Choose good varieties - The foundation of the program 3 drops, 3 increases

According to Master Pham Van Quynh, Deputy Director of Can Tho City Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, if the ' 3 reduction and 3 increase ' program is considered the foundation of bumper crops, increasing profits for farmers, then the method of breeding Production is considered the foundation of the ' 3 reduction, 3 increase ' program. Using the pure seed rice, the certified seed is a prerequisite for the rice to grow well, evenly, with the right amount of cotton, to ensure the quality of rice seeds .

At the beginning of September 2006, we returned to Lien An Breeding Club in Trung An and Trung Thanh communes (Thot Not district). At this time, in many other places, brown plant hoppers, yellow dwarf diseases, twisted leaves dwarf diseases are developing, damaging autumn-winter rice. But here, the rice fields are golden and grainy

Officers of DARD and farmers visited, surveyed and evaluated rice fields of pure seed production of VND 95 - 20 by Mr. Nguyen Van Son.(Photo: baocantho)

is preparing to harvest. Mr. Huynh Van Wait, Director of Thot Not District Agricultural Breeding Farm, said: ' These are rice fields produced under the' 3 reduction and 3 increase 'program. In particular, sparse seeding, row sowing, and transplanting all result in seed reduction in sowing, rice growth, distribution, uniformity, limited use of fertilizers and pests appear low. As a result, care of plants, pesticides, post-harvest losses . are reduced - especially the resilience of rice when highly infected '.

In the autumn-winter crop of 2006, in Thot Not district, there were 103 ha of land for production of pure seed rice, certified seed. The varieties that are produced in this season are OM 4498, L 274, VD 20, Jasmine, VND 95 - 20, OM 1490, OM 2517, OM 2514, sticky raft, MTL 384 . by the Mekong Delta Rice Institute and Truong Dai Can Tho school provides. In particular, Trung An-Trung Thanh Inter-commune Breeding Club produces 33.5 hectares of seed rice. According to the Management Board of the club, the above rice varieties all yield quite high, including OM 4498, VND 95 - 20 . capable of recovering yellow dwarf diseases, very high twisted leaves dwarf diseases.

Trung An-Trung Thanh Inter-commune Breeding Club was established in 2005, so far has attracted 24 members, with a total cultivated area of ​​49ha. Most members of the team have mastered the technique of producing pure seed rice, certified seed. Talking about the efficiency of seed production in the winter-autumn rice crop in 2006, Mr. Pham Van Khiem, a member of Trung An-Trung Thanh Inter-commune Breeding Club, said excitedly: 'The last production, the Club is all high productivity - especially in the winter-spring season 2005-2006, the average yield is from 8 to 8.5 tons / ha. In the autumn-winter crop this year, there are many rice varieties that grow very well, the ability to recover diseases is high, the people in the club are very excited. '

In the autumn-winter crop of 2006, Mr. Nguyen Van Son's family, a club member, cultivated 7,000m2 of VND 95 - 20 rice seed, the product was created as a pure breed. Twenty-five days after sowing, rice is about 70% stunted. By adopting the reduced 3 program, 3 increases in production and spray treatment according to the ' true 4 ' principle should bring high efficiency, rice recovery and disease recovery are 100% effective. Currently, his rice fields are about to be harvested, estimated to yield about 400kg / 1,000m2. Mr. Son said: ' In order to produce results, my family and members of the club have complied with the correct production principles from the stage of hatching, seeding to the cultivation and collection. planning. In particular, the most important step is to soak seeds in combination with the use of drugs to control fungal diseases, except thrips, brown plant hoppers . When being plated for 8 to 12 days, it is plucked and implanted under the field with the distance of each tree. Rice about hands. After that, the remaining farming time is applied according to '3 reduction, 3 increase' techniques and full implementation of decontamination stages (killing mixed rice, temporary rice). That is the method of producing pure rice. As for the method of producing seed for certification of reduction application similar to the process of reducing seed variety, but ignoring the seeding stage, we only apply the seeding method, sparse seeding. The products created are functional units, providing seed to test, acceptance and certification of standard varieties '. Many farmers produce seed rice very excited because the profit is 1.5 to 2 times higher than that of commercial rice, thanks to the price of rice.

Most of the original, certified rice varieties were purchased and distributed by district and district hatcheries for farmers. In the winter-spring rice crop of 2006-2007, Can Tho city agriculture sector plans to sow 100% of the area from the original seed, the certified variety. Dr. Pham Van Quynh, Deputy Director of Can Tho Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said: 'From the early years of applying the' 3 reduction and 3 increase 'program to rice production, the agricultural sector has determined the use of pure seed rice, certified to sow, produce by sowing and sowing method. As a result of the '3 reduction, 3 increases' program is one of the important factors that determine the production efficiency of a rice crop.'

Post, photo: HA VAN