Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee inspected agricultural production in Do Luong and Yen Thanh

On March 25, Mr. Nguyen Van De - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee inspected the spring rice production in Do Luong and Yen Thanh districts. He was accompanied by leaders of the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

In Do Luong district, up to now, more than 8,480 hectares of rice in the area have basically grown and developed well and are in the stage of tillering to panicle formation. However, physiological yellow leaf disease has appeared in some areas due to sensitivity to the weather. This phenomenon will recover by itself and the rice plants will develop when the weather is warm and stable in the coming time, therefore, the district's professional agency has advised farmers not to use pesticides to spray.

This year, Yen Thanh district planted 12,790 hectares of rice in the spring crop. Currently, the rice is in the stage of panicle differentiation. In general, the rice is growing and developing well. It is expected that the early rice will bloom from April 7 to 15. In the fields, some pests and diseases such as rats have appeared; some low-lying and flooded areas have localized stem rot and leaf rot; yellow leaf disease, gray-brown disease; brown leaf blight; planthoppers, and silver leaf disease. Rice blast disease has also appeared, but only locally and has been controlled early, so it has not spread and caused serious damage.

In addition, many rice fields have yellow leaves, especially areas with insufficient potassium fertilizer and high-quality rice varieties that are sensitive to weather. The district has directed specialized agencies to strengthen inspection to detect disease symptoms, especially blast disease, to notify and direct farmers to prevent and control it promptly on a small scale.

After the inspection, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Van De assessed that the rice plants are at the stage of standing panicles, a period very sensitive to pests and diseases such as blast, leaf blight, brown spot... The whole province currently has 247 hectares of rice infected with blast disease, concentrated on varieties that are susceptible to the disease such as AC5, Thai Xuyen 111...

Faced with that situation, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee directed specialized agencies to coordinate well with localities to focus on propaganda and instructing people to only prevent diseases when the prevention threshold has been reached. If strange phenomena are detected on rice, it is necessary to collect samples and report to technical staff to avoid incorrect disease identification leading to incorrect and ineffective disease prevention. When using pesticides, it is necessary to use the right drugs, for the right subjects, and in the right dosage, avoiding the abuse of pesticides, which not only pollutes the environment but also causes drug resistance, increases investment costs and affects farmers' profits.

In particular, recently, due to the influence of cold weather, low temperatures alternating with hot sun, and large temperature differences between day and night, many rice fields have yellow leaves, especially areas lacking potassium fertilizer and high-quality rice varieties that are sensitive to the weather. Functional sectors and localities must propagate to farmers not to spray pesticides without the advice of technical staff, and guide people to focus on caring for the rice to recover well.

On this occasion, comrade Nguyen Van De also visited a high-tech agricultural production model of 3.5 hectares in Trung Son commune (Do Luong), specializing in producing clean vegetables for the supermarket system. Currently, the farm is continuing to invest in building, expanding and completing the system of greenhouses, net houses, and making fish tanks to develop aquaculture. He inspected a black apple snail farming model of 7.5 hectares in Duc Thanh commune (Yen Thanh), with an average annual harvest of 6 tons of snails/ha, sold to traders in Nghe An province and other provinces, bringing high economic value.