Following the success of the 1st Sa Dec Flower and Ornamental Plant Festival, Dong Thap Province will continue to organize this event at the end of this year. Currently, many farmers in Sa Dec Ward are working tirelessly to prepare flowers and ornamental plants for the festival as well as the solar and lunar New Year 2026 market.
Since early November, farmers have been sowing short-term flowers such as marigolds, pico chrysanthemums, and gerberas, while traditional baskets of garden mum were sown in September.
Chairman Nguyen Van Tam of Sa Dec Ward People's Committee shared that the ward boasts about 2,000 varieties of flowers and ornamental plants, including signatures like garden mum (Chrysanthemum morifolium), tiger chrysanthemums, gerberas, sunflowers, cockscombs, scarlet sages, cosmos, and various rose types. Currently, local farmers have cultivated about 100 hectares of flowers and plants to serve the Tet season and the year-end festival.
Since September 2025, farmer Huynh Thanh Tuan from Sa Dec Ward has been cultivating flowers on an area of about 8,000m², featuring over 30,000 baskets of various types such as new-color gerberas, phoenix flowers.
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