After the warm and joyful days of the traditional Tet holiday, farmers from all regions of the province are rushing to start producing the spring crop to make their fields greener and richer with the hope of a new year full of happiness and prosperity.
Taking advantage of favorable weather, farmers in Phuong Lau commune, Viet Tri city went to the fields to sow the spring crop, ensuring the right schedule. Photo: Truong Quan
Proactive progress
Right from the first days of the new year, farmers in the districts have urgently gone to the fields to plow and sow the Chiem Xuan crop to ensure progress within the best time frame. Taking advantage of favorable weather and sticking to the time frame, Mr. Hoang Minh Long in Hop Hai commune, Lam Thao district has mobilized people and machinery to go to the fields to plow and harrow the land to sow the Chiem Xuan crop with the hope of a successful and bountiful crop. Mr. Long said: "My family has planted nearly 2 hectares of rice, mainly J02 rice variety. Taking advantage of favorable weather, my family has focused on plowing and harrowing the land to sow the crop. Up to this point, my family has basically finished planting within the best time frame."
According to the plan, this year's Chiem Xuan 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 is about 61.7 quintals/ha, the total output is expected to reach about 217,700 tons. According to the issued schedule, early spring tea accounts for 2% of the total cultivated area of the whole crop, late spring tea accounts for 98% of the total area.
In order to achieve high results in the Spring crop, the Department of Agriculture has proactively coordinated with districts, cities and towns to ensure adequate supply of seeds and fertilizers according to people's needs as well as water for planting. However, according to the forecast of the Northern Mountainous Region Hydrometeorological Station, from December 2024 to February 2025, rainfall may be lower than the average of many years, and there may be many prolonged cold spells, affecting agricultural production. Some pests and diseases often arise, causing serious damage at the end of the crop; a number of farmers are not enthusiastic about production. In addition, prices of input materials and services for production continue to increase, production and product consumption markets face many difficulties, affecting the psychology of producers.
Meanwhile, the Spring crop is the main agricultural production crop of the year, determining over 60% of the annual food production target in the province. Up to now, the entire area of late Spring tea crop 1 has been basically completed, farmers are plowing and harrowing to prepare the land for planting late Spring tea crop 2. To ensure the success of Spring crop production, localities continue to have policies to support production and key agricultural economic programs; increase investment in intensive farming to increase productivity and rice output based on the application of technical measures in production.
Mr. Tran Tu Anh - Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development said: "The Department has developed a production plan for the 2025 Spring crop, linked with the production plans for other crops in the year to create a reasonable crop rotation chain, the previous crop creates conditions for production in the next crop. Focus on directing the formation of concentrated commodity production areas, especially for key crops. Encourage and create favorable conditions for enterprises inside and outside the province to invest in production, processing and consumption of agricultural products in the area. Maximize the area of high-quality rice varieties in association with building single-variety fields to increase the value of rice-growing land. Review the area of high-drought rice without proactive irrigation for the whole crop, switch to growing vegetables in accordance with the land use plan, higher economic efficiency...".
Sowing rice seedlings in trays and transplanting rice by machine has been applied in production by farmers in Hop Hai commune (Lam Thao).
Improve crop quality and efficiency
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 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 localities to properly implement the province's Guidelines on arranging the structure of seeds and crop seasons for some Spring crops in 2025. In particular, the late Spring crop, based on the growth period of each variety and the actual conditions of the locality, will arrange appropriate sowing and planting seasons according to the principle of ensuring that the rice differentiates into panicles and ripens in favorable weather; avoids the "Nang Ban" cold; and expands the area of quality rice.
Localities proactively instruct farmers not to use pure rice for seed rice, especially J02; continue to develop single-variety fields using high-quality rice varieties; expand the area of SRI improved rice cultivation, make tray seedlings; prioritize the use of biological products, foliar fertilizers, and organic fertilizers; properly implement technical processes and instructions from seed suppliers. Encourage farmers to use microbial products to treat stubble, increase lime application, and carefully prepare the soil to limit the situation of rice suffering from physiological diseases and poisoning after sowing; instruct farmers to sow sparsely to have healthy seedlings. Expand the area of fully improved rice cultivation (SRI), make tray seedlings, etc. on land with proactive irrigation. Promote investment in intensive farming, increase manure application, early top dressing, adequate and balanced NPK application, increase the use of foliar fertilizers; prevent pests and manage plant health according to IPHM.
People use plows and harrows to work the land, freeing up labor.
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.
Thuy Hang
Source: https://baophutho.vn/xuan-am-ruong-dong-227560.htm
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