High efficiency Thai purple corn in Vinh city

(Baonghean.vn) - On the afternoon of December 11, Vinh City People's Committee organized a field workshop to evaluate the production model of purple corn variety Fancy 111 for the 2015 winter crop in Nghi An commune.

Attending were comrade Vo Viet Thanh, member of the Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of Vinh City Party Committee; leaders of suburban communes, agricultural cooperatives, and people of Nghi An commune.

Mr. Vo Viet Thanh, Secretary of Vinh City Party Committee, visited the purple corn production model in Nghi An.

In the 2015 winter crop, with the support mechanism for investment in model production of Vinh city, Advanta Vietnam Company cooperated with the city's Economic Department and Nghi An Commune People's Committee to introduce Thai Fancy purple corn variety to plant 36 hectares of purple corn in Nghi An, Hung Chinh, Dong Vinh, Nghi Kim, Nghi Duc, Hung Loc, Nghi Lien...

In recent years, Vinh city has paid attention to the introduction of new crops into production. In the photo: Leaders of Vinh city's economic department check purple corn productivity.

This corn variety grows in 70 days, one sao is 500 m²Using up 0.5 kg of seeds, you will get about 1000 ears of corn/sao, selling price is 4000 VND/ear in the field, estimated revenue is 5-6 million VND/sao. After deducting the cost of seeds, fertilizers... profit per sao is from 2,800,000 VND to 3,000,000 VND/sao.

The first time it was put into production in Nghi An, the harvest was good, so Nghi An farmers were very excited.

This is also considered a nutritious corn variety, containing many micronutrients for health. It is known that in the last winter crop, Vinh city supported 200 million VND in corn seeds for the communes.

Leaders of communes and cooperatives in the area visited the purple corn model in Nghi An.

This is a new corn variety, high yield, big cobs, sweet and sticky kernels. Harvesting one sao after deducting costs is 3 million VND/ 2 months

Chau Lan