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Blossoming era for Da Lat flowers
Farmers in Da Lat city, dubbed a flower paradise in the Central Highlands, have been producing flower seeds for the past five years and begun exporting them to European countries, heralding in an end to the time seeds had to be imported and paving the way to sprout up the local floral sector.
Following the success of Dalat Hasfarm in importing fresh flowers, domestic and overseas enterprises signed contracts with the government to hire a land for planting flowers.
Dalat Flower Forest Biotechnology Corporation, established in 2003, has sold flowers into Japan since 2004. The company provided European-standard planting techniques for 20 farmers who hope to strike it rich.
The company sent its men to some European countries like the Netherlands and Belgium to learn how to graft flower tissues.
Moreover, it bought equipment and flower tissues and a 2,000 meter-squared lab to multiply some kinds of flowers like lily, chrysanthemum, Lys and others. A one-hectare greenhouse can supply 400,000 saplings a month.
In 2007, more than 3 million of cymbidium orchid saplings and over one million were sold to Belgium and Holland respectively.
The company plans to produce six million high quality young trees. Accordingly, it’s thanks to investment in equipments and techniques that the enterprise has supplied over 100 flowers, offering 100 employment and getting a turnover of nearly US$2 million.
The company at present supply flower seeds to Japanese farmers who previously bought from France, Poland and India but they now prefer Vietnamese because of low price and high quality.
The company’s director Nguyen Dinh Son said that his enterprise has rejected some contracts for fear that it doesn’t have enough to supply.
According to some foreign experts, a bright future for Da Lat flower seed is seen as the weather is suitable for all year round.
As forecast, the sector will bring the highland province of Lam Dong an annual turnover of US$5-6 million.
Dalat Flower Forest Biotechnology Corporation increase its capital from VND1 billion to VND7 billion, turning Vietnamese scientists’ dream come true – to export flowers and their seeds to European countries.
VNN
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