Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development inspects agricultural production in Nghe An
(Baonghean.vn) - Deputy Minister Le Quoc Doanh requested Nghe An to continue to closely monitor the fields, make timely forecasts, and isolate areas early to prevent diseases from spreading, and to protect the area, productivity, and output of spring rice.
On the morning of April 17, the working delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development led by Deputy Minister Le Quoc Doanh inspected the situation of pests in winter-spring rice in Nghe An province. Accompanying and working with the delegation, on the side of Nghe An province were Mr. Hoang Nghia Hieu - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; and representatives of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
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| The delegation highly appreciated the success of the national rice production project of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Yen Thanh district. Photo: Phu Huong |
The delegation inspected some key rice growing districts of the province such as Quynh Luu, Yen Thanh and Dien Chau, and evaluated the success of the national rice product project being implemented in Khanh Thanh commune, Yen Thanh district. Up to now, Yen Thanh has 11,000/12,500 hectares of spring rice in bloom, Quynh Luu 4,650/7,500 hectares and Dien Chau 2,500/9,200 hectares.
In the fields, harmful pests such as leaf blast, brown spot, bacterial leaf blight have appeared, however, after being prevented and controlled, the area currently affected by pests and diseases is not significant. At the same time, thanks to proactively allocating budget support for rat extermination right from the beginning of the season, the occurrence of rats causing serious damage has been limited.
 Inspection team inspects damaged spring rice in Quynh Luu. Photo: Phu Huong |
Working with the delegation, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Hoang Nghia Hieu informed: In the 2020 spring crop, Nghe An planted 92,017 hectares of rice (reaching 102.2%). Up to now, the total rice area has blossomed over 40,000 hectares. The whole province has over 2,000 hectares infected with leaf blast disease, over 50 hectares infected with neck blast disease. In addition, sheath blight, grain sterility, leaf blight, bacterial streak spot, leaf rollers and various types of planthoppers have also arisen, causing damage to many areas. Over 3,000 hectares have been damaged by rats, of which 290 hectares are severely damaged and nearly 20 hectares are at risk of over 70% damage.
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| Up to now, Dien Chau has over 2,500 hectares of rice that have bloomed. Photo: Phu Huong |
Faced with that situation, Nghe An has been and is continuing to focus on directing the implementation of good investigation, detection, prediction and advice on preventing and controlling plant pests, paying special attention to rice blast, grain rot, late-season planthoppers, etc. Forecasting the rice flowering situation to monitor and investigate, predict and propose prevention measures. Accordingly, in addition to the 40,000 hectares that have flowered, from now until April 20, there will be an additional 15,000 hectares of rice flowering, from April 21 to 25, there will be 27,000 hectares and the flowering area after April 25 will be 10,000 hectares.
"In the current epidemic period, ensuring food security is extremely important, so Nghe An needs to continue to closely monitor the fields, make timely forecasts, and isolate areas early to prevent the spread of diseases, and protect the area, productivity and output of spring rice," the Deputy Minister requested.
