Farmers "wear lights" to produce summer-autumn products at night to avoid storms

In the fields of Hoi Son and Hoa Son communes, Anh Son district, hundreds of people's flashlights and battery-powered lights from tractors shine to prepare the land for summer-autumn rice production. Photo: Thai Hien

As early as 7 p.m., Mr. Ha Ngoc Quyen's family in village 8, Hoi Son commune, rushed to the field to rent a tiller to sow rice seedlings early tomorrow morning to avoid the storm.

Mr. Quyen shared: Due to the weather forecast in the coming days, the impact of storm No. 2 in the area will cause moderate to heavy rain and thunderstorms, so the family has focused on working at night to meet the crop. Currently, the NA2 rice variety has been soaked and incubated by his family. After finishing the land tonight, the family will sow 5 sao of rice for this summer-autumn crop early in the morning.

As early as 7 p.m., Ha Ngoc Quyen's family in village 8, Hoi Son commune, rushed to the field to rent a tiller to sow rice early the next morning to avoid the storm. Photo: Thai Hien

Not far away, Ms. Bui Thi Nguyet's family in Hamlet 7, Hoi Son Commune, is also using lamps to prepare the land for rice cultivation. Ms. Nguyet said that this year her family is producing 3 sao of rice, mainly using the NA2 variety. This is a high-quality, high-yielding rice variety that the family has tested in the previous summer-autumn crop, ensuring that it can avoid natural disasters and floods.

To plant on schedule to avoid natural disasters at the end of the season and to avoid storm No. 2, her family rented a tractor to plow the land and make ridges for the seeds. Although they had to stay up late and wake up early, to plant summer-autumn rice within the safe time frame and achieve a completely successful production, she and all family members tried to finish planting early.

Bustling production atmosphere in the fields in Anh Son. Photo: Thai Hien

Present in the fields of Hoi Son and Hoa Son communes, Anh Son district, the light from hundreds of people's flashlights and battery-powered lights from tractors illuminating the land for summer-autumn rice production to avoid the storm created a bustling atmosphere.

This summer-autumn crop, Anh Son district has structured the main rice varieties including Thien Uu 8, Vat Tu NA 2, NA6, BTE1, Kinh So Uu 1.588... In addition, for areas prone to flooding, Anh Son district has structured shorter-term rice varieties such as: P6 mutant, Khang Dan mutant, improved Khang Dan or NH6... striving for a yield of 48.2 quintals/ha.

In this year's summer-autumn crop, Anh Son district will build 8 quality rice model fields with a scale of 30 - 50 hectares/field in the communes of Cam Son, Hoa Son, Duc Son, Thach Son, Vinh Son, Khai Son, Tao Son and Linh Son commune.

Checking seedlings to sow urgently to avoid storms. Photo: Thai Hien

To achieve a yield of over 144 thousand tons of food in the 2018 autumn-winter crop, Anh Son district has focused on directing farmers to produce safely and reliably; arranging suitable varieties according to the tea, soil conditions and each region. Accordingly, Anh Son district People's Committee has requested sectors and localities to direct farmers to strictly implement the district's planting schedule.

Implement the planting season as soon as possible and put safety first. According to the schedule, with proactive watering, the area will be closed before June 10, 2018.