Professor Nguyen Lan Dung wants to turn wild plants into specialty vegetables

Forest vegetables are not only strange, harmless, and rich in nutrients, but also do not have deep so they do not need to use pesticides.

Every year, Vietnam spends 774 million USD to import 100,000 tons of pesticides, including 4,100 plant protection drugs belonging to 1,643 active ingredients, 90% imported from China. Meanwhile, China only allows the use of 630 plant protection drugs. The frequent occurrences of poisoning and dirty food that accounts for 35% of the causes of cancer are understandable consequences.

In order for people to no longer consider self-cultivation of vegetables as the only way to have clean vegetables, the State should encourage the creation of safe vegetable production chains, supermarkets regain their confidence by only importing safe vegetables.

Professor Nguyen Lan Dung.

I have the initiative to build 2 safe vegetable production facilities, packaging says: "Responsible for not using chemical pesticides and chemical nitrogen fertilizers". These facilities are net houses for farmers to grow vegetables and print on their own barcode packaging for each household. If the authorities detect pesticides or chemical fertilizers, the household must share responsibility with the company.

In addition, I think that popular wild plants should be grown and turned into specialty vegetables. Once, in Dak Lak, I was able to eat a very good vegetable, I asked for a name. It was known that people just called it a vegetable and started planting it for sale. I have put this vegetable to pilot in Hanoi.

I have many occasions through China and many restaurants advertise using wild vegetables but have been widely cultivated. The country has statistics on 400 types of forest trees that can eat leaves, flowers and fruits. Forest vegetables are not only strange, harmless, and rich in nutrients, but also do not have deep so they do not need to use pesticides.

China has published many meticulous books, colored pictures of hundreds of wild vegetables being used. Vietnam has also published the book "Names of Vietnamese forest trees" (Agricultural Publishing House 2000). The book of 3 Vietnamese episodes of Prof. Pham Hoang Ho (Young Publisher 1999-2000) also describes the biological characteristics of many wild plants.

How to widely plant edible forest vegetables to provide for people regularly, the cultivation process does not need to use toxic pesticides? In my opinion, this important issue deserves a state-level topic. Botanists should also print books with color photos and guidelines for growing, harvesting and preserving forest vegetables.