In Hanoi and other Vietnamese cities, this time of this year, Kumquat trees fastened to motorcycle seats, touched through traffic in a fog. Families get them as luck for the Lunar New Year, which began the symbols of chance and Wednesday.
This year, a crop collection for kumquats and other decorating plants related to a tailway and extreme heat, a tet of TET in Vietnamese. Some people bought small kumquats or crossed less expensive options like orchids or Palm branches.
The decoration plant farmers are now stuck with no longer sold inventory after swinging monthly prices in the market. In the case of Kumquats, wholesale prices rose first due to a limited supply. Then the lack of demand for consumer jitters and squares for a perceptive to make this year's golf ball size look very pretty.
Nguyen Thi Hoa, who said, “We are all sad,” said 39, when Hanoi grew up in the corner of the capital, he said that the ornamental plant was from farmers. Unsold Kumquat trees stopped next to him, each is about 600,000 Vietnamese dong or $ 24. This is at least 40 percent less than an ordinary year.
The more important for the Vietnamese of the Lunar New Year would be difficult – Christmas and Thanksgiving – or how the strike is approached, how the parts of the neighbor or neighboring were in China. Squat is a regular participation in citrus plants, living rooms, shops and office lobbies.
In September Taipeoon Yagi Kumquats and other decoration prints of the New Year have flooded and damaged products in the northern North Vietnam in a critical growing era. Mrs. Hoa said that about 500 kumquat trees from the storm were killed about 500 kumquat trees.
Last year, higher temperature and rain failure also damages the product, Vietnamese meteorology, director of Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change Pham Thani Thanh Nga said.
In excessive weather, markets and sidewalks, people have become a steep price change in markets where new Years of Kumquats, Peaches and banana. The lack of rain has weakened the trees of Kumquat and made the fruits less attractive and farmers say.
“This tree is less beautiful than I expected,” he said 39, this week was checked in a Kumquat in the Aysal New Year's market in Hanoi. The fruits seemed ordinary and more delicate.
The tree is still equal to about $ 80 or double its budget. Thus, Ms. Nguyet, who worked in the education department in Hanoi, paid about $ 13 for a bouquet orchid brought from China instead.
Retired teacher Nguyen Thi credit, a bunch of 21 green bananas stretching on a plastic tarp, about $ 28. Usually pays a little of $ 1.
“These are the most expensive banners I have touched on me in my life,” Ms. Credit, 64th, “said flowers and pork like a sausage. Banana, which are the family for fathers, are the cheapest for holidays to respect holidays, but this year added that they are more expensive than meat.
“It's not heard.” “Crazy!”
Banana seller, Tran Van Huy, 50, did not bend for the price. Thus, the lady received a bunch of three of the credit planned. He said he would add another fruit to the family altar this year.
Price sensitivity to decorative plants partially the function of the general economic fault in Vietnam, the official of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Finance, Told the news site to VNExpress This week. Last year, Vietnam's economy grew up to 7 percent, Mr. Long, said that it was not completely restored from the pandemic and natural disasters.
Consumers can adapt to a variable market for kumquats and other decorations, but farmers are still affected by farmers.
A kumquat farmer on the edge of Hanoi, Nguyen Duc Vinh, Typhoon Yagi'nin floods and high winds lost 40 percent of 40 percent, he said. This was especially painful because the wholesale traders took place in a period when the Kumquat farmers were launched and the Lunar New Year began to order for the New Year.
As the strike approaches, 51, Mr. Vinh, wholesale kumquat prices, said that 50 percent to pay for labor costs, he said. But traders did not bite, so they lowered them about $ 10 to a normal price.
“This craftsman is more dangerous than ever.”
On Monday, a Kumquat Van Loi in Hanoi in Hanoi Nguyen Van Loi, Monday, the price was still about 400.
“It is one of the worst years in my 10 years old,” Mr Loi said, 44, his wife watered Kumquat trees to keep their trees fresh.
He stopped to check a pair of tree prices on a motorcycle, and then went out without taking anything.
Judson Jones Contributing report.