According to Tran Ngoc Hiep, vice president of Vietnam Fruit Association (Vinafruit), director of Hoang Hau dragon fruit company, the copyright owner of LD5 purple flesh dragon fruit, due to the number of seedlings transferred from the Institute. Southern fruit trees are not many so the company planted the original seedlings and propagated them by cutting branches and cuttings to create seedlings. Moreover, young dragon trees grow slowly, so it takes time to create many seedlings. When having seedlings, in the immediate future, Hoang Hau Company will carry out planting a large enough area (a few dozen hectares) as a basis for building a brand for the domestic market and exporting persimmon dragon fruit. However, Hoang Hau Company alone is difficult to develop its brand, so many farms and farmers are needed. The company will test and confirm the ability of growers of large intestine dragon fruit with large area, ability to apply GAP technology and tend to link the supply chain of new purple dragon fruit dragon fruit LD5 to sell as well as investing in production technical support for export in separate value chains.
Current and future practices of Hoang Hau Company coincide with New Zealand's approach of branding kiwifruit. Capital from an unknown fruit, after 50 years, New Zealand's "golden kiwi" has a strong global market thanks to the value of the brand as well as exclusive protection in most countries of the world. Not only domestically produced, "golden kiwifruit" is also produced in many countries to lower prices and collect months of the year, as well as to affirm its global supply position.
Hoang Hau Company will restrict the sale of LD5 purple-red dragon fruit seedlings according to small-scale or small-scale seedling business. Spending 2 billion VND on the copyright of a seedling, Hoang Hau has pioneered the development of a separate marketing chain to increase the added value of the exclusive and high quality new dragon fruit globally.
With outstanding features such as a large and strong mature branch system, LD5 purple-flesh dragon fruit is capable of flowering quite strongly and almost all year round, capable of pollinating naturally to produce fruits. Purple dragon fruit dragon fruit LD5, average weight 351 g, bright red fruit pod, beautiful shiny, high vitamin C content (average of 18.27 mg / 100 ml of fruit juice), percentage edible 74.68%. The average yield was 36.70 kg / head / year in Tien Giang province, 24.08 kg / head / year in Long An and 23.47 kg / head / year in Ba Ria Vung Tau (36 months old tree), better than other dragon fruit varieties.
Minh Tuan