Hanoi: Farmers busy harvesting mulberry

In Hoai Duc, after busy days with ripe silver berry fruits, it is now the time for farmers to harvest mulberries. The season is less than a month long, ending in mid-April (Photo: Vietnam+)

People here said that mulberries grow quickly and are quite easy to grow. For breeding, farmers need to extract the stems carefully. After one year, the mulberry tree is ready for harvest (Photo: Vietnam+)

For nearly a month now, many farmers here are happy when the 2019 mulberry season comes. At the beginning of the season, the price of fruit is high, reaching 20,000 VND/ kg, each garden can earn millions of dong per day (Photo: Vietnam+)

Mulberries are grown by farmers in areas along the Day River such as Duong Lieu (Hoai Duc) and Hiep Thuan (Phuc Tho) because of fertile soil, good nutrition and consistent with the growth characteristics of mulberry trees (Photo: Vietnam+)

Traders will buy mulberries from households that grow mulberries for a long time, in large numbers. Delicious strawberries are brought to the South to sell. Individual households often sell the fruit to markets outside the center of Hanoi (Photo: Vietnam+)

Ripe strawberries are sweet. (Photo: Vietnam+)

Ripe mulberries are juicy, too (Photo: Vietnam+)

Most customers buy mulberries to soak in sugar. In summer, you can make mulberry juice to cool down (Photo: Vietnam+)

Each mulberry farmer here takes advantage of one to two acres of topsoil to grow mulberries to earn extra income (Photo: Vietnam+)

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