Rice fields are considered the “living space” of farmers, but are being abandoned in many places. The main reason is still the poor economic efficiency due to the lack of outlets for traditional crops and livestock, and the fragmented and small-scale agricultural practices are no longer suitable. The problem is to accumulate to develop large-scale, more modern production, or to convert to an agricultural model suitable for practical development...
From 1 commune...
In recent years, the vast Theu rice fields along National Highway 47 in Trieu Son district are still covered with a green carpet of weeds. This is a large field of the two communes of Dan Ly and Dan Quyen, but farmers mainly only grow the spring-summer crop. With more than 3 sao of rice land in that inter-commune field, Ms. Le Thi Cu in village 6, Dan Quyen commune also leaves the fields fallow like dozens of other households in the village. According to this 65-year-old farmer, her family has 4 workers, including 2 grandparents and 2 children, but in recent years, one child has gone to work as a worker for a company in the district, another opened a hair salon. Working as a service worker and a worker each month has brought many times more income than the rice crop, which requires 4-5 months of hard work. Meanwhile, the yield of the autumn-spring rice crop is usually not high, and many years when there are storms, the crop is flooded and lost, so local people are not interested.
In the same village as Mrs. Cu, there are about 50 households with fields in Dong Theu field, all of which are abandoned. Some households cultivate the spring crop, but most do not cultivate the summer crop with a total area of more than 20 hectares. Due to being abandoned for many years, this place has also become a grazing ground for buffaloes of some households in the area. Due to convenient traffic along the national highway, this field area has also been proposed by the People's Committee of Trieu Son district to be converted into industrial park land to develop the land fund and create more jobs for the people.
Also in Dan Quyen commune, the situation of abandoned fields occurs almost everywhere in the villages. The fields are uneven, with signs of production, some with reed grass, some with bushes. Along the road to village 4 of the same commune, Doc Khang and Dong Dam fields also have many fields covered in green weeds. In Cao Buoc field right next to the residential area of village 4, there are fields with grass as high as an adult's waist. According to local people, this field has been abandoned for 6-7 consecutive years... Mr. Pham Hong Bac - one of the households with many abandoned fields in these fields with 10 sao of rice land that has not been planted for many crops.
Regarding this situation, Mr. Le Gia Quang, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Dan Quyen Commune, said: "The commune has a large area of single-rice land, farmers only grow spring crops to have enough food for the whole year, so they often leave the autumn-winter crop fallow. In addition, in many rice fields, the autumn-winter crop coincides with the rainy and stormy season, irrigation is not proactive, and sometimes it is lost due to flooding, so people are not interested. Many households lack labor and have to hire 100% of the labor from land preparation, spraying pesticides, harvesting... so they do not want to invest because they are afraid of risks."
...everywhere
Thanh Hoa has the largest number of communes and wards in the country, but most of them have more or less abandoned fields. A survey in Hau Loc plain district showed that for nearly ten years, Ngo Thap field of Son village people in Tien Loc commune has been covered with countless meter-high wild plants. It is understandable because this place has a traditional blacksmithing profession, which brings in much higher income than farming. Not far away, large fields right along National Highway 10 in Trung Phu area of Hau Loc town have layers of sedge and reed grass that have not been cleared for many years, now as high as an adult's head. For decades, this land stretching half a kilometer along National Highway 10 was used to grow rice and other crops because the soil is very fertile. The land is located opposite Hau Loc District Medical Center in the old Thinh Loc commune, after being merged into the town, and has now become abandoned land.
Down to the coastal area of the district, it is not difficult to come across many acres of fallow fields in Hoa Phu and Cao Xa villages, Hoa Loc commune. Right at the foot of De bridge in Minh Loc commune, a vast low-lying field of dozens of hectares has not shown any signs of production activities for many years. This place is full of wild plants that can survive in saline soil such as sedge and reed. Running along the land is the De canal connecting to the Lach Truong river mouth, so this field can completely accumulate and form aquaculture areas...
On the other side of the red river with heavy alluvium is Hoang Hoa district, which also has many "rice fields and honey fields" that have been wasted for many years. From Hoang Yen commune, across Cach bridge, the many-hectare land near the cemetery of Ngoc Dinh village, Hoang Ha commune is also covered with water hyacinth and all kinds of natural aquatic plants. Similarly, the field behind Ngoc Dinh Parish Church is also covered with a wild green color all year round. This field running along the Cung river dike is 100 acres wide and has been abandoned for nearly ten years. Recently, the local government requested a plan to plan the land along the village road about 200m long, more than 100m deep into the field into residential land, so about 80 acres remain intact.
According to local people, the whole village has nearly 300 households, and every house has a field in this field. Here, the side job is selling popcorn, toys, and food everywhere, so many families no longer farm. Another reason is that each household is divided into many plots in many different areas, so it is fragmented, making it difficult to mechanize or apply scientific advances to change the crop structure. “Previously, there were fertile rice fields, but in the past ten years, there was a phenomenon of not plowing and for more than five years, the entire field has been abandoned. My family has 4 sao but it is divided into 6 plots in 6 different places, so the fragmentation cannot develop the farm. Seeing the field wasted for decades makes me impatient, many people also want to consolidate and rent more land into a large area to build a farm, raise aquatic products or a large production model, but many households refuse to exchange land or rent, and the local government has not yet stepped in to connect and implement the accumulation. Also because of no production, in recent years, the deceased's fields were not taken back, and the newborns were not given more..." - said a resident who asked to remain anonymous.
According to the Thanh Hoa Department of Cultivation and Plant Protection, in recent years, the situation of abandoned fields in Thanh Hoa often occurs in the summer-autumn crop with a total area of about 1,300 to 1,400 hectares, mainly rice fields, not including the winter crop. The reason is that the scale of household production is still fragmented and small; income from cultivation is no longer the main income of many families, it cannot ensure the livelihood and meet the needs of farming households; agricultural production has many risk factors, natural disasters, epidemics...
There are thousands of other examples in all districts, towns and cities in Thanh Hoa province about the situation of abandoned fields and deserted hills. Many people have fields that are not cultivated, but do not want to give them up for many reasons, causing a terrible waste of agricultural land. Accumulation to convert into modern agricultural models, develop farms, integrated farms to promote land funds or agricultural models to welcome guests... has become an inevitable requirement.
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