Bac Tra My farmers enter new crop season

Farmers in Bac Tra My district have planted 675 hectares of winter-spring crop 2023 - 2024, reaching 95% of the area. Along with developing the rice area, the district has also developed more than 2,000 hectares of medicinal plants.

Farmers in Bac Tra My district have planted 675 hectares of winter-spring rice crop 2023 - 2024. Photo: TL

Since November 2023, following the crop calendar, Mr. Nguyen Van Thanh (village 3, Tra Giac commune) has been going to the fields to clear the banks, clear the grass, plow, rebuild the irrigation ditches into the fields, and prepare for the new crop. Up to now, Mr. Thanh's family has finished sowing 7 sao of rice fields.

Mr. Thanh said: “The weather this year is relatively favorable, no prolonged heavy rains, little cold, so people in the village have planted rice on schedule. Since the rice cultivation has been stable, there is no worry about hunger. Everyone here hopes for a good harvest next season so that life can be stable.”

In the 2023-2024 winter-spring crop, the entire Tra Giac commune sowed nearly 18 hectares of wet rice. This crop, local people mainly planted PC6, QS 447, LTH31 rice varieties. These are rice varieties that are less susceptible to pests and diseases, easy to cultivate, suitable for many types of soil, have a high percentage of solid grains, are strong and do not fall over easily. Thanks to the investment in intra-field canals, people sowed 100% of the area in Ong Nam's rice fields (village 1) and Na Mit rice fields (village 3).

In recent times, the agricultural sector of Bac Tra My district has been given priority funding sources to develop and restore production after natural disasters. In the 2022-2023 winter-spring crop, local people restored 36.3 hectares of rice for production, and in the 2023 summer-autumn crop, production increased by 32.1 hectares of upland rice and corn.

Along with that, investment in upgrading, repairing and renewing irrigation works, extending some canals to proactively irrigate fields, prioritizing improvement, applying many new high-yield, good-quality varieties, applying many effective intensive farming techniques, thereby gradually improving the efficiency of agricultural production.

In 2023, Bac Tra My district planted more than 2,143 hectares of grain crops, reaching 104.7% of the 2023 plan, exceeding 1.7% over the same period in 2022. The output of two-crop grain crops reached 8,949 tons (reaching 114.72% of the plan).

According to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Bac Tra My district, along with rice, people are planting new medicinal herbs according to the district's policy. Up to now, the area has more than 2,000 hectares of medicinal herbs including Tra My cinnamon, tea vine, snow velvet, polygonum multiflorum, cau ginseng, white ginseng, red ginseng, green lim mushroom... with abundant reserves.

In 2023 alone, the district will conserve 360 ​​hectares of Tra My cinnamon, invest in planting 200 hectares of new cinnamon and develop a number of other medicinal plants according to the province's policy such as ginseng, Morinda officinalis, and 7-leaf 1-flower ginseng with more than 7.1 hectares. In addition, the district is maintaining a project to transplant Ngoc Linh ginseng in Nui Xanh (Tra Bui commune) from 2021 to present.

Monitoring, care and management work ensures the process to serve the research and evaluation work. Currently, local people continue to ensure canopy, take good care of the planted medicinal plants and organize new planting, associated with concentrated production areas, and link to increase the value and economic efficiency of medicinal plants.

Source: https://baoquangnam.vn/nong-nghiep-nong-thon/nong-dan-bac-tra-my-vao-vu-mua-moi-154880.html