Peach blossoms "laugh", growers worry

In addition to a few gardeners who "play to" to build houses, install air conditioners for Tet, the vast majority of people who grow peaches in the North this year face great losses because of the weather.

To prepare to dig for the approaching New Year, Mr. Le Ham (53 years old, Nhat Tan ward, Tay Ho district, Hanoi) - owner of That That peach garden - said that he is less worried now that he has invested in building a house. and install air conditioner for peach tree. "I am more active in the process of taking care, so I do not worry when the weather is erratic, there will definitely be a beautiful peach to play Tet" - Mr. Ham said.

However, very few people dare to invest like Mr. Ham. “I've been working as a peach since I was 13 years old, but there's never been a year of digging as early as this year. Worried day and night, the sun worries about blooming, cold hours, but the rain falls, and the flowers are described ”- Ms. Nguyen Thi Cau (64 years old, Nhat Tan peach village) shared.

There are only ten more days until the Lunar New Year, but Ms. Le Thi Hien (62 years old, Uy No flower village, Dong Anh, Hanoi) is not a bit excited because according to her, there is still digging to sell Tet. It was hot, and her whole field of peach blossoms intended to sell Tet was "blooming like a smile" from a while ago ... more than half a month, now it is falling, just bare branches ...

Ms. Hien said: "Heavenly men do not love poor people at all. My family's 250-root peach field has been blooming since the early days of December, this Tet is considered to be lost ”.

For more than a decade, according to Ms. Hien, there were only a few years of winning tricks, and most of them "failed". There is a year when the peach blossom is too early, the year is so cold, after the peach blossom, the family fails ...

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Visiting Uy No cherry blossom village in mid-December, in the same situation as Mrs. Hien, many peasants have blossoming in their fields, while there are still ten days to Tet.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Huong, owner of a 300-root peach blossom field, said: “The schedule for plucking peach leaves is still the same as every year, 45-50 days before Tet, but every winter is as sunny as summer, so dig out buds then bloom in just a few dozen days plucking leaves. Anything good at braking will give up ”.

Ms. Mai, a neighbor next to Huong's house, told me that every peach farmer here regretted it, cutting peaches to sell early to sell any or any money. But according to Ms. Mai, the price of a cherry blossom branch that bloomed early on the New Year's day should have sold several hundred thousand dong, now it is only thirty and thirty thousand. Because it is still a normal day, some people buy to play, expensive they do not buy ...

Not only Uy No peach village, in many peach growing localities in Hanoi, Bac Ninh, Hung Yen ... all suffer from the same scene when the new year is still blooming.

Mr. Le Tuan Nam - who grows cherry blossoms in Thuong Tin (Hanoi), for a dozen days now often transports peaches to cut branches to sell at Quang Ba flower market - confided: “Not only me, my wife, my children, my relatives practice Trung helps my family cut peaches to sell soon. Investment in fertilizer, then labor ... but this year has suffered heavy losses. If I sell all 500 peach trees that bloom early before Tet, my family can collect only a few tens of million dong, but if the same number of trees are sold on the occasion of Tet, the income must be over a hundred million ”.