Coconuts are generally grown in the Mekong Delta as: Ben Tre, Tra Vinh, Vinh Long, ... Because coconut crops bring high economic efficiency for farmers because properties are easy to plant and easy to care for.
In recent times the area has increased by coconut price, convenient transportation so it is easy to consume coconut farmers had secluded garden dealers to make purchase, unlike other garden plants only three chips for fruit trees can also sell. This will help stimulate the extended garden area.
Tra On than 1,263 ha have increased more than 58 ha in 2012. Among them Thoi Hoa commune covers an area of over 200 hectares, the Xuan Hiep Commune, Hoa Binh, Thanh Huu commune covers an area of over 100 hectares of coconut plantation. Area increased in both the U.S. and Tan Sri Shan area of nearly 60 hectares. Most of the area planted coconut intercropping with fruit trees such as strawberry, cocoa, oranges, grapefruit ....
Known now have more direction coconuts consumed as fresh coconuts to sell refreshments, selling dried coconut for traders put into industrial zones. However, like other fruit crops, market prices big decisions tending, disease management on coconut tree people. Coconut trees are easy to grow, but to achieve coconut high yield as the coconut trees in Ben Tre, Tra Vinh ... then no.
The reason, farmers based on land not planted other fruit trees, poor care, poor nutrition provided, not even water garden to plant life in moderation, has a lot of coconut trees in old have left but coconut trees harvested stands still, and preliminary identification stunted.
In terms of today's complex epidemic, if accidentally poor care much less effective garden will be a source of pests that feed two objects mainly stick with lime and coconut beetle.
According to the statistics, the percentage of coconut beetle infected more than 44% of the district. The rate on the two garden bugs carry about 20% left. For gardeners there is currently no effective treatment solutions room on the left brought coconut years old. They said the use of chemical pesticides, but measures to be effective and not expect the majority of these pests by:
+ Coconut perennial high spray can not kip at no labor or climbing.
+ The opaque suppositories into taking coconut trunk systemic treatment room shoots up to bear fruit coconut farmers at low investment.
For the newly established garden a few years old young coconuts can be a good treatment room as chemical or drug arrests coconut by hand. For biological measures the majority of farmers do not have access. On the other hand according to whether farmers have abandoned coconut palm damage but should still give good fruit and less interested.
Actually coconut beetle damage is also one of the most damaging objects. Heavy infestation on small coconut tree will die, old coconut fruit will make the flowers shriveled or lose significant yield loss. For the lime butter heavier damage than the distorted slightly opaque left or left-loss severely affects productivity.
So understanding the two control methods on objects is a necessary requirement for farmers.
In short, before the appearance of many coconut "young" to note this object damage. At Tra situation always ignored the coconut industry officials concerned to closely monitor the situation and proposed solutions are effective and timely.
