Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company adds solutions for sugarcane care after floods
(Baonghean) - After the recent flood, white cotton aphids have developed strongly on sugarcane growing areas in Tan Ky district. To promptly prevent aphids, Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company has added solutions and technical instructions on sugarcane care for farmers.
According to data from Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company, the recent drought has caused over 70% damage to more than 6 hectares, and less than 60% damage to 42 hectares. The recent flood has caused nearly 70 hectares of sugarcane to be heavily flooded, with the risk of top rot. The humidity in the sugarcane garden is high, creating favorable conditions for white cotton fiber aphids to develop, so it is necessary to proactively prevent and control them promptly.
Therefore, after the rain stops, the company directs agricultural staff to stay in the fields and guide people on how to properly care for sugarcane to ensure productivity and output of raw sugarcane.
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| Agricultural staff of Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company guide farmers in taking care of sugarcane. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
Mr. Nguyen Ba Quy - Deputy Director of Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company said: Currently, along with maintaining machinery and production lines in the factory, the company is promoting the care of raw sugarcane growing areas.
Accordingly, the company assigned the agricultural stations to guide sugarcane growers on how to care for sugarcane after the flood ended. Each agricultural officer was assigned to be in charge of a specific area, reporting daily on the growth of sugarcane as well as pests and diseases on sugarcane, to propose timely treatment to the company.
Mr. Hoang Van Chung's family in Van Long hamlet, Giai Xuan commune has 10 hectares of raw sugarcane, which is in the growing stage. Mr. Chung said: Like previous years, after the end of the rainy season, white cotton fiber aphids often appear in large numbers, so the family proactively monitors and prevents them from the beginning. With timely provision of pesticides by agricultural officers, combined with a motor sprayer, the family is proactive in preventing aphids.
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| Farmers in Tan Xuan commune (Tan Ky) take care of sugarcane. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
Mr. Nguyen Cong Phu - Head of Raw Material Station No. 1, located in Giai Xuan commune, said: The station currently has 13 agricultural officers, in charge of sugarcane raw material areas in 7 communes (Giai Xuan, Tan Hop, Tan Xuan, Tan Phu, Nghia Thai, Nghia Dong and Nghia Hop). Each agricultural officer is assigned to be in charge of a specific area.
Accordingly, from land preparation to harvest, agricultural officers are responsible for urging, guiding and monitoring the progress of planting and caring for sugarcane of each family. At this time, sugarcane is 6 - 8 months old, the stage of growing sugarcane, requiring timely and appropriate care for sugarcane to achieve high yield.
After the flood, each agricultural officer stayed in the field, guided the people to drain all the water in the sugarcane field, cleared the bushes around the field; along with that, guided the people to actively weed, loosen the soil, hill up the sugarcane base, cut off weak sugarcane shoots to make the sugarcane base airy. In sugarcane fields infected with white cotton fiber aphids, agricultural officers provided medicine and sprayers for the people to spray promptly.
Like previous years, this year the company has a policy of lending farmers money to buy sprayers, pesticides, fertilizers, seeds, etc., so farmers can invest wisely from the beginning, and most of the sugarcane fields of every household are growing well.
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| White cotton aphids on sugarcane. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
According to Mr. Nguyen Ba Quy - Deputy Director of Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company, this sugarcane crop year, the company has a policy to support sugarcane growers in land preparation, timely supply of seeds and fertilizers. With the area of sugarcane left at the base, if farmers take care of it according to the process, use the right amount of fertilizer provided by the factory, they will receive care support services from the factory. The company also provides pesticides for farmers to prevent pests, first of all, white cotton fiber aphid killer.
Currently, the company's sugarcane growing area is over 6 thousand hectares, spread across the districts of Tan Ky, Yen Thanh, Do Luong, Con Cuong. Due to the replacement of new sugarcane varieties, the situation of grass shoot disease has significantly decreased. In particular, many communes of Tan Ky district have implemented land consolidation and converted plots into large-scale fields, creating conditions for farmers to intensively cultivate sugarcane. Therefore, sugarcane productivity has been improved day by day.
Being proactive in production and limiting pests and diseases will help sugarcane growers reap successes in cultivation. This is also the top goal of Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company in its strategy to develop raw sugarcane growing areas./.