Nhut Nghe An rice seedlings are in high demand at the market.

In recent days, rice seedlings have appeared in front of Con Market in Thanh Duong commune, Thanh Chuong district, attracting farmers from neighboring communes to buy and sell them. Photo: An Nam

According to local residents, this year's spring rice crop suffered significant damage during seed germination and sowing, especially the VT404 three-line hybrid rice variety. Many households are short of seedlings, so the rice seedling stalls at Con Market opened earlier and attracted more buyers and sellers. (Photo: An Nam)

During this time of year, households with densely planted rice seedlings, if they have laborers, often thin out the seedlings and take them to the market to sell. Those selling seedlings range from 5-7 bundles to hundreds of bundles. (Photo: An Nam)

To have bundles of rice seedlings to sell at the market, people have to pull up the seedlings the afternoon before and tie them into small bundles with bamboo or straw. A woman in Thanh Duong commune (Thanh Chuong district) selling rice seedlings said that her family cultivates 5 sao (approximately 0.5 hectares) of rice fields, and in the past few days, they have harvested and sold over 1 million dong worth of seedlings; they are preparing to sell over 100 bundles to another household, which will earn them another 1 million dong. Photo: An Nam

People buying rice seedlings usually choose the same variety they are currently sowing or transplanting in their fields, such as VT 404, Thai Xuyen, Khang Dan, WN 305... without being too concerned about whether the seedlings are good or bad. If seedlings are scarce, then farmers will buy different varieties; they buy whatever variety is available, as long as they can replant and cover the entire area. Photo: An Nam

At Con Market, rice seedlings are being bought and sold by locals for 8,000 - 15,000 VND per bundle, depending on the type. Those buying seedlings shared that a small bundle of seedlings, about two handfuls for planting, costs around 10,000 VND, which is considered expensive because the seedlings are mature, large, and few in number. Planting one sao (approximately 1000 square meters) of rice field usually requires hundreds of bundles of seedlings, costing millions of VND. (Photo: An Nam)

The rice seedling stalls at Con Market meet the needs of local people for buying and selling seedlings. At the rice seedling stalls, transactions are quite quick. Some people, after selling their seedlings at the market, even take the opportunity to go to the fields to pull up more seedlings to bring to the market. In recent days, the seedling stalls have been very busy, selling out everything they have. Many people at the market couldn't even buy seedlings to replant. Photo: An Nam

Ms. Nguyen Thi Thuy from Thanh Lam commune (Thanh Chuong district), who went to Con market to buy rice seedlings, shared: "My family cultivates 3 sao (approximately 0.3 hectares) of rice fields. Almost all the seedlings died, so we could only gather enough to plant 1 sao. We had to buy seedlings for the other 2 sao. With the current price of seedlings, planting the whole field would cost a lot of money, but leaving the fields fallow is also unacceptable." (Photo: An Nam)

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