Nhat Tan peach trees are imported from highlands to replant, ready for Tet season.

Nearly 4 months since storm No. 3 made landfall, flooding many fields, the owners of Nhat Tan peach and kumquat gardens (Hanoi) are reviving them in many different ways, including importing roots from other localities.

With half a month to go until the Lunar New Year, the peach gardens in Nhat Tan village still show no signs of blooming like every year. The pink and red patches of the most meaningful spring-welcoming ornamental tree in the North are still quite sparse.

In gardens that were flooded in September due to the impact of Typhoon Yagi, garden owners have just imported roots from Bac Giang and several other provinces to replant after cutting down dead peach trees.

Meanwhile, many peach growers near the Red River have switched to growing short-term flower varieties, or nurturing peach buds to serve the upcoming Tet holiday.

Households specializing in digging forests are now bustling to transport roots from mountainous provinces such as Lang Son, Son La, Dien Bien, Ha Giang to plant. Each large root like this imported to Nhat Tan garden costs up to 3-4 million VND.

At Manh Hung garden, many new peach trees were planted about 2 weeks ago. Workers are gradually removing the plastic covers so that the buds can grow well.

The gardener said that the price of each medium-sized peach tree like this ranges from several hundred thousand to more than 1 million VND. “This year, most households that suffered losses will find it difficult to recover their capital quickly. Planting 100 peach trees, it is impossible for all 100 to survive, even half of them are lucky. Every year, it depends on the weather. Don’t think that this profession in Nhat Tan is very rich when you see each tree being sold for a million VND or more,” said the female gardener.

Many peach trees in some gardens have gradually bloomed, just in time for Tet.

A few peach trees were blooming bright pink in the sun.

At Tu Lien flower village, adjacent to Nhat Tan garden, kumquat gardens in high places that were not flooded by the flood 4 months ago are now full of fruit. Many visitors have come here since this time to easily choose beautiful trees.

At a kumquat garden that suffered billions in damage due to flooding in September, workers were transporting kumquats from another garden with the same owner to a more beautiful area to display and welcome visitors. The manager said that due to the flooding caused by storm No. 3, he had to spend hundreds of millions of dong in labor costs to transport the kumquats to higher ground.

According to a reporter’s survey, the price of flowers is not much higher than in previous years. The man transporting goods to customers in the photo said that the kumquat tree behind him costs 2 million VND.

Nhat Tan Ward, Tay Ho District has 802 households engaged in peach growing. During the historic flood in September 2024, 80 out of 90 hectares of peach growing land were flooded, more than 20,000 peach trees were submerged, causing total damage of 85 billion VND.

Vietnamnet.vn

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