Source: Nguoiduatin.vn
Realizing that Malabar spinach is a familiar vegetable to Vietnamese farmers and consumers, Mr. Ngo Duc Manh in My Duc District, Hanoi City invested money and effort in a Malabar spinach farm.
Farmer Ngo Duc Manh’s farm was formed in 2019, the entire 6ha area was rented by him from local farmers for a fee of 800 thousand/acre/year. After many years of hard work getting rich and not hesitating to invest. On average, his family harvests one crop every 40 days. In particular, the average yield of Malabar spinach is 3-3.5 quintals/star/year. Revenue from Mr. Manh’s vegetable field reached an impressive level of about 3 billion/year.
Farmer Ngo Duc Manh introduces his billion-dollar spinach farm.
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The farm’s production of Malabar spinach is carried out according to VietGAP standards. Accordingly, the farm’s Malabar spinach products have just been evaluated by the People’s Committee of My Duc district in 2023, meeting the 3-star OCOP criteria.
Not only enriching Mr. Ngo Duc Manh’s family, the owner of the Malabar spinach farm also created stable jobs for 15 – 20 local workers, with an income of 5 – 8 million VND/person/person. month.
Malabar spinach products are supplied to the Winmart supermarket system, industrial catering units, and some boarding schools.
Remembering the days of starting a business in the fields, Mr. Manh shared with him Industry and Consumptiong, experience is reality, before establishing this spinach farm, I had built about 4 agricultural production models in many places such as My Duc, Hoa Binh, winning and losing. When I first started the farm, the first year because I didn’t carefully study the soil, the vegetables had curled leaves and red tops and couldn’t be sold. After that, we learned from experience, perfected the production stages, and applied VietGAP standards correctly. Up to now, production activities are stable, vegetables are of high quality, ensuring sufficient supply to the market and to demanding distribution units.
Realizing the need for an expanding clean vegetable market, in 2023 he joined OCOP. The same spinach product of Mr. Ngo Duc Manh was rated by the Product Evaluation and Classification Council (OCOP) of My Duc district to meet the 3-star criteria.
Ngo Duc Manh’s vast farm of spinach. Normally, Malabar spinach is grown and harvested twice a year, from February to April and August to September.
Sharing more about this, Mr. Ngo Duc Manh excitedly said, to achieve 3-star OCOP, we received the attention and guidance of the commune and district to perfect the criteria. This process helps us improve production activities, ensure improved quality and labels to the market to increase product recognition. I believe that VietGAP certification and OCOP certification are important certificates for us to confidently provide products to partners and consumers.
Some benefits of eating Malabar spinach
100g of Malabar spinach contains:
Water: 91.4 g
Energy: 245 kcal
Carbs: 11 g
Fat: 1 g
Protein: 4.8 g
Vitamin A: 10370 UI (6.9g)
Vitamin B: 0.1 mg (9% recommended daily value)
Vitamin C: 239 mg (288% recommended daily value)
Calcium: 204 mg (20% of recommended daily value)
Iron: 3 mg (23% of recommended daily value)
Phosphorus: 98 mg (14% of recommended daily value)
Potassium: 457 mg (10% of recommended daily value)
Sodium: 25 mg (2% of recommended daily value)
Zinc: 0.94 mg (10% of recommended daily value)
– Weight loss: Like other green vegetables, spinach also contains natural substances such as flavonoids, fiber and water that can keep you full for a long time, thus preventing overeating. In addition, eating spinach also allows you to control your weight, because for every 100 grams of spinach, there is only 1 gram of fat.
– Good for hormones: Malabar spinach leaves contain estrogen, this estrogen content provides a hormonal effect that can trigger more abundant breast milk production, therefore it is very beneficial for mothers who are breastfeeding. Breastfeeding.
– Supplement antioxidants: Compared to some other vegetables, spinach is known to have high levels of antioxidants including polyphenols and other antioxidants, which have the function of protecting muscle cells. protect against damage and inflammation caused by free radicals.
– Very good for the eyes: Malabar spinach contains high levels of β-carotene – a precursor of vitamin A, so spinach helps prevent eye disorders and is especially good for eye health.
– Fast wound healing: This vegetable contains vitamin C which can help form collagen, which is an important protein needed for skin cells to recover from wounds. By eating spinach regularly it can help the skin healing process so that the necessary recovery time is much faster.
– Prevent bacterial infections: Ethanol extract contained in spinach can prevent pneumonia and septicemia caused by infection with klebisella pneumonia and staphylococcus auerus bacteria. In fact, these two types of bacteria live in the human intestines and nose in harmless quantities. But in some conditions when the growth is uncontrolled and causes infection, you can support treatment by eating spinach, according to Health of life.
Malabar spinach has many health benefits, but some studies have shown that consuming too much dark green foods can cause side effects such as serious lung function impairment. In addition, consuming too much spinach can also affect health such as causing insomnia, hindering calcium absorption, loss of appetite, etc. Accordingly, you should not eat spinach every day, instead you should You should only eat spinach with a maximum amount of 50g/day and do not eat it continuously for a long time. Besides, you should eat a combination of many different types of green vegetables to have a balanced diet.
