Buddha's hand fruit – Hanoi specialty - welcomes Tet

As the lunar New Year approaches, Buddha's hand fruits, or sarcodactylis, a specialty in Dac So commune, Hoai Duc district, Hanoi are being wrapped carefully to be delivered to customers across the country.

As the lunar New Year approaches, Buddha's hand fruits, or sarcodactylis, a specialty in Dac So commune, Hoai Duc district, Hanoi are being wrapped carefully to be delivered to customers across the country.

Buddha's hand fruit – Hanoi specialty - welcomes Tet

The fruits bring high economic returns to local residents from an area of just over 100 hectares of land in the commune.

Buddha's hand fruit – Hanoi specialty - welcomes Tet

Ms Ha plants the fruit branches in 3 gardens, producing 300 trees. Each year, she can earn around VND1 billion from each garden.

Buddha's hand fruit – Hanoi specialty - welcomes Tet

The fruits can be harvested twice a year; however, the planters earn most during the lunar New Year festival. According to the planters, gardens with good-looking fruits are produced for traders at a price of several hundreds of millions of VND each.

Buddha's hand fruit – Hanoi specialty - welcomes Tet

According to Mr. Thach, to make trees blossom and produce in time for the Tet festival, each planter has his own experience.

Buddha's hand fruit – Hanoi specialty - welcomes Tet

The trees are planted from their branches and it takes the trees between 2-3 years to fruit. Therefore, apart from mature gardens, planters extract branches to plant in other gardens.

Buddha's hand fruit – Hanoi specialty - welcomes Tet

The fruits are wrapped carefully in soft paper and transported to many parts of the country.

Buddha's hand fruit – Hanoi specialty - welcomes Tet

This group of 5 fruits are sold at VND500,000.

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