To produce a successful spring crop

Currently, farmers in the province are focusing on harvesting winter crops, preparing the land, and sowing seeds for spring crops according to the issued crop calendar. In order to achieve high results in the spring crop, the Department of Agriculture is coordinating with districts, cities, and towns to ensure adequate supply of seeds and fertilizers according to people's needs, and ensuring water sources for planting.

Farmers in Tu Xa commune, Lam Thao district harvest winter vegetables to prepare for spring production.

Identify the difficulty

Currently, farmers in the province are focusing all resources to harvest winter crops; plowing, quickly clearing the land, ensuring that crop residues and pests of the previous crop are cleared for sowing in the best time frame. After harvesting the last rows of vegetables of the winter crop, Mr. Nguyen Van Thieu's family in Tu Xa commune, Lam Thao district hired a tractor to plow and turn the land to prepare for spring planting. Mr. Thieu said: "My family has now finished plowing the fields, waiting for water to soak the fields to sow according to the schedule announced by the commune's agricultural extension team. This year's winter crop has little rain, so the water source for agricultural production is not fully met, especially for sowing. However, we are still proactive in clearing and cleaning the ditches to be able to get water as soon as the cooperative organizes irrigation pumping".

According to the forecast of the Northern Mountainous Region Hydrometeorological Station, from December 2024 to February 2025, the average rainfall may be lower than the average of many years, and there may be many prolonged cold spells, affecting agricultural production. Meanwhile, the Spring crop is the main agricultural production crop of the year, determining over 60% of the annual food output target in the province. 2025 is also a year with many major holidays and important events of the country, so winning the Spring crop is the most practical response to the emulation movement of localities, the agricultural sector and farmers in the whole province.

According to the plan, this year's Spring crop, the whole province will plant about 35,300 hectares of rice, of which the hybrid rice area is nearly 11,800 hectares, high-quality rice 21,100 hectares, the rest are other rice varieties. The expected yield will reach about 61.7 quintals/ha, the total output is expected to reach about 217,700 tons. Besides rice, in the Spring crop, the whole province also plans to plant 5,600 hectares of corn, 4,800 hectares of various green vegetables. According to the issued schedule, early Spring tea (accounting for 2% of the total cultivated area of ​​the whole crop) has been sown by people, prepared for planting, concentrated in low-lying fields. Late Spring Tea (accounting for 98% of the total area) will be divided into 2 batches, including Tea 1 (accounting for 46% of the total area) will be sown in the first week of January 2025, Tea 2 (accounting for 52% of the total area) will be sown from January 25 to February 5, 2025.

Mr. Nguyen Trong Luyen - Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Thanh Thuy district said: "Determining that the Spring crop is the main production crop, creating a premise for the following crops, the Department has consulted with the leaders of the District People's Committee to organize well the propaganda work on the crop calendar; mobilize people to follow the schedule, not to plant early to avoid severe cold, which affects the growth of rice plants".

Besides the impact of weather, prices of input materials and services for production continue to increase, and the difficult market for agricultural products also affects the psychology of producers.

Land preparation for spring crop in Thuong Nong commune, Tam Nong district.

Implement drastic solutions

Identifying and anticipating these difficulties, localities closely follow the spring crop production solutions, comply with the season, variety structure and production plan according to the guidance of the Department of Agriculture. Comrade Tran Tu Anh - Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development emphasized: Based on the province's policies and orientations, localities need to closely follow the production situation, closely monitor weather developments to have timely, drastic and practical guidance and direction measures to plant all areas according to the plan, avoiding the situation of abandoning fields and crops. At the same time, focus on directing the good implementation of tea structure, variety structure, sowing rice seedlings according to the province's crop schedule; encourage land accumulation and concentration associated with the construction of single-variety fields to synchronously apply technical advances, bring mechanization into production to achieve the highest results in the spring crop.

Up to now, localities have prepared sufficient quantity of seeds, correct structure, fertilizers, irrigation water, and other agricultural materials according to the 2025 Spring crop production plan that has been deployed. The Department of Agriculture also requires specialized units to send staff to coordinate with localities to closely follow the fields, instruct people on measures to prevent and combat cold for seedlings, closely monitor the weather situation to adjust planting and fertilization accordingly, and avoid sowing seedlings too early. Farmers are advised to plant rice around the beginning of Spring, avoid planting and fertilizing seedlings when the temperature drops below 16 ⁰ C. For corn, peanuts, beans, etc., in addition to planting on time, farmers need to take advantage of soil moisture to plant and use good plant varieties, correct structure of the Department of Agriculture, and not plant on days when the temperature is below 15 ⁰ C.

To minimize the risk of farmers buying poor quality materials, affecting productivity and output, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has assigned units to coordinate with localities to inspect and examine agricultural material businesses, ensuring the supply of quality seeds and materials according to the issued list. The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development also requested Phu Tho Irrigation Works Exploitation Company Limited to direct irrigation enterprises to coordinate with localities to repair and dredge canals, provide enough water for production, and strictly prohibit acts of draining water for aquatic exploitation.

In addition to implementing support policies, districts, cities and towns also continue to implement mechanisms and policies to attract businesses to invest in the agricultural sector, focusing on the processing stage; continue to promote the construction of linkage chains from production to processing and product consumption; encourage potential entities to build OCOP products to increase the value of agricultural products, and expand production and supply areas for raw materials... Localities need to proactively monitor weather conditions closely and prepare prevention and control plans to minimize damage in the event of natural disasters.

Phan Cuong

Source: https://baophutho.vn/de-san-xuat-vu-xuan-thang-loi-225357.htm