In the fields from Dong Hoa, Phu Hoa to Tuy An, Dong Xuan, the summer-autumn rice is in the harvest season. Taking advantage of the early morning and late afternoon, people invite each other to visit the fields to prevent pests and diseases that harm the rice, and rats that destroy it...
Smile in the hot sun
In the afternoon, Mr. Tran Van Tam in Xuan Quang 3 commune, Dong Xuan district, carried a basket of fertilizer to Truong field in front of his house to spread for the rice to prepare for earing. Mr. Tam smiled and said: The summer-autumn rice season has been almost a month and a half, so I applied the last fertilizer to give the rice the strength to form ears and produce long spikes.
Based on experience, after spreading fertilizer, Mr. Tam walks around the edge of the field, looks under the edge to see if there are any holes, then digs the soil and covers it carefully to prevent the fertilizer from being washed away. Next, he uses his hand to draw a line for the rice row to emerge, looks to see if there are planthoppers clinging to it, and then prevents them. "When growing rice in the summer-autumn crop, farmers worry about planthoppers and drought. With the two types of brown planthoppers and white-backed planthoppers, if not prevented, rice can easily be infected with planthoppers on a large scale, losing productivity," said Mr. Tam.
Mr. Nguyen Van Phuoc, an employee of the Phu Xuan Reservoir irrigation team (Dong Cam Irrigation Company Limited), led water to irrigate Thanh and Nui Mot fields (Xuan Quang 3 commune), to each inter-regional field, using a hoe to open each field to let water flow in.
Mr. Phuoc said: This field is far from the water source of Phu Xuan Lake, so in years of drought, the whole field is cracked and abandoned. In this summer-autumn crop of 2023, to ensure enough irrigation water, the irrigation team must regularly check to avoid the situation of broken ditches, water loss into the pond, and into the river. The weather is hot, so I take advantage of going early in the morning and late in the afternoon to avoid the harsh sunlight.
According to Mr. Phuoc, currently, the water source from Phu Xuan Lake is enough to irrigate this field. If the drought continues, the upstream water source may be in short supply. However, according to the experience of a long-time water conduit like him, just need to alternate between flooding and drying, the rice leaves that eat fertilizer will still be green.
The rice fields along the railway from Chi Thanh station to Go Bun fields, An Cu commune (Tuy An district), are in the maiden stage. Mrs. Bui Thi Minh Ha went to visit the rice fields, looked at the green color of the fields, and said with a smile: These fields are often contaminated with salt and alum. At that time, the rice plants wilt, and no matter how much fertilizer is spread, they will not turn green, so there must be a source of fresh water to wash away the salt and alum in time. A few years ago, in the summer-autumn season, the water level of Lo Gom River was low and not enough to wash away the salt and alum. Now the water level of the river is high, so farmers do not have to worry about water shortage.
Prevent mice from biting and destroying
Along the fields from Dong Hoa to Phu Hoa, farmers use plastic bags to spread across the rice fields to scare away rats. Mr. Nguyen Van Son in Hoa Tri commune (Phu Hoa district) is planting plastic bags and said: Rats chew rice to pieces. I use small stakes, wrapped with plastic sheets on top, to pinch the spots where rats bite rice to scare them away and make them go elsewhere. In some places, farmers hang beer and soft drink cans on the top of trees to make loud noises to scare rats away.
Mr. Nguyen Van Dong in Hoa Tri commune, Phu Hoa district, shared: For many years, I and many others have noticed that the areas where rats are bitten have decreased, but in other areas, rats still bite and destroy. The worms eat the remaining leaves of the rice plants, and the rats bite and break the roots, and any cluster they bite is completely lost.
In the fields of Hoa Vinh ward (Dong Hoa town), Phu Dong ward (Tuy Hoa city), at night people use crescent traps to trap rats in all the fields. In the morning, Mr. Le Van Ba in Hoa Vinh ward went to the fields to collect the traps, saying: Previously, in many fields along National Highway 1 to duck farms in the middle of Phuoc Loc field (Hoa Thanh commune), rats dug holes to hide in mounds of soil next to rocks, people could not destroy all the holes so the rats reproduced a lot, biting and destroying the rice. At the beginning of the production season, people launched a campaign to kill rats, but due to the terrain having many embankments and high embankments, and not being carried out synchronously, the rats moved from one area to another.
According to the Department of Cultivation and Plant Protection, in the summer-autumn rice crop, farmers in the province have sown more than 24,830 hectares. In the main crop, rice is in the tillering and late tillering stages. In the late crop, rice is in the seedling and tillering stages. Currently, 13 hectares of rice fields have been damaged by rats in Tuy An and Dong Hoa; 1.8 hectares have been damaged by thrips in Son Hoa; and 3.5 hectares have been damaged by armyworms in Dong Xuan. In addition, some pests are scattered below the infection level, such as black stink bugs, damaging 16.8 hectares in Dong Hoa, Phu Hoa and Tuy Hoa; and 0.5 hectares have been damaged by leaf rollers in Tuy An.
The Department of Crop Production and Plant Protection recommends that to prevent pests and diseases in the 2023 summer-autumn rice crop, farmers need to strengthen measures to care for and monitor harmful organisms such as rats, thrips, planthoppers, stem borers, etc.; at the same time, deploy measures to kill rats simultaneously throughout the crop.
One year, rats started to gnaw away at the rice plants as soon as they sprouted new leaves, leaving many fields with patches of bare ground as big as sieves or winnowing baskets. This time, farmers stayed up all night to set traps to kill rats, so the rice fields stretched out and were lush and green.
Mr. Le Van Ba in Hoa Vinh ward, Dong Hoa town |
MANH LE TRAM
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