Many vineyards in Ninh Thuan were entering the ripening period, along with selling products to traders, gardeners also combined to open to welcome visitors to visit and enjoy grapes right at the garden. Many visitors checked-in, took photos, created a "craze" on social networks, attracting visitors from everywhere to experience.
These days, Ba Moi Vineyard (Phuoc Thuan Commune, Ninh Phuoc District) was a tourist attraction with heavy bunches of grapes like beautiful farms in Europe. Coming there, visitors could see bunches of grapes, take photos, pick grapes, and enjoy the products made from grapes right in the garden.
Mr. Ngo Hong Thao, a visitor to the farm shared that when he first entered the ripe vineyard, he felt very surprised and overwhelmed by the size of the vineyards. The owner of the farm was very professional, methodical, and fruity bunches of grapes as if this he had only seen in movies before, then seeing it with his own eyes. When tasted, the grapes were very bold, delicious, crunchy, slightly sour, and very tasty.
Taking advantage of a two-day weekend, Ms. Tran Thi My Phuong in Ho Chi Minh City and a group of friends went out to Thai An Grape Village (Vinh Hai Commune, Ninh Hai District). Ms. Phuong excitedly said that when she came to the garden, she was always fascinated with the red vineyards laden with fruits, the cool and fresh space. The most favorite thing was to cut the ripe grapes by hand and take pictures with friends. In particular, the owner of the garden did not charge an entrance fee and was very welcoming.
From the end of May until the end of summer, grape growers in Ninh Thuan are always busy with welcoming groups of tourists from everywhere. The number of visitors to the vineyard is quite stable; the garden owners always take care of the smallest work to bring the highest satisfaction to visitors.
Ms. Pham Thi Dung, owner of Vinh Dung vineyard (Vinh Hai Commune, Ninh Hai District) said that her family had ~158 poles (4,000m2) and grown four grape varieties: Red Cardinal grapes, NH 01-152 pink grapes, NH 01-48 green grapes, and NH 01-26 candy snaps grapes to serve visitors to visit, take pictures and enjoy fresh grapes, raisins, wine, grape wine, grape nectar, grape syrup, and grape jam right in the garden. In order to keep the vineyard always beautiful, with bunches of juicy, regular fruits, gardeners applied farming methods in the direction of VietGAP, minimizing the use of fertilizers and chemical drugs, helping the plants grow well and high yield. Although they could sell grapes with high price, the family did not harvest all of them, but retained a part of the vineyard to welcome visitors.
Ms. Dung shared, every day the vineyard welcomed from 50-200 visitors. Sometimes, it was too crowded to spread the long table along the grapevines to welcome guests. In order to continuously harvest grapes, the family cut the branches of the vineyards at different times of the year to allow the vine to bloom and bear fruit in many stages, giving visitors the opportunity to visit the vineyards full of fruit at any time of the year.
With good care and favorable weather, gardeners in Ninh Thuan can harvest three crops of grapes, estimated at 2.5 - 3 tons of grapes per pole. The harvest begins at the end of March-June, in August-September and the year-end crop is sold on Tet holiday. The vineyards are meticulously cared for, carefully pruned full of fruit, making anyone who comes there admired and fascinated.
The gardens are usually open from 7am - 6pm, welcoming visitors on all days of the week. Visitors can freely visit the vineyard and take pictures. In addition to enjoying the products from grapes, visitors also have the opportunity to learn and explore grape varieties, to be guided by the garden owners in grape growing techniques as well as to buy their favorite grape varieties for planting for fruit and ornamental purposes.
Ninh Thuan has over 1,000 hectares of grapes grown mainly in districts of Ninh Phuoc, Ninh Hai and Phan Rang - Thap Cham City. Currently, the price of grapes ranges from 50,000 - 120,000 VND/kg, depending on the type of grape and the market time. Gardeners were not only excited by the additional revenue from the vineyard tour service, but also by the fact that the price of commercial grapes in 2022 had remained relatively stable compared to other fruits.
According to the leader of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Ninh Thuan Province, the model of ecotourism of vineyards in the area is developing strongly. Many vineyard tours are included in the tour schedules to Ninh Thuan. This model contributes to diversifying and enriching products, increasing choices for visitors when learning and experiencing the beauty of the homeland and people of Ninh Thuan.
To meet the requirements of serving tourists visiting the vineyard, the tourism industry had cooperated with localities to open short-term training courses for households on skills in welcoming guests, how to arrange different types of services, and install signs along the routes to guide visitors. Gardeners invested in signs, parking lot, to decorate the service area to build the vineyard into an attractive destination for visitors.
Ninh Thuan is the province that provides the largest production of fresh grapes in Vietnam, averaging about 30,000 tons/year to the market. In recent years, the province has invested a lot in irrigation works for irrigation, planting and replicating new grape varieties with high yield and high quality, as well as strengthening the promotion of grape products and other prominent tourism products to attract tourists to the locality.
Source: baotintuc.vn
