Growing
Tra Linh Commune, in the central Ngoc Linh Mountainarea, is considered the pioneer of ginseng growing in Vietnam. In 1979, the government of central Quang Nam Province established the Tra Linh Drug Materials Farm in Tra Linh Forest on Ngoc Linh Mountain. The farm grew the first cultivated Ngoc Linh ginseng, yet the enterprise was not properly developed until 1995, when the local department of science and technology invested in the farm. Since then, locals from Tra Linh Commune and surrounding areas, including places in central Kontum Province, have been growing the medicinal plant. The commune’s Mang Lung Village now has around 5,000–10,000 ginseng plants between two and eight years old (ginseng is harvested at age seven), with 90 percent of local families growing the crop.
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