With the characteristics of being easy to grow, low investment costs, suitable for soil conditions, the Cayen honey pineapple growing model in Phu Khe commune, Cam Khe district has been bringing practical economic efficiency to the people.
Cayen honey pineapple grown in Phu Khe has delicious quality, beautiful appearance, high selling price, bringing practical economic efficiency to people.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Hong in Dong Muoi area, the first person to bring Cayen honey pineapple to plant locally, said: “Through research on mass media, I learned that in provinces such as Nghe An, Dak Lak... there is a Cayen honey pineapple variety with large, delicious fruit, high honey content, and a higher yield and selling price than domestic pineapple, which is favored by the market and people. In October 2020, I spent more than 10 million VND to buy 5,000 Cayen honey pineapple plants to intercrop with Thai jackfruit trees on an area of over 4,000m2 of my family's garden land.”
Due to its suitability to local soil conditions and being cared for by Ms. Hong according to instructions, the honey pineapple tree grew well. After 18 months of planting, the honey pineapple tree began to yield fruit with delicious quality, the product was easy to sell, and had a good price. Ms. Hong added: “Seeing my family successfully grow Cayen honey pineapple, some people in the commune followed suit. This year, the pineapple crop was better than previous years, and the price was also better; in addition to harvesting fruit, there is also additional income from selling seedlings, which is expected to bring higher income than previous years. In addition to more than 1 hectare being harvested, my family has 15,000 trees that will bear fruit next season.”
Through local monitoring, the Cayen honey pineapple variety has the advantage of being easy to grow, has few pests and diseases, does not require much care and is suitable for many different areas of land, especially hilly areas; the planting season is from July to October every year. After 18 months of planting, the fruit is harvested, the harvest period lasts from 2-3 months so people can proactively sell the product. Cayen honey pineapple has high yield, large fruit weighing 2-3kg, beautiful shape, shallow eyes, delicious quality, suitable for eating fresh, processing juice, canned food.
People of Phu Khe commune harvest Cayen honey pineapple
According to preliminary calculations, each hectare of Cayen honey pineapple can yield 7,000-10,000 fruits, currently with an average selling price of 20,000 VND/kg, the income can be 150-200 million VND/ha/crop. The products are purchased by traders and are currently not enough to supply the market.
In particular, not only for harvesting fruit, each Cayen honey pineapple tree has 3-5 more shoots so that people can proactively source seeds for the next crop. The remaining shoots are sold for 2,500-5,000 VND/shoot, helping to increase income.
Comrade Vu Ngoc Manh - Chairman of the Farmers' Association of Phu Khe commune said: "The whole commune currently has nearly 20 households participating in growing Cayen honey pineapple with an area of about 3 hectares, of which 6 households grow a lot with the number from more than 10,000 to more than 50,000 trees, mainly concentrated in Dong Muoi, Doai Trong, Luong Luu areas... The Cayen honey pineapple growing model in the locality has been and is bringing about efficiency, people inside and outside the province come to visit, learn from the experience and follow it successfully".
Given the practical effectiveness of the model, recently, the District Farmers' Association has come to inspect the situation to support people in replicating and expanding the scale of the model.
With the participation of the locality, the coordination of the Farmers' Association in training, guiding and transferring technical processes of planting and caring for people; creating conditions for people to expand the land area suitable for growing honey pineapple; increasing promotion, introduction, finding output for products; motivating and encouraging people to connect, move towards preliminary processing, processing to improve product quality, thereby promoting the advantages and potential of the locality.
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Source: https://baophutho.vn/hieu-qua-mo-hinh-trong-dua-mat-cayen-216067.htm
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