Illustrative image (Source: VNA)Currently, the province is focusing on developinglarge-scale paddy fields in 17 communes in the five districts of Cau Ke, TieuCan, Cang Long, Chau Thanh and Tra Cu.
In order to encourage farmers to join the model, theprovincial People’s Committee has financially supported cooperatives togiveplant protection services to their members with 450,000 VND per hectare eachcrop in the first year and 300,000 VND per hectare in the second year.
The province has also assisted farmers with 540,000 VND perhectare to buy high quality rice varieties.
According to Tran Trung Hien, Director of the provincialDepartment of Agriculture and Rural Development, the development of thelarge-scale rice field model aims to form concentrated production areas foreasier application of advanced science and technology, thus producing a largeamount of goods in a stable manner and fostering the connectivity betweenproduction and consumption.
In recent crops, Tra Vinh has maintained this model in 27 areastotaling 4,330 hectares with the involvement of more than 4,240 localhouseholds who have been supported in input materials and rice selling.
Notably, the Tra Vinh Food Company and An Giang PlantProtection JSC have supported rice production on 2,000 hectares and vowed tobuy 10,000 tonnes of rice each year.-VNA
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