(HBO) - According to Ms. Pham Huyen Lieu, the Head of Ky Son Commune Agricultural and Forestry Encouragement Station, planting medicinal plants (sachi trees with red turmeric) has brought the higher income at 2- 7 times in the first year and 8-20 times from the second year onwards compared with planting popular local plants. In addition, this helps the formation of concentrated production areas. The link between producing and consuming sachi-red turmeric, which was implemented by the district from 2017 to 2018, has shown the efficiency and has become the basis of multiplication in the area.


The household in Mo village, Dan Ha commune (Ky Son) participates in expanding the area of sachi planting with red turmeric and consumption in 2017 - 2018.

Six households participating in 2018 in the direction of linking the production and consumption of sachi with red turmeric with the area of ​​6 hectares. The project of linking - selling products in the value chain in 2017 - 2018 of the district was assigned to the Agricultural – Forestry Encouragement Station as the investor; INCA Vietnam joint Stock Company is the implementing unit; the People's Committees of the Project – Area Communes are the coordinating units. The funding is from the national target program to build new rural area with a total capital of over 850 million VND, 400 million VND of which is from the State budget, the local people contributed over 300 million VND, the enterprise contributed nearly 140 million VND. The households participating in the project will be supported 50% of the value of sachi seeds, 80% of the value of the turmeric seeds. They were provided with technical training and the enterprises provided 100% of the fertilizer money and 50% of seed money. With the application of advanced technology in plant care and preservation, the cultivation of sachi with red turmeric with the oganic method using no chemical fertilizers and herbicides, the model has contributed to protect the ecological environment, greening the bare land, increasing the efficiency of land use, diversifying agricultural products, creating sustainability in production.

According to the investigation and evaluation of the model in the first year, the average yield of sachi with red turmeric was 180-300 million VND / hectare / year (including leaves, fruits and turmeric). Meanwhile, on the same acreage, cassava plantation has an average income of 30 million VND / hectare / year or 80 million VND / hectare / year with arrowroot plantation.

 

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