Nghe An strives to plant nearly 35,000 hectares of crops in the 2024 winter crop

This morning (August 9), the Provincial People's Committee deployed the project to organize winter crop production in 2024. Comrades: Nguyen Van De - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Phung Thanh Vinh - Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development; Vo Thi Nhung - Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development co-chaired the conference.

Expanding the area of ​​high economic value crops

This winter crop, Nghe An is determined to strive to achieve the highest production level in terms of area, productivity, and output according to the set plan with the motto of safe production; promote all resources for investment and development in the direction of commodities, high economic efficiency, contributing significantly to the completion of the crop output plan in 2025.

Accordingly, strengthen the direction to promote the expansion of the area of ​​crops that bring high economic value such as: corn for grain, biomass corn, corn for fresh corn harvest. Vegetables increase the area according to VietGAP standards, organic vegetables, apply high technology to ensure product safety, traceability of product origin and form specialized concentrated areas. In particular, promote the connection between farmers and businesses in production and product consumption to increase value and stabilize production.

The whole province strives to plant 34,690 hectares of various winter crops. Of which, the area on riverside alluvial land is about 8,650 hectares, on coastal fertile land is about 4,700 hectares, on rice land is 2,295 hectares and on fertile land is about 19,045 hectares. Corn is the main crop with a planting area of ​​19,000 hectares of corn, 13,200 hectares of vegetables and beans, in addition, crops such as peanuts 1,000 hectares, sweet potatoes 1,240 hectares...

Identify 6 groups of effective solutions

To achieve that goal, the Project has identified 7 main advantages and 7 difficulties with 6 groups of implementation solutions. In which, each locality and district, based on actual conditions, proactively arranges the season, area with appropriate crop structure to ensure maximum winter crop production area but must ensure "safety" and economic efficiency. Strengthening the management of seed quality, agricultural materials, pesticides, food safety to create brands and value of winter crop products to increase value.

In particular, it is necessary to do a good job of irrigation, drainage, weather forecasting and hydrometeorology. There should be proactive drainage plans to prevent local flooding, in which the most important thing to pay attention to is peanuts, vegetables and some corn and vegetable areas on 2-rice land. Instruct and advise farmers to take full advantage of favorable weather, harvest early and neatly the summer-autumn rice according to the motto "Green house is better than old field" to avoid damage caused by storms and floods, and have land to grow winter crops.

Speaking at the conference, comrade Nguyen Van De emphasized: The agricultural sector and localities need to identify this as a particularly important production season for the growth of the entire sector in 2024; a production season to increase farmers' income and contribute to economic development and social security stability in the province.

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Requirements for the agricultural sector and localities: Timely, drastic, synchronous, in which the important and decisive lesson is that there must be high determination from leaders at all levels, and the entire political system must be mobilized. Deploy the project early to have time to prepare; guide farmers to comply with the crop schedule. In particular, make the winter crop production criterion a criterion for ranking emulation and rewards, and assessing the responsibility of local leaders.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Van De directed

As a commodity production season with high value, however, winter crop production takes place in difficult, harsh weather conditions, storms and floods, while the irrigation system has not really met the requirements for drainage. Therefore, localities must determine the right crop time for each region and each type of crop to promote efficiency and avoid natural disasters, which is a top priority.