Two decades ago Nguyen Thi Anh Hong and her family moved from the northern Phu Tho Province to Cu M’gar District in Dak Lak Province in the Central Highlands to start life from scratch.
After six years of hard work she managed to save enough to buy some land and started farming durian.
Thanks to the booming demand in China, prices of the fruit have remained at high levels for the last few years, fetching billions of dong (VND1 billion = US$39,290) per harvest to farmers like Hong.
Her orchard produced 47 tons last harvest, which she sold to merchants and exporters at VND84,000 per…
