Building large model fields - Creating breakthroughs for agriculture

(Baonghean) -Vice Chairman of Yen Thanh District People's Committee - Mr. Nguyen Sy Hung said: Starting to implement the policy of building large-scale model fields (CĐML) from the spring crop of 2012, within the year, Yen Thanh has succeeded in 12 models, mainly rice seed production. In which, enterprises play a very important role by taking on stages from supplying seeds, fertilizers, and consuming products at market prices. Most of the CĐMLs have a much higher income value than normal production, averaging from 70-75 million VND/ha, especially the 33-hectare field producing F1 hybrid rice of RC25 variety in Phuc Thanh commune brings an average value of up to 140 million VND/ha.

Considered one of the pioneers in linking to build CĐMLs, for the past two years, Nghe An Agricultural Materials Joint Stock Corporation has made extremely important contributions in this field. Company Director - Mr. Truong Van Hien said: Implementing the policy of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on building CĐMLs, since the spring crop of 2011, the enterprise has proactively coordinated with localities to build 9 CĐML models in 9 communes of 6 districts: Do Luong, Quy Hop, Con Cuong, Tan Ky, Anh Son, Yen Thanh and Nghi Loc, with a total area of ​​327 hectares, the average rice yield reached 71.2 quintals/ha, higher than the average yield of the whole province by 6.4 quintals/ha, many communes achieved very high yields such as Nghi My (Nghi Loc) with an average of 76 quintals/ha, Luc Da commune (Con Cuong) with an average of 74 quintals/ha.

From that success, in the summer-autumn crop, the whole province has built 1,044 hectares of rice fields in 20 communes of 9 districts, including mountainous districts such as Que Phong, with an average rice yield of 59 quintals/ha, 12 quintals/ha higher than the average of the whole province. In particular, many fields achieved very high yields in the summer-autumn crop such as Nghi Lam commune (Nghi Loc), with an average rice yield of 60 quintals/ha, 13 quintals/ha higher than the average of the whole commune. In the mountainous district of Con Cuong, there are 5 fields of 5 communes with an average rice yield of 62 quintals/ha, 8 quintals/ha higher than the average of the whole district... The good news is that in addition to those typical examples, most of the other fields achieved yields of over 60 quintals/ha.



Building large model fields is a premise for mechanizing agricultural production.

From those successes, Nghe An Agricultural Materials Corporation is having bigger plans in building rice processing factories in the province. Since the beginning of 2011, the unit has invested 30 billion VND to build a commercial rice processing factory, with a capacity of 10 tons of rice/hour. Up to now, the company has purchased over 500 tons of VTNA2 rice from rice processing factories in Nghe An and Ha Tinh provinces to process rice for sale, with the motto of both working and advertising, introducing to consume products nationwide. This is considered a breakthrough, reasonable step in finding a direction to consume products for farmers when implementing the policy of building rice processing factories.

It can be said that Nghe An has many favorable conditions for building CĐML, with abundant land fund, large, hard-working and diligent labor force. In recent years, our agricultural production has achieved many encouraging results. Annual growth rate reaches 5 - 6%/year, grain output reaches approximately 1.2 million tons, peanut output reaches over 50 thousand tons, raw sugarcane output reaches over 1.5 million tons, agricultural, forestry and fishery export turnover reaches over 60 million USD. Many scientific and technological advances and advanced technologies are applied to production, increasing productivity and quality of crops and livestock products.

With the policy of building CĐMLs, Nghe An has increasingly expanded specialized concentrated commodity production fields, creating large volumes of products, meeting market requirements in both quantity and quality. Based on the province's policies and mechanisms, many localities have coordinated with enterprises to implement from the spring crop of 2012, mainly on rice, corn and peanuts, typically Nghe An Agricultural Materials Corporation has successfully implemented many rice and corn models. In addition, Vinh Hoa Company Limited, Thai Binh Seed Corporation, Nghe An Seed Corporation, Nghe An Seed Center, etc., through production and seed consumption contracts with cooperatives, have formed CĐMLs. In 2012, the whole province has built 52 model fields. CĐMLs all have higher productivity, output and efficiency than mass production, at least over 10%. In particular, farmers have begun to get acquainted with concentrated production, access new technical advances and know how to calculate their production efficiency. Along with that, the link between enterprises and farmers has been established, in many places, the local authorities have really stepped in, reorganizing production, and at the same time managing and supervising the implementation of enterprises and farmers.

Last July, our province organized a working delegation led by a Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee to visit the model of building a sustainable rice production system in the South - where the sustainable rice production system has been implemented since 2010 and has achieved many successes. In these localities, with the motto "the state and the people work together", the dyke system and internal traffic have been completed to suit proactive production, bringing mechanization into production from land preparation to harvesting and post-harvest; enterprises invest and link up to consume rice, increasing the value and quality of products. In the sustainable rice production systems, people all have notebooks to monitor the rice production situation according to VietGAP, thereby helping to raise public awareness about collecting pesticide packaging and environmentally friendly agricultural production.

Based on those valuable experiences, in building the CĐML, along with the policy of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, our province has proposed reasonable policies, suitable to the specific conditions of the locality. The People's Council has passed a resolution on supporting investment in building the CĐML model in Nghe An in the period of 2013-2015. That will continue to be an important "push" in replicating the CĐML in the whole province. However, according to Mr. Ho Ngoc Sy - Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, in order to do well in forming and developing the CĐML, we must first build and implement well the connection of "4 houses", in which the business house plays an extremely important role, because this is the person who designs the input, output and product, builds the production cost and market; how can both businesses and farmers benefit. Therefore, enterprises must directly sign contracts with farmers, through the cooperatives to produce products that meet the requirements of the enterprises. In addition, the participation of organizations transferring science and technology or the agricultural extension system is also needed. Therefore, the province really needs to have reasonable policies and mechanisms so that enterprises as well as scientists are truly dedicated to building cooperatives, improving the efficiency of agricultural production in the whole province.

Phu Huong