Nghe An farmers earn billions from winter crop farming

(Baonghean.vn) - With 6 tillage machines, each winter crop, Mr. Nguyen Trong Van in Bao Thanh commune, Yen Thanh district (Nghe An) earns over 1 billion VND from tillage wages.

Present in the field of Ly Thanh commune (Yen Thanh) when Mr. Nguyen Trong Van was watching one of his 6 tillage machines prepare the land for planting corn for the people, he said: In 2012, he started investing in buying tillage machines, taking on the task of preparing land for planting and growing vegetables for the people in the area.

Seeing the effectiveness, each year he invested in 1-2 more machines, until now he has 6 tillage machines, of which 3 machines are entitled to the state's loan support policy. Each tillage machine is worth 310 million VND.

The winter crop tillage machine compacts the soil thanks to the combined tilling and ridge making unit researched and applied effectively by Mr. Nguyen Trong Van. Photo: Xuan Hoang

Mr. Vu Van Duong - a field owner in Ly Thanh commune who is renting his machine to prepare the land for winter corn planting said: This machine can make high, neat ridges. He only needs to make a few adjustments at the corners of the field and both ends of the ridge to be able to sow corn.

For the winter crop, in recent years, people often grow corn, soybeans... on land with two rice crops, which requires high ridges, so he researched and created a machine that combines soil milling and ridge making, which is very suitable, effective, and popular with people. The machine's capacity can work from 5 - 6 acres of land/day/machine. The labor cost for land preparation is 180,000 VND/sao.

Mr. Nguyen Trong Van always follows the machine closely to monitor and research to overcome weaknesses during the machine's operation to adjust the tillage part to be more effective. Photo: Xuan Hoang

The winter crop starts in early September but must continue until the end of the year, because after the harvest, the people hire him to return the fields to make way for spring rice production. Mr. Van said that people in Yen Thanh usually start the winter crop early, so after finishing here, they move to Dien Chau and Nghi Loc.

In total, each winter crop, Mr. Van earns about 1.3 billion VND, after deducting 50% of expenses, he still has a profit of about 700 million VND, not to mention that during the year he also receives land for summer-autumn crop production and some farmland and other fertile land from people in the area./.

Xuan Hoang