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Story photo: Round basket boats 

GiadinhNet - Roadside Paracel - Son Tra - Danang has a small village where the people here live mainly weaving basket boat.

Mr. Phan Liem this year aged 65, has been with this business over 25 years, said: "There is a basket of bottles otter named baskets, the kind of" Round basket boats" that measures 3-5 meters, are woven bamboo apparently "baskets", otter oil scanned in and out. This is a common means that fishermen are often used for inshore fishing.

Round basket boats was "manipulated" quite meticulously go through many stages. First of all, to purchase from the old bamboo as Hoa Vang District, Dai Loc ... transported to the price of 45,000 VND / tree. There are bamboo, started to split spokes are exposed for 4-5 sunny and knitting, then sob, identity fraud with plastic rims white, bought for 70,000 VND / kg. Then use fresh cow dung are double-sided scanning in and out baskets, exposing from 6-7 days to dry and then sweep otter oil to protect and waterproof (in scan 3 layers, outer layers scan 2). Otter oil purchased for 650,000 VND / barrel (20 liters). After scanning otter oil, add some sun exposure is "factory" is. Time to complete small otter round basket boats about 3 days but with large otter basket about 15 days.

Depending on size, up to 7 kinds round basket boats, including motor boats baskets oval with the implementation of more sophisticated. Otter basket type small price: 1,700,000 VND / unit; Otter biggest basket type VND 3,500,000 / female. Average income per worker per day of about 150,000. Incomes are not high but relatively stable with the villagers of this sea.