Many people in Hanoi ordered the biggest batch of blood worms since the beginning of the season in Hai Duong.

The next Hai Duong worm festival this year started on the morning of November 30 and is expected to last 3-4 days. On the morning of November 30, Ms. Nguyen Thi Thuy at 1 Nguyen Chi Thanh (Hai Duong City) 250 kg of blood worms have been sold.

Ms. Thuy is originally from An Thanh commune (Tu Ky) - a locality considered the "rươi granary" in Hai Duong province with hundreds of hectares being exploited. She said that since the beginning of the season, this is the third rươi water. Compared to the previous two waters, the rươi water in this water is more numerous, larger, and more uniform.

She collects earthworms from her hometown and brings them to Hai Duong city, washes them, and packs them into plastic boxes weighing 0.5-1 kg to sell to customers.

Ms. Thuy’s customers are mainly in Hanoi. This batch, someone in the capital ordered about 100 kg as gifts. She packed the worms into plastic boxes, placed them in styrofoam boxes with ice to preserve them, and then sent them to customers.

Mr. Nguyen Van Toan (from Tu Ky) who is working in Hanoi said that this time he went back to his hometown to get nearly 80 kg of roe to bring to his friends and colleagues who asked him to buy it for them. Hanoians love to eat roe cake, especially in the cold weather like now. They often choose to buy Hai Duong roe because it is big, red, has a lot of powder, and when cooked, it tastes better than roe bought in some other places.

This is the biggest batch of worm soup since the beginning of the season, so it sells for a good price. After being cleaned, the worm soup is packed in plastic boxes and sold for 330,000 VND/kg, 50,000 VND higher than the previous two batches.

According to the reporter's investigation, on the morning of November 30, many farmers in An Thanh, Tu Xuyen (Tu Ky), Vinh Lap (Thanh Ha) communes... began exploiting the third water of the worm.

Mr. Pham Xuan Luan, Director of An Thanh Commune Agricultural Service Cooperative, said that due to the impact of storm No. 3, the harvesting of rươi this year was delayed. This third rươi season is the main rươi season. The rươi in the main season are mature, so they are big and uniform. Many customers from other provinces, mostly in Hanoi, have ordered rươi through social networks or asked acquaintances to buy it for them and send it by service car.

In the previous two rươi waters, farmers in An Thanh commune harvested an average of 10 kg of rươi per sao. This rươi water is likely to yield about 15-25 kg per sao.

Farmers in the rươi exploitation areas in Hai Duong are taking full advantage of social networks like Facebook, Zalo, and e-commerce platforms to promote and sell rươi to domestic customers.

Some farmers said through social networks that there are days when they sell from a few dozen kilograms to hundreds of kilograms of blood worms. This blood worms water is sold in the fields for 280,000-300,000 VND/kg. Customers who order online will have to pay extra for plastic boxes, shipping costs, etc.