New advantages for sugarcane in Anh Son

(Baonghean) - With the goal of converting ineffective crops to link planning of concentrated commodity production areas with product consumption, Anh Son district has deployed planting raw sugarcane on alluvial land along Lam River.

In the spring of 2016, Hung Son commune cooperated with Song Lam Sugar Factory to convert 30 hectares of land used for growing corn, color crops and ineffective tea to grow sugarcane. Reality shows that: If corn cultivation is effective, it will reach over 5 million VND/ha, peanuts will reach 25 million VND/ha, while sugarcane cultivation will reach 39 million VND/ha.

Currently, in the commune, there are 150 hectares of alluvial land growing other crops such as corn, peanuts, squash with low efficiency. Farmers are not interested, so the commune has switched to growing sugarcane.

l People use machines to plow and weed sugarcane at Thung Bung, Ha Du village, Cam Son commune (Anh Son).

In Dinh Son commune, the planned sugarcane growing area in the commune was not large, about 30 - 50 hectares/year on fertile land. Mr. Nguyen Van Hieu - Chairman of Dinh Son Commune People's Committee, said:

The commune currently has a large land fund of about 300 hectares, and for a long time people have not felt secure so they have not invested in growing crops on the land. However, it is found that growing raw sugarcane is currently very favorable.

In Anh Son, sugarcane is considered the main raw material crop in hunger eradication, poverty reduction and sustainable enrichment for the people. Currently, the raw material area of ​​Song Lam Sugar Factory has planned to reach 1,200 hectares of standing sugarcane, mainly concentrated in 11 communes in the district and some communes in Con Cuong and Thanh Chuong districts.

To meet the needs of business development and integration of the sugar industry, the factory was approved by the province to increase its capacity from 1,000 tons of sugarcane/day to 1,500 tons of sugarcane/day starting from the 2014-2015 crushing season.

In addition, the Factory has also established additional planning for raw sugarcane areas in Anh Son, Con Cuong, Thanh Chuong, and Tuong Duong districts. In Anh Son district alone, detailed planning for raw sugarcane areas is specified down to the communes. This shows the urgency of expanding the raw sugarcane areas in the raw sugarcane areas of Song Lam Sugar Factory in general and Anh Son district in particular.

The policy of expanding and improving the efficiency of raw sugarcane growing areas is a direction in line with the planning, opening up legitimate opportunities for sugarcane growers to get rich. Talking to us, Mr. Phan Van Hoa - Director of Agriculture - Song Lam Sugarcane Joint Stock Company, said: Determining the raw material growing area as the factory's survival, in the spring of 2016, the factory invested in building a high-quality sugarcane growing area applying sugarcane growing technology in Thung Bung (Cam Son), Hung Son, the company has been planning to expand the sugarcane growing area according to the model of sugarcane fields in Hoa Son, Dinh Son (Anh Son), Mon Son, Lang Khe (Con Cuong) communes.

Farmers in hamlet 15, Binh Son commune harvest raw sugarcane.

With the goal of reaching 3,000 hectares of vertical sugarcane by 2020, Song Lam Sugarcane Joint Stock Company strives to reach 3,000 hectares of vertical sugarcane, of which 60-70% of the sugarcane area is planted according to the large-scale field model, applying new technical advances in production, ensuring that all stages from land preparation, sugarcane planting to harvesting are done by industrial machines, the current policy of expanding and investing in raw sugarcane on Lam River alluvial land, contributing to creating a new driving force for the sugarcane area that has long been in a state of not fully exploiting its potential.

Luong Mai