomes.
Farmers in Vo village,
Thong Nhat commune (Lac Thuy district), grow gherkins under their contracts
with the company, reaping high economic benefits.
The 2020 spring-summer crop is the second time Tran Thi
Hang, head of Vo village in Thong Nhat commune, planting gherkins. Bui Van
Thinh in Hung Thi commune’s Thung Voi village has joined the model under a
contract signed with Hagimex JSG.
According to the contract, the prices paid by the company for
local gherkins will be unchanged throughout a crop, ranging between 2,000 –
11,000 VND per fruit depending on their post-harvest categories.
Nguyen Tien Anh, director of Hagimex JSG, said the Hagimex
JSG plant, located in the Bien Hoa industrial cluster in Kim Bang district, Ha
Nam province, is among the most invested ones for processing gherkins,
tomatoes, and spices in the North.
He unveiled that the shipments of canned gherkins to the
Netherlands, Russia, Germany, the US, Japan and the Republic of Korea earned
more than 50 percent of the firm’s total revenue. To expand its supply sources, Hagimex JSG has implemented
the cooperation model in Lac Thuy, he said.
Under the model, farmers receive seeds and insecticides in
advance, returning the cost to the company within 30 days after the crop ends. The
sides sign a contract that ensure growers a good ceiling price and on time
payment.
The model is proved effective, as the fruit is suitable to
land at local rice fields, needs low production cost, and can be harvested in
35 – 40 days on average, with harvest duration lasting up to 50 days. Each
hectare of gherkin plantation earned its growers 120 million per crop on
average. Local farmers can plant three crops a year. To date, 14 households in
Khoan Du, Thong Nhat, and Hung Thi have already participated in the model, with
their plantations spanning 1.4 hectares./.
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