Tam Hop Commune (Quy Hop): Winter-spring rice yield reaches 6 tons/ha

(Baonghean.vn) -These days, Tam Hop commune of Quy Hop mountainous district is urgently harvesting winter-spring rice to prepare for the new crop.

This crop, Tam Hop commune planted 60 hectares, of which 40% was GS9 hybrid rice, 20% was PHB 71 hybrid rice, and the rest were other varieties. To encourage farmers to convert Nhi Uu 838 rice variety to PHB 71 hybrid rice variety, the commune People's Committee allocated 4 million VND from the budget to support Bao An hamlet when planting 5 hectares of this variety.

Farmers in Tam Hop commune harvest rice.

Thanks to good leadership, farmers were able to spray two batches of pesticides to prevent pests such as brown planthoppers, white-backed planthoppers, and brown rice sheath blight in the two stages of heading and flowering. Thanks to these efforts, the average yield of this rice crop reached 6 tons/ha.

To prepare for the summer-autumn crop, as the harvest progresses, farmers organize to prepare the land, plant seedlings... then. In the next crop season, the commune's agricultural committee continues to direct people to mass-plant PHB 71 and GS rice varieties to replace Nhi Uu 838 rice variety.

Giang Le