Mr. Truong Van Phuc, Tan Taym commune, Go Cong Dong district (Tien Giang province) shared: first, he bought passionfruit varieties at some famous production facilities in Soc Trang to plant, after a period of tinkering and researching. and tried but no success.
Due to salinity and drought, passion fruit trees do not grow well. Despite the initial failure, he continued to breed, thinking that domestic breeding could not be done, he continued to breed foreign varieties, so he started looking to buy imported passion fruit varieties from the US, Germany, and South Vietnam. Phi crossed with local passion fruit to find suitable passion fruit varieties in this land of Go Cong.
Finally, Mr. Phuc successfully bred and grafted the sweet pink passion fruit.
Mr. Truong Van Phuc (Tan Tay commune, Go Cong Dong district (Tien Giang province) shared his experience and guided visitors on how to grow this new sweet pink passion fruit variety.
Mr. Phuc added: “This passion fruit variety when ripe has a pink skin, yellow flesh, sweet taste, can be eaten fresh like some other fruits without having to be mixed like normal passion fruit. In particular, sweet passion fruit has many outstanding advantages such as: large fruit about 200 grams / fruit, high yield.
Sweet pink passion fruit is quite easy to grow, after 3 to 4 months it gives very drunk fruit, each passion fruit has one fruit, this passion fruit variety is very suitable for the coastal land of Go Cong because of its drought tolerance, high salinity”.
Currently, Mr. Phuc has planted 500 sweet pink passion fruit trees on an area of 6,500m2 of his family that are starting to bear fruit, Mr. Phuc has started selling a small amount of sweet pink passion fruit for people to try, priced from 100,000 up to 120,000 VND/kg.
Besides, Mr. Phuc also combined the construction into an ecological sightseeing site “Go Cong Lemon Garden” with the highlight of the passion fruit garden for giant fruit, combined with canoeing around the passion fruit garden, enjoying refreshing drinks. thirst is made from passion fruit. At the same time, serving rustic dishes of the homeland.
Truong Van Phuc also combines a free canoe tour around the sweet pink passion fruit garden in (Tan Tay commune, Go Cong Dong district (Tien Giang province).
Huynh Minh Trung, a resident of Hamlet 4, Tan Tay Commune (Go Cong Dong District, Tien Giang Province) was one of the first groups of guests to visit Hong Ngot Passion Fruit Garden on the opening day. Visiting this place, I feel quite comfortable, suitable for families and many people who like idyllic, close to nature to visit. In particular, we can see the sweet pink passion fruit and directly enjoy the delicious food and beverage from passion fruit.”
Currently, Mr. Truong Van Phuc’s sweet pink passion fruit garden is starting to harvest fruit
In the coming time, Mr. Truong Van Phuc will continue to research on grafting with some other plants such as lemons, longan, etc. to soon cover the lemon rig, and at the same time produce many new products to serve farmers. demand.
It is known that Mr. Phuc’s sweet pink passion fruit variety is currently being researched by some farmers in the area and ordered to buy it for trial planting, in order to implement the policy of changing crop structure instead of inefficient rice, contributing to local economic development.
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