Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh worked with the Standing Board of the Party Committee of the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum on August 20, during which he asked Kon Tum to work harder to optimize its great development potential.
Kon Tum Province yesterday held a ceremony to celebrate its 110 th anniversary and announce the Prime Minister’s decision to recognize Kon Tum City as a grade-2 urban area.
Growers in the Central Highlands provinces dreamed of escaping poverty when they planted Ngoc Linh ginseng which has made an economic contribution to improving local farmers’ living conditions.
Indigenous locals in the Central Highlands Province of Kon Tum are getting rich from nothing to millions by growing, buying and selling medicinal plants.
Faced with the situation that poor farmers in Tu Mo Rong District do not have money to buy seedlings for reinvestment after their Ngoc Linh ginseng plants died, the Ngoc Linh Ginseng Joint Stock Company has decided to provide 10,000 ginseng seedlings for farmers to cultivate again.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh has stressed the need to develop Vietnamese ginseng into a product with national brand.
Ngoc Linh Ginseng Fair will be held at Tu Mo Rong District’s square in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum on April 24-26, announced the People’s Committee of Tu Mo Rong District at a press conference on April 15.
The great commercial value of Panax vietnamensis (Ngoc Linh ginseng), one of the world’s 5 most valuable ginseng species, is enticing unprincipled trading practices everywhere. The increasing number of fake ginseng being sold online still cannot be prevented despite various attempts by governmental officials.
A project approved by the Prime Minister is for sustainable forest protection, restoration and development in the Central Highlands in an effort to stop the loss of forest coverage.
Ngoc Linh ginseng from the Central Highlands should leave a new historical hallmark in Vietnam’s pharmaceuticals industry and also become a permanent way for locals to earn their living, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on January 20.
The Ministry of Science and Technology cooperated with the People’s Committee of Kon Tum province to hold the grand opening ceremony for the National Research and Development Center for Ngoc Linh Ginseng yesterday in Dak To district.
About 2,000 trees of Ngoc Linh ginseng will be planted at the Hon Ba Nature Reserve in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa under a scientific research project.
The first unique fair of Ngoc Linh ginseng opened on October 1 in the central province of Quang Nam's Nam Tra My mountainous district, the habitat of the plant.
Growing of Ngoc Linh ginseng is unprompted and government has not taken heed of science and technology application, said the participants of a seminar on June 12 held by People's Committee in the central province of Quang Nam and Nhan Dan Newspaper.
