The most impressive thing for us was that on the way to Ngoc Linh mountain, many villas were hidden in the mountain clouds. An official of the Department of Agriculture of Nam Tra My district, Quang Nam province, said: “Those are villas built from ginseng. Here, due to difficulty in transporting materials, each villa built costs money.” The cost is about 3 times more expensive than downland.
Mr. Ho Van Thang (39 years old, in Tra Linh commune, Nam Tra My district, Quang Nam province) shared: “Currently, my family has just accumulated to plant about 3,000 ginseng plants and temporarily mainly uses seeds to propagate. expand the area.
Because seeds and seedlings are too expensive, not everyone can afford to invest in a large area for this crop.” According to Mr. Thang, on average each seed sells for 120,000 VND. There are many households that only need to sell seeds. Ginseng also collects tens of billions of dong each year.
A ginseng garden in Quang Nam. Small photo: Villa of a ginseng growing household. Photo: TX
With nutritional content superior to many other famous ginseng types in the world, Vietnam’s Ngoc Linh ginseng is priced from 100 to more than 300 million VND/kg.
Unlike Quang Nam, in Tu Mo Rong district of Kon Tum, most ginseng growers are affiliated with businesses. Among them, businesses with large ginseng areas include Vingin Joint Stock Company (K5 ginseng brand), Ngoc Linh Tu Mo Rong Kon Tum Ginseng Joint Stock Company…
Mr. Chung (So Dang ethnic group) in Mang Ri commune, Tu Mo Rong district said: “I work as a ginseng garden guard for Ngoc Linh Kon Tum Ginseng Joint Stock Company, each month I get paid 5 million VND, including meals. stay and were given Ngoc Linh ginseng seedlings to plant at the end of the year according to the work completion rate.”
According to Mr. Chung, he currently has 5,000 ginseng plants. In 2022, Mr. Chung also sold 7kg of ginseng, built a spacious house and had money left over to buy a pickup truck.
Vice Chairman of Quang Nam Provincial People’s Committee Ho Quang Buu, who has visited the ginseng area many times, said that thanks to Ngoc Linh ginseng, in Nam Tra My district, there are many households buying 2 cars at the same time and building several villas. , annually collects tens of billions of dong.
And Mr. Ho Van The – Chairman of Tra Linh Commune People’s Committee said: The commune has 728 households, more than 3,000 people, and there are 678 households growing Ngoc Linh ginseng. In the commune, there are some “giants” of ginseng such as Mr. Nguyen Van Luong who has about 70,000 ginseng plants; Mr. Ho Van Du has about 100,000 trees; Mr. Ho Van Ben has 500,000 trees…
“Thanks to the Government’s Ngoc Linh ginseng planting project, from 2017 up to now, the commune’s poverty rate has decreased from 70% to 21.7%. In the commune, there are about 350 households with billions in hand and about 35 Households with billions of income each year, build villas, buy cars…” – Mr. The said.
