Busy and waiting
Coming to Sa Dec Flower Village these days, you can feel the busy, urgent atmosphere of the farmers. All are carefully preparing for a special flower crop, the flower crop to welcome the Flower Festival, to welcome tourists.
These days, Ms. Tran Thi Kim Huong (An Hoa ward, Sa Dec city, Dong Thap province) is busy taking care of more than 15,000 flower baskets of various kinds including: Firecrackers, periwinkles, toadstools... to bloom in time to supply for the Ornamental Flower Festival.
Unlike previous years, this flower crop, Ms. Huong is very excited to grow flowers because she has secured the output: “I ordered seeds from the city and they sent them to me and I sowed them myself. Currently, the plants are growing well and are ready to be put in large pots. Although I am very excited but also worried about being ordered to supply flowers for the Festival, I have to try to take care of them so that they bloom at the right time and achieve quality.”
Similarly, the garden of more than 8,000m2 of Mr. Huynh Huu Phuoc (An Hoa ward, Sa Dec city) is also growing tens of thousands of flower baskets of all kinds to supply the Sa Dec Flower Festival and the 2024 Lunar New Year market. This year, Mr. Phuoc grows flowers such as: Raspberry chrysanthemum, tiger chrysanthemum, Taiwan chrysanthemum, toad star, coconut vegetable...
According to Mr. Phuoc, the weather this year is not very favorable, but with more than 20 years of experience growing flowers, he can confidently handle the blooming in time for the festival. “In previous years, I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to sell all the flowers when growing Tet flowers, but this year I have orders for all the flowers, so I feel more secure. This year I’m growing more. In addition to the flowers ordered for the festival, I’m also growing more to sell during Tet,” Mr. Phuoc shared.
Ready for the Festival
The first Sa Dec Ornamental Flower Festival in 2023 will take place from December 30, 2023 to January 5, 2024 with the theme "Love of the land - Love of flowers" and many activities are expected to create a new driving force for tourism in Sa Dec city.
To prepare for this event, the People's Committee of Sa Dec city ordered farmers to plant a large number of ornamental flowers for decoration.
Accordingly, the People's Committee of Sa Dec City assigned the specialized sector to order farmers to plant a total of more than 200,000 flower baskets with 29 different types of flowers to decorate the main areas where the events took place and decorate the streets. Among them, the Tan An Ornamental Flower Cooperative (An Hoa Ward, Sa Dec City) received an order of more than 50,000 pots of various types. These days, members of the cooperative are also actively taking care of the flowers to ensure there is enough supply according to the order.
Mr. Dang Quang Giau - Head of the Tan An Ornamental Flower Cooperative - said: The Tan An Ornamental Flower Cooperative has 11 members. In addition to allocating the number of flowers to the members of the Cooperative, neighboring households are also assigned to participate in planting to ensure there is enough supply for the event.
“We base on the strengths of each farmer in the group to decide what kind of plants to plant. The cooperative has also informed the farmers about the Festival, flower delivery time, etc. to proactively calculate the appropriate planting time. In general, up to this point, the ordered flowers are growing well, and the farmers in the cooperative are actively taking care of the plants so that they bloom on time,” Mr. Giau shared.
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