On February 11, the Tu Mo Rong District’s Agricultural Service Center, coordinated with the People's Committee of Dak Na Commune in Tu Mo Rong District in Kon Tum Province, provided ginseng plants worth over VND1 billion to ethnic minority households for free.
This is part of the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction, which aims to help the local people benefit from the assistance and escape poverty.
After receiving ginseng seedlings, specialists of Tu Mo Rong District’s Agricultural Service Center instructed residents to cultivate and care for the ginseng plants in the designated old forests for ginseng planting.
The Ngoc Linh ginseng (Panax vietnamensis, or Vietnamese ginseng), a rare medical root containing 52 saponin compounds helpful to health, was found on Ngoc Linh Mountain on the boundary between Kon Tum and Quang Nam in the late 1960s. Ngoc Linh ginseng is one of the world’s most precious ginsengs. It has been approved as a national treasure under the Prime Minister’s Decision 787/QD-TTg dated June 5, 2017.
