These days, Ms. Nguyen Thi Nhu Quynh (41 years old), residing in Quang Lap commune, Don Duong district, Lam Dong, and her relatives are busy welcoming visitors from inside and outside the province to visit her tangerine garden. In the garden, visitors can enjoy ripe fruit, experience harvesting, and buy products.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Nhu Quynh said that her family used to grow bananas and some other plants to develop the economy, but the income was not significant.

In 2016, after a trip to the Western provinces, Quynh and her husband realized that growing tangerine trees could improve their income, so they decided to buy seeds for production.

"With available capital and loans, the family converted 1 hectare of bananas to grow tangerines. After improving the land, we installed a water-saving irrigation system and planted the seeds.

In the early days, due to lack of experience, the family encountered many difficulties in growing tangerines. Therefore, the couple had to go to tangerine gardens in the area to learn and grasp knowledge and production techniques," Ms. Nguyen Thi Nhu Quynh shared.

According to the garden owner, by 2019, the tangerine trees began to produce fruit with a total yield of about 1 ton. From 2020 to now, the tangerine garden has been for business with a yield of 10-15 tons/year.

Ms. Quynh's family's tangerine garden will ripen and be harvested between December 2024 and February 2025.

Ms. Quynh said: "In the 2023 crop, the family harvested 15 tons of fruit with a selling price of 25,000 VND to 40,000 VND/kg. This year, the tangerine yield is higher, we expect to harvest about 17 tons of fruit. The family is selling tangerines to partners and tourists at an average price of 25,000 VND/kg."

Ms. Quynh added that her family's tangerine garden became "famous" from the 2023 Tet season. At that time, seeing that tourists came to the locality for tourism and wanted to experience picking fruit in the garden, the family opened the garden to welcome visitors. The good news spread far and wide, this year's Tet tangerine crop, Ms. Quynh's family welcomed dozens of visitors every day.

Thanks to productivity and new directions, this year's Tet tangerine crop, Ms. Nguyen Thi Nhu Quynh's family is expected to earn hundreds of millions of dong.

An official from Quang Lap commune, Don Duong district, said that tangerines are a new crop that local people have introduced into production. Currently, Quang Lap commune has about 1.4 hectares of tangerines for harvest, of which Ms. Quynh's family owns 1 hectare.

It is known that tangerines have high economic value, contributing to improving income, so some households in Quang Lap commune are expanding production area.