Switching to growing green vegetables in rice fields with water difficulties helps reduce abandoned areas, bring stable income to people, and complete the proposed production plan.
Identify the difficulty
After planting more than 6 sao of rice fields, Ms. Phan Thi Thu's family in Dao Xa commune proactively dredged a small canal to drain water from the upstream ditch into her family's rice field to drain water and maintain enough water level in the field for the rice to grow. Ms. Thu confided: In the past 5-6 years, I have never seen such erratic weather at the beginning of the crop season. It rained heavily for a few days, then the sun was scorching hot, causing significant impacts on the growth and development of rice plants. Therefore, my family has to regularly monitor the fields to promptly drain water during heavy rains, ensuring enough water for the rice to grow well. At the same time, we also apply top dressing and basal fertilization according to the instructions of the commune's agricultural extension team.
According to the assessment of the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, since the beginning of the year, the average rainfall has been 20-40% higher than in recent years. It is forecasted that from now until the end of October, there will be 8-10 storms making landfall in the mainland, of which about 4-5 will affect the midland and mountainous areas of the North. This is a very big risk for the Summer-Autumn crop production, especially in the final stage of the crop, preparing for harvest, which will negatively impact the overall productivity and output of the whole crop. The average temperature from the beginning of the crop until now is also 0.2-20C higher than the average of the past 5 years. In addition, the transition time from the Winter-Spring crop to the Summer-Autumn crop is short, so the source of residual pests in the soil will also be high, especially two-spotted stem borers, various types of planthoppers, rats, leaf blight, bacterial stripe spots, black-striped dwarf... In particular, weedy rice is emerging and causing very strong damage. If not handled promptly and drastically, it will continue to spread, affecting not only the yield but also the quality of the Summer-Autumn rice.
Although there has been direction from the Provincial People's Committee and the Department of Agriculture and Environment for the Summer-Autumn crop production, striving to complete the set plan, minimizing the situation of abandoned fields and crops, in reality, in many localities, abandoned fields and crops still occur. According to many farmers, Summer-Autumn crop production is easily affected by natural disasters and pests, causing production costs to increase, and farmers have no profit...
In addition, in recent years, the prices of agricultural materials such as seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, etc. have always remained high, while the price of commercial rice has not increased, causing farmers to not want to invest in production. At the same time, the price of renting mechanical machinery for production has also increased by 20-30% compared to 5 years ago. Meanwhile, the increasingly scarce rural labor force has also significantly affected production progress.
According to the plan, the total production area of the Summer-Autumn crop of the whole province after the merger will increase to approximately 72,500 hectares of rice, nearly 19,000 hectares of corn, more than 13,500 hectares of various green vegetables, over 1,200 hectares of sweet potatoes, nearly 1,500 hectares of peanuts... The province has also built many concentrated production areas for crops with high economic value such as rice, high-quality green tea; citrus fruits, dragon fruit, bananas... are gradually building highly effective organic production models, granting growing area codes... thereby expanding to help farmers increase profits, confidently invest in converting crop structure for difficult-to-produce areas, ensuring high results in Summer-Autumn crop production.
Farmers in Phung Nguyen commune focus on planting summer-autumn rice.
Proactive response measures
Identifying possible difficulties in advance and developing flexible and practical response plans is the leading solution to ensure that the Summer-Autumn crop production completes the set plan and achieves high efficiency.
Mr. Dang Nguyen Trung Vuong - Head of Technical - Professional Department, Department of Crop Production and Plant Protection, Department of Agriculture and Environment said: The Department has coordinated with localities to develop plans and organize the implementation of crop restructuring, crop conversion on rice-growing land, especially in inefficient production areas, areas at high risk of drought, and areas without water for production throughout the season, in accordance with planning, plans and specific conditions of the locality, minimizing the area of land not in production right from the beginning of the season. At the same time, encourage people to increase the application of scientific and technical advances in production such as: Integrated Plant Health Management (IPHM), Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), Improved Rice Intensification System (SRI), production according to organic standards, application of high technology, rice production with reduced emissions, use of microbial preparations to treat stubble to prevent organic poisoning... to ensure sustainable, efficient, quality and safe production.
In addition, the Department also requested communes to direct specialized agencies to strengthen the inspection and testing of the quality of seeds, fertilizers and pesticides in the area, strictly handle cases of supplying materials that do not ensure quality according to the provisions of law to protect the rights of farmers and production efficiency. Strengthen guidance, propaganda and support for organizations and individuals in developing production towards forming concentrated growing areas that meet standards and implementing the issuance of growing area codes according to regulations. Diversify sales channels, promote promotion, effectively exploit online sales methods, and sell on e-commerce platforms to connect, introduce, promote and consume products. Encourage and invite businesses and cooperatives to strengthen connections to form and expand linkage models in agricultural production and product consumption; At the same time, promote responsibility in maintaining and expanding the scale of linkage to improve production efficiency, increase income for people and develop sustainably. Strengthen inspection and supervision of fields, perform well the task of investigating, detecting, predicting and directing the prevention of plant pests, paying attention to objects such as: small leaf rollers, rats, ... on rice plants, fall armyworms on corn plants ... to promptly detect and handle, avoid spreading widely affecting the overall yield of the whole crop.
Phan Cuong
Source: https://baophutho.vn/ung-pho-voi-kho-khan-trong-san-xuat-vu-mua-235904.htm
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