By the end of June, the export volume of pepper has reached 70,000 tons, earning more than 420 million US dollars, equal to the total pepper export turnover of the whole year 2010.
Good harvest, high prices help many farmers change their lives, but also poses challenges in planning.
According to forecasts by Do Ha Nam, Chairman of the Vietnam Pepper Association, this year the export revenue from pepper will surpass 600 million US dollars, an increase of more than 180 million US dollars compared to 2010.
Pepper prices from now to the beginning of 2012 are forecast to remain high because during the period from the end of October to January 2012, the supply of pepper from countries like Vietnam, Brazil, Indonesia is not much, does not meet the demand. demand of the world.
In addition, according to Mr. Nam, due to the high price, people in the Central Highlands provinces tend to cut down some economically inefficient crops, even deforest to get pepper land in the hope that they will get rich from the trees. pepper. Therefore, the planning of pepper cultivation area will be broken and more seriously, the deforestation for cultivation will be able to spread, negatively affecting the ecological environment.
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