Mr. Nguyen Viet Thanh’s family in Hamlet 2, Thanh Tam Commune, Chon Thanh District (Binh Phuoc) grows 1 ha of bamboo for bamboo shoots.
He cut bamboo shoots once every 2 days, each time he got over 350kg. This time is the main season, 1kg of bamboo shoots sold for 8,000 VND.
From October to December is the off-season bamboo shoot season, 1kg of off-season bamboo shoots costs over 20,000 VND. Every year, his family earns at least 400 million VND from growing bamboo for bamboo shoots.
Mr. Thanh said that bamboo is not too complicated a crop, just watering and fertilizing is a tree for bamboo shoots, the economic efficiency is equal to that of durian. If you can make bamboo shoots out of season, the price will be even higher.
The bamboo garden of Mr. Nguyen Viet Thanh’s family, Thanh Tam commune, Chon Thanh district (Binh Phuoc) produces many bamboo shoots thanks to proper care. Thanks to growing bamboo for bamboo shoots, Mr. Thanh earns 400 million dong each year.
Seeing the effect from growing bamboo for bamboo shoots, more than 5 years ago when the price of rubber continuously decreased, Ms. Nguyen Thi Tuyen’s family in Hamlet 2, Thanh Tam Commune saw 7 rubber trees and switched to growing bamboo for bamboo shoots.
Up to now, each year, her family collects regarding 20 tons of bamboo shoots, earning 170 million dong, following deducting the cost of pruning and fertilizer.
Ms. Tuyen said that growing bamboo is much more leisurely than growing rubber, so she doesn’t have to stay up all night. A year, farmers only need to dig the surrounding soil and cover it with bamboo roots once, then water and fertilize to have bamboo shoots harvested. In the harvest season, bamboo shoots are cut once a day in the early morning and traders come to the garden to buy them.
Growing bamboo for bamboo shoots is a way to make money in the style of “playing and eating” because the effort is not much but has a good income.
Regarding the density of bamboo growing for bamboo shoots, an average of 1 ha can grow 300 bamboo bushes, costing 50 million VND, following 1 year of planting, there are bamboo shoots. Three years later, each of these bamboo bushes produces over 500kg of bamboo shoots per year.
Thanh Tam commune, Chon Thanh district (Binh Phuoc) currently has regarding 150 hectares of bamboo for bamboo shoots. This is also the commune that grows the most bamboo for bamboo shoots in Binh Phuoc province.
Because of growing in one area, the export of bamboo shoots of the people here is also very convenient. The products made are bought by traders until there, over the years, bamboo shoots here have never been out of stock.
