Hanoi: Raising the level of Japonica rice production and high-quality rice for export

(PLVN) - After 5 years of implementing the Plan to develop Japonica rice production and high-quality rice according to export standards for the period 2021 - 2025, Hanoi has recorded outstanding results in productivity, quality and economic efficiency. The results not only contribute to increasing added value in agriculture, but also affirm the pioneering role of the Capital in the transition to modern, sustainable, export-oriented agriculture.

Improve production efficiency, expand high-quality rice areas associated with modern technology

With the goal of improving land use efficiency and creating a safe, organic, VietGAP rice production foundation, Hanoi has issued many policies to support farmers and cooperatives. From 2021 to 2025, the entire city has deployed the development of production of 5,564.5 hectares of Japonica rice and high-quality rice in 51 cooperatives in 47 communes of 12 districts.

Although the implemented area has not reached the initial planned target (12,080 ha), the production efficiency is outstanding. The yield of organically produced rice and organic orientation reached 5.5 - 6.0 tons/ha, higher than the planned target of 0.5 tons/ha. Economic efficiency reached 45-47 million VND/ha/crop, 1.5-1.8 times higher than traditional rice production.

Producing Japonica rice and safe high-quality rice, VietGAP on a total of 5,920 hectares. Average yield of high-quality rice is 6.5-7.2 tons/ha. Yield of yellow sticky rice is 4.5-5.0 tons/ha. Economic efficiency of Japonica rice production is on average 27.3-34.0 million VND/ha/crop; high-quality rice is on average 24-26.5 million VND/ha/crop; yellow sticky rice is 37-40 million VND/ha.

Notably, the economic efficiency of Japonica rice and high-quality rice production has contributed to increasing production value by about 20-26 million VND/ha/year compared to normal rice, exceeding 30-50% of the original target.

The economic efficiency of Japonica rice production reaches an average of 27.3-34.0 million VND/ha/crop. (Illustration photo).

In addition to large-scale production, Hanoi also focuses on diversifying rice products, including forming 4 herbal rice production areas in 4 communes with a total area of ​​17.5 hectares, yielding 4.7-5.0 tons/ha. And converting 17 hectares of land to the rice - fish model , bringing higher economic efficiency than producing 2 rice crops of over 120 million VND/ha.

A notable result is that the Agricultural Extension Center (Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Environment) has coordinated with the Vietnam Digital Economic Cooperative Union to apply 4.0 Technology to the management of organic rice production areas at cooperatives in Chuong My, managed by automatic cameras and electronic diaries to help make the entire cultivation process transparent. In addition, spraying pesticides by UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) has been applied on 2,340 hectares of rice at 32 cooperatives, helping to reduce labor costs , protect workers' health and increase the effectiveness of pest control.

Enhancing the value and brand recognition of Hanoi rice, aiming for export

With the goal of promoting production and consumption of products, ensuring sustainable development of production and consumption of rice products of cooperatives, the Hanoi Agricultural Extension Center has directed cooperatives to focus on promoting the construction and development of product consumption linkage chains. As a result, in the period of 2021-2025, 4 production - consumption linkage chains have been built, maintained and developed in typical cooperatives such as Tam Hung (Thanh Oai), Doan Ket (Ung Hoa), Nam Phuong Tien and Dong Phu (Chuong My), ensuring product output.

In particular, Hanoi has built 3 new collective brands: "Nam Phuong Tien , Chuong My Organic Japonica Rice", "My Thanh , My Duc Japonica Rice ", "Binh Minh , Thanh Oai High Quality Rice ", bringing the total number of rice brands in the city to 10. This is an important step to help raise the value and recognition of Hanoi rice brand in the domestic market.

The organic rice production model in Nam Phuong Tien commune (Chuong My district) is highly economically efficient.

According to the Hanoi Agricultural Extension Center , the above results have contributed to promoting the production movement, forming areas for producing Japonica rice and high-quality rice with safe quality goods that meet export standards. Promoting the construction of new rural areas in Hanoi, contributing to completing the goals of restructuring Hanoi's agriculture towards increasing added value and sustainable development.

However, the Hanoi Agricultural Extension Center also frankly acknowledged some remaining limitations. The rate of post-harvest technology application in production areas is still low, reducing the quality of rice when it is brought to market. The work of connecting businesses to consume products in some localities has not been focused on, making the production - consumption chain loose. Trade promotion activities are also not strong, Japonica rice products and high-quality rice of Hanoi are only promoted domestically, without having the conditions to access the international market.

Experts and managers evaluate the quality of organic rice in Nam Phuong Tien commune (Chuong My district).

Therefore, the Hanoi Agricultural Extension Center said that in the period of 2026 - 2030, Hanoi plans to continue maintaining and expanding Japonica and high-quality rice production areas in the direction of organic, VietGAP, GlobalGAP to meet export standards.

The focus of development will be to promote the application of technology in production: Rice planting machine; Fertilizing and spraying pesticides with drones; Automatic management and tracing of growing areas; Maintaining and developing brands and chains to expand the market for consuming high-quality rice products, creating a premise for sustainable production development.

Besides , Hanoi also determined to strengthen propaganda, promotion and trade promotion so that a large number of people inside and outside the city and abroad know about Hanoi's high-quality rice products to promote product consumption.

Accordingly, the Hanoi Agricultural Extension Center recommends that the City People's Committee and departments and branches continue to pay attention to and increase investment in supporting production, especially in training, coaching, propaganda and trade promotion. At the same time, equipping additional equipment and machinery for post-harvest operations in production areas will contribute to improving product quality and promoting chain consumption.

The Center also hopes that the team of scientists will continue to accompany and research high-quality rice varieties, medicinal rice as well as post-harvest processing technologies suitable for actual production conditions, meeting the requirements of climate change adaptation, thereby improving economic efficiency for farmers.

At the same time, businesses are encouraged to actively cooperate in product consumption, forming stable and sustainable production - consumption chains , creating a foundation for long-term development for the high-quality rice industry of the capital.

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" The article is in collaboration with the Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Environment"

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