Winter vegetable production in Quynh Bang

(Baonghean) -For many years, the communes of Quynh Luong, Quynh Bang, Quynh Minh, Quynh Lien (Quynh Luu) have been the coastal vegetable growing areas supplying vegetables not only to Nghe An province but also to many provinces and cities across the country. However, many difficulties are facing vegetable growers. Recorded by reporters in Quynh Bang commune.

In Quynh Bang, these days, on the vegetable area, farmers in the whole commune are actively preparing the land, planting vegetables with high commodity value such as bitter melon, cucumber, climbing beans... and interspersing some other short-term autumn-winter vegetable varieties... promising high productivity and output value per unit area.

Mr. Ho Nghia Dung - Vice Chairman of Quynh Bang Commune People's Committee said: This is the main income crop of the year, currently, people are preparing seeds and fertilizers to plant winter vegetables. This year's winter crop plan in Quynh Bang is to grow 240 hectares of vegetables of all kinds (in particular, green onions and sweet cabbage are grown twice a season), 14 hectares of onions, 28 hectares of other plants, in addition to 15 hectares of peanuts covered with nylon, 30.5 hectares of pure corn, 70.8 hectares of sweet potatoes. However, for the 60 hectares of early winter vegetables of the whole commune (out of the total area of ​​240 hectares of winter vegetables of the commune), due to the drainage system under construction, poor drainage, and storms, the early vegetables were completely damaged.

Onions purchased in the field cost only 2,500 VND/kg



Harvesting coffee

In the 2012 winter crop, Quynh Bang strives to achieve a production value of 25 billion VND. Due to the high efficiency of root crops and stable production, the area of ​​some crops has increased, such as peanuts from 56 ha to 15 ha, potatoes from 5.2 ha to 14 ha, and some plants such as cabbage and kohlrabi are also grown by many people. The current difficulty for people is the low selling price at the beginning of the season, for example, radishes used to cost 3-4,000 VND/kg, but now they are only 1,000-1,500 VND/kg.

At Mr. Ho Duc Hien's family field in hamlet 3, nearly ten workers are harvesting the first batch of green onions. While quickly pulling the onions and tying them into bundles, Ms. Hoa said: It is currently the main season for onions and the price of onions is very cheap, 1kg purchased at the field costs only 2,500 VND/kg. Meanwhile, the price of seeds, fertilizers, and labor costs for harvesting have all increased compared to previous years, so the profit is not significant.

Many households grow radishes, as usual, at a good price, 3,000-4,000 VND/kg, so this year's early winter crop, many households are excited to expand the area and invest in fertilization. As a result, the harvested radishes are very beautiful, with high productivity, but who knows, when they heard that the radishes were Chinese, consumers boycotted them, and the price dropped miserably to only 1,000-1,500 VND/kg.

It can be said that the unstable consumption market, both domestic and foreign, has been mentioned a lot because our production is not proactive in terms of quantity and quality of products. In Quynh Luu, in many areas of commodity vegetable production, the products are mainly purchased by Quynh Luong traders, and the output is basically guaranteed. However, because production is not based on a contract between producers and buyers, people suffer many losses when there are fluctuations in market prices. And so, the story of "good harvest, low prices" always happens.
In addition, food safety and hygiene is a very difficult problem in vegetable production today. The process of safe vegetable production has been issued, but the organization of production and inspection and supervision of the implementation of the process are still poor, combined with the low level of education and self-awareness of producers, which has resulted in unsafe products, reducing the competitiveness of agricultural products. Currently, in Quynh Luu, with the participation of the safe vegetable growing project, many vegetable areas have been produced according to standards, but consumers still cannot recognize which vegetables are safe and as a result, many places produce vegetables according to the process, ensuring safety but are bought at low prices, not enough to cover costs, labor...

Thu Huyen