Urban kids enjoy harvesting lychees as actual farmers

Thanh Ha district in Hai Duong province is renowned for lychee gardens. They here have been welcoming many urban families coming to experience farmers’ life as lychee now is in harvest season.
Urban kids enjoy harvesting lychees as actual farmers ảnh 1This plant is a direct successive generation of a 200-year-old lychee tree in Thanh Ha district, Hai Duong province. It belongs to Ha Thi Hai (94 years old)’s family in Ha Truong hamlet, Thanh Cuong commune (Photo: Vietnam+)
Urban kids enjoy harvesting lychees as actual farmers ảnh 2Ha Thi Hai (R), owner of the tree, reveals her family used to harvest nearly one tonne of lychees from this old tree in 1996 (Photo: Vietnam+)
Urban kids enjoy harvesting lychees as actual farmers ảnh 3Ha Thi Hai’s son Le Duc Kinh says, as the tree has been trimmed to be taken care more easily, now it can only produce four to five tonnes of lychees (Photo: Vietnam+)
Urban kids enjoy harvesting lychees as actual farmers ảnh 4The total area of Thanh Ha lychee in Hai Duong stands at 10,000ha, which are expected to produce more than 40,000 tonnes this year. The province has so far earned over VND 1.1 trillion (USD 47.28 million) from the local specialty (Photo: Vietnam+)
Urban kids enjoy harvesting lychees as actual farmers ảnh 5Lychees from Thanh Ha district is renowned for its fragrant and sweet taste (Photo: Vietnam+)
Urban kids enjoy harvesting lychees as actual farmers ảnh 6Ha Thi Hai picks ripen lychees for kids visiting her lychee garden (Photo: Vietnam+)
Urban kids enjoy harvesting lychees as actual farmers ảnh 7Urban kids enjoy picking lychees on their own like actual farmers (Photo: Vietnam+)
Urban kids enjoy harvesting lychees as actual farmers ảnh 8Not only are kids delightful when experiencing farmers’ life, but their parents are also excited when picking fresh lychees (Photo: Vietnam+)
Urban kids enjoy harvesting lychees as actual farmers ảnh 9A kid expresses her excitement when eating freshly-picked lychees under a tree canopy (Photo: Vietnam+)
Urban kids enjoy harvesting lychees as actual farmers ảnh 10Lychee gardens in Thanh Ha district is an ideal getaway destination for families with kids (Photo: Vietnam+)
Urban kids enjoy harvesting lychees as actual farmers ảnh 11Kids playing games in the lychee garden (Photo: Vietnam+)
Urban kids enjoy harvesting lychees as actual farmers ảnh 12Families pose for pictures under the canopy of a lychee tree (Photo: Vietnam+)
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