Checking rice blast disease prevention in Hung Nguyen

(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of March 16, comrade Ho Ngoc Sy - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development led a delegation of agricultural officials to inspect rice blast disease prevention work in Hung Nguyen district.

Comrade Ho Ngoc Sy and agricultural officers inspected rice blast disease prevention work in Hung Nguyen.

Continuous drizzle in the past few days has made prevention difficult, so the rice blast disease has spread and damaged rice fields and rice varieties in all communes in the district.

Especially on varieties NX30, Xi 23, XI33, AC5, BTE and various types of glutinous rice with a high rate of 10-20%, locally 40-50% of leaves are diseased, in some cases up to 70% of leaves are diseased, causing burning. The total area of ​​rice infected with blast disease has now reached 1,600 hectares, of which nearly 180 hectares are severely infected and 9.4 hectares have been burned.

Faced with the risk of rapid spread of the disease, the People's Committee of Hung Nguyen district has allocated 300 million VND from the budget to support medicine costs and directed communes to proactively spray to prevent rice blast disease, especially in communes that are heavily infected or burned such as Hung Phu, Hung Khanh, Hung Thong, Hung Tan... Up to now, spraying has been organized to prevent 1,630 hectares.

Comrade Ho Ngoc Sy directed Hung Nguyen to focus on human and material resources for timely prevention. Currently, the weather is complicated, the risk of new diseases is still high. Therefore, localities need to regularly visit fields to check, monitor the development of pests and diseases, warn and guide farmers to spray timely with specific pesticides. At this time, people need to pay attention to limit the use of foliar and nitrogen fertilizers for rice./.

Thanh Tam