Tien Giang will mass produce specialty coal rice

On December 2, Dr. Le Huu Hai, Head of Cai Lay District's Agriculture and Rural Development Department (Tien Giang), said that he and his team had successfully selected and successfully multiplied the extremely short-term specialty rice rice variety. High quality, nutritious rice suitable for the elderly, children and dieters.

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According to Dr. Le Huu Hai, this rice variety is in the special rice variety supplied by IRRI in 2002, brought to the trial and multiplied by the scientists and agricultural technicians of Cai Lay district. .

In the process of growing trials, research, evaluation and selection by protein electrophoresis (modern genetic technology), through many production cases from 2002 to 2010 with 8 years of continuous success. goodness

The technical parameters of this variety are growth time of 80-85 days, productivity ranges from 40-50 quintals / ha, very good fire resistance, rice has black color, soft rice and characteristic aroma.

Currently, due to the small amount of seeds, in the winter-spring crop of 2010-2011, only ten hectares were planted in My Thanh, My Thanh Nam and Cai Lay cooperatives under Global GAP process. Since then, subsequent production in 2011 has been able to expand to hundreds of hectares in order to create large-scale seed production areas.

The introduction of this specialty rice variety into mass production opens new directions for farmers to promote the advantage of growing high-quality rice varieties supplied to the market.