CTTDT- Van Yen district currently has nearly 50,000ha of cinnamon land. With a suitable climate and soil for cinnamon trees to grow and develop well each year, Van Yen district exports about 6,000 tons of dried cinnamon bark of all kinds, the output of cinnamon leaves is about 63,000 tons/year, and the output of essential oils. about 300 tons/year, the output of cinnamon wood is nearly 51,000 m3/year.
Cinnamon products
In Van Yen district, Yen Bai province, most people live on agro-forestry production; Thanks to the climate and soil suitable for cinnamon trees, people's lives in the district are improved day by day, improving the quality of life and getting rich from cinnamon. Van Yen cinnamon has made an important contribution to helping people overcome poverty and many households have incomes from tens of millions to billions of dong. In particular, cinnamon is also a precious gift from parents to their children when getting married. Once upon a time Van Yen cinnamon products were present in the markets of Korea, Japan, Taiwan, USA, UK...
Cinnamon has changed the face of Van Yen's countryside, built houses and motorbikes from the money from selling cinnamon. On average, the whole district harvests nearly 100 hectares of white each year with an output of over 1,000 tons. Cultivation of cinnamon not only collects bark but also the wood trunk is also very valuable, can be used as a house, as paper materials, as toothpicks, the price is from 700-800 thousand VND/m3, branches, tops and leaves cook with cinnamon oil.
The revenue from cinnamon each year also brings Van Yen tens of billions of dong, and also creates jobs for thousands of laborers in their leisure time.
Cinnamon not only brings high economic value, but also is a forest cover tree and plays an important role in processing and making construction materials.
The economic benefits from cinnamon trees are very clear, but Van Yen cinnamon trees are still growing without planning, quality is uneven, cinnamon brands have not been built yet, the market is uncertain, and prices unstable. Many cinnamon products from other places have taken the Van Yen cinnamon brand to sell, discrediting the Van Yen cinnamon market. The purchasing and processing stage has made a lot of progress, but the business is still fragmented and strong, everyone does it...
In the face of such situations, Van Yen district has had many solutions to improve the status and quality of cinnamon trees, especially registration for protection of appellations of origin and geographical indications.
January 2010 The National Office of Intellectual Property - Ministry of Science and Technology has issued Decision No. 01/QD-SHTT certifying the registration of geographical indications for Van Yen cinnamon products - Van Yen District People's Committee is the management agency. geographical indication “Van Yen” for this cinnamon product. However, in order to strictly manage Van Yen cinnamon brand products, maintain prestige and develop the brand in the market, Van Yen also has a rather long-term plan.
Currently, the Van Yen Association of Cinnamon Producers, Processors and Traders has been established and has the task of propagating and mobilizing cinnamon producers in the area towards sustainability, advising and assisting the district on policies. policies and measures to expand production and improve quality of cinnamon; receive and manage geographical indications for "Que Van Yen" and at the same time propagate, promote, introduce products and organize cinnamon consumption for cinnamon growers in the district.
More importantly, the Association has the task of linking from the stages of planting, exploiting, processing and consuming homogenous products, avoiding the situation of forced supply, price pressure and counterfeiting of Van Yen cinnamon brand.
Although newly established, the Association has attracted nearly 400 individuals and businesses to register to become members, and also held the first Congress and elected the Executive Committee as well as the chairman and vice president. Chairman of the Association, clearly assigning tasks. Simultaneously, the people in the cinnamon area of Van Yen are doing a very good job of changing the variety structure, not planting rampantly, the varieties are selected, selected appropriately, with quality, as well as the market demand.
The district also has appropriate mechanisms and policies to encourage businesses and companies to invest enough to build processing and consumption facilities for cinnamon growers in the area. Those directions will bring many prospects for the cinnamon tree to develop to its full potential. People can rest assured to plant and develop the cinnamon area firmly, bring long-term effects, and contribute to poverty eradication in agriculture. agriculture and rural areas.
Especially now, Van Yen people not only produce traditional cinnamon, but also carry out the process of organic cinnamon production, contributing to improving the value of cinnamon trees and protecting the environment.
Van Yen district is known as the capital of cinnamon trees, with the largest area and output in the country. Since ancient times, cinnamon has been planted by the Dao people, Van Yen district, then the harvested cinnamon bark is mainly used by families as gifts for relatives or sold to traders at low prices, so no one considers cinnamon. is the main source of income.
However, in recent years, cinnamon has become a key crop with high value, a valuable raw material for production in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and handicraft industries, so everyone in Van Yen is consider cinnamon as a gift from heaven.
Since then, the reputation of Van Yen cinnamon has improved in the domestic and foreign markets, the cinnamon market has stabilized, and the selling price of cinnamon products has nearly doubled compared to previous years.
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