Strawberry

If avocado , red fruit mainly sold fresh , the processing also left unanswered the strawberry , mulberry, was put into processed into all kinds of confectionery items and become a specialty of Da Lat . In addition to packing up everything in the provinces in the country , jam , candy from Mulberry , strawberry is a key item to meet the needs of tourists visit Da Lat . Almost travelers to visit Da Lat resort, when they are all not forget to buy these special items for loved ones .

Products from strawberry fruit , mulberry variety , but the central achievements include items such as jam , mulberry juice , mulberry, cherry or candy ... but also as a flavoring for ice cream production strawberries , fresh strawberry flavor . Strawberry , mulberry , suitable climate and soil of Dalat, Don Duong planting should be concentrated in these two provinces with an area of 120 hectares, including 100 hectares of Dalat , Don Duong 20 ha .

Through statistics, in Dalat has 30 establishments , households and jam , honey, strawberry juice and strawberry wine naturally fermented . Only products including honey, strawberry juice , ... annual average was up to 300-400 tons , of which the average production units a year for an estimated 15 tons of product .

In general , products or other dried red jam, strawberry security , ... the market is very long but so far has not become the brand for potential areas such as Lam Dong - Da Lat . The establishments also produce small , low -scale production , especially production technologies , processing mostly made manually. So , for these special items is not a business or individual to invest in large-scale processing and application of modern technology . While products from pink fruit , strawberry fruit is highly favored by tourists most of the products are targeted at consumers such as tourists.

Avocado

Avocado varieties but there are two main types of butter : butter wax and butter are distinguished depending on the amount of water and nutrients in avocado flesh . Butter is absorbed less water than butter and water nutrients , water fat than butter . butter yellow flesh like butter made from milk , containing from 3 to 30 % vegetable oil, vitamin B1 , B2 and nutrients .

Avocado trees are grown in Duc Trong , Di Linh , Bao Loc , Bao Lam , Bao Loc especially .

Mulberry

From the years 1954-1956 , and shrubbery were planted in trial production and Djiring Blao 10ha area . By 1962, a similar center was established strawberry in Bao Loc has produced about 300,000 boxes and center in 1963 produced about one million egg boxes . Simultaneously , the center also produces two million cuttings strawberry varieties to give the provinces of Quang Ngai , An Giang , Dak Lak . In addition to this center , there are camps in Di Linh silk cold .

Until 1978, the shrubbery in Lam Dong has not yet been developed and mulberry cultivation and silkworm rearing as a profession has not really attracted numerous people to respond . Only since 1979 , when the people from the provinces of Ha Tay , Thai Binh , Ha Dong , Lam Dong ... to build new economic zones have stimulated planting mulberry silkworm breeding here . strawberry growing area increased rapidly and distributed mainly in Bao Loc , Di Linh , Don Duong and new economic zones in Hanoi. In the years 1989-1993 , mulberry cultivation and silkworm rearing has become a movement in the lives of farmers and trades people who do this are obviously improved .

the most prosperous period of Lam Dong is mulberry career in 1994 , with area strawberry is 17.500ha , fold over a dozen times in 1975 and accounted for 50 % of the national strawberry .

Also in these years, Bao Loc is dubbed "capital of mulberry " of the country with the unwinding silk plants , silk modern .

However , the growth advantage was quickly terminated from the year 1995-1996 by the effects of the reduced price of silk in the world and the subjective reasons of Sericulture Corporation .

Beginning in 1999 , new branches of mulberry silk signs of gradual recovery . By late 2000 , strawberry acreage in the province has increased 3.644ha .

Coffee

Lam Dong is on land 200.000ha basalts distributed in Bao Loc, Di Linh and partly in Duc Trong, Lam Ha, Da Lat, in accordance with long-term industrial crops, especially coffee. Thus, for long-term industrial crops of the oil price, head of the table to talk about an area to plant coffee trees by the coffee industry has an advantage on prices, coffee production and economic efficiency high, thus forming large areas of coffee production in recent years is inevitable.

In Lam Dong can be grown all three types of coffee: Arabica, Robusta and Charri with good quality, especially the types of Arabica coffee in Dalat preferred by consumers.

As of 2005, total coffee area of Lam Dong is 117,400 hectares of perennial area of 169,486 hectares of the province, which mostly Robusta species, area coffee business more than 114,152 ha. Yield 18.5 quintals per hectare, coffee production reached 211,497 tons province. Almost coffee available in 11/12 districts, towns and cities in the province - except Cat Tien is now no coffee. Regional intensive coffee is the Bao Lam district (25.804ha), Di Linh (36.072ha) and Lam Ha 32.061ha.

Currently there are nearly 10 domestic enterprises and joint ventures, enterprises with foreign investment, purchasing about 20% coffee, polished for export. Establishments, households and products processed into beverages consumed about 10% coffee, 70% of coffee sales remaining largely outside the province of crude.

Before 1975, Da Lat has five establishments known as coffee roasting ceremony, Cao Nguyen, Tung, Dalat and stars, for domestic consumption. Currently, the brand signed Le, Vinh Ich, Boss, ... but not as strong as promoting Trung Nguyen coffee, but also local people and tourists preferred choice.

Tea

Tea is considered one of the perennial presence very early in Lam Dong and is the largest of Vietnam.

Since 1927, the Dutch began to build Cau Dat Tea Department (Xuan Truong commune, Da Lat) scale clearing is 1,000 ha. In 1930, the Department of Land Bridge Tea Company was transferred to PIT (Plantation Indochinoise de The) of France. Of this tea from tea grown and the Lam Vien Plateau Di Linh - Bao Loc. Currently, the province has allocated 25.455ha tea area in Da Lat and Duc Trong, Lam Ha, Di Linh, Bao Lam and Bao Loc.
From 1995 onward, in Lam Dong tea varieties cultivated mainly planted hybrid tea varieties with high grain should not yield. Consecutive years, a revolution has changed the tea varieties on the quality of the tea gardens of Lam Dong. That is the new tea varieties: TB 14, LD 97, LDP.1, Kim Xuyen, Tu Do, Thuy Ngoc, O Long, ... 7.215ha planted, accounting for 28.6% of the total tea area is.
Currently, the province has 45 enterprises of tea processing and trading, private company Lam Dong Tea has seven processing plants and a joint venture with a capacity of 5500-7500 tonnes / year. Besides, 20 foreign investment companies processing 7000-8000 tonnes / year, equivalent to 35,000 to 40,000 tons of tea leaves. In addition, the province has over 70 famous tea, the average processing capacity of 1500 kg of fresh tea per day per establishment. Tea processing OTD mainly black tea and green tea is about 15%.

According to development plans of tea, 2010, will expand the area of Lam Dong province only to the 26,000 to 28,000 hectares, including high tea and high-quality tea products account for about 48% -50%, average yield Force 90 quintals per hectare and output from 211,500 to 252,000 tons of tea leaves per year. A growing number of new projects of high quality tea to be deployed in Da Lat, Di Linh, Bao Loc and Bao Lam scale 4000-5000 ha, and converted to around 6,500 hectares of tea seeds tea shoots. Vietnam Tea Association and both the countries you when to Bao Loc Bao Loc is also recognized "the capital of tea" in Vietnam because it is "the navel" of Lam Dong Tea. Many famous tea exist in several decades as: Cau Dat, Minh Rong, Do Huu Quoc Thai, Thien Huong, more recently, Tram Anh, Tam Chau, Haji, Fushen, ... with other tea products to consumers Popular at home and abroad.