Hunt strange jackfruit hundreds of thousands of VND / kg, days to sell some pesos too

Ms Nguyen Kieu (residing in Ea Pil commune, M’Drak district, Dak Lak) said this is a jackfruit forest, also known as jackfruit, smaller than To Nu jackfruit, around 2-3 fruits / kg, wet area. Jackfruit forest or the fruits that grow naturally in the forest are not as sweet as fruits from home gardens that have a sour, sweet and even sour fruit. This type of jackfruit grows in central highland provinces like Dak Nong, Dak Lak, and some central provinces.

“From April, the jackfruit forest season is ripe, the jackfruit tree is quite tall, so whenever the ripe fruit falls full of roots, the jungler sees some fruits to eat, roasted seeds, but no one sells them. This year, many people sold for a high price, so I bought people in the nearby villages to go to the forest to collect it for 35,000 VND / kg and then left it in bulk for other partners. Some people sell by weight, others sell fruit, most buy because they are curious, “said Kieu.

Also selling jackfruit, Ms. Chu Thi Thang (who resides in Buon Don, Dak Lak) said that she sold rambutan, lychee, and mangosteen forest 2-3 years ago, but this year someone asked to buy jackfruit, so she got it back. sold

“In previous years, strange fruits of the forest such as rambutan, litchi, mangosteen, my best seller, 50-60 kg, this year, suddenly, many people asked to buy jackfruit forest. At the beginning, some people asked me about it, I returned it to sell it for fun, only 5,000-5,000 VND for each fruit, but the number of people placed more and more, 2-3 kg per day, the products got there. ” .

According to Ms. Thang, the jackfruit forest often tastes sour as passion fruit, mango, toad, but it still smells like orchard fruit, it has a very special flavor that many people like and buy.

“Who asked what kind of purchase I would ask the Ede people in the area to collect and harvest, each day they collected and sold a few hundred thousand to a million. The rambutan forest, at least every day, I enter about 60 kg, the mangosteen about 50 kg of forest, the jackfruit forest this year to sell, but every day I go a few hundredweight, “said Ms. Thang.

According to Ms. Thang, customers order jackfruit from the forest mainly in Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong, Dong Nai, Hue, Da Nang, Hanoi with wholesale price of 20-25,000 VND / fruit, people get around 35,000 VND retail. / fruit, calculated each pound of around 100,000 VND.

As a mountain fruit, the jackfruit tree is often very tall, so in order to collect the jackfruit, people have to reach under the root, use the ladder to climb, and then pull the fruit very carefully, transport it to the fruit bowl. Tough.However, from the forest to the city, jackfruit prices increased many times as many people trafficked people, although 4-5 times more expensive than those grown in home gardens, jackfruit forests still attract customers because of the difference and the taste. special taste, “Ms. Thang shared.

When buying 3 jackfruit forests priced at 105,000 VND, Ms. Nguyen Hue (residing in Thanh Xuan, Hanoi) boasted eagerly: “Seeing my friend for sale, I bought it for lunch, I thought it was not delicious but incredibly delicious. It tastes very good, bittersweet, sour, strange, strange, that it is familiar, generally delicious. ”

In contrast, Ms Nguyen Khanh Ly (resident in Kien An, Hai Phong) found the jackfruit forest too sour. “Looking at the little jackfruit forest, round and round, sharp and sharp thorns, peeling the beautiful yellow area but eating it sour. I bought 38,000 VND / fruit, so I couldn’t eat, I wanted to eat a lot of sugar with beams. ”

As noted, jackfruit is sold on the internet market in all provinces and cities with prices of 15,000-50,000 VND / fruit, consumers are quite interested and interested in this special jackfruit with 1-0-2 . .

According to Khánh An

Vietnamese people