Faced with the impact of climate change, changes in consumption trends and export orientation, the agricultural sector has innovated its thinking and methods of organizing rice production towards sustainability to ensure food security and increase farmers' income.
The area of use of drones for spraying pesticides is increasingly expanding, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
As a coastal commune of Kien Xuong district with more than 3km of alluvial land along Tra Ly river, Tra Giang commune has planned nearly 60 hectares of organic rice growing area combined with the exploitation of earthworms to build a rice brand and increase the value per unit area.
Mr. Bui Huu Tuong, Vice Chairman of the Commune People's Committee, said: Planting rice on land exploited for rươi contributes to doubling production efficiency, not only increasing rươi output but also creating a clean environment for the alluvial land as well as bringing clean rice grains, building a brand will certainly increase economic efficiency.
In recent years, sustainable agricultural development has been a matter of concern for the province, which has set out directions with appropriate solutions to achieve the common goal in the plan to restructure the agricultural sector of Thai Binh province for the period 2021 - 2025 according to Decision No. 2840/QD-UBND, dated November 18, 2021 of the Provincial People's Committee. As the province with the second largest rice cultivation area in the Red River Delta region with 140,000 hectares/year, Thai Binh has always been at the forefront of applying scientific and technological advances, rice productivity in recent years has reached over 130 quintals/ha/year, annual output is estimated at about 1 million tons, contributing to ensuring national food security, meeting consumption and export needs. The concentration of land to organize large-scale rice production according to the value chain has been of interest to many organizations and individuals, contributing to increasing the value of rice production. Rice production in the province has recently changed significantly from the shift in variety structure. Quality rice is gradually expanding, accounting for over 40% of the rice variety structure. This direction helps improve production efficiency, meet diverse consumer needs, and contribute to the formation of many high-quality rice production areas.
In the 2024 crop season, Phu Luong commune (Dong Hung) will participate in the model of enhancing climate-smart rice production towards sustainable rice production and regional food security through the application of nuclear techniques.
Identifying low-carbon economy as a new direction, an opportunity to enhance the competitiveness of the agricultural sector in the global sustainable agricultural value chain, many localities in the province have paid attention to implementing and forming models applying science and technology, technical processes for fuel-saving farming operations of agricultural machinery, limiting the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and protecting the environment.
Phu Luong Commune (Dong Hung) is a pioneer in applying technical advances to rice production such as: SRI (improved rice cultivation techniques), wide rows and narrow rows, reducing greenhouse gas emissions... Recently, in the spring crop of 2024, the locality participated in a pilot model of alternating flooding and drying of rice, calibrating and verifying satellite image interpretation models to determine water levels in rice fields for calculation and inventory of greenhouse gases towards carbon credit trading with a scale of more than 60 hectares, 800 farmer households participated. In the summer-autumn crop, the cooperative continued to participate in the model "Demonstration of climate-smart rice production towards sustainable rice production and regional food security, through the application of nuclear techniques" implemented by the Institute of Agricultural Environment.
Mr. Nguyen Trong Thanh, Director of Phu Luong Commune Agricultural Service Production and Trading Cooperative, said: In addition to economic efficiency, participating in projects and models, farmers are trained, thereby raising their awareness significantly, "saying no" to plastic waste in the fields, and at the same time producing more responsibly towards the environment and the market.
With the goal of minimizing the harm caused by the abuse of chemicals, especially pesticides, to public health, the environment, and food safety, more and more models are using biological products to treat straw, using fertilizers containing effective microorganisms, multi-element synthetic NPK and supporting substances... in the direction of comprehensive intensification, sustainable rice production, not using single nitrogen fertilizers for rice.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Nga, Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said: Thai Binh is proud to be the first locality with 100% of cooperatives being instructed to apply integrated pest management (IPM) since the year 2000. The province has adopted the "nong - su - dat" mindset to manage water levels appropriate to each growth stage of rice plants. This mindset has become a guiding principle throughout many years.
To promote advantages, aim to develop the rice industry sustainably and effectively, and increase income for rice growers in the new situation, in the coming time, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development will continue to pilot rice production models in the direction of circular, sustainable, multi-layered ecological agriculture and apply high technology and digital technology to rice production for rice areas growing specialty varieties, high-quality rice, and rice for export.
Ngan Huyen
Source: https://baothaibinh.com.vn/tin-tuc/4/207029/san-xuat-lua-gao-theo-huong-ben-vung
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