Diep Van Bao’s family in Se Moi village, Thanh Hai commune, Luc Ngan district grows more than 1 hectare of citrus fruits, mainly yellow flesh orange. This year, his garden continues to be chosen as a destination to welcome tourists and traders before, during and after the trade fair by the Organising Board for the trade fair of orange, pomelo and signature products. When coming here, tourists can freely pose for nice photos in a beautiful landscape and enjoy sweet fruits.

Green Dream Education and Experience Company Limited in Bac Giang city organizes an experience tour to the orange and pomelo orchards in Luc Ngan district.

As Luc Ngan trade fair of orange, pomelo and signature products is an important event to promote the special products, the orchard owners in Luc Ngan are paying high attention to caring for the best quality fruits.

The orchard of Nguyen Van Mau’s family in Dong Quyt village, Tan Moc commune with 7 hectares of yellow flesh and sweet orange is also selected one of the tourist destinations. Many orange trees have been grown since 2008 and cared under VietGAP standard. Especially, Mau doesn’t use herbicide for the trees, thus they always grow green and bear delicious and sweet fruits.

Luc Ngan district has nearly 7,000 hectares of circus fruit trees, the biggest area in the entire province including yellow flesh and sweet orange, green skin pomelo, sweet pomelo and Hoang pomelo. The output this year is estimated at 60,000 to 70,000 tonnes, up from 7,000 to 10,000 tonnes compared to the previous crop.

This time, the garden owners are harvesting green skin pomelo, getting about 30 percent of the growing area, sold at from 25,000 to 40,000 VND (1 to 1.7 USD) per kilo, the same prices as last year.

In order to facilitate consumption and enhance goods value, the people’s committee of Luc Ngan district is promptly boosting implementation of the plan “Experience tourism in orange and pomelo season”. Of which, they will focus on the unique and typical tourism products of the district, attaching experiencing the fruit orchards to preserving and promoting cultural identities of the ethnic groups and establishing new tours and routines to attract tourists.

To date, the district has selected 20 orchards meeting standards for welcoming tourists such as large-sized gardens with different types of citrus fruits, beautiful landscape, convenient traffic and adequate facilities to receive tourists (including accommodation service).

These destinations are located in the villages of Hoa Quang and Dong Quyt (Tan Moc commune), Bong 1 and Se Cu (Thanh Hai commune), Ngot (Hong Giang commune) and Min Con (Tru Huu commune).

This year, the district people’s committee will support the orchard owners from 300,000 to 500,000 VND (13 to 21.7 USD) per each tourist group together with tarpaulin and furniture.

According to Vi Thi Thuy Anh, Head of the district’s Division for Culture and Information, the district worked with the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism to collaborate with some prestigious travel companies to set up tours and routines for tourists to experience the orange and pomelo season in line with exploiting other tourism resources such as spiritual culture, intangible culture and beautiful landscapes.

Besides, the district will focus on making tours like visiting Am Vai and Khanh Van pagodas and Tu Ha temple combined with experiencing the orchards or eco-tourism to Khuon Than and Cam Son lakes linked with garden tourism.

Luc Ngan’s orange and pomelo are in harvest season. With new methods and initiatives of the local party committee and government especially in production promotion and consumption, the orchards in Luc Ngan is expected to gain another bumper crop.

Bac Giang selects 66 orchards to promote lychee tourism

(BGO) – Implementing the instruction from the Chairman of Bac Giang provincial People’s Committee about some key task in lychee consumption in 2020 season, the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has coordinated with the People’s Committee in Luc Ngan district to select the orchards to introduce and promote to the travel agencies.

Luc Ngan orchard owners apply biosafety procedure to care for lychee farms

(BGO) -  As the key lychee production area in the northern province of Bac Giang, together with harvesting early ripen lychee, the orchard owners in Luc Ngan district are now focusing on the main lychee and late ripen lychee areas to ensure the quality and safe products.

Orchard owners in Luc Ngan district increase income from tourists

(BGO) – These days, the owners of orange and pomelo orchards in Luc Ngan district in particular and in Bac Giang province in general have focused on harvesting the fruits which enjoy the same selling price as last year with good consumption. 

Travel agency takes more than 100 tourists to experience Luc Ngan fruit orchards

(BGO) – On December 1, Green Dream Education and Experience Company Limited (Green Dream) coordinated with Viet Hung Tourist, Trading and Education Joint Stock Company in Bac  Giang city (Bac Giang province) and Luc Ngan district People’s Committee to organize an experimental tour in Thanh Hai commune on the occasion of the 2019 Fair for Orange, Pomelo and Signature Products in the district. 

Orchards welcome visitors

(BGO) – To prepare for the Fair of orange, pomelo and signature products in Luc Ngan district, Bac Giang province to be held on November 29 – December 1, the farmers in the district have promptly beautified their orchards and cared for the fruit trees to welcome the visitors. 

Minh Phuc