Yen Thanh: Field workshop on testing models of new rice varieties
(Baonghean) -Recently, Yen Thanh Plant Seed Station (Nghe An) in collaboration with Bac Ninh Plant Seed Joint Stock Company organized a field workshop on 3-line hybrid rice varieties Q.uu No. 12, Du.uu 600 and some new hybrid rice varieties in Khanh Thanh commune.
In the 2011 winter-spring crop, 4 new rice varieties provided by Bac Ninh Seed Joint Stock Company including Q.uu 12, Du.uu 600, N.uu 89, and hybrid sticky rice Q.uu 16 were put into trial planting on a scale of 1 hectare in Van Dinh hamlet, Khanh Thanh commune, Yen Thanh. Through monitoring the growth and development process, the varieties all gave good results in production. Especially the Q.uu 12 rice variety, on the basis of comparison with Khai Phong 1 variety, has confirmed its superiority.
In fact, in the field, Q.uu 12 has a short growing period (from 120-130 days), strong plants, early tillering, and the ability to recover and regenerate better than other rice varieties. It has good resistance to flooding and pests (currently, it does not need to use pesticides to prevent but is still disease-free). The plant flowers neatly (from start to finish is 5 days), many large flowers, high percentage of solid grains, P1000 = 30-31g, can be arranged to produce 2 crops/year. The estimated yield on the trial land is 9.5-10 tons/ha, 55kg/sao higher than the control variety Khai Phong 1.
Based on the testing, Yen Thanh Plant Seed Station has proposed the District People's Committee to expand the area of Q.uu 12 rice variety to over 500 hectares in the 2012 spring crop and provide financial support to continue testing the summer-autumn crop.
Ngoc Anh
