Changing the structure of crops on rice land of more than 12,900 hectares

ABO - Speaking at the working session with the Tien Giang provincial People's Committee on the implementation of the Government's Resolution 120/NQ-CP on sustainable development of the Mekong Delta adapting to climate change, on the morning of May 8, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh said that through studying the facts and reporting of the locality, Tien Giang province is proactive and well-implemented in changing crops adapting to climate change.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh speaks at the working session.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh said that fruit production is still the strength of Tien Giang province.

Therefore, in the short term, the province needed to manage about 74,000 thousand hectares of existing fruit trees in terms of techniques, care processes, improve productivity and quality; at the same time, continuing to change crops for areas at risk of climate change by determining the size and types of natural conditions and market demand.

Besides, the province needed synchronous application of techniques, increasing production area according to VietGAP and GlobalGAP standards.

In addition, the province needed to develop cooperatives, which are essential to connect with enterprises, creating outputs for products; at the same time, boosting the attraction of enterprises to invest in processing agricultural products after harvest, etc...

According to the Tien Giang province Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, implementing the Resolution 120/NQ-CP, the Tien Giang provincial People's Committee issued the Plan No. 96/KH-UBND to implement the Resolution.

Accordingly, over the past time, the province implemented the restructuring of crops on rice land with an area of more than 12,900 hectares.

In particular, changing to fruit tree as 9,850 hectares, changing to cultivation of specialized crops and aquaculture as more than 3,000 hectares. In addition, the province also rotated crop flowers on an average of 10,000 hectares of rice land per year. In the Eastern districts, implementing the project "Crop cutting, crop changing and crop structure in the eastern districts of Tien Giang province to 2025", until now, the province has carried out crop cutting, crop changing and plant structure conversion of 20,104 hectares.

Deputy Minister of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh actually surveys at Kieng Phuoc Dragon Fruit Cooperative. Photo: M.THANH

For the western districts and the south of National Highway 1, basically shifting to planting fruit trees according to the plan.

For the north of National Highway 1, the rice production between Trung Luong - My Thuan highway and National Highway 1 was quickly changed to other crops for higher economic efficiency. As a result, more than 9,500 hectares of crops were changed into rice fields, etc...

Before that, on the afternoon of May 7, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh and the delegation visited the actual implementation of the Government's Resolution 120 / NQ-CP in Kieng Phuoc Dragon Fruit Cooperative (in Kieng Phuoc commune, Go Cong Dong district), durian growing area in Cai Lay district and the Long Uyen export fruit processing factory (in Kim Son commune, Chau Thanh district).

By M. THANH – Translated by HOANG AN