Flooded summer-autumn rice yield reaches 7 tons/ha

(Baonghean.vn) - Over 3,000 hectares of flooded summer-autumn rice in remote communes in Yen Thanh district (Nghe An) are in the ripening stage, farmers are focusing on speeding up the harvest, with an average yield estimated at 7 tons/ha.

Flooded rice in Yen Thanh is estimated to yield 7 tons/ha.

Although production is under unfavorable conditions due to prolonged drought and pests, with experience in intensive production, most communes have structured with short-term, high-yield purebred rice varieties such as: Khang Dan Mut Mut, Thien Uu 8, Bac Thom, Song Lam 9 and some hybrid rice varieties suitable for the land such as: Thai Xuyen 111, VT404, Thuy Huong...

With experience in intensive production, from the beginning of the season, farmers have made efforts to overcome drought difficulties; applied good scientific and technical measures, combined with intensive investment according to each growth cycle of rice plants.

Due to early planting, most of the early summer-autumn rice area was not infected with leaf rollers of the 5th and 6th generations and pests were minimized, so the average yield at the end of the season was higher than in previous years.

Farmers use agricultural machinery to speed up summer-autumn harvest

Many areas have been harvested.

To avoid floods and storms, protect production results, with the motto "green house is better than old field", these days, taking advantage of favorable weather, farmers have urgently mobilized human resources and combine harvesters to the fields to speed up the harvest progress, at the same time quickly freeing up the land to prepare for winter crop production to achieve high results.

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Yen Thanh Radio and Television Station