Getting Rich from Australian Mangos Cultivation

Khanh Hoa province has become the second biggest mango granary in Vietnam, after the Mekong Delta region, for having over 10,000 hectares of mangos in addition to durians in Khanh Son, Australian mangos in Cam Lam, Dien Khanh and Khanh Vinh.

After a time of vicissitudes, Australian mangos have won confidence of the people in Khanh Hoa province and have been widely grown in the locality. The new variety of mango was brought about by Mr John Ed. Morton, Chairman and CEO of EMU, a famous Australian agro product company, who is chairman of the Northern Queensland Fruit-Tree Association in Australia and is one among the top ten outstanding farmers in the country.

Khanh Hoa Department of Agriculture and Rural Development’s High-tech Agriculture Centre is mainly multiplying Australian mangos. Almost all Australian mangos are sourced from India, which are durable and suitable to land conditions in Khanh Hoa province. The Australian mangos were imported into Khanh Hoa province in 2003 and the centre’s 10,000-hectare Australian mango garden gave first harvest with good results in 2006. Two main varieties of Australian mangos are grown in Khanh Hoa, including Kensingtonprise (KP) and Mangiferaindica (R2E2).

After a six-year piloting period in Khanh Hoa province, the Australian mangos seem to be suitable to soil conditions in the locality. This kind of mango has become the favourite in the European market. EMU Company has bought and exported a large number of mango batches to Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.

Mango exports are very favourable because the Australian EMU company always undertakes outlets for the products to many countries in the world, even demanding markets of Japan, South Korea, Arab Saudi and the EU. Particularly, Vietnam’s mango crops often harvest on a different schedule from Australia; thus, the company can supply the fruit to supermarkets worldwide all year long. The company has signed agreements with local farmers to buy mangos at VND8,000/kg for first-tier fruits and at VND5,000/kg for the second-tier. In addition, in order to multiply mango acreage in the province, the company will advance seeds to farmers who will then refund the company after harvests. The company also plans to build a plant to process mango juice, power and cream upon stable and sufficient production in the near term. Mr John promised to support and train farmers in mango cultivation techniques. The centre always has mango seedlings available to provide to farmers.

Apart from expanding cultivation areas and green tech-based mango industry development, EMU Company is preparing to build a mango processing and packing plant in Cam Duc, which can buy farm produces from a combined 5,000-ha area. In addition to post-harvest treatment and fresh fruit labelling and packing, the plant will process mango cream that will be used as material for mango juice and dry mango slice processing industry for exports.

Posted by VBN on Jan 14 2010. Filed under Agriculture. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry