Hong Kong Street Market Pearls

[nnguye20]

I found an article about this man in Vietnam who has been farming freshwater pearls since 2012/2013?. I guess one person doesn't really count much, but I think there are some FWP farmers in Vietnam who still trying to get their feet in the market.
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/sc...cing-pearls-from-freshwater-clam-farming.html
here's his company's facebook, he posted some photos of his harvest: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008431451133
This one is not really commercial pearl farmer, but this is another FW pearl farmer who figure how to make figure-shaped pearls:
https://churchpop.com/2016/01/23/vietnamese-farmer-breed-jesus-shaped-pearls/

 

[jshepherd]

I found an article about this man in Vietnam who has been farming freshwater pearls since 2012/2013?. I guess one person doesn't really count much, but I think there are some FWP farmers in Vietnam who still trying to get their feet in the market.
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/sc...cing-pearls-from-freshwater-clam-farming.html
here's his company's facebook, he posted some photos of his harvest: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008431451133
This one is not really commercial pearl farmer, but this is another FW pearl farmer who figure how to make figure-shaped pearls:
https://churchpop.com/2016/01/23/vietnamese-farmer-breed-jesus-shaped-pearls/

I've seen these, and there are similar articles coming out of Thailand. It's difficult to tell whether or not there is any truth to them. The cockscomb and triangle sail shell in China, for example, were typically grafted up to 50 times - that's more than 40. The prices quoted, even on the low end, are one in tens of thousands for freshwater pearls. The high end, 7-8 million Vietnamese dollars per pearl ... not even the akoya have ever reached that level except maybe in the rarest of rare.

Even if there are elements of truth - that they really are trying to grow freshwater pearls - commercial production to produce strands means metric tons. The vendors in Vietnam are selling Chinese freshwater pearls, not locally produced pearls.

 

[nnguye20]

Jeremy you are right, most of the fwp in Vietnam are from China. But the Vietnamese farmers are working on it, and the local governors are interested in investing in the pearl industry too. It's just that both pearl farmers and pearl consumers are not very well-informed about the pearl industry in the world, which is pretty sad. I still believe that our pearl industry will get better in the future tho, since Vietnamese people are getting more and more hesitant in buying Chinese stuff in general.