ThaiBinh Seed: Many excellent rice varieties for spring crop 2025

Rice varieties TBR 97, TBR 87 and TBR 88 are popular.

According to representative of ThaiBinh Seed Company LimitedCentral Highlands - Central region, TBR97 rice variety is a copyrighted product of ThaiBinh Seed Group, recognized as a national variety from August 1, 2022. This is a pure, temperate rice variety, widely adaptable, and tolerant to intensive cultivation.

The Ea Sup District Agricultural Extension Station (Dak Lak) tested the 2024 spring crop and said: The model fields did not collapse because the TBR97 rice plants have large, strong, healthy stems, and moderate plant height, so they are quite resistant to collapse.

TBR97 rice variety is resistant to pests and diseases, grows strongly, has green and beautiful leaves, and is almost not damaged by pests and diseases. The rice blooms quickly and in clusters, the panicles are large and long, with many panicles, the grains are dense, quite large, long, bright yellow, with a high percentage of firm grains, and the rice quality is delicious.

“In general, the TBR97 rice variety is suitable for the natural conditions in Ea Sup district, the amount of seed sown is small, the rice grows well, has few pests and diseases, and gives high yield and good rice quality. Therefore, farmers should boldly put the TBR97 rice variety into mass production, because this rice variety has been recognized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development since 2022. It is recommended that local leaders need to have directions and support so that the TBR97 rice variety can be widely put into production in communes in the district in the coming time,” said the leader of the Ea Sup District Agricultural Extension Station.

TBR97 rice variety has a short growing period, winter-spring crop from 105-110 days,Summer - Fall crop from 95 - 100 days; good resistance to adverse weather conditions and pests, especially blast and silver leaf disease.

The rice plant is strong, very resistant to lodging, tillers strongly, flowers in concentrated clusters, thick flowers, high proportion of firm grains; average rice plant height is 90 - 95cm, can withstand strong winds... TBR97 rice variety has high yield, reaching 70 - 75 quintals/ha, good intensive cultivation can reach 90 quintals/ha; clear rice, soft, rich and fragrant.

TBR97 rice variety is tolerant to intensive cultivation, has strong tillering, strong plants, moderate plant height, high density to panicle ratio, suitable for production of both crops/year. In particular, TBR97 rice variety is tolerant to heat, limits lodging, very suitable for summer-autumn production. TBR97 rice variety is less susceptible to pests and diseases. Currently, communes in the district are mass producing TBR97 rice variety which is almost disease-free, and very little use of pesticides", informed a representative of ThaiBinh Seed Company Limited - Central - Central Highlands.

The TBR97 rice variety has been tested in Nghe An since 2022 in Do Luong district. Through comparison, the Nghe An Agricultural Extension Center said: In the same area, the TBR 97 rice variety has the ability to grow and develop well, is suitable for soil and climate conditions, and is more resistant than other varieties grown in the same conditions, especially its ability to resist rice blast disease is very good. While other varieties grown in the same conditions have to be sprayed with rice blast insecticide 3-4 times, the TBR 97 variety does not have to be sprayed at all.

The growing period in the 2022 spring crop is 122 days, 5-7 days shorter than other rice varieties in the area, so it can be planted twice a year. The harvest results in the field show that the yield of this rice variety is very high (64-72 quintals/ha). This rice variety is currently grown in many districts in Nghe An.

TBR87 rice variety is a temperate rice variety, widely adaptable, with a short growing period: In the Northern provinces: Spring crop from 120 - 130 days, Summer crop from 100 - 105 days; Central, South Central and Central Highlands provinces: Winter - Spring crop from 105 - 110 days, Summer - Autumn crop from 95 - 100 days; In the South from 95 - 100 days.

Plant height 100 - 120cm, compact shape, concentrated flowering, bright yellow color. Weight of 1,000 seeds, equivalent to 22.0 - 24.0 grams.

This rice variety has blast and leaf blight resistance genes, which help it withstand blast and leaf blight diseases well. The variety has high yield, averaging 70-75 quintals/ha. With good intensive cultivation, it can reach 90-95 quintals/ha. TBR87 rice variety has clear grains, soft, rich rice and a characteristic aroma.

Another pure rice variety successfully created by ThaiBinh Seed is called TBR88 with some unique characteristics such as: Can produce both crops in a year, this is a temperate rice variety, tolerant to intensive cultivation.

The rate of browned rice is 80-83%; the rate of milled rice is 65-73%; the rate of whole rice is 75-80%. The rice grains are slender, the rice is delicious, soft, rich and has a light aroma.

It is known that the growth period of TBR88 rice variety in the Northern provinces: Spring crop from 130-135 days, Summer crop from 105-110 days. South Central coastal provinces: Winter-spring crop from 115-120 days, Summer-autumn crop from 100-105 days. Central Highlands provinces: Winter-spring crop from 120-125 days and Summer-autumn crop from 100-105 days.

Many outstanding plant varieties

According to information from ThaiBinh Seed, in this year's winter-spring crop alone, the group has conducted large-scale trials with a total of more than ten tons of various plant varieties, with a total of 22 varieties. Of which, there are 14 pure rice varieties, 6 hybrid rice varieties, and 2 colored varieties. The total number of demonstration models is 200 points in 45 provinces and cities across the country. Popular varieties include TBR 225, BC15, Thai Xuyen 111... In addition, there are many corn and vegetable varieties.

Through evaluation, all rice varieties have good resistance to pests and diseases, many rice varieties with resistant genes have shown their superiority in the field. Notably, the yield is higher than other popular varieties (average from 65-70 quintals/ha). It is worth mentioning that ThaiBinh Seed's new rice varieties all have a high head rice ratio of 68-70%, delicious rice quality, soft rice, fragrant aroma that is favored by people.

In addition, ThaiBinh Seed also owns the hybrid glutinous corn variety TBM135, super large corn, super sticky kernels. This is a researched glutinous corn variety with a short growing period and can be planted year-round. The time from sowing to harvesting fresh corn is 70 - 80 days. The plant height and corn height are low, the tripod root system is strong, helping the plant to have good resistance to lodging.

Corn grows and develops well, the green leaves last until harvest, helping the variety to harvest fresh corn and also harvest leaves and stems for animal feed. This corn variety has good resistance to pests and diseases, especially good resistance to rust, a disease that often causes serious damage to mass-produced waxy corn varieties. High fresh corn yield: Average 106 - 144 quintals/ha, intensive farming.