Long An implements plan for winter-spring rice crop in 2021-2022

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Nguyen Minh Lam chairs the conference to review agricultural production in 2021 and deploy the winter-spring rice crop 2021-2022

The situation of agricultural production in 2021 faces many difficulties, the market for agricultural products fluctuates due to the Covid-19 epidemic development, some agricultural products such as dragon fruit, lemon, watermelon, and sticky rice in the summer-autumn crop were consumed difficultly, their prices fell sharply, producers made low profits, some households went from break-even to loss.

In 2021, Long An province has a total area of sown rice estimated at 504,722 hectares, equal to 101 percent compared to 2020. Harvested area is estimated at 504,696 hectares, annual yield is estimated at 56.8 quintals per hectare, an increase of 0.4 quintals per hectare compared to 2020; output is estimated at 2,864,400 tons, up 34,161 tons, reaching 107.6 percent of the plan (2.7 million tons). In which, high quality rice reached over 1.6 million tons.

For other crops such as yams, tapioca, peanuts, sesame, etc., profits were not high, the area decreased over the same period. Besides, dragon fruit growing area in the whole province reached 11,831 hectares, reaching 94 percent of the plan, equaling 100 percent over the same period last year, the yield is estimated at 225.6 quintals per hectare, the harvested output in 9 months of 2021 is estimated at 244,037 tons.

Lemon growing area is estimated at 11,562 hectares, reaching 101 percent of the plan, equaling 106 percent over the same period. The area of lemon for fruit is about 8,046 hectares, the yield is 141.4 quintals per hectare, the harvested output in the first 9 months of the year is estimated at 113,808 tons. Particularly, the area for growing vegetables was estimated at 10,960 hectares, equaling 100.7 hectares (up 79.2 hectares) over the same period, the yield was estimated at 191.6 quintals per hectare, the output was 209,936 tons.

Localities attend the conference

The epidemic situation for cattle and poultry in 9 months of 2021: Eczema on buffaloes and cows occurred in 339 households in 120 hamlets, 54 communes, 12 districts and city (Duc Hue, Tan Hung, Vinh Hung, Duc Hoa, Ben Luc, Thanh Hoa, Tan An, Moc Hoa, Thu Thua, Can Giuoc, Tan Tru and Can Duoc) with a total of 611 sick animals, of which 158 died and destroyed; African swine fever occurred in 32 households in 19 communes and townlets in 8 districts or city including Tan Hung, Thu Thua, Tan An city, Tan Tru, Moc Hoa, Tan Thanh, Thanh Hoa, Vinh Hung with the total of 848 destroyed pigs; flu birds (H5N1) occurred in 1 household in Thuy Tay commune, Thanh Hoa district with a total of 91 destroyed heads; There were 2 cases of rabies in animals, rabies in dogs in Thanh Loi commune (Ben Luc district) and Hung Dien B (Tan Hung district). In addition, 2 cases of human death due to bitten by rabid dog were detected in Thanh Hoa and Ben Luc districts.

According to statistics, at present, the province has 6,027 buffaloes (down 19 percent over the same period last year), 113,034 cows (down 1.4 percent), 89,491 pigs (up 36.5 percent) and there were more than 8.46 million poultry (down 4 percent), of which chicken was 6.95 million (down 1 percent).

About the production plan of winter-spring rice crop, the main rice crop in 2021-2022, Long An province has a plan to cultivate 223,000 hectares, striving to achieve a yield of 6.65 tons per hectare and an output of 1,482,000 tons.

High-quality rice output in 2021 reaches over 1.6 million tons

Speaking at the direction, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Nguyen Minh Lam acknowledged and highly appreciated the results achieved by the agricultural sector over the past time, especially in the context of the complicated Covid-19 epidemic development. At the same time, he suggested that sectors and localities focus on implementing solutions to produce high results in the 2021-2022 winter-spring rice crop. In particular, it is strongly recommended that people sow seeds according to the seasonal schedule, pay attention to propaganda to reduce sowing sticky rice in the winter-spring rice crop to less than 30 percent of the total area; well perform the prevention and control of drought, salinity intrusion, and pest control on crops, livestock and aquatic products.

In addition, he also suggested the functional branches to strengthen the application of science and technology transfer, promote the implementation of the project on developing hi-tech agriculture in association with the restructuring of the agricultural sector; step up the transformation of crops grown on rice land to other crops with higher economic efficiency; focus on replicating highly effective models.

In addition, functional sectors need to strengthen inspection and check the establishments trading agricultural supply, ensuring the source of materials for agricultural production in the winter-spring rice crop 2021-2022./.

By Bui Tung – Translated by Duc Tam

Source: https://baolongan.vn/long-an-trien-khai-ke-hoach-vu-dong-xuan-nam-2021-2022-a123040.html