Currently, farmers in specialized durian growing areas in Tien Giang province are starting to harvest the off-season, which is expected to last until the next Lunar New Year. Durian prices are also increasing sharply at this time.
Currently, Ri6 durian traders buy from 135,000 – 140,000 VND/kg, an increase of about 30% compared to last month. With an average yield of 20 – 25 tons/ha, each hectare harvested at the right time, after deducting costs, farmers earn a profit of no less than several billion VND.
Mr. Nguyen Van Hieu planted 2,000 m2 of durian in Cam Son commune, Cai Lay district, said that although durian has a high price, this year’s bad weather and hydrology are complicated, with severe drought in the dry season and still in the rainy season. The storms lasted for a long time, so many farmers lost their crops because the plants did not flower. If they did flower, it was very difficult to bear fruit and productivity decreased a lot.
Accordingly, usually, around April or May every year, farmers begin to process the crop and the durian garden will be harvested from November onwards. At this time, durian has a high price and farmers earn high profits.
In addition, due to the impact of drought in the recent dry season, durian gardens were exhausted, so many households cut the crop without processing it, but took care of it to restore it to prepare for the next crop in 2025. Supply is low and limited in Large domestic and export market demand is also one of the reasons why durian prices increased sharply during the off-season in Tien Giang.
According to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Tien Giang province, durian is one of the specialty fruits with high economic value and is an important source of local agricultural exports.
The entire province has over 22,000 hectares of durian, concentrated in the western flood control districts and towns: Cai Lay, Cai Be, Cai Lay town, Chau Thanh… with an annual output of about 440,000 tons of fruit.
To further promote the strengths of specialty crops, the locality focuses on transferring intensive farming techniques and encouraging farmers to synchronously apply scientific methods to achieve high productivity and output. Especially, it is necessary to spread the crop to harvest during the off-season of the year, avoiding heavy harvest during the main season to reduce the risk of over-season, market failure, and price loss.
At the same time, in an effort to take advantage of the opportunity for durian fruit to be officially exported to China and other markets, Tien Giang is interested in building planting area codes and packaging facility codes to serve official exports. durian to the Chinese market as well as other countries.
According to Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Tien Giang province Tran Hoang Nhat Nam, the whole province currently has 409 export fruit growing areas with a total area of over 25,000 hectares; Among them, there are 155 durian growing area codes with a total area of nearly 7,000 hectares, creating agricultural raw material areas granted official export status to China.
Thanks to favorable durian exports and stable output, localities in the upstream flood control area of Tien Giang province, which have built large concentrated durian growing areas, are increasingly prosperous, prosperous and building. new rural success. Typically, Cai Lay district, Cai Lay town, Cai Be district located in the western flood control zone have been recognized for completing the goal of building new rural areas.
In particular, Long Khanh communes (Cai Lay town), Cam Son (Cai Lay district) in January 2024 also announced the successful launch of new model rural communes. These are localities that, thanks to the transformation towards “living with floods”, have built specialized durian growing areas with large commodity output, making important contributions to promoting socio-economic development and agricultural innovation. local industry – farmers – rural areas.
