An increasing amount of farmers in the Central Highlands' Gia Lai Province have switched from coffee to more popular passion fruit. Chu Pah District is currently the largest passion fruit growing area in Gia Lai. Across the district, there are currently 500 hectares of passion fruit farms.
Often, the coffee trees are too old to create high-yield crops. Also, input costs for coffee are too high and the crops demand too much maintenance. However, Le Van Thanh, director of an agricultural cooperative in Chu Pah, said many farmers have been rushing to grow passion fruits without having a proper plan on how to sell it. Still, with so many farmers switching from coffee to passion fruit, Gia Lai authorities have taken action to review output in the province to avoid oversupply.
Source: e.vnexpress.net
