In recent years, Dong Hung agriculture has seen many improvements when the movement of land accumulation to grow 1-2 rice varieties was widely replicated, and mechanization was strongly implemented. This spring crop, farmers who boldly "embraced" land to produce commercial rice continued to "weave" a bumper crop.
Farmers who "hold" land are always bold in investing in machinery for production, productivity and income on the same cultivated area both increase.
Accumulate planting nearly 15 hectares of rice
The scorching summer sun makes the heavy rice fields of Mr. Pham Van Doan's family in Dong Dong commune ripen faster, turning the whole field yellow. This spring crop, Mr. Doan planted nearly 15 hectares of two quality rice varieties, BC15 and TBR225, both for seeds and to sell for commercial rice. This is the 10th year he has accumulated rice fields for commercial rice cultivation. In the first crops, he only planted 6-7 hectares, but after regretting that the "rice fields and honey fields" were not produced, he accepted them to plant. In addition, with the support fund from the province, he boldly borrowed more to invest hundreds of millions of dong in buying rice transplanters, plows, harrows, fertilizer spreaders, etc. to serve his family's production and provide services to the people.
Mr. Doan shared: Before, small-scale, fragmented production was difficult and ineffective, natural disasters, rats, and pests meant no income. Now, I have consolidated my fields into large fields of several acres per plot, mechanized almost all stages, so rice cultivation is much more leisurely, with low costs, reduced labor, high productivity, and clear results. I always pay attention from the stage of selecting high-quality seeds, following the needs of traders to planting, caring for and ensuring techniques, so my family's rice fields are always beautiful and more productive than small-scale households. Traders buy immediately after harvesting at a price of 8,000 VND/kg, so I don't have to spend time drying and drying. Every year, my family harvests nearly 200 tons of rice, after deducting costs, I make a profit of 500 - 600 million VND/year. In addition, I also provide plowing, planting, and harvesting services for people on about 20 acres per crop to increase my family's income. More and more farmers are no longer interested in their fields and are willing to let me rent or borrow their fields to grow rice, but when I ask them to extend the rental or borrowing period instead of by season as is the case now, they do not agree. The agreed rental period is short, I do not dare to invest in buying more machinery, building a solid embankment system to develop and expand production... I hope that the Party Committee and the government will propagate and mobilize farmers to extend the time for me to rent or borrow their fields.
Get rich by renting fields
Since renting and borrowing fields from households that do not cultivate rice for large-scale production, Pham Thi Thuy and her husband in Dong Dong commune no longer have to work hard to earn a living but have become "landowners", earning hundreds of millions of dong each year from cultivating rice for sale.
Ms. Thuy said: I am currently renting or borrowing fields from 40 households with an area of 13 hectares to plant BC15 and TBR225 varieties. Because I want to facilitate cultivation, I have proactively exchanged good fields for bad fields to convert them into large fields of 3 - 5 acres, planting the same variety. If previously, for these 13 hectares, 40 households had to rent or exchange labor with many people, taking many days and spending a lot of money to plant and harvest, now with the help of modern machinery, my husband and I take on everything from land preparation, sowing, planting, fertilizing, spraying pesticides, especially harvesting in just a few days.
Because of the large number of rice fields, Ms. Thuy often spends most of her time in the fields to check, fertilize, and spray pesticides to prevent and control pests and diseases for the rice. With that professional approach, her family's rice fields have firm, round grains, and almost no broken grains, and the yield is often 20-30kg/sao higher than other households. Still diligently planting on the old fields, but thanks to changing the production mindset from small-scale, fragmented, manual to large-scale, borderless fields, Ms. Thuy and her husband also master modern agricultural machinery, planting commercial rice, turning low-yield fields into golden fields of bumper crops.
Thanks to accumulating fields to grow 1-2 rice varieties, Ms. Pham Thi Thuy's family's rice yield is often 20-30kg/sao higher than that of small-scale households.
Ms. Thuy affirmed: Thanks to land accumulation, production according to the principle of "3 together" - same variety, same tea, same farming method has reduced a lot of costs in all stages, productivity and efficiency are much higher than before. However, the difficulty that I and other households implementing land accumulation have encountered is that many fields are interspersed with households that are producing, cannot be consolidated into large contiguous fields, contiguous plots of 5 hectares or more, farmers lease or borrow by season, verbal agreements, without lease or borrowing contracts. Although we have accumulated a lot, we have not been able to meet the conditions to receive support according to the regulations of the province and district. I propose that the province narrow the area required for land accumulation and the contiguous area so that those who accumulate land can enjoy support mechanisms and policies, join hands to reduce fallow fields, and increase the value of agricultural production.
Revenue from rice 600 - 800 million VND/year
Standing in the middle of a vast field of yellow rice fields, Mr. Pham Van Thanh, Phu Chau commune, excitedly said: After many years of farming, I never thought that one day, just my husband and I could cultivate 10 hectares, with a productivity increase of 8-10% compared to the traditional rice planting method. Before, every crop season, even though I only planted a few fields, I still had to work hard to find people to plant, spray pesticides, harvest, and rent rice threshing machines. Everything had to be rented, so the profit from production was low, and there were seasons when there were storms and rats that damaged the fields, and we lost money.
Seeing the benefits of large-scale production, Mr. Thanh did not hesitate to go to each house that he rented or borrowed fields from, persuading them to exchange their fields so that he could consolidate them into one area, one piece, becoming the first person in the district to have a large field of over 6 hectares. He also boldly invested nearly 1 billion VND to buy 3 transplanters, 1 plow, 1 harvester, and made his own tray seedling sowing machine to serve production; and rented a drone to spray pesticides. This spring crop, thanks to good care, the rice yielded a high yield of 2.2 - 2.4 quintals/sao. He weighed 50% of the harvested rice fresh for traders, and dried the remaining 50% to get a new price before selling. Each year, he earns 600 - 800 million VND from rice cultivation, an amount that he and his wife could not have imagined even though they worked very hard in the fields before. What he is worried about is that he grows a lot of rice but does not have land to build a rice storage house or a rice drying kiln. He hopes the government will create favorable conditions to help complete the procedures to build a rice storage house and a rice drying kiln.
Mr. La Quy Thang, Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Dong Hung district, said: In the district, there are many models of land accumulation for rice production that bring practical efficiency, in which Mr. Pham Van Doan, Ms. Pham Thi Thuy, Dong Dong commune; Mr. Pham Van Thanh, Phu Chau commune are the pioneers. Thanks to land accumulation, concentrated production areas have been formed, creating favorable conditions for synchronous mechanization in the fields; solving difficulties in labor shortage in localities; reducing costs of agricultural materials; raising people's awareness in applying scientific and technical advances in production. From small areas, difficult to cultivate, low economic efficiency... thanks to accumulation, productivity and economic efficiency have been improved. That affirms that land accumulation and concentration for commercial rice cultivation is an inevitable trend of agricultural production. However, households borrowing new fields only stop at the spontaneous form, self-negotiation without a contract on the term of land lease or borrowing. In the coming time, to have more effective models of rice accumulation and concentration, the district's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development will coordinate with localities to propagate, mobilize, and persuade households to agree to consolidate and exchange fields; review, guide, and complete procedures so that households can enjoy the support mechanism of the province and district in accordance with regulations.
| In Dong Hung district, there are currently nearly 2,000 households and individuals transferring, contributing capital, leasing land use rights, and participating in production linkages to accumulate and concentrate land with an area of 2,200 hectares. Of which, 500 - 600 areas have an area of less than 5 hectares; 20 areas have an area from 5 hectares to less than 10 hectares; 3 - 5 areas have an area from 20 hectares to less than 50 hectares. When young people are no longer interested in the fields, farmers like Mr. Doan, Ms. Thuy, and Mr. Thanh are passionate about the fields, boldly accumulating dozens of hectares/household to grow commercial rice, turning wild, small, ineffective rice fields into large fields with good rice, yielding hundreds of tons of rice/crop, opening up a new, effective and sustainable direction in agricultural production. However, authorities at all levels need to promptly remove difficulties and obstacles so that support mechanisms and policies can soon reach households and individuals who accumulate and concentrate land to further motivate them to expand their acreage, invest in machinery to promote agricultural production development. |
Thu Hien
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