The largest Tet flower village in Ho Chi Minh City is 'distorted' by the weather

TPO - Due to unfavorable weather, when the flower season began this year, some garden owners in Thoi An flower village (District 12) proactively reduced production, worried that the rain and sunshine would become more erratic towards the end of the year.

12/07/2024 | 06:18

TPO - Due to unfavorable weather, when the flower season began this year, some garden owners in Thoi An flower village (District 12) proactively reduced production, worried that the rain and sunshine would become more erratic towards the end of the year.

Thoi An flower village (District 12) is one of the flower gardens that supplies a large amount of flowers to the market during Tet.

These days, Thoi An flower village (District 12, Ho Chi Minh City) is busier than ever. At this time, almost all garden owners have begun to take care of the 2025 Tet flower crop.

This year, the erratic weather, hot sun, and heavy rain have significantly increased the cost of investment and care.

“The weather this December has been raining all the time, and we don’t know what will happen during the flowering period. Although there are solutions, it depends on the experience of each garden owner. However, the investment level will be 3 times higher than in previous years. And that means profits will decrease sharply,” said Mr. Le Phuoc Lam, owner of a flower garden in Thoi An ward.

Mr. Lam said the garden's total flower output is currently around 30,000 pots, however the number has decreased by more than 10,000 pots compared to last year.

The main reason was that last year's Tet flower season had too much inventory, economic difficulties caused many people to reduce purchases, and the erratic weather caused Mr. Lam's garden to also reduce planting.

Unstable prices and uncertain output make it difficult for flower growers to predict prices at this time. “Like every year, the average price of chrysanthemums in the market is from 100,000 - 150,000 VND, but during the Giap Thin Tet holiday, the price is only 70,000 - 80,000 VND,” Mr. Lam added.

Not as large as the flower farms in the West and Central regions, the flower villages in Thoi An ward are still busy taking care of and harvesting flowers to serve the market during the Lunar New Year.

This time before Tet, the flower village is busy from 6am to 11pm. Sometimes, when it rains heavily, the flowers do not stick to the branches, so the workers have to work overtime.

Not far from Mr. Lam's garden, Mrs. Trinh Thi Kim Lan's household also reduced its crop yield this year.

Ms. Lan said that she has only planted about 7,000 pots of Tet flowers, a decrease of about 1,000 pots compared to last year's crop.

"The number of Tet flowers has decreased every year since then. Compared to previous years, the number of flowers I planted has increased to tens of thousands of pots. Not to mention, in the middle of the year, heavy rain washed away seeds and fertilizers, and many seedlings had to be abandoned. I was also very sad, but what I had to do was to do it," Ms. Lan shared.

In Mrs. Lan’s garden, there are currently 6 workers working hard. Each worker here is in charge of a stage such as: hoeing the soil, weeding, watering the plants, fertilizing and picking off excess leaves on the plants…

To prepare for Tet, Mrs. Lan's garden planted flower seeds 4-6 months ago. Up to now, the seedlings have grown tall, put in pots and started the days of care.

Ms. Lan shared that every year, Tet flowers are very popular with customers, traders come to the garden to deposit, sometimes competing to buy. However, last year was completely different, customers disappeared, only 2 people came to buy flowers. Ms. Lan had to find a place to sell the remaining flowers herself throughout Ho Chi Minh City or bring them back to the garden to cut.

Flower gardeners all hope for favorable weather in the last months of the year, flowers blooming in time for Tet, high productivity and a more stable economic situation so that people and gardeners can celebrate Tet more happily.

Duy Anh

Source: https://tienphong.vn/lang-hoa-tet-lon-nhat-tphcm-meo-mat-vi-thoi-tiet-post1697871.tpo