Nghe An summer-autumn production to escape floods

(Baonghean.vn) - Along with the urgent spring rice harvest, farmers in the flooded area of ​​Yen Thanh district (Nghe An) are urgently soaking and incubating seeds, and planting rice seedlings for summer-autumn production in 2017.

These days, along with mobilizing manpower and renting combine harvesters to harvest more than 8 hectares of spring rice, Ms. Pham Thi Phuong's family in Thanh Thuy hamlet, Phu Thanh commune also takes advantage of the time to work on the rice fields, soak and incubate seeds, and plant seedlings for the upcoming crop.

Ms. Phuong said that this year she has restructured two rice varieties, Bac Thom No. 7 and 225. She has now incubated them, and is now taking advantage of the opportunity to produce the seeds to ensure that the seedlings are old enough to be planted in the summer-autumn crop. These are high-quality, high-yield rice varieties that her family has tested in the previous summer-autumn crop to ensure that they can avoid natural disasters and floods.

Just finished harvesting, but Mrs. Pham Thi Phuong's family in Thanh Thuy hamlet, Phu Thanh commune (Yen Thanh) took the opportunity to prepare the land, make beds, and plant seedlings in time for the summer-autumn crop.Photo: Anh Tuan

Despite the hot weather, most of the rice fields in Phu Thanh commune are urgently harvesting spring rice, preparing the land for rice seedlings, and sowing seeds to prepare for the new crop.

Mr. Pham Minh Chuan - Chairman of Phu Thanh Commune People's Committee said: Phu Thanh is a low-lying area, the summer-autumn crop is often flooded after planting, so we have implemented a production plan, preparing the land for rice seedlings one week before the spring rice harvest. Directing the Cooperative and the Agriculture Department to provide enough seeds for people to soak and grow seedlings, currently 100% of the seeds have been planted. In addition, the land preparation is carried out immediately after the spring rice harvest.

In the low-lying commune of Khanh Thanh, with the motto "harvest as you sow", these days, along with the rumbling sound of mechanized vehicles throughout the fields in 11 hamlets, people also mobilize human resources to sow seeds on the fields to prepare seedlings, striving to close over 313 hectares on schedule, to avoid natural disasters.

Thanks to the early implementation of the summer-autumn production plan, farmers have proactively soaked and incubated seeds to ensure timely seedling production.Photo: Phan Hien

Mr. Cao Dinh Son - Vice Chairman of Khanh Thanh Commune People's Committee said: "The commune has implemented the early summer-autumn production plan since April 25. As soon as the winter-spring rice ripens on 2/3 of the area, people are directed to plant seedlings, in areas where the rice is ripe, they are harvested for seedlings, and in areas where the rice is waxy, they can be harvested in small plots to prepare the soil, make beds for seeds. Currently, the Cooperative has provided people with more than 4.3 tons of seeds, mainly pure rice varieties accounting for 75%, and has been implementing seed soaking for people since May 3 to produce summer-autumn rice in time for the season.

According to the plan, in the 2017 summer-autumn crop, the entire Yen Thanh district will plant over 12,000 hectares of rice, with varieties that have a growing period of less than 100 days such as Khang Dan Mut Mut, Khang Dan 18, Bac Thom No. 7... arranged appropriately in the summer-autumn areas that are flooded, the land areas, and the high land areas. Of which, there are over 3,000 hectares of rice in the flooded areas that are in the ripening stage, and people are focusing on speeding up the harvest progress, with an average yield of over 7 tons/ha.

In hamlets with rice fields, farmers have taken advantage of the time to both prepare the land and plant concentrated rice seedlings.Photo: Anh Tuan

Following the motto of preparing the land as soon as the spring rice harvest is completed, in early May, under the close guidance of all levels, especially the technical staff and agricultural extension workers in the area, people are taking advantage of the time to soak and incubate seeds for planting. Seed and material suppliers provide timely supplies to farmers for summer-autumn production.

Although the spring rice has just reached the stage of ripening, and it will be almost a week before the mass harvest, in many communes, farmers have harvested some young rice and prepared the land to produce seedlings.Photo: Phan Hien

Mr. Nguyen Van Duong - Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Yen Thanh district added: To achieve a yield of over 72 thousand tons of food in the 2017 autumn-winter crop, Yen Thanh district will focus on directing the arrangement of safe and secure production, minimizing the rice area on highland areas, at risk of water shortage; arranging suitable varieties according to the tea, soil conditions and each region. Communes will strengthen links with companies and enterprises to build large production fields, creating many agricultural products with high productivity and quality, ensuring stable output./.

Anh Tuan - Phan Hien