The Lunar New Year vegetable crop and weather worry
The unusual weather worry affected to productivity and quality of vegetables is the general mood of planting vegetable farmers in the Lunar New Year (Tet) crop on these days. The high price of many vegetables is the motivation for farmers to produce for this crop.
On these days, the growing vegetable areas of Chau Thanh district always is very busy with planting and caring of vegetables. Dinh Van Minh in Tan Phu hamlet Tan Ly Tay commune, Chau Thanh district, said that: On these days, he always watchs garden of small spring onion for watering and preventing pestilent insect.
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Taking care of cucumber garden, Huynh Van Mang in Tan Ly Tay commune, Chau Thanh district, said that the weather without sun and rain in the past days was very suitable for development of cucumber. Pestilent insect has not seen more. This joy is multiplied when price of vegetables are at very high level.
According to chairman of the commune Tan Ly Tay People’s Committee Nguyen Van Vu, on the occasion of this Tet, farmers have sown approximately 34 hectares consisting mainly of vegetables such as cucumber, melon, radish, gourd and vegetables for eating leaves. Beacause Tan Ly Tay commune is located on waterlogged areas which are not affected by the rain in mid and late of last December, most of areas growing vegetables are growing well.
According to farmers, planting vegetable for Tet usually meets a favorable weather. It is easy to grow vegetables with less damage but vegetables are sold with high prices. This attracts a lot of farmers planting vegetables on this occasion. In addition to selecting seed, farmers also promotes the application of technical advances and technologies in production to limit the impact of weather, producing vegetables according to the safety standards, GAP, etc... to create quality products, to sell with high price.
Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Cho Gao district Tran Van Hoa said that: Until now, the district has about 3,000 hectares of vegetables mainly for Tet including onion, shallot, coriander, etc... All area planting vegetables for Tet crop are grown stably. According to director of Go Cong Safe Vegetable Cooperative Nguyen Van An, this vegetables season grows better than the last vegetables season affected heavily by prolonged rains. Planting vegetables farmers are more exhilarating than many vegetables have very high prices.
There is only about one left month until the Lunar New Year, farmers are busy caring vegetables for harvesting high yield to supply for Tet’s market. This is also an important stage decision on yield and quality of vegetable. This weather in this time is also favorable condition for thriving pests. More than ever, farmers are trying to take care of vegetables with expectations for this Tet’s crop success in productivity and price.
By Ngo Văn-Translated by Hoang An