Nghi Loc planted 4,600 hectares of early winter crop

(Baonghean.vn) – As one of the districts severely affected by drought, Nghi Loc has about 2,000 hectares of unproductive area in this year’s Summer-Autumn crop. Therefore, at this time, Nghi Loc has implemented the Autumn-Winter crop production; it is one of the districts to implement the Winter crop the earliest in the province.

The implementation of autumn-winter crop production on limited areas aims to limit the situation of sowing summer-autumn rice on fertile land and leaving two-rice land fallow.

Taking advantage of favorable weather (with rain), on some severely drought-stricken lands, Nghi Loc farmers have implemented a model of propagating purebred L14 peanuts, with an area of ​​nearly 28 hectares, in the communes of Nghi Trung, Nghi Thach, Nghi Long, Nghi Van.

Nghi Thinh farmers (Nghi Loc) take advantage of the rain to carry out autumn-winter crop production on drought-stricken land.

In addition, many drought-affected areas have been converted to grow shallots, concentrated in some communes: Nghi Thuan, Nghi Van, Nghi Kieu. The total shallot area planned for production in the winter crop this year in the district is nearly 200 hectares; to date, people have produced about 30%.

This winter crop, Nghi Loc is promoting production towards diversifying crops, striving to plant over 4,600 hectares. Of which, the main crops are corn with 3,300 hectares, peanuts 450 hectares and vegetables, beans of all kinds 900 hectares.

Nghi Loc district has maize as the main crop in this year's Autumn-Winter crop; expanding the area of ​​red corn (large biomass) to supply the Australian cattle farm; with an area of ​​700 hectares. Photo courtesy

Nghi Loc district has a number of cattle farms, so the district has planned an area of ​​nearly 700 hectares for growing red corn seeds to supply these farms. This year, the area of ​​red corn seeds in the district has nearly doubled the area of ​​corn grown in the winter crop last year; concentrated in the communes of Nghi Lam, Nghi Van, and Nghi Kieu.

This year, in addition to the province's support mechanism, Nghi Loc district also supports farmers to overcome the consequences of drought, having to convert the uncultivated Summer-Autumn-Spring rice area to grow corn (for seeds) in the Winter crop at the rate of 30,000 VND/kg. At the same time, the district also supports 50% of the price of L14 purebred peanuts produced in the Winter crop and plastic covers for Fall-Winter peanut beds at the rate of 10,000 VND/kg of plastic.

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