Dien Chau rushes into the summer-autumn crop with 6,000 hectares of high-quality rice
(Baonghean.vn) - According to the plan, in the 2017 summer-autumn crop, Dien Chau district will plant 9,280 hectares (an increase of230 hectares compared tosame period), of which the structure of high-quality pure rice varieties is 6,000 hectares, accounting for nearly 65% of the area. Along with the spring rice harvest, people are urgently sowing summer-autumn rice seedlings.
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Ms. Cao Thi Hai in Hamlet 3, Dien Hoa Commune (Dien Chau) is sowing additional rice seedlings. Photo: Mai Giang |
To complete the 9,280 ha summer-autumn rice area, Dien Chau needs to plant 370 ha of seedlings. Accordingly, to speed up the planting progress and avoid the late-season storms and floods, starting from May 8, farmers have gone to the fields to sow seedlings. Due to the heavy rains on May 12, many areas of seedlings were washed away and rotten. Currently, along with completing the summer-autumn rice planting, farmers are also focusing on sowing to make up for the lost areas.
According to plan, by May 20, Dien Chau will finish sowing rice, and the spring crop harvest must be completed before May.
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Currently, early-sown rice seedlings in Dien Chau have turned green. Photo: Mai Giang |
Currently, farmers are applying care measures to ensure healthy and fast-growing seedlings in time for planting from June 10 to 20. Dien Chau also encourages farmers to produce single-varieties fields in the summer-autumn crop and implement SRI farming methods to save water and fight drought./.
Mai Giang