Moc Chau plateau, Son La, is mobilizing all of its resources to become an economic centre of Son La Province. Great prospects are coming to the region, known as a land for tea growing, milch cows rearing, sugarcane production and tourist attractions. Vietnam Pictorial correspondents take readers back to Moc Chau with notes on the changes after 20 years of reform. Moc Chau Town, Son La Province is now engulfed in an atmosphere of prosperity with large and well designed houses and roads. The soil there is quite suitable to the cultivation of tea. In recent years, Moc Chau Tea Company recorded noteworthy achievements: the fresh tea bud output has exceeded the 10,000-ton mark for a revenue of VND 44 billion (USD 2.8 million). The income from each hectare has risen to VND 36.6 million (USD 2,300) from only VND 8.3 million (USD 530). Today, even ethnic minority people in remote parts of Moc Chau plateau know how to cultivate tea for prosperity. A remote commune in Moc Chau District, Son La … [Read more...] about New face of Moc Chau Plateau
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Moc Chau Plateau is attractive in spring
Moc Chau Plateau is attractive in spring When mentioning Tay Bac, people think about magnificent mountains, windy hills, immense terraced fields and ladies with tawny complexions in colorful brocade dresses with bamboo papooses on their backs. Especially, visiting Tay Bac in spring, excursionists will surely be surprised by the picturesque landscapes and peaceful life and can not resist wallowing in nature. For those who prefer a ‘smooth’ road and less tortuous, less perilous and less collapsed rocks, Moc Chau, a plateau of Son La Province, is suggested as a priority. People often say: dairy cow + green tea + white plum = Moc Chau. That is right. The terrain is endowed with many steppes and has fewer mountains than other highland regions of Tay Bac. Therefore, it is covered by the colorfulness of wild flowers and the greenness of grasslands as the climate is warmer and more comfortable and does not suffer severe chills as the winter of Tay Bac. Loong Luong Village is … [Read more...] about Moc Chau Plateau is attractive in spring
Moc Chau offers unique off-season vegetable opportunity
(VEN) - The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) has financed a project to improve the connectivity between the market and off-season vegetable producers in northwestern Vietnam, which was kicked off in 2011 and will run until 2015. The project is being implemented at Moc Chau Plateau in Son La Province and is regulated by the Northwest Agriculture and Forestry Research and Development Center of the Northern Mountainous Agriculture and Forestry Science Institute (NOMAFSI). … [Read more...] about Moc Chau offers unique off-season vegetable opportunity
Moc Chau Milk
Over the years, the image of dairy cows grazing on a pasture seen on the packing label of Moc Chau milk products has become quite popular to Vietnamese people. With this image, the Moc Chau Dairy Cattle Breeding Joint-Stock Company (Moc Chau Milk) wants to send a message to customers that they provide the best, most delicious and high quality milk products from pastures in Moc Chau. Moc Chau Plateau in Moc Chau District, Son La Province is located at 1,050m above sea level. It is endowed by nature with many pastures, suitable for developing dairy farming. Visiting Moc Chau Plateau, one will surely never forget the image of herds of dairy cows grazing on immense green pastures. At present, there are 500 households in the district engaged in raising dairy cows to provide milk to Moc Chau Milk. Each household raises at least 10-20 dairy cows and some families raise even one hundred dairy cows. Thanks to dairy farming, many of them have become billionaires. To develop the herds of dairy … [Read more...] about Moc Chau Milk
Beautiful Moc Chau Plateau suits thirsty travellers to a ‘tea’
My college friend Nguyen Minh Chi is a tea lover - to put it mildly. Such is Chi's passion for green tea, yellow tea, Oolong tea, black tea, white tea, blended tea (Earl Grey, English Breakfast, Jasmine tea) - you name it she likes it - that Chi's idea of a perfect day out is to visit a tea plantation and take photos of tea plants (she is a keen amateur photographer). Oh, and of course attending the tea party afterwards. Chi, an avid traveller who spends most of the year on the road, recently visited the tea plantation of Moc Chau Plateau, in the north western province of Son La, about 180km from Ha Noi. "I've travelled all over the country and seen some wonderful places, but Moc Chau was truly breathtaking," Chi says on returning to Ha Noi. And to cap it all, the temperature is cool, much like Sa Pa in the north and Da Lat in the south, she adds. A refreshing breeze usually brushes the slopes of the plateau at this time of year. Moc Chau, one of the biggest plateaux in the … [Read more...] about Beautiful Moc Chau Plateau suits thirsty travellers to a ‘tea’