Ginseng forest is planted

A Ngoc Linh ginseng forest of 140 hectares has been cultivated 'secretly' for the past 13 years completely in natural conditions between the newly announced primeval old forest.

According to VTV , this ginseng forest, grown on the top of Mount Ngoc Linh, Kon Tum province, where the altitude is over 2,000 meters above sea level. With 140 hectares of Ngoc Linh ginseng, each hectare produces at least 1 ton of ginseng, at current market prices, it can collect 50 billion VND.

VTV quoted Tran Hoan, chairman of the Board of Directors - CEO of Ngoc Linh Ginseng Joint Stock Company, said: ' At one point we had to buy up to 50 million VND / kg of ginseng, while its survival rate was only from 30 -40%. For decades, we have spread people around communes with ginseng. When people get it, we buy it and bring it back to the forest . '

Ngoc Linh Ginseng Forest is planted secretly. Photo: SGTT

With the announcement of 140 ha of ginseng garden, the problem of varieties, the biggest difficulty in the strategy of replicating this precious medicinal species has been solved. Particularly this year, Ngoc Linh Ginseng Garden 140 ha will provide 1 million seedlings, equivalent to 20 hectares of new plantations.

The government has also advocated to introduce Ngoc Linh ginseng into 3 national medicinal products. However, only when the 140-hectare 'secret' ginseng garden is announced, can the sustainable development of local people through this medicinal plant become really feasible. It is expected that Ngoc Linh ginseng will be supplied to the market from the end of this year.

It is known that Ngoc Linh ginseng is an extremely rare medicinal plant, only in extremely high mountains of a few districts of Kon Tum and Quang Nam in the Ngoc Linh system (with a peak of 2,598m). Ngoc Linh ginseng was soon exhausted and at risk of extinction due to intense hunting after the discovery date (1973). Ngoc Linh Ginseng is ranked first in the Vietnam Red Data Book (1994).

Efforts to save precious ginseng, since the 1990s, the functional industry in Quang Nam, Kon Tum has set up the points of growing ginseng around Ngoc Linh mountain, which has high altitude and suitable conditions for development. of Ngoc Linh ginseng.

Overcoming a series of difficulties, from the organizational mechanism - the key to growing the ginseng in the highlands far away, far away, to groping for searching techniques of cultivation, care, in the end, over ten years now Tra Linh - belonging to Quang Nam Pharmaceutical Company, has not only preserved genetic resources but also developed Ngoc Linh ginseng into an economic crop. Since 2008, the company has sold Ngoc Linh ginseng to the market.

For 5 years, some residents of Ngoc Linh - indigenous Xo-dang people in Nam Tra My district (Quang Nam) and Tu Mo Rong district (Kon Tum) have opened the golden season of precious ginseng. Many household heads in Tra Linh (Nam Tra My) in addition to selling ginseng (from 5 to 7 years old) also have income from selling seedlings of ginseng to local people, even to residents of Tu Mo Rong.