Strange way: Farmers sow rice in dry fields

(Baonghean.vn) - The area has no large dams, so Quynh Loc commune, Hoang Mai town (Nghe An) has a lot of difficulties in agricultural production. To overcome the dry weather and difficulties in water resources, especially in autumn-winter rice production, farmers have come up with a very creative way by sowing dry rice.

Plowing machine prepares the land for sowing rice

With the dry sowing method, farmers will not have to go through the steps of seed incubation, seedling establishment, and wet rice planting. Dry sowing only requires soaking the seeds for 2 days and 2 nights, and people sow the seeds directly on the well-prepared, flat land. The advantage of dry sowing is that it overcomes the situation of prolonged drought waiting for rain, or taking water from dams.

People apply manure and NPK fertilizer on tilled and plowed fields.

The rice seeds are soaked by people for 2 days and 2 nights before being sown.

After the spring-summer harvest, people rent machines to plow the soil, fertilize, and sow seeds. To ensure high germination rates, soil preparation is the most important step, and the soil must be prepared thoroughly. After that, the fields are harrowed to make them flat, smooth, and moist. After sowing the seeds, people continue to use buffaloes and cows to harrow and cover the seeds.

Ms. Dinh Thi Lan - Village 7, Quynh Loc commune is sowing rice in a dry field.

After sowing rice, people use buffaloes and cows to harrow the soil and cover the seeds.

After the rice plants germinate and the weather is favorable with rain, people continue to take care of them by weeding and fertilizing.

Currently, in Quynh Loc commune, 12/12 villages have basically prepared land for rice sowing with a total area of ​​nearly 400 hectares. In which, mainly using pure rice, local rice suitable for climate and soil conditions such as: Q5, Khang Dan, pure rice Nghe An...

Seeds have sprouted in the dry fields

Mr. Nguyen Van Bac - Secretary of the Quynh Loc Commune Party Committee said: The dry rice sowing method has been applied by farmers in Quynh Loc Commune in the autumn-summer crop production for about 5 years now, overcoming the difficulty of water resources for production. People do not have to wait for rain to sow or have to leave the rice fallow like some other localities. With the dry rice sowing method, people can produce on time, limit the situation of rice being infected with diseases or floods; ensuring the production plan for the summer-autumn crop.

Bich Huong

Hoang Mai Radio Station