Growing super-sized sweet potatoes in the winter season could yield over 1 billion VND.

(Baonghean.vn) - This winter season, Thanh Van commune, Thanh Chuong district (Nghe An province) is expanding the area of ​​super-sized sweet potato cultivation to 12 hectares, aiming to earn over one billion VND.

Farmers in Thanh Van commune, Thanh Chuong district, are taking advantage of the dry weather to plant super-sized sweet potatoes on fertile land.

This winter, Thanh Van commune, Thanh Chuong district, plans to plant 100 hectares of various vegetables. Of this, 60 hectares will be planted on double-cropped rice land, and the remaining area will be planted on alluvial land.

According to Mr. Nguyen Duy Thien, Director of Thanh Van Agricultural Service Cooperative, the new feature of the locality this winter season is the concentrated planting of 2 hectares of super-sized sweet potatoes and about 10 hectares scattered across the hamlets. The cooperative supplied 100 seed packets to the farmers.

The super-sized sweet potato variety, grown in Thanh Van during last winter, yielded over 20 tons of tubers per hectare.

Last winter, Thanh Van planted about 6 hectares of super-sized sweet potatoes. The Agricultural Service Cooperative proactively contacted traders at wholesale agricultural markets in Vinh City and Do Luong District... to directly purchase the potatoes from farmers at prices ranging from 4,000 to 6,000 VND/kg. One hectare of super-sized sweet potatoes yielded over 20 tons of tubers.

In addition, this winter, Thanh Van commune has expanded the area planted with shallots and green beans.

This year, the cooperative continues to contact traders at wholesale markets to sell the produce of its members. With 12 hectares of super-sized sweet potatoes this year, if the selling price is the same as last year, Thanh Van will earn over 1 billion VND, the highest compared to other crops in the winter season...

Due to unfavorable weather conditions, Thanh Chuong district has only planted 210 out of 3,500 hectares of winter crops so far. It is expected that Thanh Chuong will finish planting winter crops before October 30th. Currently, farmers are mainly planting vegetables on alluvial land.

X.Hoang - Quang An