Thanh Chuong farmers mobilize 'huge' machinery to race for harvest
(Baonghean.vn) - The spring rice crop in Thanh Chuong district is estimated to have an average yield of nearly 7 tons/ha; most farmers use harvester and rice truck services to speed up the harvest.
This spring crop, Thanh Chuong district is assessed to have a good harvest overall. All varieties have high yields, estimated at an average of about 7 tons/ha; including rice varieties with yields of approximately 9 tons/ha.
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| Many Thanh Chuong farmers hire harvester services to harvest spring rice. Photo: Dinh Ha |
To speed up the harvest, farmers in many rural areas of Thanh Chuong hire harvester services and trucks to transport rice to their homes. Ms. Pham Nha Kim in Linh Thuy Village, Thanh Linh Commune said: "This crop, I hired a new harvester with a truck service to transport fresh rice to my home. Only 1-2 people need to go to the fields to monitor the harvest process and then follow the truck home, very convenient; the cost is only 250,000 VND/sao".
These days in Bau field, nearly 100 hectares near Dung bridge in Thanh Linh commune, Thanh Chuong district, 4 harvesters and 5 trucks are regularly operating to serve people in harvesting spring rice.
A harvester owner in Linh Long village, Thanh Linh commune said: "At the beginning of this year's harvest, I saw people's need to rent large harvesters. My family's one harvester was not enough, so I rented another one from Nam Dinh and rented a truck to serve people's needs."
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| Modern harvesters harvest rice in the fields and load it neatly onto trucks. There is even a truck service that delivers fresh rice to your home. Photo: Dinh Ha |
In addition to Thanh Linh commune, there are currently many localities such as Thanh Van, Thanh Hung, Thanh Phong, Dong Van... that have more than 15 combine harvesters to serve the rice harvesting needs of farmers. In these localities, about 40% of the people use the service of harvesting machines and transporting rice by truck.
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| In the rice fields in Thanh Chuong, trucks are busy transporting harvested rice to farmers' homes. Photo: Dinh Ha |
Along with large capacity harvesters, mini machines are also used by people in the fields of Thanh Chuong district. Thanks to that, after only 5 days of entering the season, Thanh Chuong district has harvested 1/3 of the area. If the weather is favorable, the spring rice harvest will be completed in about 10 days.
Thanh Chuong District People's Committee directed localities to urgently sow and plant summer-autumn crops; with the goal of planting 5,000 hectares in the best time frame./.
