Nghe An issues urgent telegram to eradicate rice pests

(Baonghean.vn)- Faced with complicated pest and disease developments on Summer-Autumn and Winter-Spring rice, the People's Committee of Nghe An province issued an urgent dispatch requesting relevant agencies and people to take action to save the rice.

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According to the report of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, currently, the Summer-Autumn rice crop is in the stage of panicle initiation to wax ripening; the Summer-Autumn rice crop is in the stage of tillering to panicle initiation. In the fields, brown planthoppers and white-backed planthoppers are emerging and causing damage with a common density of 300 - 500 individuals/m2, in high places 2,000 - 3,000 individuals/m2, and in some cases over 5,000 individuals/m2. The whole province currently has over 3,000 hectares infected with planthoppers, of which over 100 hectares are heavily infected.

Hung Nguyen farmers spray pesticides to kill brown planthoppers that harm rice. Photo: Thanh Tam

In the coming time, brown planthoppers and white-backed planthoppers will continue to increase in both scope and level of damage. Many areas with high planthopper density will cause "planthopper burn" which will greatly affect productivity if timely and effective spraying is not organized.

To minimize the damage caused by brown planthoppers and white-backed planthoppers to the 2017 Summer-Autumn rice production, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requests the Chairmen of the People's Committees of districts, cities and towns; Directors of Departments, Heads of relevant units to properly implement the following contents:

Chairmen of People's Committees of districts, cities and towns establish steering groups for pest control to focus on directing functional departments and branches in the area to closely follow the grassroots to organize propaganda and direct farmers to promptly prevent and control brown planthoppers and white-backed planthoppers according to the instructions of specialized agencies; organize and direct the good implementation of regulations of the Provincial People's Committee on the management of plant protection drugs in the area; Direct People's Committees of communes, wards and towns where brown planthoppers and white-backed planthoppers arise and cause serious damage, mobilize the entire political system to focus on directing timely and effective prevention and control; Proactively balance local budgets to support farmers in areas where planthoppers arise and cause major damage; Work with pesticide trading companies to provide farmers with specific drugs according to the recommendations of specialized agencies for effective prevention and control.

Request the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to assign leaders of the Department and related departments to organize inspections and direct the work of preventing and controlling brown planthoppers and white-backed planthoppers in localities; especially localities with large areas of brown planthoppers and white-backed planthoppers causing damage to coordinate with the People's Committees of districts, cities and towns to grasp the situation and have solutions to direct timely prevention and control; Establish pest control steering groups to coordinate with localities to organize guidance and direct farmers to effectively prevent and control brown planthoppers and white-backed planthoppers.

Direct the Department of Crop Production and Plant Protection to assign staff at the Department Office and affiliated Stations to closely monitor the base to investigate, detect, estimate, and accurately forecast areas that need to be prevented and promptly notify localities and farmers to organize effective prevention and control, avoiding subjective situations of not spraying or spraying pesticides in areas that do not need to be sprayed, causing environmental impacts and costs for people; Strengthen inspection and control of the trading of pesticides to detect and strictly handle cases of trading in drugs not listed, fake drugs, and poor quality drugs; Coordinate with mass media agencies to propagate the situation of emergence, development, and damage caused by planthoppers and advise and guide farmers to implement timely and effective prevention and control measures;

Direct the Agricultural Extension Center to send technical staff to stay close to the grassroots, focus on coordinating with the Department of Crop Production & Plant Protection, People's Committees at all levels to propagate and guide farmers to prevent and control pests in a timely and effective manner; coordinate with the Department of Finance to advise the Provincial People's Committee to support funding for purchasing pesticides to prevent brown planthoppers and white-backed planthoppers for localities to prevent and control them promptly when necessary; especially giving priority to mountainous districts.

Request the Department of Finance to coordinate with the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to promptly advise the Provincial People's Committee to support funding for brown planthopper and white-backed planthopper prevention and control for localities when necessary, in order to control the emergence and development of planthoppers; especially in mountainous districts...

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