The central province of Binh Dinh plans to build an additional 250large-scale fields in 2015 covering more than 10,000 hectares, saidDirector of the provincial Department of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment Phan Trong Ho.
The large-scale field is a centralisedproduction model that utilises the coordination among farmers,businesses, scientists, and State agencies to facilitate the applicationof technology in cultivation, thus improving the value of agriculturalproducts and farmers’ income.
For 2015, Binh Dinh will zone10,000 hectares of 230 fields for growing rice while the rest 20 fieldstotaling 1,000 hectares will be covered by food crops such as maize,cassava, and peanut trees, he said.
Binh Dinh has called oncompanies that supply seedlings and production materials and buy farmproduce to cooperate with agricultural cooperatives and farmers. It hasalso encouraged businesses to provide loans and asked scientists toadvise farmers on cultivation techniques.
The province has runtechnique training courses for local farmers and converted ineffectiverice fields into food crops areas, the official added.
In 2014,it built 233 large-scale fields with a total area of more than 9,700hectares and 58,000 households participating in. Such a modelgenerated over 7.3 tonnes of rice per hectare each crop and broughtabout 23.6 million VND (1,123 USD) per hectare in profit, some 0.5tonnes and 3.7 million VND higher than normal models, respectively.-VNA
The large-scale field is a centralisedproduction model that utilises the coordination among farmers,businesses, scientists, and State agencies to facilitate the applicationof technology in cultivation, thus improving the value of agriculturalproducts and farmers’ income.
For 2015, Binh Dinh will zone10,000 hectares of 230 fields for growing rice while the rest 20 fieldstotaling 1,000 hectares will be covered by food crops such as maize,cassava, and peanut trees, he said.
Binh Dinh has called oncompanies that supply seedlings and production materials and buy farmproduce to cooperate with agricultural cooperatives and farmers. It hasalso encouraged businesses to provide loans and asked scientists toadvise farmers on cultivation techniques.
The province has runtechnique training courses for local farmers and converted ineffectiverice fields into food crops areas, the official added.
In 2014,it built 233 large-scale fields with a total area of more than 9,700hectares and 58,000 households participating in. Such a modelgenerated over 7.3 tonnes of rice per hectare each crop and broughtabout 23.6 million VND (1,123 USD) per hectare in profit, some 0.5tonnes and 3.7 million VND higher than normal models, respectively.-VNA
