Bathing herbs Sa Pa livelihood “specility”

A group meeting in January 2011: 15 households in Ta Chai village, Ta Phin commune, Sa Pa district (chaired by young villager – Ly Lao Lo) agreed to implement the livelihood sub-project on production of bathing herbs

First action: Seedling plants are sowed

An area of 200 ha for bathing plants in Ta Phin commune, Sa Pa district was formed, promising to sustainable forest exploitation

Group members meet regularly for progress updates and lessons learned. Project staff also supported the group on plantation skills

Bathing medication of Sa Pa is extrated more than 20 special herbal trees, blended according to traditional Dao’s formula

Bathing medicine are bottled at the Company for Business of Sa Pa Local specialities (BSLS Co.). This company signed a

contract for whole-comsumption of Ta Chai group products.

Products are now quite popular not only in the province but nationwide

Annual meeting 2012: Ta Chai group annual revenue is 14-15 mil.VND/household (~700 USD/household) – an amazing

amount to local people (compare to their formal annual income of 200 USD)!

Currently there are 3 bathing herbs groups in Sa Pa with 40 households. Group members have had stable income from the sub-project and improve their self-confiance by wisely and sustainably utilising forest resouces.