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Bridge – Vietnamese farmers, who
suffered from the trickeries by Chinese businessmen, have sworn that they would
abstain from dealing with Chinese businessmen forever.
Chinese
businessmen have been seeking to buy every kind of farm produce in Vietnam. At
first, they come to collect products at high prices to encourage farmers to
chop down existing plants to cultivate new plants. They promise to collect all
the products from farmers the next time when they return. However, they never
come back, leaving Vietnamese farmers with big unpaid debts and unsold farm
produce.
Finally,
Vietnamese farmers have learned a lesson after a lot of business deals with
Chinese merchants.
"Don’t do business with Chinese"
On May
28, Tam Be in Tan Phuoc district of Tien Giang province decided to sell
pineapple to a Vietnamese merchant at 2800 dong per kilo. When asked why he
does not sell the pineapples to Chinese merchants who would pay higher, at 6000
dong per kilo, Be said that he does not intend to sell products to Chinese any
more.
“They
(Chinese merchants) have stopped collecting pineapples for one week. But if
they return to continue purchasing pineapples, I would not sell to them. You
would suffer loss if you deal with Chinese,” Be said.
Bui
Cong Thanh, Chair of the pineapple cooperative in Tan Lap 2 commune said that
some Vietnamese merchants came here some days ago to collect pineapples, which
they said would provide to Chinese merchants. They promised to buy tens of
thousands of tons a day and accepted to pay high prices. However, since they
refused to sign a contract, farmers decided not to deal with them.
Meanwhile,
a local resident related that a Chinese merchant came here with an interpreter,
saying that Vietnamese pineapples are too small. He advised farmers to buy a
kind of chemical to be provided by him which would allow to grow big
pineapples. The man promised that he would collect all the pineapples which are
cultivated with the chemical.
Thanh
said that local farmers have become vigilant over Chinese businessmen. “We now
only sell pineapples to loyal partners and we would refuse to sell to Chinese
merchants, even though they pay high prices,” he said.
“You
should keep your promises, or you will lose all the partners,” he explained.
Offering high prices and then… disappearing
In
early May, a lot of Chinese businessmen flocked to the pineapple growing areas,
where they set up storehouses to collect pineapples. All the pineapple sellers
were received at the storehouses, no matter they came on daylight or at night.
At that
time, when the market price stayed at 3000 dong per kilo, Chinese merchants
accepted to pay 4400-6000 dong per kilo, depending on the size of the apples.
However,
when reporters came to the places on the morning of May 28, no Chinese merchant
was seen there, and no transaction was carried out. Local farmers said Chinese
merchants “vanished into the air” five days ago.
“Many
days ago, I sold out all the pineapples I brought to them (Chinese merchants)
and I got payment immediately. However, when I brought the second consignment
of pineapples, they made a gesture with the hand to say “no.” As a result, I
had to bring the products back to retail at a loss,” a farmer said.
Lobsters,
durian, sweet potato, pineapples, and what is next?
It
seems that pineapple farmers are luckier than sweet potato farmers, because
they still could sell pineapples at markets. Meanwhile, sweet potato merchants
have been weeping because they still have not got payment.
D, a
sweet potato supplier to Chinese merchants in Binh Tan district said that he
needs to take back one billion dong from Chinese merchants. However, this
proves to be an impossible mission, because he dealt with the merchants mostly
through phones without any contracts.
It is
estimated that the Chinese merchants have owed 10 billion dong to Vietnamese
farmers, which prove to be irrecoverable debts.
Source:
Phap luat TP HCM
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