Vietnam: Farmers anxious about Tet fruit season

Fruit growers in Vietnam are facing challenges due to erratic weather, drought, heat, and heavy rains, leading to diseases and low yields of crops such as grapefruit, mango, custard apple, and pomelo for the Lunar New Year. The red scale insect pest has caused significant damage to grapefruit and pomelo trees, and gecko fungus disease is affecting dragon fruit. Prolonged heavy rains have also destroyed the Tet mango crop. As a result, farmers are spending large amounts of money on care and treatment, and there are concerns about the quality and quantity of fruits meeting export standards. The economic situation is expected to continue tightening consumer spending, making gardeners hesitant to invest in unique, high-price fruits for the Lunar New Year.

This year, fruit growers for the Lunar New Year have encountered many difficulties due to the erratic weather, drought and heat in the dry season, and heavy rains in the rainy season. In particular, for some fruit trees that are consumed strongly during Tet such as grapefruit, mango, custard apple, etc., many diseases have appeared, farmers have to spend money to take care of the trees but the yield may be low, even missing the Tet harvest. Diseases appear frequently on Tet crops In recent years, grapefruit prices have often been low, this crop is no longer in the top in terms of profit as before. Poor profits have caused many gardeners to no longer focus on taking care of their gardens, affecting productivity. In addition, diseases on grapefruit trees have also appeared more frequently, causing great damage to growers. Mr. Thang Van Tu (living in Song Thao commune, Trang Bom district) said that since the beginning of the year, the red scale insect has been raging on ...