Do Luong: Harvest summer-autumn rice early to avoid brown planthoppers
(Baonghean.vn) - This summer-autumn crop, Do Luong district planted more than 7,300 hectares of rice. At this time, the rice has begun to ripen. Farmers in some communes have urgently gone to the fields to harvest rice to avoid damage from brown planthoppers.
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| Farmers rent combine harvesters for 160,000 VND/sao. Photo: Ngoc Phuong |
Dang Son commune has 105.6 hectares of summer-autumn rice that is about to ripen, the main rice varieties are Khang Dan, Thien Uu, Huong Thom Kinh Bac... Taking advantage of the sunny weather, farmers go to the fields to harvest rice. In the fields, some combine harvesters operate continuously, bringing about quick and efficient harvesting. However, vThis summer-autumn crop, due to the appearance of brown planthoppers, the yield was not as high as previous years, only reaching 2 - 2.5 quintals/sao.
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| Some rice fields have their leaves burned by brown planthoppers. Photo: Ngoc Phuong |
In Nam Son commune, farmers are also rushing to the fields to harvest rice. The whole commune has 154 hectares, after the 3rd and 4th storms, about 30 hectares were 100% damaged; 20 hectares were less than 70% damaged. This year's rice crop yield is not high, even good rice fields only yield 2.8 quintals/sao. Mr. Nguyen Duy Ba in Nam Son commune said that his family planted more than 3 sao of Khang Dan and Thien Uu short-grain rice with more than 2 quintals/sao, because the rice was infected with planthoppers, the yield was lower than last year.
According to the people's estimates, if the summer-autumn crop this year is not infected with rice planthoppers, the average yield could reach 3 quintals/sao. The reason for the large number of planthoppers is due to erratic weather, and the planthoppers appeared near the end of the crop, so some communes have directed people to harvest early.
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| Due to the impact of planthoppers, this year's summer-autumn rice crop in Dang Son commune (Do Luong) yielded only 2 - 2.5 quintals/sao. Photo: Ngoc Phuong |
According to the report of the Do Luong District Plant Protection and Cultivation Station, up to this point, the whole district has more than 800 hectares of summer-autumn rice affected by brown leaf blight; some areas are affected by leaf blight, brown planthopper, rice blast... Currently, some rice areas are flowering, so the completion of the rice harvest may last until the end of September.
