Fragrant, high-quality rice rises up

ABO - Rice growers have paid special attention to specialty rice varieties, fragrant rice and high quality rice. This is a cause of high export value of rice, which leds to a sharp rise in price of paddy rice.

The key rice-growing areas of Tien Giang province such as Cai Be district, Cai Lay district, and Tan Phuoc district are harvesting the spring crop of 2017 - 2018. Many farmers have begun to discuss the high-quality rice in the summer early fall. On this winter-spring crop harvested, these rice varieties yield get more than 8 tonnes/hectare, even 10 tonnes/hectare with the selling price from VND6,000/kilogram of fresh rice or more. With this price, farmers make large profit.

Rice harvest in Cai Lay district. Photo: SI NGUYEN

For the first time harvesting fragrant rice, Vo Thi So, hamlet 3, Thanh Loc commune, Cai Lay district, planted 0.8 hetare of Lai Thom 8 in the winter-spring crop (2017 - 2018). The yield got more than 8 tonnes/hectare with the selling price as VND 6,000 VND/kilogram. After deducting the cost, she got profit over VND45 million.

According to the head of the Agriculture and Rural Development Department of Cai Be district Nguyen Van Thanh, in this winter-spring crop, farmers in Cai Be district selected more than 90% of high-quality rice varieties including OM 5451, OM 4900, Jasmine 85 and especially Lai Thom 8. The high-quality rice seeds occupied a large area partly due to enterprises deploying the big field as well as a part of the farmers gradually changed in choosing high-quality rice varieties to sell with more high prices, etc…

In the eastern part of the province, the majority of farmers choose to grow high-quality rice varieties. On this winter-spring crop, farmers continued to choose this direction and brought the highest profit ever.
Head of Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Go Cong Dong district Nguyen Van Qui said that: With 10,604 hectares of rice seed in the winter-spring crop, most of them are specialty rice, fragrant rice, high-quality rice such as OM 4900, Jamine 85, VD20, Nang Hoa 9, OM 4737, etc ... In the future, farmers in the district will continue to choose rice varieties with good-quality rice.

Talking about the situation of rice export, Deputy Director of the Tien Giang Food Company Le Thanh Khiem said that: In recent years, the company attaches importance to export fragrant rice, high-quality rice. Up to March 10, the company has exported over 70,000 tonnes of rice of all kinds, up to 2.53 times higher than the same period. In particular, the domestic market accounts for 50%, the export market accounts for 50%.

By SI NGUYEN – Translated by HUU CHI