Cinnamon season in Binh Lieu - Quang Ninh Electronic Newspaper

Binh Lieu is a typical land with many forestry trees of high economic value. In addition to anise, cinnamon is also one of the crops that are particularly suitable for the soil here. With 2 harvests a year, from February to the end of March of the lunar calendar, cinnamon growers in Binh Lieu focus on the spring harvest.

These days, when coming to Binh Lieu, we can easily see forests crowded with people harvesting cinnamon. In the spring cinnamon harvest of 2025, in Huc Dong commune, the locality with the largest cinnamon growing area in Binh Lieu district, people are busy harvesting. Since the end of March, Mr. Ly Van Chinh's house in Khe Mo village, Huc Dong commune has regularly hired 10-15 workers to harvest cinnamon in Thong Chau area. The entire cinnamon growing area that he planted since 2009 is now in the harvest stage.

CCC — Mr. Ly Van Chinh is gathering workers to harvest spring cinnamon in Khe Mo village, Huc Dong commune.

Mr. Ly Van Chinh said: With more than 1 hectare of cinnamon, on average, we harvest 2 tons of bark per day. Today is the 5th day of peeling cinnamon, so my family has harvested 10 tons of this year's crop. After deducting expenses, we also earned 200 million VND. After harvesting cinnamon, the family will start planting new forests in time for the season.

Afforestation and forest economic development are strengths that bring jobs and income to the people in the mountainous areas of Binh Lieu. According to statistics from the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Binh Lieu district, the cinnamon growing area of the district is currently 690 hectares in 7 communes, of which the largest is Huc Dong commune with more than 412 hectares. During the annual cinnamon harvest season, not only cinnamon is peeled in the forest but also the purchasing points of households are equally busy. Cinnamon peeled in the forest is transported by households to purchasing points for sale, then cinnamon sticks are selected and classified to be peeled and dried. As for cinnamon chips, they are pre-processed and then dried. It turns out that households harvest almost all of the cinnamon they grow.

Cinnamon purchasing points are being classified by households, peeled and dried.

Mr. Ly A Tinh's household, who both grows cinnamon and has a purchasing point in Khe Mo village, Huc Dong commune, said: My family grows 3 hectares, but this year's cinnamon crop, the family's harvested area is 0.5 hectares. The selling price of cinnamon sticks is 20,000 VND/kg, and cinnamon branches and cinnamon chips are also 14,000 VND/kg. Since the beginning of the cinnamon harvest season until now, the total harvest and purchase from the people has been about 20-30 tons of fresh cinnamon. Now at home, I am having workers sort and dry it for packaging for export units.

Forestry economic development has helped people in Binh Lieu district develop their household economy and increase their income. By the end of 2024, the average income per capita in the district has reached 75.5 million VND/person/year. The district's goal is to encourage people to continue to diversify economic development forms and apply scientific and technological advances to continuously increase their income, striving to achieve the goal of becoming a new rural district by the end of this year and the average income per capita in the area will reach 100 million VND/person/year.

After harvesting and sorting cinnamon, households take advantage of the sunny weather to dry it.

Mr. La Ngoc Duong, Head of the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Binh Lieu district, added: Currently, not only growing cinnamon, Binh Lieu has expanded the association of 4 households to grow organic cinnamon. In Huc Dong commune, the organic cinnamon planting model has been implemented with over 100 hectares, households with cinnamon planting areas have registered to implement. Currently, Huc Dong commune is propagating and guiding households to follow the instructions of specialized agencies to increase the value of cinnamon harvest in the area and aim to increase the area of organic cinnamon planting in the future.

Hai Ha

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