Sugarcane has bloomed, but has not been purchased yet.
(Baonghean.vn) - Coming to Van Loi and Ha Son communes - the key sugarcane growing areas of Quy Hop district, we could not help but feel sad when witnessing the vast sugarcane fields that were blooming past the harvest period.
In Ha Son Commune (Quy Hop) at the end of the year, the farmers' faces were filled with sadness. Ms. Nguyen Thi Luong in Xiem village lamented: "Looking at the sugarcane fields in Tan Hop (Tan Ky), seeing Song Con Sugarcane Company purchasing for the people, we felt so angry.
It's almost Lunar New Year, all expenses depend on sugarcane, but the local factory has not yet purchased it. I don't know where to get money to cover Tet." Mr. Le Van Luu in Xiem village sadly said: "This year I grow 2 hectares of sugarcane, estimated to reach over 70 tons/ha. Due to slow purchasing, sugarcane has high sugar content, which is very beneficial for the factory, but for the people, it is a disadvantage, because 1 hectare of sugarcane with flagellated reeds usually "reduces" to 4-5 tons of sugarcane, people lose 3-4 million VND/ha".
Sugarcane fields in Ha Son commune (Quy Hop) have all bloomed with reed flowers.
Many local people were upset: "Whether or not Tate & Lyle Sugar Company buys, they should have informed the people. If they don't buy, we will sell to other sugar factories because they have also come to buy. If they keep "imprisoning" our sugarcane in the middle of the field, we will "hang up the pot"!"
Mr. Le Van Thanh - Chairman of Ha Son Commune People's Committee said: Ha Son has 960 hectares of sugarcane, with an average yield of 60 tons/ha. Up to now, the factory has only purchased over 5% of the area from the people, which is too slow. Ha Son is a particularly difficult commune of Quy Hop district, all livelihoods mainly depend on sugarcane.
Mr. Hoang Van Thai - Head of the Department of Agriculture of Quy Hop district added: Quy Hop district has an area of 6,165 hectares of sugarcane, mainly supplying to Tate & Lyle Sugar Company. Up to this point, the entire sugarcane area has blossomed, but the factory has only purchased nearly 20% of the area. Thus, the problem of purchasing sugarcane is very slow, directly affecting the lives of sugarcane growers. Not to mention that 3,400 hectares of sugarcane that were infected with grass shoot disease need to be harvested earlier so that people can treat and eradicate the disease to plant new sugarcane, otherwise the season will be delayed.
To ensure the rights of people in the sugarcane raw material area, we request that Tate & Lyle Sugar Company urgently implement the purchase of sugarcane for the raw material area.
Van Truong